PROGRAM

November 20 (Monday)

9:30 – 9:35: Opening Remarks: Seiichi Matsuo (President, Nagoya University)
9:35 – 9:40: Opening Remarks and Overview of ITbM: Akira Ukawa (WPI Program Director, JSPS)
9:35 – 10:00: Overview of ITbM: Kenichiro Itami (Director, ITbM)
Chair: Keiko Torii & Cathleen Crudden
10:00 – 10:50: Paul Wender (Stanford University)
Therapeutic function through synthesis-informed design: approaches to HIV/AIDS eradication, Alzheimer’s disease, and cancer immunotherapy
10:50 – 11:40: Jenny Russinova (Ghent University)
Small-molecule dissection of steroid signaling in plants
11:40 – 12:10: Masaki Kita (Nagoya University)
Development of the new analytical methods for the binding modes of target proteins using LA-LDI MS
12:10 – 13:50: Lunch Break

Chair: Takashi Ooi
13:50 – 14:05: History & Overview: Shigehiro Yamaguchi (Vice Director, ITbM)
14:05 – 14:15: Introduction of Award Winner: Introduction of Award Winner: Takashi Ooi (ITbM)
14:15 – 14:25: Awarding Ceremony: Daisuke Uemura (Kanagawa University; Professor Emeritus, Nagoya University)
14:25 – 15:40: Award Lecture: David Nicewicz (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
New avenues in synthesis via organic photoredox catalysis
15:40 – 16:10: Break

Chair: Takashi Yoshimura
16:10 – 16:15: Opening Address: Kazuo Shinozaki (Director, CSRS, RIKEN; University Professor, Nagoya University)
16:15 – 16:25: Introduction of Award Winner: Takashi Yoshimura (ITbM)
16:25 – 16:35: Awarding Ceremony: Tsuneko Okazaki (University Professor, Nagoya University)
16:35 – 17:50: Award Lecture: Maria Barna (Stanford University)
Ribosome heterogeneity in translating the genetic code

Chair: Florence Tama & Wolf Frommer
10:00 – 10:50: Julian Schroeder (University California San Diego)
Plant abiotic stress resistance signaling mechanisms and cross talk with pathogen signaling
10:50 – 11:20: Toshinori Kinoshita (ITbM)
Regulation of stomatal movements in response to environmental signals
11:20 – 12:10: Kazunari Yoshizawa (Kyushu University)
Methane hydroxylation by enzymatic and catalytic systems: Quantum chemical studies
12:10 – 14:00: Lunch Break
Chair: Shinya Hagihara & Tsuyoshi Hirota
14:00 – 14:50: John Hogenesch (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)
Time for circadian medicine
14:50 – 15:40: Katsunori Tanaka (RIKEN)
Therapeutic in vivo synthetic chemistry
15:40 – 16:10: Kenichiro Itami (ITbM)
Making structurally uniform nanocarbons and a new form of carbon
16:10 – 16:20: Closing Remarks: Tetsuya Higashiyama (Vice Director, ITbM)