Program

Dec 12th

December 12th (Monday)

-The 4th International Symposium on Transformative Bio-Molecules (ISTbM-4)-

Opening Remarks: Seiichi Matsuo (President, Nagoya Univ.)

Opening Remarks and Overview of ITbM: Kenichiro Itami (Director, ITbM)

 

Kendall Houk (University of California Los Angeles, USA)

“Reactivity and Dynamics of Enzymatic and Bioorthogonal Cycloadditions”

Azusa Kamikouchi (Nagoya Univ.)

“The auditory system of the fruit fly”

Marina Kuimova (Imperial College of London, UK)

“Mapping microscopic viscosity and temperature using molecular rotors”

 

Lunch Break

 

  9:30 –   9:35

  9:35 – 10:00

 

10:00 – 10:50

 

10:50 – 11:20

 

11:20 – 12:10

 

 

12:10 – 14:00

 

-The 2nd Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award-

14:00 – 14:05

14:05 – 14:15

14:15 – 14:20

14:20 – 15:35

 

15:35 – 15:55

Opening address: Kazuo Shinozaki (Director, CSRS, RIKEN)

Introduction of Award Winner: Tetsuya Higashiyama (Vice director, ITbM)

Awarding Ceremony: Tsuneko Okazaki (Professor Emeritus, Nagoya Univ.)

Award Lecture: Yukiko Yamashita (University of Michigan, USA)

“The role of satellite DNA in Drosophila”

Break

-The 12th Hirata Award-

 

15:55 – 16:10

16:10 – 16:20

16:20 – 16:25

16:25 – 17:40

 

 

17:40 – 17:55

18:00 – 20:00

 

History & Overview: Shigehiro Yamaguchi (Vice Director, ITbM)

Introduction of Award Winner: Kenichiro Itami (Director, ITbM)

Awarding Ceremony: Daisuke Uemura (Kanagawa Univ.; Professor Emeritus, Nagoya Univ.)

Award Lecture: Emily Balskus (Harvard University, USA)

“Gut Reactions: Chemical Discovery in the Human Microbiome”

 

Group Photo

Party (Noyori Conference Hall, 1F)

 

December 13th (Tuesday)

-The 4th International Symposium on Transformative Bio-Molecules (ISTbM-4)-

  9:30 – 10:20

 

10:20 – 10:50

 

10:50 – 11:20

 

11:20 – 12:10

 

 

12:10 – 13:30

 

13:30 – 14:20

 

14:20 – 14:50

 

14:50 – 15:40

 

 

15:40 – 16:00

 

16:00 – 16:50

 

16:50 – 17:20

 

 

17:20 – 17:30

 

Randall Peterson (Harvard Medical School, USA)

“Discovering novel small molecules by high-throughput zebrafish screens”

Jeffrey W. Bode (ITbM; ETH–Zürich, Switzerland)

“Chemical Synthesis of Very Large Molecules”

Yuichiro Tsuchiya (ITbM)

“Development of suicide germination molecule for a parasitic plant Striga”

Shinsuke Sando (The Univ. of Tokyo)

“Molecular Technologies to See and Control Dynamic Cellular Functions”

 

Lunch Break

 

Peter McCourt (Univ. of Toronto, Canada)

“Taking the Striga out of Strigolactones”

Cathleen M. Crudden (ITbM; Queen's Univ., Canada)

“Organometallic Chemistry at Interfaces”

Scott J. Miller (Yale Univ., USA)

“Searching for Selective Catalytic Reactions in Complex Molecular Environments”

 

Coffee Break

 

Hagan Bayley (Univ. of Oxford, UK)

“Protein nanopores: from sequencing to synthetic tissues”

Keiko Torii (ITbM; Univ. of Washington/HHMI, USA)

“Understanding and manipulating peptide signaling in plant development:

specificity, redundancy, and antagonism”

Closing Remarks: Tetsuya Higashiyama (Vice Director, ITbM)