Program
The 6th International Symposium on Transformative Bio-Molecules (ISTbM-6)
09:30 - 09:35
09:35 - 09:40
09:40 - 09:50
Opening Remarks: Yoshihito Watanabe (Vice President, Nagoya University)
Opening Remarks: Akira Ukawa (WPI Program Director, JSPS)
Welcome address: Kenichiro Itami (Director, ITbM)
Chair: Shigehiro Yamaguchi & Florence Tama
09:50 - 10:40
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 - 12:00
12:00 - 13:30
Bin Liu (National University of Singapore)
"Aggregation-induced emission: materials and biomedical applications"
Masayasu Taki (ITbM)
"New imaging approaches with phosphorus-containing dyes"
Kenji Mizuguchi (National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition)
"Data integration and computational modelling for drug discovery"
Lunch Break
The 4th Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award
Chair: Toshinori Kinoshita
13:30 - 13:35
13:35 - 13:45
13:45 - 13:55
13:55 - 15:10
15:10 - 15:40
Opening Address: Kazuo Shinozaki (Director, CSRS, RIKEN; University Professor, Nagoya University)
Introduction of Award Winner: Toshinori Kinoshita (ITbM)
Awarding Ceremony: Tsuneko Okazaki (University Professor, Nagoya University)
Award Lecture: Cyril Zipfel (University of Zürich)
"Plant innate immunity: from the plasma membrane to the field"
Break
The 14th Hirata Award
Chair: Cathleen Crudden
15:40 - 15:55
15:55 - 16:05
16:05 - 16:15
16:15 - 17:30
17:30 - 17:40
17:50 - 19:30
History & Overview: Shigehiro Yamaguchi (Vice Director, ITbM)
Introduction of Award Winner: Kenichiro Itami (ITbM)
Awarding Ceremony: Daisuke Uemura (Kanagawa University; Professor Emeritus, Nagoya University)
Award Lecture: Rubén Martín (Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia)
"Turning simplicity into complexity via Ni catalysis: from comprehension to prediction"
Group Photo
Party (Noyori Conference Hall, 1F)
The 6th International Symposium on Transformative Bio-Molecules (ISTbM-6)
Chair: Wolf Frommer, Keiko Torii & Tsuyoshi Hirota
09:30 - 10:20
10:20 - 10:50
10:50 - 11:40
11:40 - 13:20
Rüdiger Simon (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
"Peptide-receptor signalling pathways controlling developmental patterning in higher plants"
Hitoshi Sakakibara (Nagoya University)
"Structural variation of cytokinin control the action specificity in shoot growth and development"
Satchidananda Panda (Salk Institute for Biological Studies)
"Training the circadian clock, clocking the drugs and drugging the clocks to prevent and manage chronic diseases"
Lunch Break & Lab Tour
Chair: Masakazu Nambo & Takashi Yoshimura
13:20 - 14:10
14:10 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:30
Roger Linington (Simon Fraser University)
"Integrated methods for bioactive natural product discovery"
Miki Imanishi (Kyoto University)
"Design of DNA or RNA binding proteins for manipulating cellular clock"
Break
Chair: Kenichiro Itami & Takashi Ooi
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:50
Takeshi Yanai (ITbM)
“Quantum chemistry with high-accuracy many-electron theory"
Christopher S. Jeffrey (University of Nevada, Reno)
"Exploring natural products variation leads to chemical discoveries"
16:50 - 17:00
Closing Remarks: Tetsuya Higashiyama (Vice Director, ITbM)