ISTbM-9

PROGRAM

Venue: Lecture room, Noyori Materials Science Laboratory, Nagoya University

• 10:00

  Opening Remarks

  Naoshi Sugiyama (President, Nagoya University)

• 10:05

  Opening Remarks

  Akira Ukawa (WPI Program Director, JSPS)

• 10:10

  Welcome address

  Takashi Yoshimura (Director, WPI-ITbM)

The 7th Tsuneko & Reiji Okazaki Award
Chair: Wolf B. Frommer (WPI-ITbM; Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf; Max Planck Institute for Breeding Research, Köln)

• 10:20

  Opening Address

  Kazuo Shinozaki (RIKEN; University Professor, Nagoya University)

• 10:25

  Introduction of Award Winner

  Wolf B. Frommer (WPI-ITbM; Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf; Max Planck Institute for Breeding Research, Köln)

• 10:35

  Awarding Ceremony

  Kazuo Shinozaki, Takashi Yoshimura, and Toshinori Kinoshita

• 10:45

  Award Lecture

  
  

  Martin C. Jonikas (Princeton University; Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
  "Structure, biogenesis, and engineering of the pyrenoid, the eukaryotic CO₂-concentrating organelle."

• 11:45

  Lunch Break

The 9th International Symposium on Transformative Bio-Molecules

• 13:30

  Lecture 1

  Chair: Azusa Kamikouchi (WPI-ITbM)

  
  

  Omar S. Akbari (University of California, San Diego)
  "Using synthetic biology to combat vector-borne diseases"

• 14:10

  Lecture 2

  Chair: Takashi Yoshimura (WPI-ITbM)

  
  

  Azusa Kamikouchi (WPI-ITbM)
  "Acoustic communication in fruit flies and mosquitoes"

• 14:50

  Lecture 3

  Chair: Shigehiro Yamaguchi (WPI-ITbM)

  
  

  Mako Kamiya (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  "Molecular design of activatable Raman probes for multiplexed bioimaging"

• 15:30

  Break

• 15:45

  Lecture 4

  Chair: Florence Tama (WPI-ITbM)

  
  

  Teruki Honma (RIKEN)
  "Development of drug discovery AI platform combining prediction AI and generative AI (AMED DAIIA)"

• 16:25

  Lecture 5

  Chair: Takeshi Yanai (WPI-ITbM)

  
  

  Satoshi Maeda (Hokkaido University)
  "Ab initio chemical reaction design and discovery"

• 17:05

  Lecture 6

  Chair: Kenichiro Itami (WPI-ITbM)

  
  

  Jeffrey W. Bode (ETH Zürich / WPI-ITbM)
  "Synthetic chemistry for biologics"

• 17:45

  Closing Remarks

  Shigehiro Yamaguchi (Vice-Director, WPI-ITbM)

Registration

*Deadline: December 8, 2023