Program
Tuesday, November 11
1600-1900 Registration Tokyo Bay Ariake Washington Hotel
1900-2100 Welcome Reception Tokyo Bay Ariake Washington Hotel
Wednesday, November 12
0910-0940 Opening Remarks MIRAIKAN Hall
chaired by Katsuro Koike
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
Michio Oishi, Director, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kazusa
Tadashi Yamamoto, Dean, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo
Ken-ichi Arai, President, Asia-Pacific International Molecular Biology Network
0940-1020 Plenary Lecture 1: MIRAIKAN Hall
chaired by John Mattick
Huanming Yang, Director, Beijing Genomics Institute, Beijing (001)
Sequencing of the Rice Genome
1020-1100 Plenary Lecture 2: EMBO Lecture MIRAIKAN Hall
chaired by Chris Y.H. Tan
Frank Gannon, Executive Director, EMBO (002)
The Estrogen Receptor as a transcription factor: a chronological perspective
1100-1120 Coffee Break
1120-1200 Plenary Lecture 3: MIRAIKAN Hall
chaired by Katsuro Koike
Masayori Inouye, Professor and Chairman, Department of Biochemistry,
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey (003)
mRNA Interferase, a Novel Mechanism of Interfering with mRNA Function and Inhibiting Protein Systhesis
1200-1330 Lunch & Visit (National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation)
1200-1330 Poster Setup Conference Room 2
1330-1540 Stem Cell and Developmental Biology MIRAIKAN Hall
chaired by Hitoshi Okamoto and Makoto Asashima
Makoto Asashima, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo (004)
Formation and Transplantation of In Vitro-Induced Organs in the Vertebrate Development
Jinqiu Zhou, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai (005)
PIF1 Subfamily of DNA Helicases and Telomere Maintenance
Hideki Taniguchi, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama (006)
Clonal identification and characterization of hepatic stem cells using flowcytometric cell sorting
Hitoshi Okamoto, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako (007)
Genetic dissection of molecular cascades controlling midbrain and hindbrain development in zebrafish
John Yu, Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Taipei (008)
Stem Cell Research: Implications for Cancer Development & Treatment
1540-1550 Coffee Break
1550-1800 Environmental Health and Science MIRAIKAN Hall
chaired by Ken-ichi Arai
K.Vijayraghavan, TIFR National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore (009)
Nature and nurture in the patterning of muscles and nerves
Ronald R. Matias, Inst of Biology, Coll of Sci, Univ of the Philippines, Quezon (010)
Generation of Dengue Immunologicals by Phage-display Technology
Ma. Luisa D. Enriquez, College of Science De La Salle University, Manila (011)
A Comparative Study of Telomeres and Telomerase Activity in Acute and Chronic Leukemia Using FISH and Telomeric Repeat Amplification Protocol (TRAP) Assay
Xuetao Cao, Institutes of Immunology of Zhejiang University, Shanghai (012)
Blockade of RabJ, a novel oncogenic Rab GTPase, inhibits tumor growth through disrupting nuclear accumulation of active MEK1/2 and c-Raf-1
Jiangye Chen, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai (013)
Protein kinase Crk1 and transcription factor CaFlo8 are required for hyphal development and virulence in Candida albicans
1330-1800 Genomics and Proteomics Conference Room 1
chaired by Richard J. Simpson and Yoshiji Fujita
Toru Natsume, National Inst of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo (014)
Systematic analysis of protein interactions using human full length cDNA
Sangkot Marzuki, The Eijkman Institute, Jakarta (015)
To be announced
Asao Fujiyama, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo (016)
Toward uderstanding human traits through comparative genomics
Nor Muhammad Mahadi, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Sans Biologi (017)
Microbial Functional Genomics for Development of New Diagnostics and Therapeutics
(1540-1550 Coffee Break)
Toyofumi Nakanishi, Osaka Medical College, Osaka (018)
Disease proteomics in clinical laboratory medicine
Chi-Bom Chae, POSTECH Biotech Center, POSTECH, Pohang (019)
Peptidomics Program at Postech Biotech Center
Richard J. Simpson, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Victoria (020)
Proteomic analysis of colorectal cancer: strategies for novel biomarkerdiscovery
Holland Cheng, Karolinska Institute, Stckholm (021)
Proteome Imaging of Model Macromolecular Systems in Virus Infection
Young Mok Park, Korea Basic Science Institute, Daejeon (022)
Proteome analysis of grain filling and seed maturation in rice
Jayant B. Udgaonkar, TIFR National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore (023)
How do proteins fold?
1300-1800 Poster Viewing Conference Room 2
1800-1930 Poster Session Conference Room 2 & 3
chaired by Sumiko Watanabe
Thursday, November 13
0830-1150 Drug Discovery and Instrument Development Conference Room 1
chaired by Nobuo Shimamoto
Atsushi Miyawaki, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Wako (024)
Visualization of cellular functions
Konan Peck, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei (025)
Developments of High Throughput Instruments and Tools for Genome Research
Takehiko Kitamori, Dept of Applied Chem Sch of Engineering, The Univ of Tokyo (026)
Thermal Lens Microscope for Analysis of Non-Fluorescent Molecules at Single Molecule Levels
and Integrated Micro Chemical and Bio Systems on Chips
Dipankar Chatterji, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (027)
Targets for Stationary Phase in Mycobacteria
Morakot Tanticharoen, National Center for Genet Eng and Biotech, Pathumth8ni (027)
Entomopathogenic Fungi: Harvesting their potential
(1020-1030 Coffee Break)
Wahono Sumaryono, Agroindustry and Biotechnology Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology, Jakarta (029)
Drug discovery program in the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), Indonesia
Haruko Takeyama, The University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo (030)
Nano-Biomagnetite Formation and Its Application
Ki Lee, Korea Bio-MAX Center, Seoul National University, Seoul (031)
Aberrant Cdc6 localization may contribute to apoptosis induction
Thai Nguyen, University of California San Francisco, California (032)
Proposed roles for the TIGR gene in glaucoma development
0830-1150 Molecular & Cellular Network MIRAKAN Hall
chaird by Atsushi Miyajima and Sumiko Watanabe
Hsiu-Ming Shih, Div of Mol and Genomic Med, National Health Res Institutes, Taipei (033)
Aurora-A kinase is essential for TACC3 mitotic spindle localization and cell cycle progression
Hanna Engelberg-Kulka, Hebrew University - Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem (034)
A bacterial stress-induced programmed cell death system
Haiwei Song, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, The National Univ of Singapore (035)
Structural and Functional Analysis of Dcp1p, an Essential Subunit of the mRNA Decapping Enzyme
Kiyotaka Okada, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto (036)
Meristem activity controlling plant organ-development
Kong Peng Lam, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore (037)
The B cell Antigen Receptor Signaling Network
(1020-1030 Coffee Break)
Xinmin Cao, Signal Transduction Laboratory, Inst of Mol and Cell Biol, Singapore (038)
The mechanism of Stat3 nuclear transport
Angel Lopez, Cytokine Receptor Lab, Hanson Centre for Cancer Research, Adelaide (039)
The molecular basis of cytokine receptor-mediated cell survival
Jeffrey Jong-Yong Yen, Inst of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei (040)
Transcriptional Regulation of IL-3-Dependent Survival Responses in hematopoietic cells
Akihiko Yoshimura, Kyusyu University, Fukuoka (041)
SOCS1 and SOCS3 are central regulators for macrophage and dendritic cell activation
1150-1210 Human Resource Development and Biobusiness in Asia MIRAIKAN Hall
chaired by Ken-ichi Arai
Gurinder Shahi, Bio Enterprise Asia, Singapore (042)
Human Resource Development and Biobusiness in Asia-Pacific Region
1210-1300 Lunch
1300-1600 Infectious Diseases and Cancer Conference Room 1
chaired by Peng Li and Katsuro Koike
Dingxiang Liu, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore (043)
Molecular Studies of Coronavirus Host Specificity and Pathogenesis
Kazuo Sugamura, Tohoku University, School of Medicine, Sendai (044)
Regulation of Cell Cycle Arrest in Parvovirus B19 Infection
Kunitada Shimotono, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto (045)
Hepatitis C virus and its pathogenesis
Hsiang-fu Kung, Inst of Mol Biol, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road (046)
Inhibition of Viral Replication by RNA Interference
Peng Li, Dept of Biology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon (047)
The role of cofilin in the initiation of apoptosis
Masanori Hatakeyama, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo (048)
The role of Helicobacter pylori virulence factor CagA in gastric carcinogenesis
1300-1400 Emerging Centers and Life Science Highway in Asia and Pacific MIRAIKAN Hall
chaired by Ken-ichi Arai
Kong Peng Lam, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore (049)
The Singapore Biopolis
Jung-Yaw Lin, Institute of Biochemistry Coll of Medicine, National Taiwan Univ, Taipei (050)
Latest Development of Genomics and Proteomics in Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)
Nor Muhammad Mahadi, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Sains Biologi (051)
BioValley Malaysia and the National Institute for Genomics and Molecular Biology
Jisnuson Svasti, Dept. of Biochemistry Faculty of Science Mahidol Univ, Bangkok (052)
Thailand and the Life Science Highway
Wahono Sumaryono, Agroindustry and Biotechnology Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology, Jakarta (053)
Current Biotechnology activity in Indonesia
1410-1550 Biotechnology Venture Network MIRAIKAN Hall
chaired by Eugene Satoshi Takagi (054)
Do-Hyun Nam, LG Life Science
Paul Stinson, BC Biotech
Ying Luo, Shanghai Genomics, Inc.
Tetsuhito Matsuyama, Medical ProteoScope Co. Ltd.
1600-1610 Coffee Break
1610-1640 Plenary Lecture 4: MIRAIKAN Hall
chaired by Zuxun Gong
Ken-ichi Arai, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo (055)
New Horizons in Genomic Medicine: A System Approach Integrating BT, IT and NT
1640-1720 Plenary Lecture 5: MIRAIKAN Hall
chaired by Kazuo Sugamura
Yoshiaki Ito, Principal Investigator, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore (056)
High throughput cancer gene hunting using retrovirus mutagenesis
1720-1730 Closing Remarks MIRAIKAN Hall
Jeognbin Yim, Seoul National University, Seoul