PROGRAM

【 Thursday, September 9 】
10:30am -0:00pm Departure from Kumamoto University by bus
0:00pm-1:00pm Arrival at Hotel Green Pia Minami Aso
Carry panels into the hall
Registration

1:00pm-1:10pm Opening Remarks by Dr. Shoen Kume (Global COE Program Leader)

1:10pm-1:55pm Lecture1 (Chair: Dr. Yohei Shinmyo)
Functional significance of adult neurogenesis in the mouse brain
Dr. Itaru Imayoshi (PRESTO, JST/ Institute for virus Research, Kyoto University , Japan )

1:55pm-2:40pm Lecture2 (Chair: Dr. Shoen Kume)
Examining pancreatic cell trans-differentiation in injury models
Dr. Gu Guoqiang (Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center , USA )

2:40pm-3:25pm Lecture3 (Chair: Dr. Nobuaki Shiraki)
Roles of large Maf transcription factors in development and function of pancreatic β and α cells in vivo
Dr. Satoru Takahashi (Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Life System medical Sciences and Laboratory Animal Resource Center , University of Tsukuba , Japan )

3:25pm-3:45pm Coffee break

3:45pm-4:30pm Lecture4 (Chair: Dr. Gen Yamada)
Morphogenetic Signaling Network in Development and Disease
Dr. Wei Hsu (Biomedical Genetics & Oncology, University of Rochester Medical Center , USA )

4:30pm-5:15pm Lecture5 (Chair: Dr. Rie Kawano)
Mechanisms of trophectoderm fate specification in preimplantation mouse embryos
Dr. Hiroshi Sasaki (Department of Cell Fate Control, I.M.E.G., Kumamoto University , Japan )

5:15pm-6:00pm Lecture6 (Chair: Dr. Kunimasa Ohta)
Regulation of Wnt signaling and Wnt morphogen
Dr. Xi He (Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School , USA )

6:30pm-8:00pm Dinner
Set up the posters
8:00pm-9:00pm Poster session (Odd)
9:00pm-10:00pm Poster session (Even)
10:00pm -0:00am Reception

【 Friday, September 10 】

7:00am-9:00am Breakfast
Check-out

9:00am-10:15am Bioethics Talk (Chair: Ms. Kuniko Aizawa)
Bioethics Talk #3: Stored Tissue Issues
10:15am-10:35am Coffee Break

(Chair: Dr. Tsuyoshi Shuto)
10:35am-11:05am Lecture1
Sall1 is involved in maintenance of the nephron progenitors
Dr. Takeshi Terabayashi (Global COE RA, I.M.E.G., Kumamoto University , Japan )

11:05am-11:35am Lecture2
How does fertilisation kick off embryonic cell divisions?
Dr. Satoru Mochida (The Priority Organization for Innovation and Excellence,Kumamoto University , Japan )

11:35am-11:45am Closing Remarks by Ryuich Nishinakamura(Global COE member & Deputy director of I.M.E.G.)

11:45am -0:35pm Clear the hall and carry out panels from the hall

0:45pm Departure from Hotel Green Pia Minami Aso by bus
2:15pm Arrival at I.M.E.G.

Carry panels into the room