We are organizing the Multi-institutional international symposium on "
" as a Joint program of "RIKEN Brain Science Institute (RIKEN BSI)", "Research and Education Center for Brain Science (RECBS), Hokkaido University", and "Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES), Hokkaido University". The Japanese kanji ""[mei] means "life", and so the symposium will focus on life science.
The sessions will include special lectures on new frontiers in life science, development of a functioning brain, molecular events underlying brain function, imaging functioning brain, the next generation in bio-imaging, self-organization of spatiotemporal order.
Distinguished invited speakers from domestic and overseas will present their recent topics, and all the participants will exchange new ideas in the interdisciplinary fields, including life science, photonic science and material science. Our aim is to create new paradigms of sciences through cooperative and interdisciplinary approaches.
| 15:30 - 15:40 |
Keiji Sasaki
(Director of RIES)
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| 15:40 - 16:20 |
Sten Grillner
(Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
"The intrinsic function of a motor system - from ion channels to network and behaviour"
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| 16:20 - 17:00 |
Chiming Wei
(Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, American Academy of Nanomedicine, USA)
"New Approach of Nanomedicine in Brain Science"
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| 17:00 - 17:40 |
Shun-ichi Amari
(RIKEN Brain Science Institute)
"Brain Science in the 21st Century ---- Toward Mathematical Neuroscience"
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Reception 18:00 - 20:00 Restaurant "Elm"
| 9:00 - 9:10 |
Yoshiro Inoue
(Director, Research and Education Center for Brain Science, Executive and Vice-President of Hokkaido University)
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| 9:10 - 9:50 |
Gentaro Taga
(The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Education)
"Functional brain development in early infancy"
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| 9:50 - 10:30 |
Claire Fletcher-Flinn
(University of Auckland, New Zealand)
"Dissociation between deficits in explicit procedures and implicit processes in the visual-spatial and the phonological systems during reading acquisition"
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| 10:30 - 10:40 | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 - 11:20 |
Takashi Omori
(Hokkaido University, RECBS, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology)
"Analysis of human understanding process on 'others' through the learning of competitive game including pseudo others."
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| 11:20 - 12:00 |
Kazuo Okanoya
(RIKEN Brain Science Institute)
"Vocal development in birds and humans: Aspects of acoustic and semantic segmentations"
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Lunch (12:00 - 13:00)
| 13:00 - 13:40 |
Masanobu Kano
(Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine)
"Modulation of synaptic transmission mediated by endogenous cannabinoids"
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| 13:40 - 14:20 |
Haruyuki Kamiya
(Hokkaido University, RECBS, Graduate School of Medicine)
"Presynaptic mechanisms for synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus"
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| 14:20 - 14:30 | Coffee Break |
| 14:30 - 15:10 |
Masabumi Minami
(Hokkaido University, RECBS, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences)
"Molecular events underlying pain-induced negative emotion"
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| 15:10 - 15:50 |
Tomomi Tani
(Hokkaido University, RIES)
"Single-molecule analyses of the interactions of nerve growth factor and the receptors on the membrane of dorsal root ganglion growth cones"
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| 15:50 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 16:40 |
Toshiyuki Sawaguchi
(Hokkaido University, RECBS, Graduate School of Medicine)
"Development of prefrontal cognitive functions in childhood"
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| 16:40 - 17:20 |
Keiji Tanaka
(RIKEN Brain Science Institute)
"Seeing the Visual Brain with High Spatial Resolution"
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| 17:20 - 17:30 | Coffee Break |
| 17:30 - 18:10 |
Satoru Miyauchi
(National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
"Seeing a dreaming brain -Brain activation accompanying rapid eye movements during REM sleep-"
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| 18:10 - 18:50 |
Mamoru Tamura
(Hokkaido University, RIES)
"Optical Imaging from Single Molecule to Human Body"
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Poster session together with conference dinner (19:00 - )
(Posters are presented in the reception hall throughout the symposium.)
| 9:00 - 9:10 |
Keiji Sasaki
(Director RIES, Hokkaido University)
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| 9:10 - 9:50 |
Atsushi Miyawaki
(RIKEN Brain Science Institute)
"New Fluorescent Probes and New Perspectives in Bioscience"
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| 9:50 - 10:30 |
Hiroyuki Noji
(Osaka University, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research)
"Femtoliter chamber for single molecule detection of biological reaction"
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| 10:30 - 10:40 | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 - 11:20 |
Sunghoe Chang
(Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology)
"Fluorescence analysis of the multifunctional protein in mammalian synapses."
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| 11:20 - 12:00 |
Tomomi Nemoto and H. Kasai
(National Institute for Physiological Sciences)
"Sequential exocytosis and vectorial transport in secretory gland cell studied by two-photon microscopy"
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| 13:00 - 13:40 |
Sato Honma
(Hokkaido University, RECBS, Graduate School of Medicine)
"Visualizing clock's tick by bioluminescent reporter: Molecular clock work in the central circadian pacemakers"
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| 13:40 - 14:20 |
Shigeru Kondo
(Nagoya University, Graduate School of Science)
"Interaction network among the pigment cells generates the skin patterns of animals."
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| 14:20 - 14:30 | Coffee Break |
| 14:30 - 15:10 |
Yasumasa Nishiura
(Hokkaido University, RIES)
"Entropy and Sensitivity of Particle Patterns in Dissipative Systems"
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| 15:10 - 15:50 |
Marcus Hauser
(Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany)
"Oscillatory dynamics of enzyme and enzyme model systems: The dynamics, their origins, and possible biological functions"
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Closing :