The Second NIBB-EMBL Symposium

Tentative Program:

March 22 (WED)

Registration

8:40-	Registration

Opening Remarks

9:05-9:15	Yoshitaka Nagahama

Session 1 : Imaging diffusion & activity Chair: Yasushi Hiraoka

9:15-9:50	Atsushi Miyawaki	“Visualization of the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Intracellular Signaling”
9:50-10:25	Kai Johnsson	“Protein Chemistry in Living Cells”
10:25-10:50	Coffee break
10:50-11:25	Tom K Kerppola	“Visualization of Protein Interactions and Modifications in Living Cells using Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation Analysis”
11:25-12:00	Philippe Bastiaens	“Reaction-Diffusion Cycles in the Spatial Organization of Cellular Signaling and Morphogenesis”
12:00-13:00	Lunch

Session 2 : Emerging technologies Chair: Peter T.C.So

13:00-13:35	Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz	“Deciphering Protein Turnover, Topology and Transport in Living Cells”
13:35-14:10	Masataka Kinjo	“Analysis of Microenvironment of Nucleus Using Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy”
14:10-14:45	Robert H. Singer	“Following Single mRNAs in Living Cells”
14:45-15:20	Akihiro Kusumi	“Single Molecule Tracking at the Cell Surface: Transient Signal Transduction by Engaged GPI-Anchored Receptors”
15:20-15:40	Coffee break

Session 3 : Bioluminescence Chair: Tom K Kerppola

15:40-16:15	Susumu Terakawa	“Exocytosis and Endocytosis in Neuronal Cells Visualized with Ultra High NA Lens”
16:15-16:50	Tarik Issad	“The Use of BRET (Bioluminescence Resonance Energy Transfer) for the Study of Tyrosine-kinase Receptors ”
16:50-17:25	Takeaki Ozawa	“Methods for Identifying Organelle-Targeting Proteins”

Session 4: Networks & Screening Chair: Philippe Bastiaens

17:25-18:00	Tobias Meyer	“Fluorescence Microscopy Approaches for Dissecting Signaling Networks”
18:00-18:35	Jan Ellenberg	“Microscopy-Based RNAi Screening and Quantitative Imaging of Chromosome Structure to Identify and Define the Function of Mitotic Genes”

Mixer and Poster session

19:00-21:00	Mixer and Poster session

March 23 (THU)

Session 5 : 3D imaging Chair: Jan Ellenberg / Ernst H.K. Stelzer

9:00-9:35	Ernst H.K. Stelzer	“Selective Plane Illumination Microscopy: Life Sciences Require the Third Dimension”
9:35-10:10	John W Sedat	“OMX, A Microscope Platform for the Future?”
10:10-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-11:05	Winfried Denk	“Watching the Brain Compute and Tracing Its Wires: New Methods to Solve Old Riddles.”
11:05-11:40	Haruo Kasai	“Dynamic Actin Organizations in Single Dendritic Spines of CA1 Pyramidal Neurons Studies with Two-Photon Photoactivation”
11:40-12:15	Peter T.C. So	“Mechanotransduction: Understanding How Cells Sense Mechanical Signals with Novel Microscopic and Spectroscopic Tools”
12:15-13:00	Lunch

Session 6 : Mitosis/Trafficking Chair: Atsushi Miyawaki

13:00-13:35	Jason Swedlow	“Studies of Mitosis in Living Cells and Tissues”
13:35-14:10	Yasushi Hiraoka	“Live-cell Observation of Chromosome Dynamics in Fission Yeast”
14:10-14:45	Yoshinori Ohsumi	“Molecular Dissection of Membrane Dynamics during Autophagy”
14:45-15:05	Coffee break

Session 7 : Organism model Chair: Jochen Wittbrodt / Naoto Ueno

15:05-15:40	Cornelis Weijer	“Chemotactic Cell Movement and Its Role in Morphogenesis”
15:40-16:15	Damian Brunner	“Organizing Microtubules in Space and Time”
16:15-16:50	Joashim Wittbrodt	“Individual Cell Migration as the Driving Force for Optic Vesicle Evagination”
16:50-17:25	Kei Ito	“Imaging the Structure of the Neural Circuits Using Molecular-Genetic Techniques”
17:25-18:00	Minoru Tanaka	“A Gonadal Field Coordinates Germline and Somatic Precursors to Form a Gonadal Primordium”