The 61st NIBB Conference

Cellular Community in Mammalian Embryogenesis

Program

 

July 10 (Wed) at the Okazaki Conference Center (OCC)
08:30 - 08:50 Registration
   
Opening Remarks
08:50 - 09:00 Toshihiko Fujimori (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan)
   
Session 1  
Chair: Toshihiko Fujimori
09:00 - 09:30 “Digitizing Mouse Blastocyst Development To Investigate Inner Cell Mass Formation” 
  Shankar Srinivas (University. of Oxford, UK)
   
09:30 - 10:00 “Mechanisms of Position-dependent Specification of Cell Fates in Preimplantation Embryos”
  Hiroshi Sasaki (Kumamoto University, Japan)
   
10:00 - 10:20 General Discussion
   
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee Break
   
Session 2  
Chair: Yayoi Toyooka
10:40 - 11:10 “Lineage Specification and Plasticity in Preimplantation Development”
  Berenika Plusa (The University of Manchester, UK)
   
11:10 - 11:40 “Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Epithelial Polarization”
  Atsushi Suzuki (Yokohama City University, Japan)
   
11:40 - 12:10 “The Regulation and Importance of Nuclear Reformation Timing in the Mouse Zygotes”
  Miho Ohsugi (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
   
12:10 - 12:30 General Discussion
   
12:30 - 13:20 Lunch
   
Session 3  
Chair: Yoh Wada
13:20 - 13:50 “Imaging and Function of Proprotein Convertases in Preimplantation 
  Development”
  Daniel Constam (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switerland)
   
13:50 - 14:20 “Uterine Notch-RBPJ Signaling is Essential for Normal Embryonic Axis Orientation
  During Peri-implantation Development”
  Haibin Wang (Institute of Zoology Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
   
14:20 - 14:50 “Genesis of Asymmetry Through Reconstituted Lateral Inhibition”
  Miki Ebisuya (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan)
   
14:50 - 15:10 General Discussion
   
15:10 - 15:30 Coffee Break
   
Session 4  
Chair: Tetsuya Kobayashi 
15:30 - 16:00 “Mechanism and Reconstitution in vitro of Germ Cell Development in Mice”
  Mitinori Saitou (Kyoto University, Japan)
   
16:00 - 16:30 “Surviving Pluripotency. Who Picks Who Will Live and Who Will Die 
  in the Early Mammalian Embryo?”
  Tristan Rodriguez (Imperial College London, UK)
   
16:30 - 17:00 “How Cells Get Together with Right Tempo and Orientation - An Example from Social Amoeba” 
  Satoshi Sawai (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
   
17:00 - 17:20 General Discussion
   
17:20 - 17:40 Coffee Break
   
Session 5  
Chair: Chikara Meno
17:40 - 18:30 Short Talks from Posters
   
Poster Session
18:30 - 20:50  Poster Session  (Posterlist pdf. 61KB) & Light meal
   
July 11 (Thu) at OCC
Session 6  
Chair: Hiroshi Sasaki
08:50 - 09:20 “Blastomere Fate During Human Pre-implantation Embryo Development”
  Carlos Simon (Fundación IVI; University of Valencia; Iviomics, Spain)
   
09:20 - 09:50 “Restriction of Pluripotency in Development-Modeling in vitro
  Hitoshi Niwa (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan)
   
09:50 - 10:20 “Signaling Pathways in Blastocyst Development”
  Janet Rossant (University of Toronto, Canada)
   
10:20 - 10:40 General Discussion
   
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break
   
Session 7  
Chair: Hitoshi Niwa
11:00 - 11:30 “Molecular Control of the Morula to Blastocyst Transition”
  Paul Robson (Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore)
   
11:30 - 12:00 “Analyzing Stochastic Dynamics of Cellular & Multi-cellular Systems”
  Tetsuya Kobayashi (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
   
12:00 - 12:20 General Discussion
   
12:20 - 13:10 Lunch
   
Session 8  
Chair: Daniel Constam 
13:10 - 13:40 “Anterior-posterior Axis Formation in Amniotes”
  Shinichi Aizawa (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan)
   
13:40 - 14:10 “Generating and Sensing Fluid Flow by Cilia”
  Hiroshi Hamada (Osaka University, Japan)
   
14:10 - 14:30 General Discussion
   
14:30 Excursion + Free Discussion
   
18:30 - 21:00 Mixer
   
July 12 (Fri) at OCC
Session 9  
Chair: Isao Matsuo
08:50 - 09:20 “Common Progenitors for Neurectoderm and Mesoderm are Present from Gastrulation 
  to Tail Bud Stage in Mouse”
  Elena Tzouanacou (University of Cambridge, UK)
   
09:20 - 09:50 “Inhibitory Mechanisms Required for Deriving Specific Somatic Lineages 
  from the Epiblast”
  Hisato Kondoh (Osaka University, Japan)
   
09:50 - 10:20 “Specification, Maintenance and Elimination of Axial Progenitors in Mouse”
  Val Wilson (University of Edinburgh, UK)
   
10:20 - 10:40  General Discussion
   
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break
   
Session 10  
Chair: Ryuichi Nishinakamura
11:00 - 11:30 “Analysis of the Dynamics of X Chromosome Inactivation by Nuclear Transfer”
  Atsuo Ogura (RIKEN BioResource Center, Japan) 
   
11:30 - 12:00 “TBA”
  Hideyuki Okano (Keio University, Japan)
   
12:00 - 12:20 General Discussion
   
12:20 - 13:10 Lunch
   
Session 11  
Chair: Shankar Srinivas 
13:10 - 13:40 “TBA”
  Atsushi Mochizuki  (RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Japan) 
   
13:40 - 14:10 “Behaviors of Cells and Gene Expression in Early Mouse Development”
  Toshihiko Fujimori (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan)
   
14:10 - 14:40 “Quantitative Information of Developmental Dynamics”
  Shuichi Onami (RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center, Japan)
   
14:40 - 15:00  General Discussion
   
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break
   
Session 12  
Chair: Atsushi Suzuki
15:20 - 15:50 “Regulation and Function of Wnt Signaling in the Mouse Early Embryogenesis”
  Chikara Meno (Kyushu University, Japan)
   
15:50 - 16:20 “Modeling Lung Branching Morphogenesis”
  Takashi Miura (Kyushu University, Japan)
   
16:20 - 16:40 General Discussion
   
Closing Remarks
16:40 - 16:50  Hiroshi Sasaki (Kumamoto University, Japan)