The 3rd NIBB-TLL-MPIZ Joint Symposium 2011 "Cell Cycle and Development"

Organizers	Frederic Berger (TLL), Karuna Sampath (TLL), Toshie Kai (TLL), Toshiro Ito (TLL)
Venue	Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory
Date	Nov. 21-22, 2011
Link	Symposium Website　（http://www.tll.org.sg/content/3rd-nibb-tll-mpiz-joint-symposium-2011）
Poster

The 3rd NIBB-TLL (Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory) -MPIPZ (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research) Joint Symposium 2011 was held at TLL's facilities in Singapore. Despite it being winter, Singapore's close position to the equator keeps it quite warm, with the conference seeing 30⁰C temperatures both days, and humidity of over 80%. Through lectures on the cell cycle, development, and related fields of basic biology by researchers from Japan, Singapore, and Germany, this joint symposium set out to promote an international exchange of scientific ideas unhampered by boundaries of nation or field. The Japanese lecturers for the symposium consisted of 6 lecturers from NIBB, as well as 3 other researchers from throughout the Japanese community of basic biology scientists. Including the talks by the three keynote speakers, Prof. Mitsuyasu Hasebe (NIBB), Prof. Yoshiaki Ito (TLL), and Prof. George Coupland (MPIPZ), the topics covered included the cell cycle, cell division, fertilization, development, and differentiation, among others, with research drawn from a large pool of model species such as mice, Arabidopsis thaliana, Physcomitrella patens, zebrafish, Xenopus laevis, yeast, and Volvox. Each presentation by the researchers was both interesting, and full of personal flavor, with the question and answer sessions afterwards blossoming into fruitful cross-disciplinary discussions lasting past the initially allotted time. The poster presentations were also quite lively, consisting of ten presentations, primarily by younger researchers, who spoke passionately about their subjects until the end of the symposium. With additional activities, such as tours of the TLL facilities and botanical gardens, as well as several lunches and dinners spent getting to know each other while sampling the delicious local cuisine, this symposium provided a wonderful opportunity for the strengthening of research ties on both a personal and organizational level, and was ultimately a very fruitful endeavor.

(NIBB Yoshikatsu Matsubayashi)

November 21 (Mon), 2011 @Auditorium of Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory

8:30- Registration

9:00-9:10 Welcome Address

Mohan Balasubramanian

Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory

Session 1: Reproduction & Development Chair: Toshiro Ito (Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory)

S1-1:9:10-9:35 Toshie Kai A unique germline structure, nuage, functions as a processing site of germline piRNA

S1-2:9:35-10:00 Shosei Yoshida Recent view of the stem cell functionality in mouse spermatogenesis

S1-3:10:00-10:25 Cai Yu Hh signaling acts and neural stem cell cell cycle exit

Tea Break:10:25-10:45

S1-4:10:45-11:10 Rüdiger Simon Control of cell proliferation and fate in plant meristems

S1-5:11:10-11:35 Fred Berger Histones: more than a scafold. Regulatory properties of histone variants

S1-6:11:35-12:10 Franziska Turck Cis-, trans- and epi aspects of FLOWERING LOCUS T regulation

S1-7:12:10-12:35 Toshiro Ito Cell cycle and histone modification in flower development

12:35-14:30 Lunch & Poster session

Session 2: Signaling Chair: Fred Berger (Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory)

S2-1:14:30-15:15 Keynote 1 George Coupland The initiation of flower development in annual and perennial plants

S2-2:15:15-15:40 Yoshikatsu Matsubayashi Secreted peptide signals required for root meristem development in Arabidopsis

S2-3:15:40-16:05 Koji Goto TERMINAL FLOWER 1 Acts in Transcriptional Repression

16:05-16:35 Tea Break

S2-4:16:35-17:00 Masayoshi Kawaguchi Common signaling components for nodule and shoot meristem development

S2-5:17:00-17:25 Yoshiaki Kamada Tor signaling controls mitotic entry via polo kinase in the yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae

S2-6:17:25-17:50 Philip Ingham Mechanisms and Roles of Hh signalling in the zebrafish

17:50-20:30

Dinner & Posters

Day 2

November 22 (Tue), 2011 Session 3: Cell Division & Development Chair: Karuna Sampath

S3-1:9:00-9:45 Keynote 2 Yoshiaki Ito A tumor suppressor RUNX3 functions as a barrier against carcinogenesis

S3-2:9:45-10:10 Philip Kaldis Loss of Cdk2 and Cdk4 induces a switch from proliferation to differentiation in neural stem cells

S3-3:10:10-10:35 Amy E. Ikui Control of DNA re-replication by Cyclin/CDK and GSK-3 kinase in S. cerevisae

10:35-11:00 Tea Break

S3-4:11:00-11:25 Mohan Balasubramanian Assembling Cell Division Machines

S3-5:11:25-11:50 Gohta Goshima Mitosis without centrosomes

S3-6:11:50-12:15 Pernille Rorth Guided migration of a cell group

12:15-14:00 Lunch & Poster session, Round Table between PIs for discussion

Session 4: Differentiation Chair: Toshie Kai

S4-1:14:00-14:25 Naoto Ueno Mechanical contribution of non-neural ectoderm to Xenopus neural tube closure

S4-2:14:25-14:50 Karuna Sampath Maternal factors and the early axis in zebrafish embryos

S4-3:14:50 -15:15 Ichiro Nishii Evolution and Development of Volvox

S4-3:15:15 -16:00 Keynote 3 Mitsuyasu Hasebe Molecular networks of reprogramming and cell cycle reentry from a differentiated leaf cell to a stem cell in the moss Physcomitrella patens

16:00-16:10 Closing Remarks

16:10-19:00 Singapore Botanical Gardens Tour 

19:30- Banquet at Copthorne King's Buffet Dinner