The 2nd NIBB-Princeton Joint Symposium

Program

※Both Drs. Danelle Devenport and Rebecca Burdine will not be participating in this symposium due to extenuating
circumstances.

Program
October 28th (Mon) at the Okazaki Conference Center (OCC)
9:00 - 10:00	Registration

Opening Remarks
10:00 - 10:15	Naoto Ueno (NIBB/IRCC-QIB, Japan)

Session 1: Imaging & Optogenetics Chair: Kazuhiro Aoki
10:15 - 10:45	"Optogenetics for cracking the cell signaling code"
	Jared E. Toettcher (Princeton Univ., USA)

10:45 - 11:15	"Visualization and manipulation of cell signaling"
	Kazuhiro Aoki (NIBB/ExCELLS/IRCC-QIB, Japan)

11:15 - 11:45	"Multi-photon microscopy innovated by cutting-edge light technologies"
	Tomomi Nemoto (NIPS/ExCELLS, Japan)

11:45 - 12:15	"Visualizing the role of boundary elements in enhancer-promoter communication"
	Takashi Fukaya (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)

12:15 - 12:30	Group Photograph

12:30 - 13:45	Lunch

Session 2: Single-Cell/Single-Molecular Imaging Chair: Ryota Iino
13:45 - 14:15	"3D Multi-Resolution Imaging"
	Haw Yang (Princeton Univ., USA)

14:15 - 14:45	"Single-molecule dynamics of motor proteins visualized by plasmonic nanoprobes"
	Ryota Iino (IMS/IRCC-QIB, Japan)

14:45 - 15:15	"Imaging of Single-Molecule Dynamics using High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy"
	Takayuki Uchihashi (ExCELLS/Nagoya Univ., Japan)

15:15 - 15:45	Coffee Break

Session 3: Pattern Formation Chair: Michael S. Levine
15:45 - 16:15	"Live imaging of gravity sensing cells"
	Miyo T. Morita (NIBB, Japan)

16:15 - 16:45	"Toggle Switch Model for Transcriptional Enhancers"
	Michael S. Levine (Princeton Univ., USA)

16:45 - 17:15	"3D morphogenesis of adult appendages from the Folded Epithelial Sheets in Drosophila "
	Shizue Ohsawa (Nagoya Univ., Japan)

17:15 - 17:45	Poster Session (Poster List pdf 111KB)

18:00 - 20:00	Reception along with Poster Session

October 29th (Tue) at the Okazaki Conference Center (OCC)
Session 4: Organogenesis Chair: Shinji Takada
09:30 - 10:00	"Visualization and quantification of Wnt proteins in embryos"
	Shinji Takada (NIBB/ExCELLS, Japan)

10:00 - 10:15	"Mechanical force activates FGFR/Erk2 signaling to regulate epithelial tissue integrity in early Xenopus
	embryos"
	Noriyuki Kinoshita (NIBB, Japan)

10:15 - 10:45	Coffee Break

10:45 - 11:15	"Establishment of morphological and functional polarity in the mouse oviduct"
	Toshihiko Fujimori (NIBB, Japan)

11:15 - 11:30	"Mitogen competition regulates spermatogenic stem cell homeostasis in an open niche"
	Yu Kitadate (NIBB, Japan)

11:30 - 13:30	Lunch along with Poster Session

After Lunch	Free time

October 30th (Wed) at the Okazaki Conference Center (OCC)
Session 5: Symbiosis & Infection Chair: Shuji Shigenobu
09:00 - 09:30	"Root nodule symbiosis integrated into regulatory systems of host legumes"
	Takashi Soyano (NIBB, Japan)

09:30 - 10:00	"Dynamic Organelle Shape and Function in the Context of Viral Infections"
	Ileana Cristea (Princeton Univ., USA)

10:00 - 10:30	"Genomic revelations of a mutualism: aphids and the endosymbiont"
	Shuji Shigenobu (NIBB, Japan)

10:30 - 10:45	"Adaptation of corals to future warm environments"
	Shunichi Takahashi (NIBB, Japan)

10:45 - 11:15	Coffee Break

Session 6: Neurobiology Chair: Nobuyuki Shiina
11:15 - 11:35	"Quantitative assessment of brain transcriptome dynamics in primate neuropsychiatric disease model"
	Yasuhiro Go (NIPS/ExCELLS, Japan)

11:35 - 11:55	"Regulation of the dynamics of RNA granule condensates and its implications for long-term memory"
	Nobuyuki Shiina (NIBB/ExCELLS, Japan)

11:55 - 12:15	"Whole-brain activity patterns decoded by regional fine-grained activity patterns"
	Junichi Chikazoe (NIPS, Japan)

Closing Remarks
12:15 - 12:20	Michael S. Levine (Princeton Univ., USA)

Imaging and Quantitative Biology

Program