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Program of March 5th (Tue)

Short-Talk session 1

09:35 - 11:00 | Chairs: Shota Sakaguchi and Jiancheng Chan
  • S-1 (P-51)
    Sox1, a neural stem cell specific transcription factor, is an intermediate stage marker during the reprogramming of astrocytes into iPS cells.
    *May Nakajima-Koyama, JoonSeong Lee and Eisuke Nishida (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)
  • S-2 (P-41)
    Autophagy induces long-term survival during mitochondrial dysfunction in fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe
    *Masayuki Harada and Fuyuki Ishikawa (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)
  • S-3 (P-77)
    Metabolomic comparison of fission yeast and human red blood cells, with a focus on age-related compounds
    *Romanas Chaleckis, Tomáš Pluskal, Ebe Masahiro, Hiroshi Kondoh and Mitsuhiro Yanagida (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)
  • S-4 (P-35)
    Resistance to oxidative stress in nonreplicating cells
    *Leon Rozanov, Jun Endo, Motonori Ninomiya, Yusuke Tarumoto, and Fuyuki Ishikawa (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)
  • S-5 (P-19)
    HTLV-1 bZIP Factor Suppresses Apoptosis Through Attenuating FoxO3a Function and Affecting Localization
    *Azusa Tanaka-Nakanishi, Jun-ichirou Yasunaga, Ken Takai, and Masao Matsuoka (Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University)

Short-Talk session 2

11:10 - 12:20 | Chairs: Rika Fuchiue and Michi Miura
  • S-6 (P-59)
    SAMHD1 restricts HSV-1 infection in non-dividing myeloid cells
    *Peter Gee, Kasumi Kasai, Yuka Kanemura, Michele B. Daly, Sarah Amie, Baek Kim and Yoshio Koyanagi (Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University)
  • S-7 (P-73)
    Analysis of IPS-1-mediated antiviral signaling.
    *Shiori Takamatsu, Kazuhide Onoguchi, Koji Onomoto, Ryo Narita, Kiyohiro Takahasi, Fumiyoshi Ishidate, Takahiro K. Fujiwara, Mitsutoshi Yoneyama, Hiroki Kato, Takashi Fujita (Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University)
  • S-8 (P-83)
    Novel function of SAMHD1 in innate immune response against viral infection
    *Yuka Kanemura, Pete Gee, Hirotaka Ebina, Takashi Fujita, Yoshio Koyanagi (Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University)
  • S-9 (P-67)
    The functional analysis of RIG-I-inducible microRNA
    *Ryota Ouda, Koji Onomoto, Kiyohiro Takahasi, Hiroki Kato, Mitstoshi Yoneyama, Takashi Fujita (Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University)

Long-Talk session 1

13:30 - 15:20 | Chairs: Kansai Fukumitsu and Yuki Maeda
  • L-1 (P-31)
    Transcriptional controls over areal specialization of projection neurons in the cerebral cortex
    *Luciano Custo Greig, Mollie B Woodworth, and Jeffrey D Macklis (Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University)
  • L-2 (P-47)
    Activity regulates retinal connectivity without synaptic competition
    *Haruhisa Okawa, Luca Della Santina, Gregory W Schwartz, Daniel Kerschensteiner, Fred Rieke, and Rachel O. Wong (Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington)
  • L-3 (P-13)
    Wiring the connection between eye and brain
    *Austen A. Sitko, Takaaki Kuwajima, Alexandra Rebsam, Carol A. Mason (Dept. Neuroscience, Columbia University)
  • L-4 (P-7)
    Prostaglandin E receptor EP1 forms a complex with dopamine D1 receptor, regulates ligand binding of D1 receptors, and stimulates D1-induced cAMP production through GEJ in HEK293T cells.
    *Aliza T. Ehrlich, Shiho Kitaoka, Tomoyuki Furuyashiki, Shuh Narumiya (Graduate School of Biostudies and Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University)

Long-Talk session 2

15:40 - 17:55 | Chairs: Nozomi Kawamoto and Tokuji Tsuji
  • L-5 (P-27)
    A single Histidine residue in the ion binding site of mammalian ZnT transporters controls zinc vs. cadmium selectivity
    *Hoch E, Lin W, Chai J, Hershfinkel M, Fu D and Sekler I (Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.)
  • L-6 (P-69)
    Akirin2 as a Conserved Nuclear Factor Involved in NF-кB Dependent Gene Expression in Inflammation
    *Sarang Tartey, Kazufumi Matsushita, Shizuo Akira, Osamu Takeuchi (Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University)
  • L-7 (P-55)
    Sall4 interacts with transcription factors Oct-3/4 and Sox2 and occupies Oct-Sox elements in mouse embryonic stem cells
    *Nobuyuki Tanimura, Motoki Saito, Miki Ebisuya, Eisuke Nishida, and Fuyuki Ishikawa (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)
  • L-8 (P-3)
    Molecular mechanism of circadian clock and clock-mediated growth-phase transition in basal land plants, Marchantia polymorpha
    *Akane Kubota, Shogo Kita, Tomoaki Muranaka, Kimitsune Ishizaki, Ryuichi Nishihama, Katsuyuki T. Yamato, Tokitaka Oyama, Setsuyuki Aoki, Takayuki Kohchi (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)
  • L-9 (P-63)
    Identification of Higher Plant Carbonic Anhydrases Involved in Photosynthesis
    *Robert J. DiMario, Jennifer Quebedeaux, Kristen M. Bice, David J. Longstreth, and James V. Moroney (Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University)

Program of March 6th (Wed)

Short-Talk session 3

09:30 - 11:00 | Chairs: Arika Hayashi and Suguru Asai
  • S-10 (P-80)
    Caenorhabditis elegans as a screening model for biological activities of plant natural chemicals
    *Yit-Lai Chow, Fumihiko Sato (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)
  • S-11 (P-24)
    Crystal structure of peroxisomal targeting signal-2 in complex with its receptors, Pex7p and Pex21p
    *Dongqing Pan, Toru Nakatsu, Hiroaki Kato (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University)
  • S-12 (P-44)
    SeeDB: an aqueous optical clearing agent for imaging intact fluorescence and morphology in the mouse brain
    *Meng-Tsen Ke, Satoshi Fujimoto, and Takeshi Imai (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)
  • S-13 (P-2)
    High-speed atomic force microscopy combined with inverted optical fluorescent microscopy
    *Aiko Yoshida, Yuki Suzuki, Nobuaki Sakai, Akira Yagi, Yoshitsugu Uekusa, Yuka Imaoka, Shuichi Ito, Koichi Karaki and Kunio Takeyasu (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)
  • S-14 (P-74)
    Imaging of intracellular ATP dynamics in single apoptotic cells
    *Shu-ichiro Sakamoto, Akira Kakizuka, and Hiromi Imamura (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)

Short-Talk session 4

11:10 - 12:20 | Chairs: Naoko Funatsu and Hiroki Fuyushiba
  • S-15 (P-48)
    Reconstitution of multicellular patterns that are driven by Delta-Notch signaling
    *Mitsuhiro Matsuda, Makito Koga, Eisuke Nishida and Miki Ebisuya (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)
  • S-16 (P-10)
    The role of Scribble in regulating Ephexin4–RhoG signaling pathway
    *Kohei Harada, Manabu Negishi, Hironori Katoh (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)
  • S-17 (P-64)
    Characterization of PCTK1 as a Novel Regulator for Spindle Orientation
    *Sayaka Iwano, Shigeru Matsumura, Ayaka Satou, Masaki Wakabayashi, Yasushi Ishihama and Fumiko Toyoshima (Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University)
  • S-18 (P-32)
    A nucleolar scaffold protein, WDR46, determines the granular compartmental localization of nucleolin and DDX21
    *Kei Murata, Yuya Hirai, Emilie Louvet, Masahiro Kumeta and Kunio Takeyasu (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)

Long-Talk session 3

13:30 - 15:20 | Chairs: Toshifumi Ishiguro and Chih Fang Tien
  • L-10 (P-68)
    Vaccine Strategies for HIV: Using the SIV macaque model to improve existing vaccines and test novel candidates
    *Shari Gordon, Melvin Doster, Monica Vaccari, Namal Liynage, Poonam Pegu, Rhonda Kines, Marjorie Guroff, Christopher Buck, Douglas Lowy, Georgia D Tomaras, Guido Ferrari, Nancy Miller, David Venzon, Donald M. Stablein, John Schiller and Genoveffa Franchini (Animal Models and Retroviral Vaccines Section, National Cancer Institute)
  • L-11 (P-84)
    Analyses of Japanese macaques naturally infected with simian T-cell leukemia virus type 1
    *Michi Miura, Junko Tanabe, Kenji Sugata, Tiejun Zhao, Guangyong Ma, Paola Miyazato, Jun-ichiro Yasunaga, Masao Matsuoka (Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University)
  • L-12 (P-14)
    Novel approach to population sequencing uncovers mutational landscape of an RNA virus
    *Ashley Acevedo and Raul Andino (Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco)
  • L-13 (P-54)
    Functional role of Pumilio in RLRs-mediated IFN induction
    *Ryo Narita, Hiroki Kato and Takashi Fujita (Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University)

Long-Talk session 4

15:40 - 17:55 | Chairs: Kei Murata and Fukumitsu Kansai
  • L-14 (P-6)
    Cytokine secretion by CD4+ T cells at the immunological synapse requires Cdc42-dependent local actin remodeling but not MTOC polarity
    *Armelle Bohineust, Karine Chemin, Stéphanie Dogniaux, Marie Tourret, Sarah Guégan, Francesc Miro, and Claire Hivroz (Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche, Pavillon Pasteur, Paris, France)
  • L-15 (P-38)
    Modeling the Endosomal Escape of Cell-Penetrating Peptides Using a Transmembrane pH Gradient
    *Fatemeh Madani, Rania Abdo, Staffan Lindberg, Hisaaki Hirose, Ülo Langel, Shiroh Futaki and Astrid Gräslund (Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Arrhenius Laboratories, Stockholm University, Sweden)
  • L-16 (P-20)
    Ligand mobility modulates immunological synapse formation and T cell activation
    *Chih-Jung Hsu, Wan-Ting Hsieh, Abraham Waldman, Fiona Clarke, Eric S. Huseby, Janis K. Burkhardt and Tobias Baumgart (Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania)
  • L-17 (P-28)
    Essential roles of K63-linked polyubiquitin binding proteins, TAB2 and TAB3, in B cell activation via MAPKs.
    *Daisuke Ori, Hiroki Kato, Hideki Sanjo, Sarang Tartey, Takashi Mino, Shizuo Akira and Osamu Takeuchi (Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University)
  • L-18 (P-58)
    RNA surveillance factors direct facultative heterochromatin formation in fission yeast
    *Sanki Tashiro, Tomohiro Asano, Junko Kanoh, and Fuyuki Ishikawa (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)