5th Annual Meeting

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Registration

New!! The registration is closed for the annual meeting.

Please register from the following link for the tutorials ( the page is in japanese).

Registration page

Important Notices

The official language of the meeting is Japanese.

Due to the capacity of the venue, the numbers of participants are limited to approximately 120 for the annual meeting, and 200 for the tutorials. It is highly recommended to register as soon as possible after the registration begins. In recent years, the registrations closed in a few days.

It is also reminded that all general participants should give poster presentations.

Outline of the 5th Annual Meeting

Objective

The Japanese Society for Quantitative Biology (Q-BioJP) is a non-profit organization founded in 2008 that is dedicated to the advancement of the field of quantitative biology.

Sessions

In the 5th Annual Meeting, we organize four oral sessions: "Life and constructive approach", "Life dynamics through statistical time-series analysis", "New field in quantitative biology", and "Robustness in life". We will also have a short talk session. In the poster sessions, all general participants give poster presentations.

Tutorials

This year, we organize, for the first time, a tutorial by an expert in the field of image analysis, aiming toward integrative collaborations between the fields of image analysis and quantitative biology. We also organize tutorials on numerical analysis of modeling quantitative dynamics of life, Next Generation Sequencer and quantitative biology.

Date

• Tutorials : November 23rd (Fri), 2012.
• Annual meeting : November 24th (Sat), 25th (Sun), 2012.

Venue

Convention hall, An Block, Institute of Industrial Science,
Komaba Ⅱ Research Campus, The University of Tokyo.
Access to Komaba Ⅱ Research Campus
Campus map

Registration Fee

• Annual meeting : 1200 yen ( costs for snacks in the poster sessions and the banquet.)
• Alcoholic beverages in the banquet ( if you wish ) : 700 yen
• Lunch boxes on Nov. 24th and 25th ( if you wish ) : 800 yen for each day.
• Tutorials : Free

Seating capacity

• Tutorials : Approximately 200.
• Annual meeting : Approximately 120, excluding speakers ( approx. 20 people ).

Remarks

• Poster sessions
  • The size of a poster panel is 1130 mm width and 1630 mm height. Up to a standard B0 size will be possible to post.
• Payment of the registration fee
  • You will be requested to pay the registration fee through the paypal system. Instructions will be announced soon by e-mail. There will NOT be the on-site payment.
• Receipt
  • You will be receiving a receipt of the payment through the paypal system. A printable pdf file will be created with a registered mailing address and details of the fee. If you have any special request, please ask at a reception desk.
• Internet
  • Wireless internet access will be available. Limited numbers of electric outlets and wired LAN cables are also available.

Scientific Program

Tutorials ( Nov. 23rd )

All tutorials are admission free. Please register from the registration page[1].

Tutorial 1

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Time: TBA
Chair: TBA

• Seiichi Uchida( Department of Advanced Information Technology, Kyushu University )

Title: What are researchers on image informatics doing?

References:
A publication list of the speaker is available [2]
A homepage of bioimageinformatics is also available.[3]

Tutorial 2

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Time: TBA
Chair: TBA

• Akira Funahashi( Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University )

Title: TBA

References: TBA

Tutorial 3

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Time: TBA
Chair: TBA

• Kazuyuki Nakamura( Graduate School of Advanced Mathematical Sciences, Meiji University )

Title: Introduction to Bayesian analysis: concept and usage

References:
K. Nakamura, R. Yoshida, M. Nagasaki, S. Miyano and T. Higuchi, "Parameter estimation of in silico biological pathways with particle filtering towards a petascale computing," The Proceedings of 14th Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, pp. 227-238, 2009.

H. Koyama, T. Umeda, K Nakamura, T. Higuchi and A. Kimura, “A high-resolution shape fitting and simulation demonstrated equatorial cell surface softening during cytokinesis and its promotive role in cytokinesis,” PLoS ONE 7(2), e31607, 2012.

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Tutorial 4

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Time: TBA
Chair: TBA

• Itoshi Nikaido( RIKEN CDB )

Title: Crosslinking Q-bio and Omics

References:
ENCODE Project Consortium, An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome, Nature. 2012 Sep 6;489(7414):57-74.[4].

Sessions ( Nov. 24th, 25th )

Session: Life and constructive approaches

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Date and Time: TBA
Chair: TBA

• Hirohide Saito ( The Hakubi Center, Kyoto University )
  

Title: Synthetic RNA-based approaches towards autonomous control of mammalian cell fate

References:
1.Saito H, Kobayashi T, Hara T, Fujita Y, Hayashi K, Furushima R, Inoue T., Synthetic translational regulation by an L7Ae-kink-turn RNP switch., Nat Chem Biol. 2010 Jan;6(1):71-8.[5]
2.Ohno H, Kobayashi T, Kabata R, Endo K, Iwasa T, Yoshimura SH, Takeyasu K, Inoue T, Saito H., Synthetic RNA-protein complex shaped like an equilateral triangle., Nat Nanotechnol. 2011 Feb;6(2):116-20.[6]
3.Saito H, Fujita Y, Kashida S, Hayashi K, Inoue T., Synthetic human cell fate regulation by protein-driven RNA switches., Nat Commun. 2011 Jan 18;2:160.[7]
4.Kashida S, Inoue T, Saito H., Three-dimensionally designed protein-responsive RNA devices for cell signaling regulation., Nucleic Acids Res. 2012 Jul 18.[8]

• Yutaka Sumino ( Department of Physics, Aichi University of Education )
  

Title:Large scale vortex formation of self-propelled microtubules
References:
[1] S. Ramaswamy, "The mechanics and statistics of active matter," Ann. Rev. Cond. Matt. Phys. 1, 323-345 (2010).
[2] Y. Sumino, K. H. Nagai, Y. Shtaka, D. Tanaka, K. Yoshiakwa, H. Chaté, and K. Oiwa, ."Large-scale vortex lattice emerging from collectively moving microtubules, " Nature 483, 448-452 (2012). [9]
[3] T. Vicsek, A. Czirók, E. Ben-Jacob, I. Cohen, and O. Schochet, "Novel type of phase transition in a system of self-driven particles," Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 1226-1229 (1995). [10]
[4] G. Grégoire and H. Chaté "Onset of Collective and Cohesive Motion" Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 025702 (2004). [11]

• Yusuke T. Maeda ( The Hakubi Center, Kyoto University )
  

Title: TBA
References:

• Mitsuhiro Matsuda ( Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University )

Title: Multicellular patterns generated by intercellular feedback circuits
References:
Matsuda M, Koga M, Nishida E, Ebisuya M. Synthetic signal propagation through direct cell-cell interaction. [12]

Session: Life dynamics through statistical time-series analysis

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Date and Time: TBA
Chair: TBA

• Michio Hiroshima ( RIKEN QBiC )
• Yohei Kondo ( Department of Basic Science, The University of Tokyo )
• Toshiaki Omori ( Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University )

Session: New fields in quantitative biology

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Date and Time: TBA
Chair: TBA

• Yoshimi Haga ( RIKEN ASI )
• Masaya Oki ( Graduate School of Engineering, University of Fukui )
• Yutaro Kumagai ( WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University )

Session: Robustness in life

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Date and Time: TBA
Chair: TBA

• Hidehiko Inomata ( RIKEN CDB )
• Tetsuhiro Hatakeyama ( Department of Basic Science, The University of Tokyo )
• Daisuke Kiga ( Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology )
• Tomoya S. Kitajima ( RIKEN CDB )

Poster sessions ( Nov. 24th, 25th )

Details will be announced soon.

Other events ( Nov. 24th )

• Poster guide( instructions of poster presentations )
• Banquet

Presentation style

• Oral presentations
  • Oral presentations are only for invited speakers and selected short talks.
• General participants
  • All participants should give poster presentations.

Schedule

Details will be announced soon.

The Organizing Committee

• Akatsuki Kimura ( Cell Architecture Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics )
• Tetsuya J. Kobayashi ( Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo )
• Noriko Hiroi ( Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University )
• Akira Funahashi ( Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University )
• Atsushi Kamimura ( Department of Basic Science, The University of Tokyo )

Sponsors

This meeting is co-organzied by Research Group on Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo. This meeting is also supported by KAKENHI research group "the physicochemical field for genetic activities", "哺乳類初期発生の細胞コミュニティー", and "Cross-talk between moving cells and microenvironment as a basis of emerging order in multicellular system" MEXT, Japan.

Contact

E-mail: q.bio2012 at gmail.com ( please replace `at' with `@' )