4th Annual Meeting

Q-BioJP 4th Annual Meeting

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Date

• Tutorial: Jan 7th (sat), 2012.
• Annual Meeting: Jan 8th (sun) and 9th (mon), 2012.

Venue

• Noyori Conference Hall, Nagoya University [1]
  • Access to Higashiyama Campus of Nagoya University [2]
  • Campus Map [3]
    • Noyori Conference Hall is the building no. 69 in the map.

Scientific Programme

Tutorials

All tutorials are admission free. registration page [4]

Tutorial 1

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on 7th Jan. 2012 sat. 11:00 - 12:30
chair: Gen Kurosawa (RIKEN ASI)

• Hiroshi Kori and Hiroshi Ito (Ochanomizu University)
  

title: "Reduction" approach to biology.
References
1. Kori H, Kawamura Y, Nakao H, Arai K, Kuramoto Y. Collective-phase description of coupled oscillators with general network structure. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2009 Sep;80(3 Pt 2):036207. Epub 2009 Sep 21. [5]

Tutorial 2

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on 7th Jan. 2012 sat. 13:30 - 15:30
chair: Noriko Hiroi (Keio University)

• Akira Funahashi (Keio University)
  

title: tba.
References
1. tba.

Tutorial 3-1

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on 7th Jan. 2012 sat. 15:45 - 18:00
chair: Yuki Tsukada (Nagoya University)

• Katsuyuki Kunida (Department of Pathology and Biology of Disease, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University)
  

title: Advanced image analysis: Visualization, quantification and classification of cell migration.

References
1. [6]
2. [7]
3. [8]

Tutorial 3-2

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on 7th Jan. 2012 sat. 17:00 18:00
chair: Kaoru Sugimura (Kyoto University)

• Shuji Ishihara (The University of Tokyo)

title: Introduction of directional statistics.
References
1: Statistical Analysis of Circular Data
2: Directional statistics
3: Circular statistics in biology

Sessions

Session 1

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on 8th Jan. 2012 sun. 10:30 - 12:25
chair: Takayuki Suzuki (Nagoya University)

• Hirofumi Yamada (Kyoto University)

title: tba.
References
1. tba.

• Tasuku UENO (The University of Tokyo)

title: Perturbation system for signal transduction.
References
1. [9]
2. [10]
3. [11]

• Tomoaki Matsuura (Osaka University)

title: Analysis of the properties of biochemical reactions in a cell-size compartment.
References
1. [12]
2. [13]

• Koichi Takahashi (RIKEN QBiC)

title: Simulating reaction networks in intracellular environments. References
1. [14]
2. [15]

Session 2

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on 8th Jan. 2012 sun. 15:45 - 17:45
chair Hiroaki Takagi (Nara Medical University)

• Motoshi Kaya (University of Tokyo)

title: Molecular mechanics of muscle contraction based on reconstruction of hierarchical structure.
References
1. [16]

• Daisuke Taniguchi (Graduate school of arts and sciences, the university of Tokyo)

title: Self-organizing phospholipid waves in spontaneously moving amoeboid cells.
References
1. Arai Y, Shibata T, Matsuoka S, Sato MJ, Yanagida T, Ueda M. Self-organization of the phosphatidylinositol lipids signaling system for random cell migration.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010;107(27):12399-404. [17]
2. Asano Y, Nagasaki A, Uyeda TQ.
Correlated waves of actin filaments and PIP3 in Dictyostelium cells. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton. 2008;65(12):923-34.[18]
3. Gerisch G, Ecke M, Schroth-Diez B, Gerwig S, Engel U, Maddera L, Clarke M.
Self-organizing actin waves as planar phagocytic cup structures. Cell Adh Migr. 2009;3(4):373-82. [19]

• Reo Maeda (Department of Biological Science and Technology, Toko University of Science)

title: Chirality in planar cell shape contributes to left-right asymmetric epithelial morphogenesis.
References
1. [20]

Session 3

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on 9th Jan. 2012 mon. 10:00 - 11:30
chair: Tetsuya Kobayashi (University of Tokyo)

• Kazuo Yamagata (Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University)

title: Quantification of embryo quality
References
1. [21]
2. [22]

• Naoki Irie (RIKEN CDB)

title: Tackling problems in idealistic morphology by molecular-level quantification.
References
1. [23]
2. [24]

• Yuichi Taniguchi (Quantitative Biology Center, RIKEN)

title: Quantitative analysis of stochastic gene expression in single cells
References
1. [25]

Session 4

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on 9th Jan. 2012 mon. 14:00 - 16:00
chair: Akatsuki Kimura (National Institute of Genetics)

• Junnosuke Teramae (RIKEN BSI)

title: tba.
References
1. tba.

• Kazuhiro Aoki (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)
  

title: Development of reaction kinetics under the condition of molecular crowding.
References
1. [26]
2. [27]

• Namiko Mitarai (Niels Bohr Institute)
  

title: Control the ribosome traffic: Benefit of having slow codons
References
[1] N. Mitarai, K. Sneppen, and S. Pedersen. “Ribosome Collisions and Translation Efficiency: Optimization by Codon Usage and mRNA Destabilization” J. Mol. Biol. (2008) 382, 236.[28]
[2] M. Pedersen, S. Nissen, N. Mitarai, S. L. Svenningsen, K.Sneppen. “The Functional Half-Life of an mRNA Depends on the Ribosome Spacing in an Early Coding Region” J. Mol. Biol. (2011) 407, 35.[29]

• Yuta Shimamoto (The Rockefeller University)

title: Micromechanics of the metaphase spindle
References
1. [30]

Registration Fee

• Tutorial: free
• Annual Meeting: 1,500 JPY
  • Coffee Break: 700 JPY
  • Lunch: 600 JPY (prn)

Seating Capacity

• Tutorial：~ 190
• Annual Meeting: ~ 155

The Organizing Committee

• Akatsuki Kimura(Cell Architecture Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics)
• Gen Kurosawa (RIKEN Advanced Science Institute)
• Tetsuya J. Kobayashi (Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo)
• Kaoru Sugimura (iCeMS, Kyoto University)
• Takayuki Suzuki (Nagoya University)
• Hiroaki Takagi (Department of Physics, School of Medicine, Nara Medical University)
• Yuki Tsukada (Division of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University)
• Noriko Hiroi (Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University)
• Akira Funahashi (Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University)