Program
Day 1 : January 11, Thursday
9:00-Registration

9:50-10:00

Opening Remarks

Session I

Hitoshi Niwa (Kumamoto University)

10:00-11:45

Chair: Hitoshi Niwa

10:00-10:30

Kenneth Zaret (Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania)
Overcoming Chromatin Barriers to Change Cell Fate

10:30-11:00

Hitoshi Niwa (Kumamoto University)
Overlapping function of klf family targets multiple transcription factors to maintain naïve
pluripotency of ES cell

11:00-11:15

Takahiro Adachi (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
Intravital imaging of cellular signaling in immune cells

11:15-11:30

Takashi Kohda (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
A novel method for the identification of hydroxymethylcytosine and its application to themammalian cells.

11:30-11:45

Jun Hatakeyama (Kumamoto University)
How do humans have expanded cerebral cortex?

11:45-12:45

Lunch & Discussion

Session II
12:45-13:15

12:45-14:15

Chair: Kenji Shimamura
Hong Kui Deng (Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University)
Small Molecule-induced Cell Fate Reprogramming

13:15-13:45

Katsuhiko Hayashi (Kyushu University)
Understanding of oogenesis by stem cell-based technologies

13:45-14:00Takashi Ishiuchi (Kyushu University)
The zinc finger protein Zfp281 functions in epigenomic regulation in trophoblast stem cells toensure proper placental development

14:00-14:15

Keiichiro Ishiguro (Kumamoto University)
A novel germ-cell specific factor responsible for initiation of meiosis

14:15-14:30

Coffee BreakSession III

14:30-16:00 Chair: Keiichiro Ishiguro

14:30-15:00

Torsten Wuestefeld (Genome Institute of Singapore)
Liver regeneration and premalignant to malignant transformation of hepatocytes

15:00-15:30

Minoru Ko (Keio University School of Medicine)
What we have learned from systematic manipulation of transcription factors in mouse andhuman ES cells

15:30-15:45

Jumpei Nogami (Kyushu University)
Low-input Epigenomic Profiling by Chromatin Labeling

15:45-16:00

Masaki Okano (Kumamoto University)
Regulation of de novo DNA methylation in mouse development

16:00-16:15

Coffee BreakSession IV
16:15-16:45

16:15-18:00

Chair: Minetaro Ogawa
Hans-Reimer Rodewald (German Cancer Research Center)
Fate mapping and endogenous barcoding of hematopoietic stem cells

16:45-17:15

Toshihiko Fujimori (National Institute for Basic Biology)
Regulation of cell differentiation during early mammalian embryogenesis

17:15-17:45

Shizue Ohsawa (Kyoto University)
Epithelial cell-turnover ensures robust coordination of tissue growth in Drosophila

17:45-18:00

Tsubasa Tanaka (Kumamoto University)
Roles of yolk uptake in the Drosophila oocyte polarization and germ plasm assembly

Short talks selected from poster presentation

18:00-18:12

18:00-18:36 Chair: Shinjiro Hino
Kazumi Hirano (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
FAD-dependent histone demethylase LSD1 is necessary for the neuronal differentiation ofhuman neural stem cells.

18:12-18:24

Kentaro Suzuki (Wakayama Medical University)
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of androgen-driven sexually dimorphic organ formation

18:24-18:36

Yuki Taira (Kobe University)
polished rice mediates temporal ecdysone signal and is essential for coordinateddevelopment in the Drosophila tracheal system

18:45-20:30

Poster Session & Reception

Day 2 : January 12, Friday
8:30-Registration

9:00-9:30

Session V
9:00-10:30 Chair: Akira Nakamura
Hiroyuki Takeda (University of Tokyo)
Deciphering the structure and epigenetics of the pluripotent genome in medaka fish

9:30-10:00

Shinichi Nakagawa (Hokkaido University)
Towards Identification of Novel Functional Long noncoding RNAs

10:00-10:15

Jiyoung Lee (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
Epigenetic instability of imprinting regions in mouse embryonic stem cells caused by in vitroenvironments

10:15-10:30

Naoki Okashita (Tokushima University)
Elucidation of novel epigenetic regulatory mechanism of the sex-determining gene “Sry”

10:30-10:45

Coffee BreakSession VI

10:45-11:15

10:45-12:15 Chair: Mitsuyoshi Nakao
Takeshi Bamba (Kyushu University)
Development of metabolic profiling methodologies by supercritical fluid chromatography/massspectrometry

11:15-11:45

Yoshifumi Yamaguchi (University of Tokyo)
Understanding seasonal body remodeling in mammalian hibernation

11:45-12:15

Yosuke Takahama (Tokushima University)
Generation of diversity in thymic epithelial cells

12:15-14:00

Lunch & Poster Session(13:00-14:00 Poster Session Core Time)

Session VII
14:00-14:30

14:00-16:00 Chair: Ryuichi Nishinakamura
Kiyokazu Agata (Gakushuin University)
Evoking regenerative ability from non-regenerative animals

14:30-15:00

Toshiaki Ohteki (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
Identification of human common monocyte progenitor, cMoP

15:00-15:30

Andrew McMahon (University of Southern California)
Generation and repair of the mammalian nephronc

15:30-16:00

Ryuichi Nishinakamura (Kumamoto University)
Building the kidney from pluripotent stem cells

16:00-16:15

Closing Remarks

Ryuichi Nishinakamura (Kumamoto University)