APPS2012 Program

29 (Sun)－30 (Mon) July 2012, Pacifico Yokohama, 503 meeting room

29 Sunday, July

Pacifico Yokohama 503 meeting room

13:00 – 13:10

Opening address: Shirou Mohri (National Institute of Animal Health)13:10– 14:30

Invitation Lectures (1)Chairs: Hidehiro Mizusawa (Tokyo Medical and Dental University) , Suehiro Sakaguchi (Tokushima University)
・Wen-Quan Zou (Case Western Reserve University): Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy and its inherited form
・Rona M Barron (University of Edinburgh): Examining the relationship between abnormal PrP
and the TSE infectious agent

14:30 – 15:20Flash talk for poster presentation (1)Poster #1-1 to #1-18, Chair: Masahito Yamada (Kanazawa University)

15:20 – 16:10

Poster session with coffee brake

16:10 – 16:40

Mournful Lecture of Professor Jun Tateishi Chair: Katsumi Doh-ura (Tohoku University)
Tetsuyuki Kitamoto (Tohoku University) : Memories and Achievements of Professor Emeritus Jun Tateishi

16:40 – 17:25

Hot topics
Chairs; Naomi Hachiya (Tokyo Medical University), Robert Somerville（University of Edinburgh) ,Motomasa Tanaka (RIKEN Brain Science Institute)
Genjiro Suzuki (RIKEN Brain Science Institute): A Yeast Prion, Mod5, Promotes Acquired Drug Resistance and Cell
Survival Under Environmental Stress
Kohtaro Miyazawa (National Institute of Animal Health) : Continuous production of abnormal prion protein afterinfectious particles are eliminatedHideyuki Hara (The University of Tokushima) : Mouse prion protein (PrP) segment 100 to 104 regulates conversion ofPrP(C) to PrP(Sc) in prion-infected neuroblastoma cells

17:25 – 17:55

Executive committee Meeting

18:00 - 19:00

Meeting of the Research Committees on Prion disease

19:00

Start reception of the Sociable Dinner at Osanbashi Pier YOKOHAMA (http://www.osanbashi.com/en/index.html)

19:30– 21:30

Sociable Dinner (Dinner cruise) : Around the Port of Yokohama and from Yokohama Bay Bridge to Tokyo Bay/ Poster session

APPS2012 Program

30 (Mon) July 2012, Pacifico Yokohama, 503 meeting room

30 Monday, July

Pacifico Yokohama, 503 meeting room

8:00 – 8:40

General assembly

8:50 – 9:30

Invitation Lectures (2)Chair: Shirou Mohri (National Institute of Animal Health)・Edward A. Hoover (Colorado State University) : Transmission of Chronic Wasting Disease in Cervid and Non-cervidSpecies

9：30 - 10:30

Flash talk for poster presentation (2)Poster #2-1 to #2-20 , Chair: Takashi Yokoyama (National Institute of Animal Health)10:30 – 11:30

Poster session with coffee brake (2)11:30 – 12:30

Prion Disease in Asia and Oceania
Chairs: Yong-Sun Kim (Hallym University), Steven John Collins (The University of Melbourn ), Motohiro Horiuchi(Hokkaido University)
・Chen Gao (National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China): Overview of CJD surveillance inChina since 2006
・Xiao-Ping Dong (National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, China): Activation of macroautophagic
system in scrapie infected experimental animals and human genetic prion diseases
・Hyun Joo Sohn (QIA, South Korea): Current CWD research topics in ROK

12:30 – 12:50

Awarding Ceremony (The Best Poster prize*,

12:50 - 13:00

Closing Remarks

Zensho poster prize )*Chair of the selection committee : Noriyuki Nishida (Nagasaki University)