NAIST GCOE International Student Workshop 2010
ProgramPresentation:
Place:
Sponsor:Talk, 15 minutes; Discussion, 5 minutes
I&I Land, Osaka
NAIST Global COE program

IGDB: Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
UCD:
College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis
NAIST: Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

November 7 (Sunday)
18:30
19:00

Check-inDinnerNovember 8 (Monday)
07:30

Breakfast

08:50

Opening remarks (Main Hall) by Professor Hisaji Maki (Dean, Graduate School of
Biological Sciences, NAIST)

Session 1 - Room 1
Chairperson: Amy Fabritius (UCD)
Assistants: KokSong Lai and Rikiya Takeuchi
09:00(01) Toshiya Sasaki (NAIST)
Functional analysis of the constitutively active variant of the ubiquitin ligase Rsp5 on
the regulation of proline permease activity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
09:20(02) Hidetaka Murai (NAIST)
Novel method to investigate the interactions between melanocytes and keratinocytes
in developing skin
09:40(03) Bambang Retnoaji (NAIST)
Mechanisms underlying somite boundary formation
10:00(04) Yuta Takase (NAIST)

Reciprocal interactions between neural crest cells and dorsal aorta in developing
embryos
Session 2 - Room 2
Chairperson: Lifen Gao (IGDB)Assistants: Ryutaro Akiyama and Kok Ang Lim
09:00(05) Keita Kato (NAIST)
Novel genes involved in nicotine biosynthesis in tobacco
09:20(06) Maliwan Naconsie (NAIST)
Characterization of a rate-limiting enyme of nicotine biosynthesis,
N-methylputrescine oxidase
09:40(07) Masateru Oguri (NAIST)
Analysis of the molecular basis of cyclic electron flow around photosystem I
10:00(08) Saki Hoshiyasu (NAIST)
Involvement of post-translational modification in the quantitative regulation of the εsubunit of chloroplast ATP synthase in a xerophyte, wild watermelon
Session 3 - Room 3
Chairperson: Jingyan Zhang (IGDB)Assistants: Satohiko Murayama and Hirotaka Shibata
09:00(09) Yohei Yamamoto (NAIST)
Novel DnaJ family protein, DNAJB12, is involved in quality control of proteins in theendoplasmic reticulum
09:20(10) Pattarawut Sopha (NAIST)
Study of a novel transmembrane J-protein, DNAJB14
09:40(11) Thanyarat Promlek (NAIST)
Unfolded protein interaction with the stress sensor Ire1
10:00(12) Dai Kanagawa (NAIST)
Novel enriched environment increases expression of the plasticity-related protein
neuropsin (KLK8)
10:20
10:40

Coffee break
Administrative matters (Main Hall) (details to be announced at dinner on Sunday)
IGDB & UCD students: Please bring your passport

Session 4 - Main Hall
Chairperson: Hongmei Zhai (IGDB)Assistants: Supanji and Tomonori Nishii
11:00(13) Satoshi Fujita (NAIST)
A novel domain destabilizes interphase microtubules in Arabidopsis
11:20(14) Mo Wang (IGDB)The central element protein ZEP1 of the synaptonemal complex regulates thenumber of crossovers during meiosis in rice
11:40
(15) Polly Yingshan Hsu (UCD)REVEILLE8, a MYB-like transcription factor, regulates the circadian clock and plantdevelopment

12:00
12:20

12:40

(16) Yasuko Hashiguchi (NAIST)
Functional analysis of Arabidopsis SHOOT GRAVITROPISM 6(17) Jian Feng (IGDB)
A role for GSNOR1 in polar auxin transport and plant development
Group photographs and lunch

Session 5 - Main Hall
Chairperson: Ni Luh Putu Ika Mayasari (NAIST)
Assistants: Harumitsu Suzuki and Mitsunori Arai
14:00
(18) Manami Toriyama (NAIST)
Phosphorylation of doublecortin and neural progenitor cell migration
14:20(19) Caitlin Kiley (UCD)
Rapid plasticity of visual circuits in the lateral geniculate nucleus
14:40(20) Katsunori Semi (NAIST)
Committed neuronal precursors confer astrocytic potential on residual neuralprecursor cells
15:00(21) Jingyan Zhang (IGDB)
Wiring specificity between BDU and PLM neurons
15:20(22) Berry Juliandi (NAIST)The effects of histone deacetylase inhibition on cortical development
15:40

Coffee break

Session 6 - Main Hall
Chairperson: Rie Ishida (NAIST)
Assistants: Toshiya Sasaki and Bambang Retnoaji
16:20(23) Paul Ginno (UCD)
Hardwiring epigenetic signals, a role for R-loops in setting DNA methylation patterns
16:40(24) Daniel Melters (UCD)
Primate centromere evolution: plasticity caught in the act
17:00(25) Jinfeng Chen (IGDB)
Sequence and analysis of the genome of wild rice Oryza brachyantha
17:20(26) Lina Chen (IGDB)
Temporal and spatial dynamics of As in the soil-rice system under different water
regimes
17:40(27) Matthew McGee (UCD)
Resource polyphenism increases species richness: a test of the hypothesis
18:00
18:40

Guidance for cultural visits on November 10
Welcome party

November 9 (Tuesday)
07:30

BreakfastSession 7 - Room 1
Chairperson: Caitlin Kiley (UCD)
Assistants: Hidetaka Murai and Yuta Takase
09:00(28) Mitsunori Arai (NAIST)
Integration of exogenous neural stem cells in adult mouse cortex with neuronal
activity
09:20(29) Harumitsu Suzuki (NAIST)Histological profile of synaptic matrix metalloproteinase activity in the mouse
hippocampus
09:40(30) Hirotaka Shibata (NAIST)
Shootin2: a candidate clutch molecule involved in the migration of ganglioniceminence-derived inhibitory neurons
10:00(31) Hitomi Nakazawa (NAIST)
Rab33a interacts with singar1 and promotes axon formation
Session 8 - Room 2
Chairperson: Lina Chen (IGDB)Assistants: Keita Kato and Masateru Oguri
09:00(32) Mio Ikeda (NAIST)
Inhibitory and modulating action of DNA polymerase IV on progression of the DNA
replication fork in Escherichia coli
09:20(33) Kok Ang Lim (NAIST)
Generation of a new version of the small GTPase Raichu-OsRac1
09:40(34) Mwathi Jane Wamaitha (NAIST)
OsRap2.6 is a transcription factor that is involved in rice innate immunity
10:00(35) Most. Altaf-Un-Nahar (NAIST)
Interactions among genes involved in carpel margin formation during Arabidopsis
gynoecium development
Session 9 - Room 3
Chairperson: Monica Watson (UCD)
Assistants: Yohei Yamamoto and Dai Kanagawa
09:00(36) Satohiko Murayama (NAIST)
In vivo analysis of RNA polymerase α subunit interaction sites in the Bacillus subtilis
genome09:20(37) Supanji (NAIST)
HtrA1 expression under oxidative stress
09:40(38) Tomonori Nishii (NAIST)
Functional analysis of a BTB-containing zinc finger protein, CIBZ
10:00
(39) Ni Luh Putu Ika Mayasari NAIST)
Conditional poly-A trapping based on the Tol2-transposon system
10:20

Coffee break

Session 10 - Main Hall
Chairperson: Christine Rabinovitch (UCD)

11:00

11:20

11:40

12:00
12:20

12:40

Assistants: Satoshi Fujita and Saki Hoshiyasu(40) Hongmei Zhai (IGDB)
Physiological regulation of high transpiration efficiency in winter wheat under drought
conditions(41) Damian Guerra (UCD)
A family of RING-type ubiquitin ligases in Arabidopsis play a role in abiotic stressadaptation(42) Lifen Gao (IGDB)Generation of marker-free, bacterial blight-resistant transgenic sterile line and hybrid
rice with Xa21(43) KokSong Lai (NAIST)
Analysis of molecular mechanisms of self-incompatibility in the Brassicaceae(44) De-Shui Yu (IGDB)
Molecular mechanism of HvWRKY2 in barley resistance to powdery mildew
Lunch

Session 11 - Main Hall
Chairperson: Polly Yingshan Hsu (UCD)
Assistants: Pattarawut Sopha and Hitomi Nakazawa
14:00(45) Christine Rabinovitch (UCD)
Acidovorax sp. strain JS42 uses three types of taxis to respond to 2-nitrotoluene:
2NT chemotaxis, nitrite chemotaxis, and energy taxis
14:20(46) Rikiya Takeuchi (NAIST)
Global analysis of the genetic network for metabolic pathways in Escherichia coli
14:40(47) Amy Fabritius (UCD)
Meiosis-specific actomyosin regulation during polar body formation inCaenorhabditis elegans
15:00(48) Pei Jiun Lai (NAIST)
Effects of inverted repeats on the DNA replication fork: biochemical studies withfully reconstituted oriC plasmid DNA replication in vitro
15:20(49) David Richter (UCD)
Protein-protein interactions conserved between human insulin signaling and a
glucose responsive pathway in fission yeast
15:40

Coffee break

Session 12 - Main Hall
Chairperson: Manami Toriyama (NAIST)
Assistants: Berry Juliandi and Katsunori Semi
16:20

16:40

(50) Junfeng Bi (IGDB)
Tissue-autonomous function of Drosophila Seipin in preventing ectopic lipid droplet
formation(51) Rie Ishida (NAIST)
Functional analysis of BNIP2 as a kinesin adaptor

17:00
17:20

17:40

18:00
18:30

(52) Monica Watson (UCD)The role of the glucocorticoid receptor in skeletal muscle atrophy(53) Wei Zhang (IGDB)Gene expression-based classification and regulatory networks of pediatric acutelymphoblastic leukemia(54) Ryutaro Akiyama (NAIST)
Integration of segmentation clock and FGF signaling generates segmental pattern ofsomites
Closing remarks
DinnerNovember 10 (Wednesday)
07:00
08:00
08:30

Breakfast
Check-out and departure to NAIST
Arrival at NAIST

Cultural visits to Nara, Kyoto or Osaka

November 11 (Thursday)
09:00
10:00
13:30
17:00
17:30

Posters 1-28 will be put up in Millennium HallGCOE International Symposium (http://bsgcoe.naist.jp/en/symp.html)
Poster session 1
Posters 1-28 will be taken down
Mixer

November 12 (Friday)
09:00
10:00
14:30
14:45

Posters 29-54 will be put up in the Millennium Hall
Poster session 2
Closing remarks
Posters 29-54 will be taken down

November 13 (Saturday)
09:30
13:50
18:35

Take a chartered bus to KIX
Flight for Beijing
Flight for San Francisco