Program

Monday, March 2 (Day 1)

9:00-9:50

Registration

9:50-10:00

Welcoming Address by Eisuke Nishida

Session 1: Origin of life
Chair: Shunsuke Tagami (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan)
10:00-10:30 S1-1
On the unified chemical origins of peptides and nucleic acids
Matthew W. Powner (University College London, UK)
10:30-10:50 S1-2※
Membraneless polyester microdroplets as primordial
compartments at the origins of life
Tony Jia (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
10:50-11:20 S1-3
Evolution from Simple Peptides to Folded Proteins–The Origin Core of RNA Polymerase–
Shunsuke Tagami (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research,Japan)

11:20-11:40

Coffee BreakSession 2: Protein/RNA self-assembly
Chair: Shun-ichi Sekine (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan)
11:40-12:10 S2-1
Self-assembling supramolecular nanostructures constructedfrom protein nanobuidling blocks
Ryoichi Arai (Shinshu University, Japan)
12:10-12:40 S2-2
Evolution-inspired computational design of symmetric proteins
Kam Zhang (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan)

12:40-13:40

Lunch*Selected talks

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13:40-14:10 S2-3
Dymamics of transcription factors binding to DNA
Sina Wittmann (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology andGenetics, Germany)

14:10-14:40 S2-4
Exploring the 3D genome organization dynamics throughsingle-cell DNA replication profiling
Ichiro Hiratani (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research,Japan)
14:40-15:10 S2-5
Loose genome chromatin networks via transcription machinery
revealed by single nucleosome imaging
Kazuhiro Maeshima (National Institute of Genetics, Japan)

15:10-16:50 Poster Session 1
15:10-16:00 Presenters of Odd numbered posters
16:00-16:50 Presenters of Even numbered posters

Session 3: Intracellular Organelle formation
Chair: Tatsuo Shibata (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan)
16:50-17:10 S3-1※
Paternal pronucleus remotely safeguards maternal H3K4me3
via a cytoplasmic competition mechanism in the zygote
Hirohisa Kyogoku (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research,Japan)
17:10-17:30 S3-2※
The Physical Simulation of Self-organization of the Golgi
Apparatus
Masashi Tachikawa (Kyoto University, Japan)
17:30-18:00 S3-3
Organelle degradation by autophagy and autophagy-related
pathways
Noboru Mizushima (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

18:00-Reception at BDR Lounge*Selected talks

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Tuesday, March 26 (Day 2)
9:30-10:00

S3-4
Reconstruction of Par-cell polarity in non-polar cultured cells
reveals novel dynamic states of the Par complex clusters
Fumio Matsuzaki (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research,Japan)

10:00-10:30 S3-5
Opportunities and Challenges in Understanding Cortical Pattern
Formation
Min Wu (Yale School of Medicine, USA)
10:30-11:00 S3-6
Unifying data across experiments towards an integrated view ofcell organization
Gregory R. Johnson (Allen Institute for Cell Science, USA)

11:00-12:40 Poster Session 2
11:00-11:50 Presenters of posters with category “A”
11:50-12:40 Presenters of posters with category “B”

12:40-13:40

Lunch

Session 4: Brain function and its underlying principle
Chair: Atsushi Iriki (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan)
13:40-14:10 S4-1
Resolving Organization, Dynamics and States of Primate Brain
Takuya Hayashi (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research,Japan)
14:10-14:40 Marmoset as a model animal for primate brain mapping
projects
Tetsuo Yamamori (RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan)

14:30-14:50

Coffee Break

14:50-15:20 S4-3※
Atypical myosin tunes the emergence of dendrite arbor
complexity
Adrian Moore (RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan)*Selected talks

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15:20-15:50 S4-4
How does the non-conscious visuo-motor function emerge after
damage to the primary visual cortex?
Tadashi Isa (Kyoto University, Japan)
15:50-16:20 S4-5
Mapping the Cerebral Cortex in Humans and NonhumanPrimatesDavid C. Van Essen (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

16:20-16:40

Coffee BreakSession 5: Cell assembly and organ formation
Chair: Minoru Takasato (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan)
16:40-17:10 S5-1
TBD
Shuichi Onami (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research,Japan)
17:10-17:30 S5-2※
SOX2 and SOX21 repress CDX2 and the intestinal program
during developmental gastric patterning and metaplasia inhumans
Daniel O. Kechele (CuSTOM, Cincinnati Children's Hospital MedicalCenter, USA)

17:30-

Speaker’s Dinner*Selected talks

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Wednesday, March 4 (Day 3)

9:30-10:00

S5-3
TBD
Vikas Trivedi (EMBL, Spain)

10:00-10:30 S5-4
Single cell transcriptomics reveals a signaling roadmap
coordinating endoderm and mesoderm lineage diversification
during foregut organogenesis
Aaron M. Zorn (CuSTOM, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center,USA)

10:30-10:50

Coffee Break

10:50-11:20 S5-5
Synthetic Embryology: a new window on mammaliandevelopment
Eric Siggia (The Rockefeller University, USA)
11:20-11:50 S5-6
TBD
Mototsugu Eiraku (Kyoto University, Japan)

11:50

Closing Remarks*Selected talks