Information for Participants
Date:
Thursday, March 28 – Sunday, March 31, 2019
Venue:
Kobe Convention Center
Kobe International Conference Center
6-9-1 Minatojima-nakamachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo, 650-0046, Japan
Tel: +81-78-302-5200
Kobe International Exhibition Hall, No. 2 Building
6-11-1 Minatojima-nakamachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo, 650-0046, Japan
Tel: +81-78-302-1020
Congress Secretariat (during the congress March 28 – March 31, 2019)
Room: Meeting Room 305, 3F, Kobe International Conference Center
TEL: +81-78-302-6900
E-mail: faops2019@convention.co.jp
Official Language:
English (except for some lunchtime programs)	*Simultaneous translation to be provided for PSJ and JSPFSM Co-organized Special Talk
Session on March 30, 2019.
Country and Region:	All names of countries and regions in this program book follow the statements made by theparticipants.
On-site Registration:
Registration Desks are located in the Foyer, 1F,
Kobe International Exhibition Hall, No. 2 Building.
Please register and receive your name badge at the Registration Desk.
Advanced Registration:
If you have completed Advanced Registration, please bring your registration confirmation
	with QR code to the Registration Desk. Registration confirmation is available by clicking the“Confirmation” button on “My LaCool”*.
*My LaCool: Online system for Advanced Registration.
Registration Desk:
Place: Foyer, 1F, Kobe International Exhibition Hall, No.2 Building.
Thursday, March 28

13:00 – 18:00

Friday, March 29

7:30 – 19:00

Saturday, March 30

7:30 – 19:00

Sunday, March 31

7:30 – 13:00•Name badge will be issued on-site.
•All congress attendees are required to wear name badges in order to enter the Scientific
Program and Exhibition.
Name badges cannot be re-issued either during or after the meeting.
•With your name badge, you will receive a ticket for a Congress Bag. Please bring yourticket to the Congress Bag Desk at the Entrance Lobby, 1F, Kobe International Exhibition
Hall, No.2 Building to receive your Congress Bag.
*Please note that the number of tickets for the Congress Bags is limited.

Registration Fee:
Advanced Registration
Category

Early

NormalLate

Aug. 1 2018 –Oct. 31 2018

Nov. 1 2018 –Dec. 20 2018

Dec. 21 2018 –Feb. 28 2019

On-siteRegistration

Regular

JPY 25,000

JPY 30,000

JPY 35,000

JPY 40,000

Industry

JPY 30,000

JPY 35,000

JPY 40,000

JPY 50,000

Graduate Student

JPY 15,000

JPY 20,000

JPY 25,000

JPY 30,000

Undergraduate Student

JPY 10,000

JPY 10,000

JPY 10,000

JPY 15,000

Accompanying Person

JPY 10,000

JPY 10,000

JPY 10,000

JPY 15,000

Congress Dinner

JPY 5,000

JPY 5,000

JPY 5,000–•Undergraduate and Graduate Students are required to present a student ID/ official letter
proving the status at the Registration Desk.
•Accompanying person should be family members of a participant.
Aged 17 and under are regarded accompanying person free of charge. Colleagues orfriends are NOT eligible to register as accompanying person. 
Authors can not be registered as accompanying person.
•Aged 17 and under can attend the Congress Dinner without ticket, if they are accompanied
by a participant.
•Congress Dinner will be held in the evening on March 30, 2019 at Kobe Portopia Hotel.
Registration Fee for accompanying person includes:•Opening Ceremony, Welcome Reception and Closing Ceremony*Accompanying persons can not access the Scientific Program of FAOPS 2019.
Payment Method for on-site Registration:
Payment must be made in Japanese Yen, by cash or credit card at the congress site.
Please note that neither personal checks nor payment in any other currencies will be
accepted.
Credit Card: American Express, Visa, Mastercard, Diners Club and JCB are acceptable.
Free WiFi:
Free WiFi is available in Kobe International Conference Center andKobe International Exhibition Hall, No. 2 Building.
SSID: FAOPS2019
Password: faops2019
Name Badge:•Name badge will be issued On-site.
•Receipt for those who completed Advanced Registration is available at My LaCool(Online registration system) .
•Please wear your name badge at all times during the Congress for identification andsecurity purposes. Only registered participants wearing the Congress name badge will beallowed to access to the Congress venues.
•Congress bag and Program book ticket will be printed with your name badge.
Exhibition:
Exhibition will be held at the Convention Hall, 1F,
Kobe International Exhibition Hall, No. 2 Building during the following hours.
Friday, March 29

9:00 – 18:00

Saturday, March 30

9:00 – 18:00

Sunday, March 31

8:00 – 12:30

Important Notes ⚠
Mobile Phone:	During the Scientific Programs, please refrain from using mobile phone and turn off orswitch to silent mode.
Prohibiting of recording:
Photography, video recording, and sound recording of the presented data are prohibited.
SNS:
Please refrain from writing about presentations on Social Network Services.
Luncheon Sessions:•Lunches will be provided during the Congress at;	*Luncheon Seminars*Technical Workshops*GAKUSAI (interdisciplinary) Seminar*Symposium by the PSJ Committee on the Promotion of Gender Equality•As there will be a limited number of meals, the tickets will be distributed at Luncheon
Seminar Ticket Desk in the morning of each sessions.
•Luncheon Seminar Tickets become invalid after the start of the seminar.
•Luncheon Seminar Ticket is limited to one per person.
* The details of Luncheon Seminars and Technical Workshop are described in P. 28<Luncheon Seminar Ticket Desk>
Place: Foyer, 1F, Kobe International Exhibition Hall, No. 2 Building
Friday, March 29

7:30 – 11:30

Saturday, March 30

7:30 – 11:30

Cloakroom:
Place

March 28

Foyer, 1F,
1 Kobe International
Exhibition Hall, No. 2 Building

March 29

March 30

March 31

13:00 – 19:00

7:30 – 20:00

7:30 – 19:30

7:30 – 14:00

Foyer, 3F,
2 Kobe International
Conference Center

13:00 – 19:00

7:30 – 20:00

7:30 – 19:30

7:30 – 14:00

Kobe Tour Guides Desk:
Place: 1st Foyer, Kobe International Exhibition Hall, No. 2 Building
AED:
AED is set on every floor.
AED marks
are shown in the floor map. (P. 15 ~P. 18)
Smoking:
Smoking is prohibited anywhere except smoking area.
Personal Belongings :	The congress cannot take any responsibilities for lost or stolen items. For any lost items, pleasecome to the general information desk located at Foyer, 1F, Kobe International Exhibition
Hall, No. 2 Building.

Abstracts:
	The abstracts are published as an electronic on-line supplement volume of the Journal of
Physiological Sciences, available on the website of FAOPS 2019. They are also available on
the Mobile Application.
				<Password for download>
The password is described on P.22 of the Program Book.

Mobile Application:
Mobile Application “FAOPS2019” allows you to check the congress program and	create your own itinerary. You can bookmark the sessions you wish to attend and any
abstracts you are interested in.
		
		
		

<Download the Mobile Application>
Go to the App Store / Google Play store from your mobile device.
Enter “FAOPS2019” into the search bar and download / install the FAOPS2019 App. toyour device.

				<Password for abstracts>
The password is described on P.22 of the Program Book.

Prayer Room	Located at Anteroom 1 (1F, Exhibition Hall, the back of Registration Desk) Please feel free
to ask congress staffs if you can not find the room.
Children’s Waiting Room	A waiting room for children will be on 1F, Exhibition Hall, No. 2 Building. Our staff members
will be stationed, and children can study by themselves in room. Children aged 11 years
or older can stay alone. Children aged 10 years or younger can also use this room if theirguardian stays with them. Lunch-time use is welcome.
<Please note>•Children aged 11 years or older can stay in this room alone. However, when they comethere for the first time, they have to be accompanied by their guardian, and the guardian has to fill in contact information.
•We do not provide any food or drink other than bottled water. Bring your own.
•Our staff members only manage children’s entrance and exit. We are not responsible forany accidents or other troubles.
Anti-harassment Policy	
FAOPS 2019 is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience foreveryone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability,
physical appearance, body size, race, age or religion. For details, see FAOPS 2019 website.

Instructions for Chairs and Co-chairs•All chairs and co-chairs are requested to come to the “Next chair’ seat” (at the front row
on your right side of the session room) no later than 30 minutes prior to the beginning ofyour session.
•All chairs and co-chairs are asked to ensure that all sessions start / finish on time.

Instructions for Oral Presenters
Presentation Time:Plenary Lectures: 60 min.
Special Lectures: 50 min.
Symposia, Sponsored Symposia, Tutorials, Luncheon Seminars, Technical Workshops,
Educational Lectures and other sessions: As informed by your session’s chair.
PC Center:
Please register your presentation data At least 30 minutes before your session starts.
Place: Foyer, 3F, Conference Center
Friday, March 29

8:00 – 19:00

Saturday, March 30

8:00 – 17:30

Sunday, March 31

7:30 – 12:00•Please bring your presentation data on USB Flash Drive made in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007,2010, 2013 or 2016 for Windows.
•If you wish to play a video, please compress the video in a format readable on Windows
Media Player 12. Please also let us know at the PC Preview Center if you will play sound.
•Please bring your own PC if you prefer to use Macintosh.
•If you will use your own computer to present, please make sure it can connect using a
D-sub15 pin (mini) connection (shown below).

•We strongly recommend bringing back-up data of your slide and movie files in case of any
technical difficulties.
•Please refrain from editing your presentation at the PC Preview Center.
•Your presentation data will be temporarily saved on the PC Preview Center server and on
the computer at the congress, but will be deleted at the end of the congress period.
Equipment:•Screen ratio is 4:3 in all Session rooms.
•Oral Presentations can only be made with Windows PCs (single screen only).
Slide projectors are not available.
•If your presentation file is made on Macintosh, please bring your own laptop with a VGA
adapter (the genuine products or products with Apple MFI Certification are recommended).

Disclosure of conflicts of interest (COI):•Disclosure of any possible conflicts of interest (COI) of each presentation is required.
Please make sure to disclose COI information in the second slide of you presentation.
•Delegates are requested to use the formats that can be downloaded
from the FAOPS2019 congress website.
“SAMPLE of COI presentation format”

Instructions for Poster Presenters
Guidelines for Poster Sessions:
Presenters are requested to follow the schedule below.
The poster number for your presentation can be found in the program book.
Schedule:
Place: Convention Hall, 1F, Exhibition Hall No. 2 Building
Date

Fri.,
March
29

Poster No.

1P-001~1P-554

PostingTime

ViewingTime

9:00 – 10:00

10:00 – 13:20
15:00 – 17:00

Odd
Number
Even
Number

Sun.,
March
31

2P-001~2P-552

RemovalTime

13:20 – 14:10

AP-1~AP-9
Sat.,
March
30

Discussion
Core Time

14:10 – 15:00

17:00 – 18:00

13:20 – 15:00
Odd
Number
Even
NumberSpecial Sessions for Awardees**

9:00 – 10:00

March 30
17:00 – 18:00

10:00 – 13:20
15:00 – 16:30

8:00 – 13:00

13:20 – 14:10
16:30 – 17:00
14:10 – 15:00–

13:00 – 14:00*Any posters remaining on their panels after the removal time will be discarded
by the secretariat.
**PSJ Awardees posters will be displayed throughout 3 days. Young Scientist Travel Awardees
and JGP poster Awardees have additional poster presentation on March 31.
Posters:< Size >Poster: 90cm wide x 190cm highLabel : 70cm wide x 20cm high•Your poster number is ready on your assigned panel.
•Please prepare a label showing the title, institution andthe speaker’s name.
•Pins for posting will be prepared on each poster panel.
•During the Discussion Core Time, presenters are requested
to stand in front of their poster panel.
Notes:•Poster should be prepared by yourself.
•Presenters are responsible for posting and removing
their own materials.
•Audio-Visual equipment cannot be used.
Disclosure of conflicts of interest (COI):•Disclosure of any possible conflicts of interest (COI) of each
Poster presentation is required. Please make sure to disclose
COI information in the last page of your presentation.
•Delegates are requested to use the formats that can be
downloaded from the FAOPS 2019 congress website.

Award Presentations
Young Scientist Travel Award (YSTA) and Masao Ito Memorial Award
The Organizing Committee of the Congress offers Young Scientist Travel Award (YSTA) to
encourage the high quality performance of the young scientist. Eligible awardees havebeen selected by the travel grant committee. Awardees are listed on page 299-304.
Awardees have additional poster presentation on March 31.
We also announce that the best 10 awardees of YSTA in FAOPS 2019 will be given Masao
Ito Memorial Award with his name crowned.
	The names and country/regions of the awardees of YSTA and Masao Ito Memorial Awardare posted on the FAOPS 2019 officials website.
The Journal of General Physiology (JGP) Poster AwardFAOPS 2019 Program Committee and The Journal of General Physiology (JGP) will present	best poster award to the authors who presented distinguished posters about their original
works on mechanistic and quantitative molecular and cellular physiology of the highest
quality.
	Up to 4 awardees are selected by the selection committee. Awardees will be granted atclosing ceremony on March 31. Awardees also have additional poster presentation on
March 31.
Awards by the Physiological Society of Japan (PSJ)The Physiological Society of Japan annually offers several awards listed as below.
•Promotion Award of the Physiological Society of Japan for Young Scientists•Hiroshi and Aya Irisawa Memorial Award for Excellent Papers in The Journal of Physiological
Sciences•Hiroshi and Aya Irisawa Memorial Promotion Award for Young Physiologists•Hiroshi and Aya Irisawa Memorial Award for Excellent Papers on Research in Circulation in
The Journal of Physiological Sciences•Aya Irisawa Memorial Promotion Award for Excellence by Women Physiologists
Awardees are listed on page 96-97. For more information, visit the website of PSJ(http://int.physiology.jp/en/awards/).
T he posters of awardees are shown in entire period of poster sessions. Awardees arehighly recommended to show their presentation in the discussion coretime: 13:20-15:00,
March 29.

Social Events and Ceremonies
March 28, 2019							DAY1
Opening Ceremony(including The FAOPS 30th Year Anniversary Program “History of FAOPS”)
Time:
place :

15:40 - 17:20
Room A (1F, Conference Center)

Welcome Reception
Time:place :

19:00 - 20:30
Convention Hall, 1F, Exhibition Hall No. 2 Building			*Free of charge
			*Style: Buffet

March 30, 2019							DAY3Iran Lunch
Time:place :

12:20 - 13:20
Room I (5F, Conference Center)

Congress Dinner & Award CeremonyTime:place :

19:30 - 22:00
Room “Kairaku” ,B1F, Kobe Portopia Hotel			
*Fee: 5,000 yen
			*Purchasing tickets by advanced registration is required.
			*Style: Buffet

March 31, 2019							Closing CeremonyTime:place :

12:50 - 14:10
Room A (1F, Conference Center)

DAY4Other Programs
March 29, 2019							DAY2
Symposium by the PSJ Committee on the Promotion of Gender Equality
Theme :
Seeking Gender Equality in Science			A comparison of issues and initiatives in Japan and New ZealandTime:
12:20 - 13:20
Place :
Room M (3F, Exhibition Hall, No. 2 Building)*Lunches will be provided at the Session. (The ticket is needed, See P.21)

P. 90

GAKUSAI (interdisciplinary) Seminar
Theme :
Frontier of Plasma Biology
Time:
12:20 - 13:20
Place :
Room H (5F, Conference Center)*Lunches will be provided at the Seminar. (The ticket is needed, See P.21)

P. 94

	Co-sponsored by Department of Plasmabio Science, Center for Novel Science Initiatives(CNSI), National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS)
P. 95
Meet the Lecturers
Theme :The Secret of High-Impact ResearchTime:
15:10 - 16:40
Place :
Room M (3F, Exhibition Hall No. 2 Building)March 30, 2019							Spring Science Program for Children
Time:
Lecture10:30 - 12:00
			Training
13:00 - 16:00
Place :
Lecture	Room M (3F, Exhibition Hall No. 2 Building)			Training
Room L (3F, Exhibition Hall, No. 2 Building)

DAY3
P. 307

March 31, 2019 						DAY4
Tutorial for Physiologists
Theme :
Practical Approaches to Protein Structural InformationTime:
8:00 - 9:10
Place :
Room B (3F, Conference Center)
Public Lecture
Theme :
Time:
Place :

P. 298J Talk in Japanese

Cooking Physiology
14:00 - 16:00
Room B (3F, Conference Center)

OthersLuncheon Seminars/ Technical Workshops
Date: Friday, March 29 - Saturday, March 30, 2019
*Lunches will be provided at each seminar.
*As there will be a limited number of meals, the Tickets will be distributed at Luncheon
Seminar Ticket Desk in the morning of each sessions. (See P.21)
These lunch time sessions are sponsored by companies in Japan and a light meal is supplied
to the audience. The supporting companies are allowed to make commercial
advertisement of the their products as session contents and the speakers might haveconflict of interests for this reason.
	For information about the lauguage spoken in the seminar, please refer to each seminarpage.

Business Meetings and Other Meetings
General Assembly of FAOPS
Date :Time:
Room :

Friday, March 29, 201913:00 - 14:50
Room E (4F, Conference Center)

Physiological Society of Japan (PSJ) General Meeting
Date :Time:
Room :

Thursday, March 28, 201914:00 - 15:00
Room A (1F, Conference Center)

FAOPS Council Meeting
Date :Time:
Room :

Thursday, March 28, 201912:30 - 14:30
Meeting Room 406, 4F, Conference Center

FAOPS New Council Meeting
Date :Time:
Room :

Saturday, March 30, 201915:00 - 18:00
Meeting Room 407, 4F, Conference Center

Satellite Events
FAOPS 2019 & ADInstruments Teaching Workshop, satellite of the FAOPS2019
Education workshop will be held in the same venue as for FAOPS 2019, on March 27 – 28, 2019.
Hosting Organization				Dates			Venue			President		
				
				
Academic Theme: The Physiological Society of Japan(General Incorporated Association): March 27-28, 2019
: Room 501&502, Kobe International Conference Center: Noriyuki Koibuchi M.D, Ph.D.
(Professor and Director, Department of Integrative Physiology,
Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine): “Blossoming the Future of Active Learners”

A FAOPS 2019 satellite - NIPS/Thermal Biology Training Course
National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS) [located at Okazaki] andThermal Biology Group supported by JSPS will hold a training course on
basic techniques in physiological research on April 1-5, 2019 at NIPS.

Local Information
Passport and Visa
To visit Japan, you must have a valid passport. A visa is required for citizens of	countries/regions that do not have visa-exempt agreements with Japan. Pleasecontact the nearest Japanese Embassy or Consulate for visa requirements.
Insurance
The organizer cannot accept responsibility for accidents that might occur.
Delegates are encouraged to purchase travel insurance before leaving their home	
country/region. Insurance plans typically cover accidental loss of belongings,
medical costs in case of injury or illness, and other possible risks of international
travel.
Climate
The temperature in KOBE during the period of the Congress ranges between 7 - 18
degrees Celsius.
Currency Exchange
Only Japanese yen (JPY) is acceptable at regular stores and restaurants. Certain
foreign currencies may be accepted at a limited number of hotels, restaurants andsouvenir shops. You can buy yen at foreign exchange banks and other authorized
money exchangers on presentation of your passport.
Credit Cards
VISA, MasterCard, Diners Club, and American Express are widely accepted at
hotels, department stores, shops, restaurants and nightclubs.
Tipping
In Japan, tips are not necessary anywhere, even at hotels and restaurants.

Electricity
Electric current is uniformly 100 volts, AC, throughout Japan, but with two different	cycles: 60Hz in western Japan including Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto and Nagoya, and 50Hz
in eastern Japan including Tokyo. Leading hotels in major cities have two outlets of
100 and 220 volts but their sockets usually accept a two-leg plug only.
Shopping
Shops and other sales outlets in Japan are generally open on Saturdays, Sundays
and national holidays as well as weekdays from 10:00 to 20:00. Department stores,
however, are closed on one weekday, differing by store, and certain specialty
shops may not open on Sundays and national holidays.
Restaurant
A large number of restaurant types can be found in the center of Kobe city. Mainly
the Japanese style dishes and Western dishes are served at the most of restaurants
in the hotel. There are plenty of restaurants where you can have a full meal, theprice range from JPY 1,000 yen at the fast food restaurant and casual restaurant
while “ryotei”, a high-class restaurant cost JPY 20,000 yen. Also convenience stores
to be opened 24hours are located in business areas offer inexpensive lunch boxes
roughly between JPY 500 yen and JPY 1,000 yen. During the nighttime, most ofrestaurants open until 10:00p.m.