NAIST Bio International Student Workshop 2013 Program

November  11  (Monday)
15:45 CAS  group  arrives  Kansai  Airport  (KIX)
16:25 UCD  group  arrives  KIX17:15 Travel  to  I&I  Land  by  chartered  bus  from  KIX19:30 Check-‐‑‒in
20:00  -‐‑‒  21:00 Dinner
After  dinner: Preparation  for  the  lecture  and  sessions

November  12  (Tuesday)
07:30  -‐‑‒  08:30 Breakfast
09:00  -‐‑‒  09:20 Opening  remarks

Main  Hall

09:20  -‐‑‒  09:40 Overview  of  program
09:40  -‐‑‒  10:10 Clerical  procedures
10:10  -‐‑‒  10:50 Ice-‐‑‒breaking  activity
10:50  -‐‑‒  11:00 Break
11:00  -‐‑‒  12:00 Special  lectureDr.  Robert  Fuchs  (CNRS)
Crosstalk  between  Translesion  Synthesis  and  Damage  Avoidance:  Whocomes  first?
12:00  -‐‑‒  12:15 Group  photos
12:15  -‐‑‒  13:00 Lunch
13:00  -‐‑‒  15:10 Sessions  I
Group  1Room  1
Discussion  leaders:Daniel  Cortes,  Rochelle  Coulson

13:00  -‐‑‒  13:30 (G1-‐‑‒01) Damion  Whitfield  (UCD)

The  developmental  control  of  replication  in  Myxococcus  Xanthus
13:30  -‐‑‒  14:00 (G1-‐‑‒02) Hang  Phuong  Le  (NAIST)A  sequence  flanking  CAG/CTG  trinucleotide  repeats  in  the  gene
responsible  for  Huntingtonʼ’s  disease  has  a  potential  for  blocking  DNApolymerases  and  may  cause  the  replication  fork  arrest
Break
14:10  -‐‑‒  14:40 (G1-‐‑‒03) Chew  Theng  Lim  (NAIST)

Biochemical  analysis  of  Escherichia  coli  SbcCD  that  promotes  genetic
instability  at  long-‐‑‒inverted  repeats
14:40  -‐‑‒  15:10 (G1-‐‑‒04) John  A.  Smolka  (UCD)

R-‐‑‒Loop-‐‑‒Interacting  Proteins

Group  2

Room  2
Discussion  leaders:
Jason  A.  Corwin,  Nobuo  Ogita

13:00  -‐‑‒  13:30 (G2-‐‑‒01) Tian  Xia  (CAS)The  ubiquitin  receptor  DA1  interacts  genetically  and  physically  with  theE3  ubiquitin  ligase  DA2  to  control  seed  and  organ  size  in  Arabidopsis
thaliana
13:30  -‐‑‒  14:00 (G2-‐‑‒02) Chin-‐‑‒Jit  Teo  (NAIST)

Analysis  of  florigen  function  in  potato  tuberizationBreak
14:10  -‐‑‒  14:40 (G2-‐‑‒03) Miho  Suzuki  (NAIST)

Functional  analysis  of  rice  TFL1  homolog,  RCN14:40  -‐‑‒  15:10 (G2-‐‑‒04) Chengzhen  Liang  (CAS)Rice  Prematurely  Senile  1  is  a  key  positive  regulator  of  leaf  senescenceGroup  3

Room  3
Discussion  leaders:
Dena  M.  Leerberg,  Naoyuki  Tahara

13:00  -‐‑‒  13:30 (G3-‐‑‒01) Miho  Kawata  (NAIST)

Neuropsin-‐‑‒mediated  regulation  of  NRG-‐‑‒1-‐‑‒ErbB4  signaling
13:30  -‐‑‒  14:00 (G3-‐‑‒02) Yan  Huang  (CAS)

Drosophila  dAcsl  inhibits  neuromuscular  junction  development  byregulating  glycosphingolipids  biosynthesis
Break
14:10  -‐‑‒  14:40 (G3-‐‑‒03) Jason  Lambert  (UCD)

Enrichment  of  PSD-‐‑‒MAGUKs  in  nascent  dendritic  spines
14:40  -‐‑‒  15:10 (G3-‐‑‒04) Kouki  Abe  (NAIST)

Role  of  a  clutch  molecule  Shootin1  in  laminin  induced  axon  formation

15:10  -‐‑‒  15:30 Break
15:30  -‐‑‒  17:40 Sessions  IIGroup  1

Room  1
Discussion  leaders:
Nicholas  Aguirre,  Damion  Whitfield

15:30  -‐‑‒  16:00 (G1-‐‑‒05) Daniel  Cortes  (UCD)

The  asymmetry  of  female  meiosis  prevents  the  inheritance  of  unpaired
chromosomes
16:00  -‐‑‒  16:30 (G1-‐‑‒06) Courtney  R.  Bone  (UCD)

How  forces  generated  in  the  cytoplasm  are  dissipated  across  thenucleoskeleton  to  move  nuclei
Break16:40  -‐‑‒  17:10 (G1-‐‑‒07) Rubwad  Mathuranyanon  (NAIST)

Fine  regulation  of  yeast  ER  stress  sensor  Ire1  by  its  N-‐‑‒terminal
intrinsically  disordered  region
17:10  -‐‑‒  17:40 (G1-‐‑‒08) Rochelle  Coulson  (UCD)

Understanding  the  functions  of  a  long,  noncoding  RNA  in  the  regulationof  the  Prader-‐‑‒Willi  critical  locus,  SNORD116
Group  2

Room  2Discussion  leaders:
Jason  A.  Corwin,  Chin-‐‑‒Jit  Teo

15:30  -‐‑‒  16:00 (G2-‐‑‒05) Yan-‐‑‒Ping  Long  (CAS)Arabidopsis  BINUCLEATE  POLLEN  1  is  a  Novel  Protein  Critical  for  DNAReplication
16:00  -‐‑‒  16:30 (G2-‐‑‒06) Qingliang  Li  (CAS)

Loss  of  AtPSM1  confers  paraquat  hypersensitive  in  Arabidopsis  byregulating  ROS  homeostasis
Break
16:40  -‐‑‒  17:10 (G2-‐‑‒07) Nobuo  Ogita  (NAIST)

Study  on  the  functional  role  of  SOG1,  a  key  transcription  factor
controlling  the  DNA  damage  response  in  Arabidopsis
Group  3

Room  3
Discussion  leaders:
Jason  Lambert,  Miho  Kawata

15:30  -‐‑‒  16:00 (G3-‐‑‒05) Naoyuki  Tahara  (NAIST)Celf1  is  required  for  formation  of  endoderm-‐‑‒derived  organs  in  zebrafish
16:00  -‐‑‒  16:30 (G3-‐‑‒06) Dena  M.  Leerberg  (UCD)

Determining  the  role  of  Fgf  signaling  in  the  development  of  the  earlyzebrafish  gonad
Break
16:40  -‐‑‒  17:10 (G3-‐‑‒07) Robyn  Jimenez  (UCD)

Detection  of  novel  gene  expression  of  a  thyroid  hormone  receptor
mutant  causative  of  Resistance  to  Thyroid  Hormone  Syndrome
17:10  -‐‑‒  17:40 (G3-‐‑‒08) Li  Li  (CAS)

Thermoregulatory  mechanism  of  brown  adipose  tissue  during  lactation
17:40  -‐‑‒  18:00 Break
18:00  -‐‑‒  18:30 Information  on  November  15  for  cultural  visits                                                                                                          Main  Hall
18:30  -‐‑‒  20:00 Welcome  party

November  13  (Wednesday)
07:30  -‐‑‒  08:30 Breakfast
08:30  -‐‑‒  09:00 Check-‐‑‒out
09:30  -‐‑‒  11:40 Sessions  IIIGroup  1

Room  1
Discussion  leaders:
Courtney  R.  Bone,  John  A.  Smolka

09:30  -‐‑‒  10:00 (G1-‐‑‒09) Rika  Indri  Astuti  (NAIST)

Role  of  Nitric  Oxide  in  Schizosaccharomyces  pombe  under  oxidative
stress  conditions
10:00  -‐‑‒  10:30 (G1-‐‑‒10) Yuki  Tatehashi  (NAIST)

Novel  biological  function  of  the  yeast  γ-‐‑‒glutamyl  kinase  that  is  a  keyenzyme  for  proline  synthesis
Break
10:40  -‐‑‒  11:10 (G1-‐‑‒11) Ariunzaya  Tsolmonbaatar  (NAIST)

Functional  analysis  of  the  putative  amino  acid  transporter  Avt7  of
Saccharomyces  cerevisiae
11:10  -‐‑‒  11:40 (G1-‐‑‒12) Nicholas  Aguirre  (UCD)

Skeletal  muscle  mTORC1  signaling,  muscle  protein  synthesis  andhypertrophy  in  response  to  LAT1  knockoutGroup  2

Room  2Discussion  leaders:Yan-‐‑‒Ping  Long,  Qingliang  Li

09:30  -‐‑‒  10:00 (G2-‐‑‒08) Juan  Wang  (CAS)Functional  characterization  of  DMC1  in  rice  medullary  cavity  formation
10:00  -‐‑‒  10:30 (G2-‐‑‒09) Pengtao  Ma  (CAS)Identification  and  mapping  of  powdery  mildew  resistance  genes  derived
from  landrace  and  allied  species  of  wheat
Break
10:40  -‐‑‒  11:10 (G2-‐‑‒10) Jason  A.  Corwin  (UCD)

Exploring  necrotrophic  disease  resistance  in  Arabidosis  thaliana  using
natural  variation  to  construct  complex,  polygenic  disease  resistancenetworks
11:10  -‐‑‒  11:40 (G2-‐‑‒11) Qiwei  Shan  (CAS)

Targeted  genome  editing  in  crop  plants  using  a  CRISPR-‐‑‒Cas  system
Group  3

Room  3
Discussion  leaders:Robyn  Jimenez,  Li  Li

09:30  -‐‑‒  10:00 (G3-‐‑‒09) Feng  Cheng  (CAS)Study  of  a  zebrafish  vinculin  mutant  and  its  implication  in  dilated
cardiomyopathy  and  coronary  development
10:00  -‐‑‒  10:30 (G3-‐‑‒10) Kyohei  Saiki  (NAIST)

Uncovering  metabolic  adaptation  of  cardiac  fibroblast  to  ischemia

Break
10:40  -‐‑‒  11:10 (G3-‐‑‒11) Muthi  Ikawati  (NAIST)

Roles  of  HtrA1  serine  protease  in  arterial  abnormalities
11:10  -‐‑‒  11:40 (G3-‐‑‒12) Yumiko  Toyoda  (NAIST)

Study  of  a  role  of  secreted  frizzled  related  protein  2  in  skin  woundhealing
11:40  -‐‑‒  11:50 Break
11:50  -‐‑‒  12:30 Selection  of  speakers  and  chairpersons  for  final  session
12:30  -‐‑‒  13:30 Lunch
13:30  -‐‑‒  14:00 Free  time
14:00  -‐‑‒  17:20 Final  session

Main  Hall

14:00  -‐‑‒  14:20

Speaker  1

14:20  -‐‑‒  14:40

Speaker  2  14:40  -‐‑‒  15:00

Speaker  3

Break
15:10  -‐‑‒  15:30

Speaker  4

15:30  -‐‑‒  15:50

Speaker  5

15:50  -‐‑‒  16:10

Speaker  6

Break
16:20  -‐‑‒  16:40

Speaker  7

16:40  -‐‑‒  17:00

Speaker  8

17:00  -‐‑‒  17:20

Speaker  9

17:20  -‐‑‒  17:50 Concluding  remarks
17:50  -‐‑‒  18:50 Dinner
19:10 Departure  to  NAIST
19:40 Arrival  at  NAISTUCD  &  CAS  participants  check  in  at  the  Guesthouse  Sentan

November  14  (Thursday)  -‐‑‒  11:00 Free  timeBio-‐‑‒building  Large  Lecture  Hall（⼤大講義室）
11:00  -‐‑‒  12:00 Presentation  of  honorary  doctorate  degree  to  Prof.  Carol  EricksonInterdisciplinary  Frontier  Research  Complex  No.2
Kenshu  Hall  (研修ホール)
12:00  -‐‑‒  13:00 Posters  should  be  put  up
13:00  -‐‑‒  14:30 Poster  session
14:30 Posters  should  be  taken  down
Carry  poster  panels  away  from  the  hall  to  the  storage

November  15  (Friday)
All  day cultural  visits

November  16  (Saturday)
11:00 Participants  from  UCD  and  CAS  leave  NAIST  on  a  chartered  bus  to  Kansai  Airport  (KIX)
13:00 Arrival  at  KIX16:10 CAS  group  departure  KIX18:20 UCD  group  departure  KIX