Program
December 9 (Mon)
13:00-13:15
Welcome Address: Tateo Shimozawa, Director of RIES
Opening Remarks: Nobuhiro Ohta, Program Committee
Session I: Special Lecture
Chairman: Nobuhiro Ohta (RIES)
13:15-14:30
Yuan T. Lee (President of Academia Sinica, Taiwan)"Chemical Dynamics, Combustion and the Future of Mankind"
14:30-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-18:00

RIES-Hokudai 10th Anniversary Ceremony

18:00-

Conference Dinner with 10th Anniversary Celebration Party

December 10 (Tue)
Session II: Function (機能)
Chairman: Toshirou Yagi (RIES)
9:00-9:40
Oliver B. Wright (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)"Imaging Ripples on Crystals"
9:40-10:20
Marie-Hélène Lemée-Cailleau (CNRS-Univ. of Rennes 1, France)"Photo-Induced Ferroelectricity at the Neutral-to-Ionic Transition by Time-Resolved
X-Ray Crystallography"
10:20-10:35

Coffee BreakChairman: Takeshi Karino (RIES)
10:35-11:15
Kazuhito Hashimoto (Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo)"Design of Photomagnet Using Bimetallic Polycyanides"
11:15-11:55
Shinya Kuriki (RIES, Sapporo)"How Does Magnetic Flux Move in a Superconductor? -Detecting Single FluxVortices Using a SQUID-"
11:55-13:20Photos and Lunch

Session III: Machinery (機械)Chairman: Mamoru Tamura (RIES)
13:20-14:00
Kazuhiko Kinosita, Jr. (Center for Integrative Bioscience, Okazaki)"Chemo-Mechanical Coupling in a Rotary Molecular Motor Revealed bySingle-Molecule Physiology"
14:00-14:40
Tetsuo Ueda (RIES, Sapporo)"An Intelligent Slime Mold -A Self-Organizing System of Shape and Information-"
14:40-15:20
Yoshihito Osada (Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo)"Intelligent Gels -An Approach to Artificial Muscles-"
15:20-15:35

Coffee Break

Chairman: Masatsugu Shimomura (RIES)
15:35-16:15
Jerker Widengren (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)"Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS) and Related Techniques for
Characterization of Sparse Amounts of Molecules in Solution and on Cell Surfaces"
16:15-16:55
Hiroshi Tokumoto (RIES, Sapporo)"New Nanobiotechnology Field Opened by Carbon Nanotube SPMs"
17:30-19:30

Poster Presentation with Conference Mixer

December 11 (Wed)Session IV: Mechanism (機構)
Chairman: Yasumasa Nishiura (RIES)
9:00-9:40
Shigeki Takeuchi (RIES, Sapporo)"Quantum Mechanics and Single Photon Technology"
9:40-10:20
Masahide Terazima (Kyoto Univ., Kyoto)"New Techniques to Detect Energy and Conformational Changes of Proteins"
10:20-11:00
Pill-Soon Song (Kumho Life & Environmental Science Lab., Korea)"A Biological Light Switch, Phytochrome"
11:00-11:15

Coffee Break

Chairman: Keiji Sasaki (RIES)
11:15-11:55
Tetsuro Majima (Osaka Univ., Osaka)"Hole Transfer in DNA"
11:55-12:35
Min Gu (Swinburne Univ. of Tech., Australia)"Imaging and Trapping in Scanning Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence
Microscopy"
12:35-

Closing Remarks

Poster Presentations
December 10 (Tue)
17:30-19:30
P1

Tomoyuki Akutagawa, Tatsuo Hasegawa and Takayoshi Nakamura(Laboratory of Molecular Electronics)"Development of Molecular Systems toward Nano-Molecular Electronics"

P2

Hiroshi Nakagawa, Satoru Tanaka and Ikuo Suemune(Laboratory of Optoelectronics)"Self-Ordering of Steps on Vicinal SiC Surfaces"

P3

Hiroshi Nishino*1, Shingo Yamashita1, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki1,
Michiko Nishikawa2, Fumio Yokohari2 and Makoto Mizunami1,3(1Laboratory of Neuro-Cybernetics, 2Fukuoka Univ., 3PRESTO)"Discovery of Interneurons Processing Thermo- and Hygrosensory Signals inan Insect Brain"

P4

Takayuki Nakajima and Koichi Kawahara(Laboratory of Biomedical Control)"Relationship between the Activation of CREB and Ischemic Tolerance in thePenumbra Region of Rat Cerebral Cortex"

P5Jun Kawamata(Laboratory of Quantum Electronics)"Two-Photon Induced Fluorescent Properties of a Class of Conjugated Ketone
Derivatives and a Metal Complex"

P6

Nobuhiro Ohta, Takakazu Nakabayashi and Minoru Tsushima(Laboratory of Molecular Photonics)"Electric Field Effects on Photochemical Processes in Solid Films"

P7

Katsuhiro Ishii, R. Yoshida and Toshiaki Iwai
(Laboratory of Nanomaterials)"Single-Scattering Spectroscopy for Dense Media"

P8Toshirou Yagi, Yhuji Tsujimi, Masaru Kasahara andMasaki Takesada(Laboratory of Phase Transition)"Noble Properties of Dielectric Materials Appeared in the Phase TransitionMechanism"

P9

H. Aonuma1*, Y. Matsumoto2, S.R. Ott3, M.R. Elphick3,
M. Mizunami2 and T. Shimozawa1(1Laboratory of Neuro-Cybernetics, 2Tohoku Univ., 3Univ. of London)"Function of NO-cGMP Signaling in Olfactory Memory in the Cricket"

P10

Akito Chiba, Hideki Fujiwara, Jun-ichi Hotta, Shigeki Takeuchiand Keiji Sasaki(Laboratory of Optical Systems Engineering)"Resonant Frequency Control of a Microspherical Cavity by Temperature
Adjustment"

P11

Toshiyuki Nakagaki*, Hiroyasu Yamada and Ryo Kobayashi*(*Laboratory of Cellular Informatics)"Physiological Approach to Amoeboid Behavior in True Slime Mold"

P12

Toshiaki Iwai and Kenta Matsubara(Laboratory of Nanomaterials)"Diffusing Light Reflectometry for Imaging Blood Vessels"

P13

Ryo Kobayashi and Toshiyuki Nakagaki(Laboratory of Nonlinear Studies and Computation)"Mathematical Modeling of Amoeboid Behavior in True Slime Mold"

P14

Hideki Fujiwara and Keiji Sasaki(Laboratory of Optical Systems Engineering)"Optical Confinement within a Random Medium"

P15

Hiroshi Yabu1,2, Masaru Tanaka3, Kuniharu Ijiro3 andMasatsugu Shimomura2,3(1Hokkaido Univ., 2RIKEN, 3Laboratory of Molecular Devices)"Preparation of Nano-particles Containing Polynucleic acid-Amphiphile
Polyion Complex and Their Molecular Recognition Properties"

P16

Jiuk Jung, Tetsuo Kobayashi and Shinya Kuriki(Laboratory of Electromagnetic Sensing)"Modulation of Spontaneous EEGs during the Target Recognition Based on
Texture Cue"P17

Fumihiko Fujii,* Yoshinobu Nodasaka† and Mamoru Tamura*(*Laboratory of Supramolecular Biophysics, †Hokkaido Univ. )"The Light Scattering Increase Related to Matrix Shrinkage of Isolated Rat
Brain Mitochondria during Anoxia"

P18

Koichi Niwa, Tatsunori Kado and Takeshi Karino(Laboratory of Biofluid Dynamics)"The Effect of a Shear Flow on the Uptake of LDL by an EC-SMC Bilayer inCulture"

P19

Yasutaka Matsuo1, Kuniharu Ijiro1,2, Masatsugu Shimomura2(1PRESTO, 2Laboratory of Molecular Devices)"Stretching of Single DNA Molecules by Langmuir-Blodgett Method"

P20

Kunihiro Kojima, Holger F. Hofmann, Shigeki Takeuchi andKeiji Sasaki(Laboratory of Optical Systems Engineering)"Nonlinear Interaction in a Two Photon Pulse at an Atom-Cavity System"

P21

Katsuhisa Sato, Masaru Tanaka, Masahumi Takebayashi,
Kazutaka Nishikawa, Kiyoshi Hasebe, Tomoaki Kawai,Michiaki Matsushita, Satoru Todo and Masatsugu Shimomura(Laboratory of Molecular Devices)"Preparation of the Patterned Film of Biodegradable Polymer for Tissue
Engineering Scaffolds"

P22

Takeshi Homma1), Shuichi Ino1), Takashi Izumi2), Hayato Kuroki3)
and Tohru Ifukube3)(1)Laboratory of Sensory Information Engineering, 2)Hokkaido Tokai Univ.
3)
The Univ. of Tokyo)"Mechanical Characteristics of Human Fingerpad for a Design of a TactileDisplay"