Schedule for the 2nd CRL International Forum‘ Tokyo Tech-HHU Düsseldorf Joint Symposiumon Photosynthesis as a New Chemical Resource’Tokyo Tech Campus Innovation Center
March 4-5, 2015

March 4 9:30~ 4 talks、13:30~ 5 talks、poster session、banquet
March 5 10:00~ 3 talks、13:30~ 4 talks

25 min talk and 5 min discussion
Invited speakers: 35 min talk and 10 min discussion(Updated January 30)
March 4 (Wednesday), 2015 (day 1)
9:30- 9:35

Toru Hisabori (Vice-Director of CRL, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Opening Remarks

Session I

Chair: Toru Hisabori (CRL, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

9:35-10:05

Masato Nakai (Osaka University)
Evolution of the Chloroplast Protein Import System

10:05-11:00

Peter Westhoff (HHU Düsseldorf)
Evolution of C4 photosynthesis – Lessons for Improving the Carbon Use
Efficiency of C3 Crops
11:00-11:10 Coffee BreakSession II

Chair: Peter Westhoff (HHU Düsseldorf)

11:10-11:40

Satoru Watanabe (Tokyo University of Agriculture)
DNA Replication of Cyanobacterial Multi-Copy Chromosomes

11:40-12:10

Yukako Hihara (Saitama University)
Photosynthesis-Dependent Transcriptional Regulation in Cyanobacteria
12:10-13:30 Lunch Break1	  	  Session IIIChair: Sousuke Imamura (CRL, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

13:30-14:00

Yoshitaka Nishiyama (Saitama University)
Redox Regulation of Protein Synthesis in Photosynthetic Organisms

14:00-14:45

Georg Groth (HHU Düsseldorf)
Selective Inhibitors for C4 Enzymes: A Structural-Based Approach to WeedControl
14:45 -16:40 Poster Session

Session IV

Chair: Marion Eisenhut (HHU Düsseldorf)

16:40-17:10

Kazuhito Inoue (Kanagawa University)
Photobiological Hydrogen Production Using Nitrogenase of Filamentous
Cyanobacteria

17:10-17:40

Shigeki Ehira (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Cell-Specific Metabolic Engineering of Filamentous Cyanobacteria for Biofuel
Production

17:40-18:10

Hiroyuki Ohta (SBB, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Lipid Remodeling Under Nutrient Starvation in Microalgae and Higher Plants andIts Application for Oil Production

18:30 - 20:30 Banquet

March 5 (Thursday), 2015 (day 2)
Session V

Chair: Kan Tanaka (CRL, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

10:00-10:30

Sousuke Imamura (CRL, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Regulation of Nitrogen Assmilation in the Unicellular Red Alga Cyanidioschyzon
merolae

10:30-11:15

Marion Eisenhut (HHU Dusseldorf)
Giving Function to the Unknown – the Novel Protein Family MNX Facilitates
Manganese Export in Oxygenic Photosynthetic Organisms

2	  	  11:15-11:45

Keisuke Yoshida (CRL, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Toward the Elucidation of Chloroplast Redox Network for Supporting
Photosynthesis
11:45-13:15 Lunch BreakSession VI

Chair: Georg Groth (HHU Düsseldorf)

13:15-13:45

Mitsumasa Hanaoka (Chiba University)
Light Sensing in Chloroplasts

13:45-14:30

Jun Minagawa (National Institute of Basic Biology)
Dissipation of Excess Light Energy in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
14:30-14:40 Coffee BreakSession VII

Chair: Jun Minagawa (National Institute of Basic Biology)

14:40-15:10

Yuki Kobayashi (CRL, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Tetrapyrrole Signaling in Abscisic Acid Response

15:10-15:40

Shinji Masuda (SBB, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
The Plastidial Stringent Response Regulates Plant Growth Under Starvation
Conditions

15:40-15:45

Peter Westhoff (Vice-President of Research, HHU Düsseldorf)
Closing Remarks

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