Inauguration of iCeMS

We are proud to announce that iCeMS, the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, is to be inaugurated on February 19, 2008. The inauguration consists of: 1) Inauguration Lectures, 2) Opening Ceremony and 3) Reception. We would be honored to have you at the Inauguration Lectures, which is WIDE OPEN to public. For the program of the Inauguration Lectures, see the table below.

Inauguration Lectures
Date	Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Venue	Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501 > Direction > Campus Map
Registration	NOT required
Fee	Free of charge
Program	Time	Lecturer (Time allotted) *plus 3 minutes each for Q&A
	10:00	Norio Nakatsuji (20 min) iCeMS (Director) and Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University "The scope and aims of the iCeMS, and human embryonic stem cell research" Wieland Huttner (25 min) Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden "The cell biology of neural stem and progenitor cells" Fiona Watt (25 min) Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research/ School of Biological Sciences University of Cambridge "Stem cell renewal and differentiation in mammalian epidermis"
	11:20	Break
	11:40	Shinya Yamanaka (25 min) iCeMS and Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University "Induction of pluripotency by defined factors" Masatoshi Takeichi (25 min) RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology "Machinery to link cells together"
	12:35	Lunch Break
	13:35	K. VijayRaghavan (25 min) National Centre for Biological Sciences "Actin at the membrane in myoblast fusion during muscle remodeling" Christian Amatore (25 min) Chemistry Department, Ecole Normale Supérieure "Single cell behavior as investigated by amperometry at ultramicroelectrodes" Leonard H. Rome (25 min) California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA "Engineering of vault nanoparticles for delivery of therapeutics"
	15:00	Break
	15:20	John Ryan (25 min) Bionanotechnology IRC, University of Oxford "Real-time molecular imaging of membrane protein structure and function" Susumu Kitagawa (20 min) iCeMS (Deputy Director) and Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University "Responsive porous crystals"
	16:15	Break

Opening Ceremony / Reception
Date	Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Venue	Opening Ceremony :Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501 > Direction > Campus Map Reception :Kyoto Hotel Okura Kawaramachi-Oike, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-8558 > Direction & Map
Schedule	16:30 - 17:30	Opening Ceremony
	17:35 - 17:45	Bus Transportation
	18:30 - 20:50	Reception

For inquiries, please contact:

Administration
iCeMS
Phone: +81 (0)75-753-9754
Fax: +81 (0)75-753-9759
Email: sympo@icems.kyoto-u.ac.jp