3rd iCeMS International Symposium

Symposium on the MESO CONTROL of the cells, by the cells, for the cells
-- featuring transportsomes --

Date / Time Tuesday, January 27, 2009 / 8:45-18:45
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 / 8:45-18:45
Venue Extenal LinkHotel Fujita Kyoto
Program

Session 1

Systems Nano/Meso-Biology of Cellular Signaling

John F. Hancock / University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Khuloud Jaqaman / The Scripps Research Institute
Takashi Saito / RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology
Jay T. Groves / University of California Berkeley
Antoine Triller / Ecole Normale Supérieure
Arkady Pertsov / State University of New York Upstate Medical University

Session 2

Protein Assembly in Presynaptic Mesostructure Active Zones

Yasuo Mori / Kyoto University
Shigeo Takamori / Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Toshihisa Otsuka / University of Toyama

Session 3

Nano/Meso-Physics/Chemistry Approaches for Understanding Cell Surface Functions

Makoto Kiso / Gifu University and iCeMS, Kyoto University
Motonari Uesugi / iCeMS, Kyoto University
Hideo Akutsu / Osaka University
John Heuser / Washington University and iCeMS, Kyoto University

Session 4

Muscle Sarcoplasmic Reticulum as a Paradigm for Nano/Meso-Investigations

Hiroshi Takeshima / Kyoto University
Rebecca Sitsapeasan / University of Bristol Medical School
Hector Valdivia / University of Wisconsin, Madison, Medical School
Jianjie Ma / University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Session 5

Applications of Single-Molecule Tracking for Cell Biophysics

Hideo Higuchi / The University of Tokyo
Ken P. Ritchie / Purdue University

Session 6

Nanoparticles and Nanostructures: Their Applications to Biomedical Problems

Mark T. Swihart / The State University of New York
Dai-Wen Pang / Wuhan University
Yong Chen / Ecole Normale Supérieure and iCeMS, Kyoto University

Session 7

Membrane Transporters: from Crystal Structure to Cellular Function

Jeff Abramson / University of California Los Angeles
Yoshinori Moriyama / Okayama University
Yoshikatsu Kanai / Osaka University
Admission Free of charge
Registration Preferred
Contact Aki Kusumi at akusumi@frontier.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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Co-hosted by
  • Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas to "Transportsomes" from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT)
  • Membrane Mechanisms Project, ICORP, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  • Sokabe Cell-Mechanosensing Project, SORST, JST
  • Purdue University Center for Basic and Applied Membrane Sciences (PUBAMS) / Department of Physics, Purdue University