8th Annual German-Japanese Colloquium
Jointly organized by JSPS, University of Heidelberg and NINS
Date: December 1-3, 2011
Venue: Heidelberg, Studio Villa Bosch, December 1st-3rd 2011
PROGRAM
December 1st |
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| 10:00 | Excursion to MPI for Astrophysics and EMBL |
Opening Ceremony |
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| 15:00 | Welcome and Greetings |
| 15:05 | Bernhard Eitel (Rector Heidelberg University) |
| 15:10 | Elisabeth Knust (Vice president DFG) |
| 15:30 | Keynote Lectures
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| 17:30 | Reception |
| 18:15 | Christmas Market |
| 19:30 | Dinner |
December 2nd |
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| Session 1 / Astronomy Chairs Masanori Iye and Thomas Henning |
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| 08:00 | From the early universe to the formation of galaxies Masanori Iye (NAOJ) |
| 08:25 | The formation of the first stars Ralf Klessen (Heidelberg University) |
| 08:50 | The first steps towards planet formation Cornelis Dullemond (Heidelberg University) |
| 09:15 | From planetesimals to planets: implications for diversity of extrasolar planetary systems and ubiquity of super-Earths Shigeru Ida (Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
| 09:40 | Direct imaging of exoplanets and their formation sites with Subaru Motohide Tamura (NAOJ) |
| 10:05 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 | The 4.6-billion-year history of the Sun and its influence on Earth’s climate Saku Tsuneta (NAOJ) |
| 10:55 | The search for super-Earths Didier Queloz (Geneva University) |
| 11:20 | Chemistry in the formation of stars and planetary systems Yuri Aikawa (Kobe University) |
| 11:45 | The atmospheres of habitable planets Lisa Kaltenegger (MPI Astronomy) |
| 12:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15 | Short Talks Deuterium Chemistry in hot and cold environments Tobias Albertsson / High-contrast imaging search for extrasolar planets Beth Biller / Triggered cluster formation by the dynamical interaction of dense molecular gas Aya Higuchi / Status and prospect of nuclear fusion science for future energy sources Masayuki Yokoyama / The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets Christoph Mordasini / Co-evolution of the atmosphere, oceans, and life over Earth’s history Yasuhito Sekine / Chemical evolution of a protoplanetary disk Dmitry Semenov / First time galactic archaeology Mikito Tanaka / A new dust collision model to overcome barriers Fredrik Windmark / Fine structures of 2-dimensional membranes probed by xray and neutron scattering Fernanda Rossetti / Quantum mechanics in photosynthetic systems Akihito Ishizaki / Chemistry of transition metal complexes for solar energy conversion Shigeyuki Masaoka |
Session 2 / Chemistry Chairs: Kenji Ohmori and Motomu Tanaka |
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| 14:30 | Chemistry of the early earth Peter Schuster (Vienna University) |
| 14:55 | Low-temperature chemistry in the laboratory Andreas Wolf (MPI Nuclear Physics Heidelberg) |
| 15:20 | Coffee Break |
| 15:40 | Attosecond quantum engineering Kenji Ohmori (IMS) |
| 16:05 | Advanced design of heterogeneous catalyst surfaces Mizuki Tada (IMS) |
| 16:30 | Evolutionary transition from the ancient RNA to the modern protein world Irmi Sinning (Heidelberg University) |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner Greeting on the 150th anniversary of German-Japanese relationship Kenji Okada (Minister of the Embassy of Japan in Germany) Buddhism and natural sciences Shoken Miyama (Director-General NAOJ) |
December 3rd |
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| Session 2 / Chemistry Chairs: Motomu tanaka and Kenji Ohmori |
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| 08:45 | High precision spectroscopy with optical lattice clock Hidetoshi Katori (Tokyo University) |
| 09:10 | Quantitative regulation of cells and tissues on soft interfaces Motomu Tanaka (Heidelberg University) |
| 09:35 | Short Talks Quantitative analysis of biofilms and systems biology of bacteria Ilka Bischofs / Composition of hot super-Earth atmospheres Yamila Miguel / Multipotency and fate- restriction in retinal stem cells Lazaro Centanin / Robustness of morphogen gradients Thorsten Erdmann / Mechanism of fertilization in plants: Live-imaging of sperm-cell egg cell interactions Yuki Hamamura / Developmental plasticity and robustness in plants Alexis Maizel / Perception mechanism of itch Hideki Mochizuki / Development of glial cells – Regulation of oligodendrocyte development in the forebrain Masae Naruse / Auditory processing in the brain Hidehiko Okamoto / Haptic representation of science in virtual reality Yuichi Tamura / Evolution of stern cells lIdiko Somorjai / How can we know mechanical states in living cells? Theoretical prediction of cellular stiffness during cell division Hiroshi Koyama / Centromere specific integrations of copia-type retrotransposons in Arabidopsis Iyrata Sayuri Tsukahara |
| 10:35 | Coffee Break |
Session 3 / Biological Science Chairs: Kiyotaka Okada and Thomas Holstein |
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| 11:00 | Functional metagenomics of extremophiles Christa Schleper (Vienna University) |
| 11:25 | Challenges to identify novel hormones in plants Yoshikatsu Matsubayashi (NIBB) |
| 11:50 | Signaling and synthetic biology Roland Eils (DKFZ Heidelberg) |
| 12:15 | The Painful and itchy Brain Ryusuke Kakigi (NIPS) |
| 12:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45 | Stem cells and the evolution of the nervous system Jochen Wittbrodt (Heidelberg University) |
| 14:10 | Synaptic plasticity in the Brain Hannah Monyer (Heidelberg University) |
| 14:35 | Retrotransposon derived genes in mammalian development and evolution Fumitoshi Ishino (Tokyo Medical and Dental University) |
| 15:00 | Coffee Break |
Science 4 / Science, Industry and Society Chair Thomas Holstein and Kiyotaka Okada |
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| 15:30 | From biodiversity to Designer Bugs: Bioinspired engineering of producer microorganisms Jürgen Eck |
| 15:55 | Synthetic biology: New chances for biotechnology? Alfred Pühler (ACATECH) |
| 16:20 | Energy science and civilization Kimitaka Itoh (NIFS) |
| 16:45 | Road map of Large Research Projects in Japan-On complementary roles of big science and small science Hiroshi Yamada (NIFS) |
| 17:05 | Short Break |
| 17:15 | Discussion for the Future |
| 17:45 | Closing Remarks Kiyotaka Okada (NIPS) |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
