2013: Cellular Biochemistry

9th Annual German-Japanese Colloquium

Jointly organized by JSPS and Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Date: January 29 – February 1, 2013
Venue: Karlsruhe, Forstliches Bildungszentrum

PROGRAM

January 29th

09:30 Arrival ITG/Campus North
Welcome note
Uwe Strähle & Stefan Bräse (Directors ITG)
10:00 Short talks of group leaders ITG
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Site visit ANKA (Synchrotron)
14:30 Site visit ITG
18:00 Conference-eve reception including dinner
Welcome note
Prof. Asashima (JSPS)

January 30th

Welcome Addresses
• Prof. Löhe (Vice-President)
• Prof. Asashima (JSPS)

Session 1: Chemical Approaches
09:15 Small molecular entities for chemical biology
Stefan Bräse (KIT)
10:00 Combinatorial chemistry of drug delivery systems for organ targeting
Ute Schepers (KIT)
10:45 Coffee Break

Session 2: Biochemical Approaches
11:00 Neurogenesis in the adult zebrafish
Uwe Strähle (KIT/University of Heidelberg)
11:45 Secretomics and proteomics: tools to study signal transduction and brain diseases in cells and animals
Stefan Lichtenthaler (DZNE/Technical University Munich)
12:30 Lunch Break

Session 3: Patterning, Organogenesis, and Regeneration I
13:45 Control of organogenesis in vitro in vertebrate development
Makoto Asashima (AIST, Tsukuba/JSPS)
14:30 A new tool for detection of human ES/iPS cells
Dr.Yasuko Onuma (AIST, Tsukuba)
15:00 Cellular basis of liver regeneration
Atsushi Miyajima (University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
15:45 Coffee Break

Session 4: Patterning, Organogenesis, and Regeneration II
16:15 Retinal stem cells in growth and regeneration
Joachim Wittbrodt (University of Heidelberg)
17:00 Deconstructing the complexity of vertebrate limb and spinal cord regeneration
Akira Tazaki (CRTD, Dresden)
18:00 Conference Dinner

January 31st

Session 5: Patterning, Organogenesis, and Regeneration III
09:00 The Hydra stem cell system
Thomas Holstein (University of Heidelberg)
09:45 A complex network of Wnt signaling with an unusual wiring regulates the induction of vulva formation in the Nematode P. pacificus
Xiaoyue Wang (DKFZ, Heidelberg)
10:15 Coffee Break

Session 6: Approaches from System Biology and Epigenetics
10:45 Toward integration of ontogeny and phylogeny of vertebrates
Naoki Irie (CDB, Riken, Kobe)
11:30 Decoding the epigenetic code of key developmental genes in the medaka genome
Prof. Hiroyuki Takeda (University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
12:15 Lunch Break

Session 7: Cellular Behavior, Signaling, and Differentiation I
13:45 News and views of cadherins from biotechnical viewpoints
Doris Wedlich (KIT)
14:30 Roles of ADAM proteases in development and regeneration
Atsuko Sehara-Fujisawa (Kyoto University, Kyoto)
15:15 Coffee Break

Session 8: Cellular Behavior, Signaling, and Differentiation II
15:45 Carbohydrate-based Nanotechnology
Peter Seeberger (MPI Potsdam)
16:30 A developmental perspective of dinosaur morphogenesis
Koji Tamura (Tohoku University, Sendai)
17:15 End with Concluding Remarks (Dr. Kodaira, VP of KIT)
18:00 Optional Dinner