2019: Nano-LifeScience

15th Annual German-Japanese Colloquium



Hosted by
: Freie Universität Berlin, Kanazawa University, JSPS Bonn Office
Date: February 7-8, 2019
Venue: Harnack-Haus – The conference Venue of the Max Planck Society(Berlin)

PROGRAM (560 KB)

February 6th

19:00 Scientific networking meeting/get together among PIs

February 7th

08:30 Registration
09:00 Welcome and opening remarks
• Prof. Dr. Petra Knaus
• Prof. Dr. Joachim Heberle
• Prof. Dr. Toshio Ando
09:10 Special greeting
Prof. Dr. Verena Blechinger-Talcott

Session I
09:25 Rhodopsin based optogenetics: basics, applications and chances
Prof. Dr. Ernst Bamberg
10:10 Optical manipulation of intracellular Ca2+ dynamics
Prof. Dr. Hiromu Yawo
10:55 Coffee break
11:15 Folding alpha helical membrane proteins
Prof. Paula Booth
12:00 Automated single-molecule imaging and its application to cell signaling
Prof. Dr. Masahiro Ueda
12:45 Lunch break
13:45 Scientific Dahlem campus tour

Session II
14:45 Studies on biomolecules using single-molecule imaging technique
Prof. Dr. Yoshie Harada
15:30 Poster Session including short talks and coffee break
18:00 Closing Remarks day 1
19:00 Social event

February 8th

10:00 Welcome and opening remarks

Session III
10:00 High-speed AFM: directly visualizing protein molecules during their functional activity
Prof. Dr. Toshio Ando
10:45 Mechanically detecting and directing molecular and cellular processes
Prof. Dr. Daniel Müller
11:30 Coiled coils as molecular force sensors for cell biology and materials science
Dr. Kerstin Blank
12:15 Lunch break

Session IV
13:15 Mechanisms of axonal transport investigated by high-speed and high-resolution imaging
Prof. Dr. Yasushi Okada
14:00 Functional protein architectures defining presynaptic active zones
Prof. Dr. Stephan Sigrist
14:45 Group photo & Coffee break
15:15 Pathogenic roles of exosomes, endogenous nano-particles
Prof. Dr. Rikinari Hanayama
16:00 Investigating cellular adhesion and mechanics using multiparametric atomic force microscopy
Dr. Tanja Neumann
16:45 Final discussion and concluding remarks
• Prof. Dr. Petra Knaus
• Prof. Dr. Joachim Heberle
• Prof. Dr. Masahiko Hayashi
17:15 Introduction of JSPS programme
Tomoko Deguchi
18:30 Farewell and dinner meeting Japanese participants

February 9th

10:00–11:00: Lab tour Department of Physics; FU Berlin for those interested
Morning – (after)noon: Departure of foreign participants