16th International Student Seminar

Science, not Silence

What is the Alumni talk??

To commemorate 15 years of successful ISS conferences, we will have an alumni talk and discussion event to kickoff the 16th ISS. Six graduates from Kyoto University Graduate School of Biostudies, will come and talk about their career and recent endeavors. The main purpose of this event is to help current students and young researchers see what there is after graduation.

We, the 16th ISS Committee, sincerely hope everyone will take this opportunity to see what could be next in store for them after graduation.

Program

Alumni Talk: 10:00-16:40, Feb 27, 2018 @Innovation Building 5F

Alumni Profiles Printable Schedule

February 27th Alumni Session

  • 9:30-10:00 Registration
  • 10:00-10:05 Opening Remarks
  • 10:05-11:25 Alumni Session
  • Talk 1: Miki Ebisuya
    Making developmental mechanisms (and making failures)
    Talk 2: Akane Kubota
    Plant responses and research life regulated by circadian clock
  • 11:25-12:40 Lunch
  • 12:40-14:00 Alumni Session
  • Talk 3: Ayako Fukunaka
    My science and career ~From zinc biology to adipobiology~
    Talk 4: Itaru Imayoshi
    Toward understanding brain development, maturation, and plasticity
  • 14:10-15:30 Alumni Session
  • Talk 5: Ryota Ouda
    The regulation of innate immunity ~From signaling to histone modification~
    Talk 6: Eiji Yoshihara
    Metabolic reprogramming in generation of mature pancreatic islets
  • 15:40-16:40 Panel Discussion

What is the ISS Symposium??

The International Student Seminar has been held for 15 consecutive years, bringing together amazing scientists around the world to visit the wonderful city of Kyoto and share their research at Kyoto University. This year we will continue that tradition by offering the Short Talk, Long Talk, and Poster Session; to provide an opportunity for students and young researchers to show their work to a diverse group of scientists. As this is open to all students in the biological field it gives exposure to new techniques and ideas from all parts of biology.

We, the 16th ISS Committee, sincerely hope everyone will speak up and talk to people from many fields, backgrounds, countries, and cultures.

Program

Short Talk: 10:00AM-5:00PM, Feb 28, 2018 @Shiran Kaikan

Poster Session: 5:00PM-7:00PM, Feb 28, 2018 @Shiran Kaikan

Long Talk: 9:45AM-6:40PM, Mar 1, 2018 @Shiran Kaikan

Get-together & Awards: 7:30PM-9:30PM, Mar 1, 2018 @Camphora

Printable Schedule

February 28th Short-Talk Session

  • 9:30-10:00 Registration
  • 10:00-10:05 Opening Remarks
  • 10:05-11:10 Short-Talk Session 1
  • S-1: Ana C. Davila
    Functional prediction of antibody using machine learning
    S-2: Yoshitsuna Itagaki
    Live-cell analysis of actin network by high-speed atomic force microscopy
    S-3: Taka-aki Takeda
    Zinc deficiency causes a delay in hydrolysis of extracellular adenine nucleotides
    S-4: Daiki Kitamura
    Exploring the universal feedback mechanism of gene expression regulation
  • 11:20-12:25 Short-Talk Session 2
  • S-5: Yahiro Mukai
    Evaluation of function of an endogenous bornavirus-like element in miniopterus bats
    S-6: Fabian Hia
    Exploring the RNA regulational landscape via codon optimality
    S-7: Sho Miyamoto
    A functional vRNA-vRNA interaction important for incorporation of influenza A virus HA segment into virions
    S-8: Hidemasa Suzuki
    Genetic analysis with the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha reveals an essential role of auxin signaling in the three-dimensional body plan, an invention of land plants
  • 12:25-14:00 Lunch & Poster Set up
  • 14:00-15:20 Short-Talk Session 3
  • S-9: Tianhui Liu
    Functional mitochondria are crucial for the cell survival of fission yeast under chronic low-dose stress
    S-10: Haonan Bao
    Long non-coding RNAs expressed in the locus of BONOBO, a master regulator for sexual organ development in Marchantia polymorpha
    S-11: Nobumasa Soda
    Skeletal abnormalities in mice with constitutively activated MDA5
    S-12: Yoshifumi Asakura
    H3.3-specific histone chaperone Hira is required for mammalian cellular stress response including cellular mobility
    S-13: iGEM Kyoto (Yu Do, Koki Yoshimoto, Akiko Fukuda, Ayaka Soda, Ikumi Tsuzuki)
    The attempt to kill pine-wood nematodes by feeding RNAi
  • 15:20-15:50 Coffee Break
  • 15:50-16:55 Short-Talk Session 4
  • S-14: Shota Shimizu
    Gain of function of MDA5 in CD11c-expressing cells is sufficient to induce lupus-like nephritis
    S-15: Marina Matsumiya
    ES cell-derived presomitic mesoderm-like tissues for analysis of synchronized oscillations in the segmentation clock
    S-16: Merve Bilgic
    Progression of temporal pattern of neural stem cells during complex brain formation
    S-17: Wenhui Piao
    Role of lysosome on transition between active and quiescent neural stem cells in adult mice brain
  • 17:00-18:00 Poster Session (odd number)
  • 18:00-19:00 Poster Session (even number)

March 1st Long-Talk Session

  • 9:30-9:45 Registration
  • 9:45-11:30 Long-Talk Session 1
  • L-1: Yuya Sanaki
    Hyperinsulinemia abrogates tumor-suppressive cell competition
    L-2: Ainhoa Perez-Garijo
    Signaling by apoptotic cells: dying cells break their silence
    L-3: Marco Tognetti
    Deciphering the signaling network landscape of breast cancer to enable personalized medicine
    L-4: Sha Tim Wai
    Prepackaged nonstructural protein 1 of Influenza A virus supports ribonucleoprotein import into the nucleus
  • 11:30-13:25 Long-Talk Session 2
  • L-5: Alexandros Vardakis
    Feeding RuBisCO with CO2: Modifying chloroplast carbonic anhydrase activities in Arabidopsis thaliana for introducing an algal-based carbon concentrating mechanism
    L-6: Rui Sun
    Functional analysis of gibberellin-related diterpenes in the basal land plant Marchantia polymorpha
    L-7: Olivia Rivera
    ZnT2 regulates vesicle acidification and biogenesis to drive lactation and post-lactation mammary gland remodeling
    L-8: Kaori Watanabe
    Differential TGFβ/Activin signaling activity underlies distinct adaptive responses to nutrient balances between generalist and specialist Drosophila species
  • 13:25-14:40 Lunch
  • 14:40-16:25 Long-Talk Session 3
  • L-9: Jorge Hernández-García
    A likely ancestral role of DELLA proteins in the coordination of stress and developmental processes
    L-10: Akihiro Shimba
    Glucocorticoids drive diurnal oscillation in T cell distribution and response by inducing interleukin-7 receptor and chemokine receptor CXCR4
    L-11: Xian Hu
    High spatial and temporal resolution observation of vinculin recruitment on talin dimers
    L-12: Markus Mund
    Systematic nanoscale analysis of endocytosis links efficient vesicle formation to patterned actin nucleation
  • 16:25-16:55 Coffee Break
  • 16:55-18:40 Long-Talk Session 4
  • L-13: Takao Ito
    The Yorkie/YAP and Ras-driven tumorigenesis via cellular senescence inhibition
    L-14: Caroline Vissers
    Temporal control of mammalian cortical neurogenesis by m6A mRNA methylation
    L-15: Ikumi Oomoto
    m6A RNA modification is essential for mammalian neuronal development
    L-16: Masaki Nakano
    ATP maintenance via two types of ATP regulators mitigates pathological phenotypes in mouse models of Parkinson’s disease

What is the Overnight Retreat??

The Overnight Retreat is an annual event at the end of ISS. It is an opportunity to meet and talk with the participants of ISS in a less formal setting. It provides a chance to learn from each other, both academically and personally, about new ideas and perspectives. It is a night full of team-building activities and icebreakers. More details are to come.

We, the 16th ISS Committee, sincerely hope you will be able to attend and have a great time.

Program

Overnight Retreat: Mar 4-5, 2018 @Kansai Seminar House

Program Book

Mar 4th-5th Overnight Retreat

  • 15:00 (3/4) Get together at Biostudies Research Building G 1st floor
  • 16:00 Check in
  • 16:30 Group activities
  • 18:00-19:30 Supper
  • 19:30-21:30 Group activities
  • 21:30- Free time
  • 7:30 (3/5) Breakfast
  • 9:00 Checkout