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| 9:00 - 9:05 |
Opening Remarks |
| 9:05 - 11:40 |
Session I : Adhesions & Cytoskeletons |
| Tight junction proteins ? out of tight junctions |
| Werner Franke |
German Cancer Research Center, Germany |
| Claudin-based Tight Junction (TJ)-Apical Complex as an Organizer of Biological Systems |
| Sachiko Tsukita |
Osaka University, Japan |
| Self-organization of actomyosin cytoskeleton |
| Alexander Bershadsky |
Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore |
| Molecular organization of epithelial tricellular junctions |
| Mikio Furuse |
National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan |
| Mechanobiology of the cadherin-catenin complex |
| James Nelson |
Stanford University, USA |
| 11:40 - 13:00 |
Lunch, Poster Session |
| 13:00 - 15:35 |
Session II : Development & Polarity |
| How does a one-dimensional (1-D) sequence of DNA become a 3-D tissue? |
| Mina Bissell |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA |
| Dynamic aspects of epithelial polarity: microtubule-dependent processes |
| Masatoshi Takeichi |
RIKEN CDB, Japan |
| Roles of lipids in the formation of membrane structures in epithelial cells |
| Junichi Ikenouchi |
Kyushu University, Japan |
| Implication of Arl4c expression in tubulogenesis and tumorigenesis |
| Akira Kikuchi |
Osaka University, Japan |
| Cilia in left-right symmetry breaking |
| Hiroshi Hamada |
Osaka University / RIKEN CDB, Japan |
| On growth and form: from macromolecular assemblies to multicellular tissues |
| L. Mahadevan |
Harvard University |
| 15:45 - 17:35 |
Session III : Membrane Trafficking |
| Mechanisms of collagen secretion from the endoplasmic reticulum |
| Kota Saito |
University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Mechanism of unconventional protein secretion |
| Vivek Malhotra |
Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain |
| Super-resolution live imaging approach to understanding molecular mechanisms of membrane traffic |
| Akihiko Nakano |
University of Tokyo / REKEN RAP, Japan |
| Sorting out membrane traffic in the endocytic pathway |
| Scott Emr |
Cornel University, USA |
| 17:45 - 18:50 |
Special Lecture by the prize Laureate |
| Introduction |
| Looking back on my 27 years of autophagy research |
| Yoshinori Ohsumi |
Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 18:50 - 18:55 |
Conclusion of the day |
| 9:00 - 12:20 |
Session IV : Imaging & Mathematics |
| Physical forces driving collective cell migration and invasion |
| Xavier Trepat |
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Spain |
| Dynamic molecular organization and self-reorganization of the cytoskeletons |
| Naoki Watanabe |
Kyoto University, Japan |
| Modeling alignment of cilia in apical membrane of multi-ciliated cell |
| Shuji Ishihara |
Meiji University, Japan |
| Morphogenesis of epithelial tissue: from cell division to tissue shape |
| Yohanns Bellaïche |
Institut Curie, France |
| Population dynamics of the sperm stem cells and its regulation in the mouse testis |
| Shosei Yoshida |
National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan |
| Mechanism and Reconstitution In Vitro of Germ Cell Development in Mammals |
| Michinori Saitou |
Kyoto University, Japan |
| Symmetry breaking in mouse development |
| Takashi Hiiragi |
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany |
| 13:40 - 14:50 |
Session V : Shoichiro Tsukita's Legacy, 10 Years On |
| Werner Franke |
German Cancer Research Center, Germany |
| Structural physiology of cell adhesive channels |
| Yoshinori Fujiyoshi |
CeSPI, Nagoya University, Japan |
| Mina Bissell |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA |
| 14:50 - 15:00 |
Closing Remarks |
