On July 29, special lectures on genome editing will be held to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Tohoku University's international visitor research center - the Tohoku Forum for Creativity.
Date: Sunday, July 29
Time: 1:00 - 5:30pm
Venue: Tohoku University Centennial Hall (Kawauchi Hagi Hall)
Guest speakers
- Jennifer A. Doudna (University of California, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
- Yoshizumi Ishino (Kyushu University）
- Mikiko Siomi (University of Tokyo)
- Asako Sugimoto (Tohoku University)
- Masanobu Morita (Tohoku University)
Time schedule
- MC: Noriko Osumi (Tohoku University)
| 1:00 - 1:10 pm | Opening Remarks |
| 1:10 - 1:50 pm | Lecture 1 Yoshizumi Ishino (Kyushu University) Encounter with a mysterious repeated DNA sequence in 1986 |
| 1:50 - 2:20 pm | Lecture 2 Mikiko Siomi (University of Tokyo) piRNA biogenesis in Drosophila |
| 2:20 - 2:50 pm | Lecture 3 Asako Sugimoto (Tohoku University) Revisiting the "multi-tubulin hypothesis" using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing |
| 2:50 - 3:20 pm | Lecture 4 Masanobu Morita (Tohoku University) CRISPR/Cas system reveals novel moonlight functions of mitochondrial proteins |
| 3:20 - 3:35 pm | Flash Talks by poster session presenters |
| 3:35 - 4:15 pm | Break & poster presentation |
| 4:15 - 5:15 pm | Plenary lecture Jennifer A. Doudna (University of California, Howard Hughes Medical Institute) CRISPR Systems: Biology and Applications of Gene Editing |
| 5:15 - 5:25 pm | Closing remarks Yoshiaki Maeda (Vice Director, Tohoku Forum for Creativity) |
- Registration for this event has now closed
Call for poster presentation
To take part in the poster session, email specialseminar729@ml.tohoku.ac.jp with the following information:
(1) Name
(2) Affiliation
(3) Academic title
(4) Title of the poster
(5) Email address and phone number
Poster size: width 100cm, length max 150cm.
Up to ten posters will be selected from the first submissions.
Contact :
Tohoku Forum for CreativityOrganization for Research Promotion
Tohoku University
Email: specialseminar729@ml.tohoku.ac.jp
Website: http://www.tfc.tohoku.ac.jp/