Invitation to Liaison Laboratory regular seminars
HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar

These weekly seminars are held to help in establishing interactive atmosphere, exchanging expertise, and forming new collaborations among multidisciplinary scientists.

 

【Notice from HIGO Program】
"Medicine and Life Science Seminar" and "Learning from Experienced Doctors" held by graduate schools of medical science are certified as HIGO Program cutting-edge seminar.
"Medicine and Life Science Seminar" and "Learning from Experienced Doctors" homepage is here(Japanese only).

 

Please submit Liaison Laboratory Registration Form.The form can be downloaded by clicking here.[Word 22KB]

 

【Date and time】

Every Wednesday, 12:00 - 13:00 (Your own lunches can be brought and taken during the seminar.)

 

【Place】

1F Conference Room, IMEG
Online(ZOOM)or Hybrid

 

Please access Kumamoto University Moodle to check Zoom meeting ID and passcode.

 

 

Soon coming Liaison Laboratory regular seminar(s):

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Wednesday, Feb 22, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Yokako Oda, Associate Professor, Dept. of Cell Growth and Differentiation, iPS cell Research Institute, Kyoto University
Title:

Discovery of tight junction inducing peptides that promote epithelial tissue repair in mammals

Wednesday, Feb 15, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Kenji Fujita, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Sydney, Kolling Institute of Medical Research
Title:

Frailty and polypharmacy in older people

Wednesday, Feb 8, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Takashi Akera, Earl Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator , Laboratory of Chromosome Dynamics and Evolution , National Institutes of Health
Title:

Cell biology of cheating in female meiosis

Wednesday, Jan 25, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Yoko Yoshida, Program Specific Associate Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine
Title:

The role of cellular senescence in the pathologies of cardiovascular-metabolic diseases.

Wednesday, Jan 18, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Motoshi Hayano, Research Lecturer, School of Medicine Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University
Title:

Biological thresholds to determine the timing and speed of aging

Wednesday, Dec 21, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Yukio Kato, Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacotherapeutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Kanazawa University
Title:

Food-derived neurotrophic amino acid ergothioneine and its transporter SLC22A4

Wednesday, Dec 14, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Kazuto Yoshimi, Assistant professor, The Institute of Medical Science,Laboratory Animal Research Center, The University of Tokyo
Title:

Genome editing technology and applications with the type I-E CRISPR-Cas3 system

Wednesday, Dec 7, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Toshihiro Kobayashi, Project Associate Professor, Division of Mammalian Embryology, Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo
Title:

Induction of germline fate from pluripotent stem cells in experimental animals

Wednesday, Nov 16, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Yoichi Shinkai, Chief Scientist, Cellular Memory Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research
Title:

Epigenetic plasticity safeguards heterochromatin configuration in mammals

Wednesday, Oct 19, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Kiyoshi Hirahara, Professor, Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University
Title:

Pathological inflammatory memories

Wednesday, Sep 28, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

 

Speaker:
Kimihiko Oishi, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, The Jikei University School of Medicine
Title:

Functional insights into a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by missense variants in an RNA-binding protein, RBM10

Wednesday, Sep 21, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*This seminar is cancelled

Speaker:
Yasukazu Daigaku, Project Leader, Cancer Genome Dynamics Project, The Cancer Institute for Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research
Title:

Genome-wide profiling of DNA polymerase usage and replication kinetics in human cells

Wednesday, Sep 14, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Ayako Ishizu, Professor, Department of microscopic and developmental anatomy, Tokyo Women's Medical University
Title:

Thrombopoietin-mediated metabolic regulation in quiescent hematopoietic stem cells

Wednesday, Sep 7, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Takashi Nakagawa, Professor, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of Toyama
Title:

NAD metabolism as a therapeutic target against aging

Wednesday, Jul 27, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Takayuki Nojima, Associate professor, Cancer Genome Regulation, Research Center for Systems Immunology, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu University
Title:

Transcription termination: Forgotten mechanism in RNA synthesis cycle 

*Thursday, Jul 7, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Kazuo Yamagata, Professor, Department of Genetic Engineering, Kindai Universit
Title:

Beyond the chromosome segregation error

Wednesday, Jun 29, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Shin-Ichiro Takahashi, Professor, Department of Animal Sciences and Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo
Title:

Novel Function of Insulin Receptor Substrates (IRSs) as Scaffold Protein

Wednesday, Jun 22, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Sugiura Yuki, Associate Professor, Department of Multiomics Platform, Center for Cancer, Immunotherapy and Immunobiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University
Title:

Visualization of oxygenase producing bioactive metabolites by mass spectrometry imaging

Wednesday, Jun 15, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*This seminar has been canceled

Speaker:
Naoki Mochizuki, Director, Department of Cell Biology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center
Title:

Simultaneous imaging of tissue/organ morphogenesis and signal transduction

Wednesday, Jun 8, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Eri Segi-Nishida, Professor, Department of Biological Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Science
Title:

Regulation of hippocampal neurons by antidepressant stimulation and exploration for factors contributing to antidepressant effects

Wednesday, May 18, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Junichi Nabekura, Professor, Division of Homeostatic Development, National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Title:

Long term-remodeling of neuronal circuits in vivo: neuron-glia interaction.

Wednesday, Apr 27, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Yoshifumi Yamaguchi, Professor, Hibernation Metabolism, Physiology, and Development Group, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University
Title:

A food-storing facultative hibernator Syrian hamster as a model animal to comprehend the mysteries of mammalian hibernation from genetic and physiological aspects

Wednesday, Apr 20, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle  https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Shinichi Nakagawa, Professor,, RNA Biology Laboratory, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University
Title:

Biology of nondomain biopolymers

Wednesday, Apr 13, 2022, 12:00 – 13:00

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=95315

Speaker:
Nobuhiko Yamamoto, Professor, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University
Title:

Plasticity of Neuronal Circuits in the Mammalian Brain