Invitation to Liaison Laboratory regular seminars
HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar
Co-organized by the Collaborative Research Core for Developmental Medicine

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):

2024 │ 2023 │ 2022 │ 2021 │ 2020 │ 2019 │ 2018 │ 2017 │ 2016 │ 2015

Wednesday, Feb 14, 2024, *12:30 – 13:30

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=106543

Speaker:
Yasuhiro Kazuki, Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University
Title:

Generation of humanized animal model using chromosome engineering technology and the application for drug discovery

Wednesday, Feb 14, 2024, *10:30 – 11:30

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=106543

Speaker:
Juro Sakai, Professor, Molecular Physiology and Metabolism, Tohoku University School of medicine
Title:

Regulation of adipose thermogenesis and obesity via epigenomic reprogramming facilitated by a histone demethylase responsive to cold stress.

Wednesday, Jan 31, 2024, 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=106543

Speaker:
Seiji Takashima, Associate professor, Department of Textile Science and Technology, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shinshu University
Title:

Mystery of Blood-Testis Barrier -how do germ cells pass through it?

Wednesday, Jan 24, 2024, 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=106543

Speaker:
Katsura Asano, Professor (Special Appointment), Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University
Title:

eIF3 mediates translational heat shock response through the RNA-binding g subunit

Wednesday, Jan 17, 2024, 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=106543

Speaker:
Tetsuji Kakutani, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
Title:

Genetics of epigenetics on Arabidopsis

Wednesday, Jan 10, 2024, 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=106543

Speaker:
Naotaka Tsutsumi, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University
Title:

Cryo-EM structure of the thrombopoietin-MPL receptor complex guides design of the cytokine variants that bias hematopoiesis

Wednesday, Dec 20, 2023, 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=106543

Speaker:
Yusuke TOYAMA, Principal Investigator, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore
Title:

Harnessing mechanics: Apoptosis and its mechanical role in cell fate determination

*Tuesday, Dec 19, 2023, 15:00 – 16:00

*ONSITE  *in Japanese

Speaker:
Tsukasa Ohmori, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine
Title:

Gene Therapy for genetic disorders of thrombosis and hemostasis

Wednesday, Nov 29, 2023, 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=106543

Speaker:
Yuichiro Miyaoka, Project Leader, Regenerative Medicine Project, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science
Title:

Genome editing in human iPS cells to study and cure disease

*Friday, Nov 24, 2023, 14:30 – 15:30

*Zoom online / Please check the URL on “HIGO Cutting-Edge Seminar” at Moodle   https://md.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=106543

Speaker:
Kinichi Nakashima, Professor, Department of Stem Cell Biology and Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University
Title:

Toward better functional recovery: Restoring impaired function by regulating extrinsic/intrinsic cell fate in the CNS

Wednesday, Nov 15, 2023, 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=106543

Speaker:
Aya Narita, Assistant professor, Department of Child Neurology, Tottori University Hospital
Title:

Development of pharmacological chaperone therapy for central nervous system impairment in lysosomal storage disorders

Wednesday, Oct 25, 2023, 12:00 – 13:00

*postponed

Speaker:
Kinya Otsu, President, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center
Title:

Wednesday, Oct 18, 2023, 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=106543

Speaker:
Sho Tabata, Tsuruoka Metabolomics Laboratory, National Cancer Center
Title:

NFκB nuclear dynamics orchestrate inflammatory aging

Wednesday, Oct 11, 2023, 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=106543

Speaker:
Takeshi Ishikawa, Professor, laboratory of computational chemistry for life science , Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University
Title:

Drug Discovery Using Computational Chemistry : Method Development and Applications

Wednesday, Oct 4, 2023, 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=106543

Speaker:
Tohru Ishitani, Professor, Department of Homeostatic Regulation, RIMD/Biken, Osaka University
Title:

Small fish models reveal the hidden mechanisms of aging and tissue homeostasis

Wednesday, Sep 27, 2023, 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=106543

Speaker:
Wataru Aoki, Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
Title:

Exploring the boundary between matter and life through a constitutive understanding of the ribosomal self-replication process

Wednesday, Sep 13, 2023, 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=106543

Speaker:
Hiroyuki Hioki, Professor, Department of Neuroanatomy, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine
Title:

Toward Decoding the Grand Design of the Central Nervous System

Wednesday, Jul 19, 2023, 12:00 – 13:00

*Onsite only

Speaker:
Hiroyuki Tamiya, Project Specific Researcher, Department of Physiology and Systems Bioscience, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
Title:

Establishment of master circadian clock organoids for drug discovery of novel safe hypnotics 

Wednesday, Jul 5, 2023, 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=106543

Speaker:
Ryuji Yokokawa, Professor, Department of Micro Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Title:

Microphysiological systems (MPS) with perfusable vascular network for pharmacological and organogenesis applications

Wednesday, Jun 21, 2023, 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=106543

Speaker:
Hideyuki Nakashima, Assistant professor, Department of Stem Cell Biology and Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University
Title:

Novel mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of neurodevelopmental disorder Rett syndrome

Wednesday, May 24, 2023, 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=106543

Speaker:
Shosei Yoshida
Professor, Division of Germ Cell Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Title:

Self-organization of the spermatogenic cycle and wave revealed by trans-scale live imaging

Wednesday, May 17, 2023, 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=106543

Speaker:
Akio Kishida
Professor, Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Title:

Wednesday, Apr 26, 2023, 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=106543

Speaker:
Takashi Namba, Associate professor, Department of Marine Resource Science, Faculty of Agriculture and Marine Science, Kochi University
Title:

Mitochondrial dysfunction in cellular aging and the search for anti-aging compounds

Wednesday, Apr 19, 2023, 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=106543

Speaker:
Jun-ichi Kawabe, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Asahikawa Medical University
Title:

Role of Perivascular cells in multicellular organisms

– Novel capillary forming molecule and associated stem cells –

*Monday, Apr 10, 2023, 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=106543

Speaker:
Bernard de Massy, Institute of Human Genetics, CNRS Univ Montpellier France
Title:

Basic principles of meiotic chromosome organization

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