Program

12-13 December, 2014
Seminar Room C209, OIST Main Campus

Programme

11 Dec, Thursday

Arrival in Okinawa in the afternoon
19:45                 Working dinner

12 Dec, Friday (C209)

08.00               Transfer to OIST
08.30 - 09.00   Overview talks by G. Iwama and H. Aihara  
09.00 - 09.40   O. Nureki "Molecular mechanism of membrane transporters and CRISPR"
09.40 - 10.20   F. Samatey "Could we specifically stop bacterial infections without killing them all ?"
10.20 - 11.00   Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.40   K. Goda "Extreme imaging and beyond"
11.40 - 12.20   B. Kuhn "Optical imaging of brain activity"

12.30 - 13.30  Lunch

13.30 - 15.00  Tour of OIST
15.00 - 15.40  H. Aihara "Beauty of Symmetry and Symmetry Breaking"
15.40 - 16.20  S. Nic Chormaic "Light-Matter Interactions Research at OIST "
16.20 - 18.00  Tea and Lab Tours
18.15               Transfer to the hotel
19.30               Working dinner

13 Dec, Saturday (C209)

08:30 Transfer to OIST
09.00 - 09.40  M. Ueda "Information, thermodynamics, and Maxwell's demon"
09.40 - 10.20  T. Busch"Controlling and Engineering Quantum Systems"
10.20 - 11.00   Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.40   H. Fukuda "Regulation of plant vascular cell differentiation"
11.40 - 12.20   H. Saze "Epigenetic regulation of genes and transposons in plants"

12.20 - 14.00  Lunch

14.00 - 14.40  H. Takeda "Prepatterning of Developmental Gene Expression in vertebrates
                                          - interplay between genetic and epigenetic regulations"
14.40 - 15.20   I. Masai "Mechanism of vertebrate lens development"
15.20 - 16.00   Coffee Break
16.00 - 16.40   M. Sano "Universal Transition Routes to Turbulence in Simple and Complex Fluids"
16.40 - 17.20   E. Fried "Current research on fluids and other soft matter at OIST"
17.20 -             Closing by R. Baughman
17.35               Transfer to the hotel
19.30               Working dinner

14 Dec (Sunday)

   Departure