Memorial Symposium for the 25th International Prize for Biology
"Biology of Sensing"
Celebrating Dr. Winslow R. Briggs

Shiran Kaikan, Kyoto University (京都大学 芝蘭会館)

December 2 - 4, 2009




Organizers : Yoshinori Shichida (Kyoto Univ.), Masamitsu Wada (Kyushu Univ.), Akira Nagatani (Kyoto Univ.)

Sponsored by Japan Society for Promotion of Science
e-mail : ipb-sympo(at)rh.biophys.kyoto-u.ac.jp

International Prize for Biology

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PROGRAM

December 2 (Wednesday)

8:15 Registration

9:00 Opening addresses

  Hiroshi Matsumoto (President, Kyoto University)
  Juichi Yamagiwa (Vice Dean of Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)

9:15-11:15 Session 1 Phototropin: Structure and Photoreactions

  Chair: Masahide Terazima (Kyoto University)

  Kevin Gardner (University of Texas)
    LOV domains as environmentally-regulated protein/protein interactions: A versatile way to build a biological sensor

  Satoru Tokutomi (Osaka Prefecture University)
    Molecular basis for regulation of phototropin kinase by blue light

  John Christie (University of Glasgow)
    Phototropin receptor function and application

  Akira Nagatani (Kyoto University)
    A structure/function study of phototropins

11:15-11:30 Photo

11:30-12:30 Lunch

12:30-14:00 Session 2 Phototropin: Physiological Functions

  Chair: Takayuki Kohchi (Kyoto University)

  Kenichiro Shimazaki (Kyushu University)
    Stomatal opening mediated by phototropins

  Masamitsu Wada (Kyushu University)
    Chloroplast movement

  Moritoshi Iino (Osaka City University)
    Investigating the mechanisms of phototropism in rice coleoptiles

14:00-14:15 Break

14:15-16:15 Session 3 Other LOV family proteins

  Chair: Tokitaka Oyama (Kyoto University)

  Hironao Kataoka (Tohoku University)
    The blue light receptor AUREOCHROME is specific to stramenopile algae

  Steve A. Kay（University of California, San Diego）
    Mediated protein degradation in circadian and photoperiodic regulatory circuits

  Jay C. Dunlap (Dartmouth Medical School)
    LOV domain photoreceptors in Neurospora: WC-1 and VVD

  Roberto A. Bogomolni (University of California, Santa Cruz)
    Blue-light-activated histidine kinases

16:15-16:30 Break

16:30-18:00 Session 4 Other Photoreceptors I

  Chair: Akira Nagatani (Kyoto University)

  Peter H. Quail (University of California, Berkeley)
    Phytochrome photosensory signaling and transcriptional networks

  Eberhard Schäfer (Universität Freiburg)
    Is FHY1 shutteling causing the phyA mediated HIR?

  Yasushi Imamoto (Kyoto University)
    Light-induced conformational change of photoactive yellow protein

19:00-21:00 Reception (Kyoto Garden Palace)



December 3 (Thursday)

9:15-10:15 Session 5 Other Photoreceptors II

  Chair: Satoru Tokutomi (Osaka Prefecture University)

  Shinji Masuda (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
    Blue light-dependent cell signaling through protein-to-protein interaction by BLUF proteins

  Margaret Ahmad (CNRS, University of Paris VI)
    Cryptochrome blue light photoreceptor mechanisms of activation


10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-12:00 Session 6 Other Systems of Biological Sensing I

  Chair: Roberto A. Bogomolni (University of California, Santa Cruz), Akihisa Terakita (Osaka City University)

  Klaus P. Hofmann (Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany)
    Rhodopsin, photoreceptor of the retinal rod cell: Formation of the active state and signal transfer to the G protein

  Yoshinori Shichida (Kyoto University)
    Functional diversity and evolution of rhodopsins

  Harunori Ohmori (Kyoto University)
    Extraction and processing of sound features in the auditory nervous system

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:00 Session 7 Other Systems of Biological Sensing II

  Chair: Roberto A. Bogomolni (University of California, Santa Cruz), Akihisa Terakita (Osaka City University)

  Mamiko Ozaki (Kobe University)
    Chemical sensing for social communication

  Masao Tasaka (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
    Molecular genetic study of gravity perception in Arabidopsis shoots

14:00-16:00 Poster Presentation


        List of Poster Presentations



16:30-17:30 Commemorative Lecture by Winslow Briggs

  Kiyoshi Aoki (DNA Laboratory)
    Introduction of International Prize for Biology

  Masamitsu Wada (Kyushu University)
    Introduction of Prof. Winslow Briggs

  Winslow Briggs (Carnegie Institution for Science)
    The LOV domain: a unique blue-light sensor module widely distributed in the living world



19:00-21:00 Banquet (The Garden Oriental Kyoto, Kodaiji)





December 4 (Friday)

9:00-12:00 Excursion