Date:	March 1 (Mon), 2010 11:00 - 17:05
Place:	Yamasaki Memorial Hall, Kumamoto University School of Medicine

Prof. Nakano	Prof. Seino
Prof. Yamamoto

Program summary

11:00 - 11:05	Opening remarks
11:05 - 12:05	Lecture 1 (Advisory board) Prof. Susumu Seino (Kobe University) "Pancreatic beta-cell signaling: toward better understanding and treatment of diabetes"
12:05 - 13:05	Short presentation (Graduate students)
13:05 - 15:00	Poster Session (with snack)
15:00 - 16:00	Lecture 2 (Advisory board) Prof. Masayuki Yamamoto (Tohoku University) "Structural basis of the Nrf2-Keap1 stress response system"
16:00 - 17:00	Lecture 3 (Advisory board) Prof. Toru Nakano (Osaka University) "DNA methylation in early embryogenesis and spermatogenesis”
17:00 - 17:05	Closing remarks

Short presentation / Poster session program

No.	Presenter	Affiliation	Title
1	Yu Su	Diagnostic Medicine	Clinicopathologic findings in Japanese patients with senile systemic amyloidosis (SSA) - First report elucidating the prevalence of SSA in an Asian country
2	Kazutaka Ohta	Neurosurgery	The decreased expression of GANP is associated with chromosomal instability in malignant gliomas
3	Satoru Shinriki	Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery	Roles of interleukin-6 (IL-6) signaling in human oral squamous cell carcinoma: a novel therapeutic target
4	Tokunori Ikeda	Immunogenetics	Effect of TRAIL on regulatory T cell
5	Yuichiro Higuchi	Stem Cell Biology	Synthesized basement membrane substrata direct the differentiation of mouse ES cells into pancreatic lineages
6	Takeshi Yamashiro	Metabolic Medicine	Efficacy of lifestyle interventions on risk factors and insulin resistance in subjects at risk for metabolic syndrome: The Tabaruzaka Study
7	Shahzada Khan	Microbiology	An emerging pathogen, Helicobacter cinaedi: possible association with atherosclerosis
8	Kohta Oyama	Microbiology	An emerging pathogen Helicobacter cinaedi: Potential etiological factor for arrhythmia
9	Yueren Zhao	Psychiatry and Neuropatho-biology	Maintaining favourable adherence by consistent self-administration of medication - Medication event monitoring system (MEMS) trial to evaluate the compliance of patients with schizophrenia in Japan
10	Seung-Hwan Park	Cell Differentiation	Foxo1 is a essential for in vitro vascular formation from embryonic stem cells
11	Shintaro Hayashida	Transplantation	Clinical significance of FoxP3 positive regulatory T cell monitoring in living donor liver transplantation
12	Shailendra Kumar Singh	Immunology	The role of germinal center associated nuclear protein (GANP) in the transcriptional activation during somatic hypermutation (SHM) of Ig V-region
13	Takehisa Watanabe	Gastroenterology and Hepatology	Epigenetic regulation of the tumor necrosis factor / lymphotoxin locus by chromatin insulator
14	Akira Matsuo	Stem Cell Biology	Epiplakin1 marks the cholangiocytes and hepatic stem/progenitor cells in adult and injured liver
15	Mahmud Hossain	Developmental Neurobiology	Signaling pathway of a recently identified axon guidance molecule, Draxin
16	Xiaohong Song	Developmental Neurobiology	Functional analysis of Akhirin and Equarin during eye formation
17	Taizi Yamazoe	Stem Cell Biology	Differentiation of hepatocyte-like cells from mouse ES cells and iPS cells
18	Hiroshi Oiso	Metabolic Medicine	The role of histone deacetylase on gluconeogenesis in liver
19	Atsuhiro Taguchi	Kidney Development	Induction and purification of renal progenitor cells from Osr1-GFP knock-in murine ES cells
20	Masaji Sakaguchi	Kidney Development	Kif-k regulates the mesenchymal condensation on contact with ureteric buds in kidney development
21	Shinichi Nakamura	Diagnostic Radiology	Optimal temporal scan window for hepatobiliary phase MR imaging of the liver and effect of liver function on relative liver enhancement with Gd-EOB-DTPA at a 3-tesla MRI scanner
22	Taro Ueno	Stem Cell Biology	Dopamine modulates temperature preferences and energy homeostasis in Drosophila
23	Akiyuki Hirosue	Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery	Higher-ordered epigenetic regulation of INK4/ARF locus by chromatin insulator
24	Hirokazu Tazume	Cardiovascular Surgery	Angiopoietin-like protein2 (Angptl2) contributes to the development of aortic aneurysms through increasing the chronic inflammation in aortic walls
25	Hiroto Tsukano	Molecular Genetics	The endoplasmic reticulum stress-CHOP pathway-mediated apoptosis in macrophages contributes to the instability of atherosclerotic plaques
26	Kazuhiro Takahama	Stem Cell Biology	Screening of the genes involved in high calorie-dependent reduction of sleep in drosophila
27	Eiji Horio	Cardiovascular Medicine	Angiopoietin-like protein2 (Angptl2)-activated inflammation in endothelial cells might contribute to coronary spastic angina
28	Koji Ohnishi	Cell Pathology	Suppression of TLR4-mediated inflammatory response by macrophage class A scavenger receptor (CD204)
29	Atsuyuki Tsutsumi	Metabolic Medicine	ER stress signaling, but not SREBP expression, in liver in ob/ob mice is reversible by normalizing amount of food intake