Program

Symposia, Workshops and Technology Presentations

July 25 (Wednesday)

9:40	Opening
	Prof. Toshihisa Ishikawa (Tokyo Inst. Tech), Meeting Chairman
9:50 - 10:00	Introductory Remarks
	Dr. Yukihiko Tada (Taiho Pharm.), President of CBI Society
10:00 - 11:00	Plenary Lecture:"Frontiers of Life Science and Biotechnology in the New century"
	Prof. Ken-ichi Arai (Director, Institute of Medical Science, Univ. Tokyo)
11:10 - 11:50	"How GPCRs Activate G-Proteins:Reconciling Biophysical and Mutation Data"
	Prof. Garland R. Marshall (Washington Univ. St. Louis, USA)
Lunch
13:00 - 13:40	"Present and future applications of human in vitro experimental systems in the prediction of human drug toxicity"
	Dr.Albert P.Li (CSO，In Vitro Technologies Inc. Baltimore，USA)
13:40 - 14:20	" Progress in Ab Initio Structure Prediction Using  Rosetta and Applications to Problems in Structural Biology"
	Prof. Carol Rohl (Univ. Washington, Seattle, USA)
Break
14:30 - 15:10	"Protein Structure Prediction Using a Petaflop Supercomputer"
	Dr. Hikaru Samukawa (IBM Japan, Tokyo Res. Lab.)
15:10 - 15:50	"Parallel Computing of Proteomics Analysis"
	Dr. Yutaka Akiyama (ETL Bioinformatic Group)
Break
16:00 - 17:30	Commercial Technology and Product Presentations by Venture Companies
	* SC BioSciences Corp. * CTC Laboratory Systems Corp. * Tomy Digital Biology co.,Ltd. / Silicon Genetics
Dinner
19:30 - 21:30	Evening Session:
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	Dr. Yoshihiro Ohtaki (CEO, Biofrotier Co., Tokyo)、
	"Revitalizing the School of Medicine： A Challenge for a New Academic Center / Biotech Industry in Hawaii"
	PhD Satoru Izutsu (Senior Associate Dean，University of Hawaii Medical School)
	"Links with the West: Commercial Opportunities through Links with Yorkshire White Rose Universities"
	Prof. Tony Robards (Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Univ. York, UK)

      

July 26 (Thursday)

9:00 - 10:00	Plenary Lecture: "Post-Genome Strategy"
	Dr. Akiyoshi Wada (Director, RIKEN Genome Res. Ctr.)
10:00 - 10:40	“Genetic Polymorphism and cSNPs of Human ABC Transporter Genes:From Functional Genomics to Drug Molecular Design”
	Prof. Toshihisa Ishikawa (Tokyo Inst. Tech)
Break
10:50 - 11:30	"Computation and annotation of human genome sequence variations"
	Dr. Stephen Sherry (NCBI/NLM/NIH, Bethesda, USA)
11:30 - 12:10	"New Approach to Proteomics for Drug Discovery -Construction of New Affinity Beads and Ｉts Ａpplication-"
	Prof. Hiroshi Handa (Tokyo Inst. Tech.)
Lunch
13:15 - 15:15	Commercial Technology and Product Presentations by Venture Companies
	* Precision System Science co.,Ltd * Ryoka Systems Inc. / Daikin Industries,Ltd. * Sumisho Electronics co.,Ltd. * Conflex Corp. * Accelrys Inc.
15:15 - 16:45	Poster Presentation (3F Room Fuji)
15:15-17:00	Press Interview (3F Room Zuikaku)
16:45 - 17:25	"Structure, Function and Ligand Binding in GPCRs and V-H-ATPase: Protein Chemical and Mutagenic Approaches"
	Prof. John Findlay (Univ. Leeds, UK)
17:30 - 18:20	Special Lecture"Role of the Reelin Pathway in the Conyrol of Brain Development:Tales from Mutant mice"
	Dr. Tom Curran (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA)
18:30 - 20:30	Banquet (1F Diamond Room)

      

July 27 (Friday)

9:10 - 9:50	"Structural Proteomics "
	Dr. Masashi Miyano (RIKEN Harima Res.)
9:50 - 10:30	"Functional Proteomics: Exploring the Protein Interactome"
	Prof. Takashi Ito (Cancer Res. Inst., Kanazawa Univ.)
Break
10:40 - 11:20	" Rational Dosage Regimen of Immunosuppressant and Genomic Information  in Organ Transplantation"
	Prof. Ken-ichi Inui (Kyoto Univ. Hospital)
11:20 - 12:00	"Pharma SNP Consortium: Research on Pharmacokinetics-related Genetic Polymorphism among the Japanese Population"
	Dr. Toshikazu Miyagishima (Tanabe Seiyaku Co., Ltd.)
Lunch
13:30 - 14:10	"Pharmacogenomic Approaches for Prevention of Drug Toxicity"
	Prof. Yoshinori Hasegawa (Nagoya Univ. Med. School)
14:10 - 14:50	"Practical molecular dynamics calculations for structure-based drug design"
	Prof. Shuichi Hirono (School Pharm. Sci., Kitasato Univ.)
15:00 - 15:40	"ProteinDF: A New Density Functional Method Program for Calculation of  All-Electron Wave Function of Proteins"
	Prof. Humitoshi Sato (Kyushu Inst. Tech.)
15:40 - 16:30	"Progress in Grand Challenge of the CBI Society"
	Prof. Kazuo Kitaura (Osaka Prefect. Univ.)  Dr. Tsuguchika Kaminuma (Cyber Academia，CBI Society)
16:30 - 17:15	"Genomic Research and Bio-Ventures in Asia"
	Mr. Mitsuru Miyata (Director, Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.)
17:15 - 17:30	Meeting Summary:
	Dr. Tsuguchika Kaminuma (Cyber Academia，CBI Society)
	Closing：Meeting Chairman
	Prof. Toshihisa Ishikawa (Tokyo Inst. Tech.)