Conference Schedule
October 30 th
Opening Ceremony
9:30 - 9:55 Opening remarks
   Prof. F. Inagaki (Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
Welcome remarks
   President. M. Nakamura (Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
Welcome remarks
   Prof. Y. Igarashi (Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
Plenary Lecture (Chair: Prof. Y. Arata)
9:55 - 10:45
NMR in biological and biomedical research of the 21st century
    Prof. K. Wüthrich (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break
NMR Method (Chair: Prof. J. Markley)
11:00 - 11:30
Weak alignment offers new opportunities in NMR structure determination
   Dr. A. Bax (National Institutes of Health, USA)
11:30 - 12:00
SAILing to future: A new strategy for protein NMR spectroscopy
   Prof. M. Kainosho (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Japan)
12:00 - 12:30
Hyper-dimensional NMR spectroscopy of bio-molecules
   Dr. Ē. Kupče (Varian Ltd., UK)
12:30 - 13:00
The fully automated protein structure determination system FLYA
   Dr. P. Güntert (RIKEN, Japan)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch (Centennial Hall Restaurant)
14:00 - 15:00 Poster Session
Membrane Proteins (Chair: Dr. A. Bax)
15:00 - 15:30
NMR Investigation of H+-ATP synthase
   Prof. H. Akutsu (Osaka Univ., Japan)
15:30 - 16:00
NMR approach for interaction analysis of larger proteins
   Prof. I. Shimada (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
16:00 - 16:30
Structural physiology of multifunctional channels
   Prof. Y. Fujiyoshi (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
16:30 - 16:45 Coffee Break
Signal Transduction (Chair: Prof. P. E. Wright)
16:45 - 17:15
Structural basis of signaling by focal adhesion proteins
   Prof. I. D. Campbell (Univ. of Oxford, UK)
17:15 - 17:45
Structural basis for protein modification by modifier proteins
   Prof. M. Shirakawa (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
17:45 - 18:15
SOCS proteins: regulators of cytokine signalling with a destructive tail
   Prof. R. S. Norton (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia)
18:15 - 18:45
Structural basis for phosphorylation induced regulation of intracellular signaling
   Prof. F. Inagaki (Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
19:00 - 21:00 Banquet (Sapporo Aspen Hotel)
October 31 st
NMR & Molecular Imaging (Chair: Prof. I. D. Campbell)
9:30 - 10:00
NMR-based structural elucidation of protein-protein interactions in transcription and signal transduction
   Prof. M. Ikura (Univ. of Toronto, Canada)
10:00 - 10:30
Studies of protein dynamics in living cell using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
   Prof. M. Kinjo (Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
10:30 - 11:00
Structure and dynamics of calcium regulatory proteins: from solution to intact muscle fibers
   Prof. B. D. Sykes (Univ. of Alberta, Canada)
11:00 - 11:30
Toward rational design of FRET- and BRET-based functional indicators by using the information of protein 3D structure
   Prof. T. Nagai (Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
Macromolecular Assembly (Chair: Prof. B. D. Sykes)
11:45 - 12:15
Structural basis for RNA-dependent conversion of Glu-tRNA to Gln-tRNA
   Prof. I. Tanaka (Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
12:15 - 12:45
NMR studies of protein interactions in translation initiation and probing of the pre-initiation complex with small-molecule inhibitors
   Prof. G. Wagner (Harvard Medical School, USA)
12:45 - 13:15
Atomic view of the substrate channeling mechanism in a fatty acid β-oxidation multienzyme complex
   Prof. K. Morikawa (Osaka Univ., Japan)
13:15 - 14:30 Lunch (Centennial Hall Restaurant)
Protein Structure (Chair: Prof. G. Wagner)
14:30 - 15:00
NMR and quantum chemical investigations of structure-function relationships in iron-sulfur proteins
   Prof. J. Markley (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
15:00 - 15:30
Recognize not to discriminate: mechanism of nonselective base recognition of 3'-terminus of DNA by PriA protein
   Prof. D. Kohda (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
15:30 - 16:00
Structural insights into packaging of the helical nucleocapsid from the structure of SARS coronavirus nucleocapsid protein
   Prof. T. Huang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
16:00 - 16:30
Intrinsically disordered proteins: function, folding, and flexibility
   Prof. P. E. Wright (The Scripps Research Institute, USA)
Concluding Remarks
16:30 - 16:40    Prof. K. Wüthrich (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
17:00 - 18:00 North Campus Tour (Optional)

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