Program

August 31st, 2018 (Friday)

8:30

Registration desk open

9:20

Opening remark

Maki KAWAI (Director General, Institute for Molecular Science)

9:30

Introductory talk

Ryota IINO (Institute for Molecular Science)
Molecular engines: An introduction

9:40

Keynote talk 1

Gwénaël RAPENNE (Nara Institute of Science and Technology/Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
Technomimetic nanomachines : Molecular wheels, vehicles, rotors and motors

10:20

Invited talk 1

Waka NAKANISHI (National Institute for Materials Science)
Control of flexible molecular machines at interfaces

10:40

Invited talk 2

Yoshiyuki KAGEYAMA (Hokkaido University)
Light-powered self-sustained mechanical motion of azobenzene crystal as the resultant of a couple of photoreaction and phase transition

11:00

Invited talk 3

Kazunori SUGIYASU (National Institute for Materials Science)
Molecular self-assembly under kinetic control

11:20

Keynote talk 2

Akira HARADA (Osaka University)
Cyclodexrin-based supramolecular machines and their integration to macro-scale devices

12:00

Lunch and Poster Session (Odd number)

14:00

Keynote talk 3

Yifei ZHANG (Columbia University)
Engineering with biomolecular motors and enzyme cascades

14:40

Invited talk 4

Akira KAKUGO (Hokkaido University)
Molecular swarm robot driven by biomolecular motors

15:00

Invited talk 5

Takayuki UCHIHASHI (Nagoya University)
High-speed atomic force microscopy for direct visualization of biological macromolecules at work

15:20

Invited talk 6

Holger FLECHSIG (Kanazawa University)
Towards synthetic molecular machines - computational model studies of mechanical networks

15:40

Coffee break

16:20

Keynote talk 4

Oscar CES (Imperial College London)
New approaches to artificial cell science

17:00

Invited talk 7

Keiichi INOUE (University of Tokyo)
How the light-driven ion pump rhodopsins decide what ion species they transport?

17:20

Invited talk 8

Takeshi MURATA (Chiba University)
Further thermostabilization of microbial rhodopsins

17:40

Invited talk 9

Mitsunori IKEGUCHI (Yokohama City University)
Molecular dynamics simulations of multidrug transporter acrB

18:00

Free discussion

18:30

Speakers dinner @ Uokatsu

September 1st, 2018 (Saturday)

9:00

Registration desk open

9:20

Keynote talk 5

10:00

Invited talk 10

Jun ANDO (Institute for Molecular Science)
High-speed, high-precision single-molecule imaging of dynein with plasmonic nanoprobes

10:20

Invited talk 11

Ken'ya FURUTA (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
Re-design of biomolecular motors

10:40

Coffee break

11:00

Invited talk 13

Takahiro KOSUGI (Institute for Molecular Science)
Rational design of ATP binding site to understand rotary molecular motor

11:20

Keynote talk 6

Zev BRYANT (Stanford University)
Optical control of fast and processive engineered myosins in vitro and in living cells

12:00

Lunch and Poster Session (Even number)

14:00

Keynote talk 7

Ivan HUC (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)
Controlling the dynamics of synthetic folded nanoarchitectures

14:40

Invited talk 14

Tomomi KOSHIYAMA (Ritsumeikan University)
Control of chemical reactions in liposome environment

15:00

Invited talk 15

Kazushi KINBARA (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Synthetic mimics of transmembrane proteins

15:20

Invited talk 16

Yusuke MAEDA (Kyushu University)
Geometric principle in active matters: From bacteria to active cytoskeletons and beyond

15:40

Coffee break

16:20

Keynote talk 8

Jong Hyun CHOI (Purdue University)
Synthetic molecular motors from DNA

17:00

Invited talk 17

Akihiko NAKAMURA (Institute for Molecular Science)
Direct observation of 1 nm steps of a “burnt-bridge” Brownian ratchet SmChiA on crystalline chitin with gold nanoprobe

17:20

Invited talk 18

Tsuyoshi TERAKAWA (Kyoto University)
The condensin complex is a new type of DNA molecular motor

17:40

Invited talk 19

Rikiya WATANABE (University of Tokyo)
Artificial cell-membrane microsystems for single molecule analysis of membrane proteins

18:00

Free discussion

18:30

Banquet @ OCC second meeting room

September 2nd, 2018 (Sunday)

9:00

Registration desk open

9:20

Keynote talk 9

Toshikazu TAKATA (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Toward linear molecular motor energized by chemical reaction via pseudopolyrotaxane intermediate

10:00

Invited talk 20

Atsushi SHISHIDO (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Molecular alignment control of liquid crystals by scanning wave photopolymerization

10:20

Invited talk 21

Takafumi UENO (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Dynamic process of proteins observed in crystalline cages

10:40

Invited talk 22

Daisuke SUZUKI (Shinshu University)
Soft hydrogel microspheres toward autonomic materials

11:00

Invited talk 23

Shinichiro M. NOMURA (Tohoku University)
An amoeba-type molecular robot and the beyond

11:20

Closing Remark

Kazushi KINBARA (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

11:30

Lunch (Optional)

12:30

Lab Tour (Optional)