Event Information
Symposium Commemorating the Inauguration of Virginijus Siksnys as WRHI Specially Appointed Professor
- Date
- Monday, November 22nd, 2019
- Time
- 15:00 - 17:55
- Venue
Suzukakedai Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Materials Research Center for Element Strategy, 1st Floor Lecture Hall
- Speaker
- Professor Virginijus Siksnys, Professor Yoshizumi Ishino, Professor Masaaki Wachi, Associate Professor Junji Hirota, Associate Professor Shinji Masuda
- Contact
- Tokyo Institute of Technology, Life Science Life Science and Technology
Yasunori Aizawa, E-mail : yaizawa@bio.titech.ac.jp
Program（plan）
| 15:00-15:05 | Opening remarks Hisakazu Mihara (Professor and Dean, School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology） |
|---|---|
| 15:05-15:45 | "Exploring diversity of the Class 2 CRISPR-Cas nucleases” Virginijus Siksnys (Professor, Vilnius University） (WRHI Specially Appointed Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology） |
| 15:45-16:20 | "From encounter with a mysterious repeated sequence to genome editing technology” Yoshizumi Ishino (Professor, Kyushu University) |
| 16:20-16:35 | Break |
| 16:35-17:00 | "The role of the TolC outer membrane channel and indole in the regulation of acid resistance in Escherichia coli” Masaaki Wachi (Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
| 17:00-17:25 | "Identification of an extraordinary long-range cis-regulatory element for odorant receptor genes∼application of genome engineering techniques” Junji Hirota (Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
| 17:25-17:50 | "Photosynthesis research with CRISPR/Cas9-based gene targeting in the model plant Arabidopsis” Shinji Masuda (Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
| 17:50-17:55 | Closing remarks |
Update : November 18, 2019
