[Aug. 25] 7th IROAST & IRCMS Joint Seminar

July 28 2020

1. Time and date:
August 25th (Tuesday), 2020     14:00-15:55

2. Type of Seminar:
Online Meeting with Zoom (* English as a medium of seminar)

3. Program:
　(1) Opening Remarks
　　14:00 - 14:05　Dr. Toshio Suda, Director of IRCMS

　(2) Research Progress Report by the IRCMS-IROAST research collaboration groups
　　14:05 - 14:20　Group 1 (Presenter: Hidenobu Mizuno, IRCMS)
             "Quantitative bioimage analysis to elucidate dynamics of hematopietic stem cells in living animals"
　　14:20 - 14:35　Group 2 (Presenter: Koichi Nishiyama, IRCMS)
              "Combined in vitro and in silico analyses to dissect roles of blood flow in
                metastatic intravasation of cancer cells."
　　14:35 - 14:50　Group 3 (Presenter: Tokio Tani, FAST)
              "Development of the novel drugs for Adult T-cell Leukemia
               based on the modifications of nuclear morphology"
　　14:50 - 15:05　Group 4 (Presenter: Buluke, IRCMS)
            "Significance of tumor microenvironmental 15pgdh depletion in pancreatic cancer"
　　15:05 - 15:20　Group 5 (Presenter: Sheng Guojun, IRCMS)
            "MMP sensors and sensor-based in vivo delivery of small molecules"

　(3) "Short Research Self-marketing"
          Introduce own research to find new joint research counterparts
　　15:20 - 15:50　　2 minutes per a person, 15 researchers at most

　(4) Closing Remarks
　　15:50 - 15:55　　Dr. Takashi Hiyama, Director of IROAST

4. Organizers: Dr. Takashi Hiyama, Director, IROAST
                        Dr. Toshio Suda, Director, IRCMS

5. Seminar Abstract:
 Aiming to create joint researches which develops interdisciplinary research fields, both IROAST and IRCMS have provided administrative and financial support to researches. In this seminar, the 5 IRCMS-IROAST research collaboration groups of FY 2019 support will report their research progress.
 In addition, there will be a session where researchers who are willing to start new joint researches to introduce their own research and find a joint research counterpart. The support for the research collaboration groups which are aiming to start new joint research as not only Medical-Engineering collaboration but also interdisciplinary research with the core of life sciences and/or natural sciences will be provided in FY 2020.

6. Registration:
Please pre-register by the following URL to receive the Zoom meeting information and/or apply for "Short Research Self-marketing" by Monday, August 17^th, 2020.
http://ircms.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/symposium_reserve/symposium/reservation/