Events

Special Lectures on Genome Editing

2018-06-04
Lecture

On July 29, special lectures on genome editing will be held to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Tohoku University's international visitor research center - the Tohoku Forum for Creativity.

Date: Sunday, July 29
Time: 1:00 - 5:30pm
Venue: Tohoku University Centennial Hall (Kawauchi Hagi Hall)

Guest speakers

Jennifer A. Doudna (University of California, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Yoshizumi Ishino (Kyushu University）
Mikiko Siomi (University of Tokyo)
Asako Sugimoto (Tohoku University)
Masanobu Morita (Tohoku University)

Time schedule

MC: Noriko Osumi (Tohoku University)

1:00 - 1:10 pm	Opening Remarks
1:10 - 1:50 pm	Lecture 1 Yoshizumi Ishino (Kyushu University) Encounter with a mysterious repeated DNA sequence in 1986
1:50 - 2:20 pm	Lecture 2 Mikiko Siomi (University of Tokyo) piRNA biogenesis in Drosophila
2:20 - 2:50 pm	Lecture 3 Asako Sugimoto (Tohoku University) Revisiting the "multi-tubulin hypothesis" using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing
2:50 - 3:20 pm	Lecture 4 Masanobu Morita (Tohoku University) CRISPR/Cas system reveals novel moonlight functions of mitochondrial proteins
3:20 - 3:35 pm	Flash Talks by poster session presenters
3:35 - 4:15 pm	Break & poster presentation
4:15 - 5:15 pm	Plenary lecture Jennifer A. Doudna (University of California, Howard Hughes Medical Institute) CRISPR Systems: Biology and Applications of Gene Editing
5:15 - 5:25 pm	Closing remarks Yoshiaki Maeda (Vice Director, Tohoku Forum for Creativity)

Registration for this event has now closed

Call for poster presentation

To take part in the poster session, email specialseminar729@ml.tohoku.ac.jp with the following information:

(1) Name
(2) Affiliation
(3) Academic title
(4) Title of the poster
(5) Email address and phone number

Poster size: width 100cm, length max 150cm.
Up to ten posters will be selected from the first submissions.

虎扑电竞 :

Tohoku Forum for Creativity
Organization for 虎扑电竞 Promotion
Tohoku University
Email: specialseminar729@ml.tohoku.ac.jp
Website: http://www.tfc.tohoku.ac.jp/