General Information
The 10th IMCR Symposium on Endocrine and Metabolism
“From Cell to Organism: Interdisciplinary Biological and Metabolic Science”
Date: October 31st (Thu) – November 1st (Fri), 2024
Venue: Tojo Hall, Gunma University (Showa Campus), Japan
Poster
Poster (PDF)
Please feel free to use the poster for the announcement.
Registration
Pre-registration: Until October 30th (Wed), 2024
Registration fee: FREE
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On-site registration is also available
Program
October 31st (Thursday)
Opening Remarks
- 13:00 – 13:10
Yasuki Ishizaki (President, Gunma University)
Session 1 Chair: Ken Sato
- 13:10 – 13:40 Mechanisms underpinning the persistent homeostasis in mouse spermatogenesis
Shosei Yoshida (National Institute for Basic Biology) - 13:40 – 14:10 Geometric constraints are a fundamental determinant of mitochondrial shape
Alexander I May (Tokyo Institute of Technology) - 14:10 – 14:40 Gut Microbiota and Its Role in Obesity and Diabetes Control
Shiho Fujisaka (University of Toyama) - 14:40 – 14:55 Coffee Break
Session 2 Chair: Izuho Hatada
- 14:55 – 15:25 Neurobiological insights into aggression and its escalation
Aki Takahashi (University of Tsukuba) - 15:25 – 15:55 An early postnatal critical period for autism spectrum disorder-related circuit development
Goichi Miyoshi (Gunma University) - 15:55 – 16:25 Sensory Neuromodulation of Pancreatic β Cells
Abdelfattah El Ouaamari (New York Medical College) - 16:25 – 16:40 Coffee Break
Keynote Lecture Chair: Jun Shirakawa
- 16:40 – 17:30 Expansion of functional islet cells through MYCL-mediated reprogramming
Yasuhiro Yamada (The University of Tokyo)
Poster Session Chair: Miyuki Sato (Group A), Nobuo Sasaki (Group B)
- 17:30 – 18:30
Reception
- 18:30 – 20:30
November 1st (Friday)
Session 3 Chair: Tadahiro Kitamura
- 9:00 – 9:30 Adrenaline Resistance in Obese Skeletal Muscle Impairs Exercise Metabolism
Kazuhiro Nomura (Tokushima University) - 9:30 – 10:00 Lessons Learned from Unveiling Causative Genes of Autosomal Dominant Diabetes Using Whole Exome Sequencing
Prapaporn J Thamtarana (Mahidol University) - 10:00 – 10:30 Scaling of hormone levels with body size in the fruit fly Drosophila
Takashi Nishimura (Gunma University) - 10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
Session 4 Chair: Takeshi Inagaki
- 10:45 – 11:15 Energy and water metabolism through the human life course around the world
Yosuke Yamada (Tohoku University) - 11:15 – 11:45 Epigenomic alterations in normal tissue microenvironment and their impact on carcinogenesis
Naoko Hattori (Gunma University)
Closing Remarks
- 11:45 – 11:55
Yoshio Fujitani (Director of IMCR, Gunma University)
