General Information
The 12th IMCR Symposium on Endocrine and Metabolism
“Metabolism as a Central Framework for Biological Regulation Across Scales”
Date: October 8th (Thu) – October 9th(Fri), 2026
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 7th (Wed), 2026
Registration fee: FREE
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On-site registration is also available
Program
Thursday, October 8, 2026
Opening Remarks
- 13:00 – 13:10
Yasuki Ishizaki (President, Gunma University)
Session 1 Chair: Yuhkoh Satouh, Naoko Hattori
- 13:10 – 13:40
Takuro Horii (Gunma University) - 13:40 – 14:10
Makoto Tachibana (Osaka University) - 14:10 – 14:20 Break
Session 2 Chair: Takashi Nishimura, Izuho Hatada
- 14:20 – 14:50
Kyohei Arita (Tokushima University / Yokohama City University) - 14:50 – 15:20
Jun-ichi Nakayama (National Institute for Basic Biology) - 15:20 – 15:35 Break
Session 3 Chair: Ayako Fukunaka, Nobuo Sasaki
- 15:35 – 16:05
Izumi Yanatori (Kyoto University) - 16:05 – 16:35
Motohiro Sekiya (University of Tsukuba) - 16:35 – 16:55 Break
Keynote Lecture Ⅰ Chair: Takeshi Inagaki
- 16:55 – 17:45
Isha H. Jain (Gladstone Institutes / University of California, San Francisco, USA)
Poster Session
- 17:45 – 18:30
Reception
- 18:30 – 20:30
Friday, October 9,2026
Session 4 Chair: Tadahiro Kitamura, Ken Sato
- 9:00 – 9:30
Masahiro Koseki (Osaka University) - 9:30 – 10:00
Yuichi Oike (Kumamoto University) - 10:00 – 10:15 Break
Session 5 Chair: Miyuki Sato, Jun Shirakawa
- 10:15 – 10:45
Toshiro Moroishi (Institute of Science Tokyo) - 10:45 – 11:15
Makoto kuro-o (Jichi Medical University, Japan)
- 11:15 – 11:30 Break
Keynote Lecture Ⅱ Chair: Yoshio Fujitani
- 11:30 – 12:20
Jae Bum Kim (Seoul National University, South Korea)
Closing Remarks
- 12:20 – 12:30
Yoshio Fujitani (Director of IMCR, Gunma University)
