Karolinska–Tohoku Joint Symposium on Medical Sciences
Information
Date
November 8, 2014 – November 9, 2014
Venue
Conference room of Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University
2–1 Seiryo–machi, Aoba–ku, Sendai,
980–8573, Japan [Access]
Invited Researchers
- Lorenz Poellinger (Karolinska Institute)
- Mark Divers (Karolinska Institute)
- Randall Johnson (Karolinska Institute)
- Arne Holmgren (Karolinska Institute)
- Jon Lundberg (Karolinska Institute)
- Lucia Coppo (Karolinska Institute)
- Ryuichi Nishinakamura (Kumamoto University)
- Masaomi Nangaku (University of Tokyo)
- Motoko Yanagita (Kyoto University)
- Tove Rylander Rudqvist (Karolinska Institute Biobank)
- James Thompson (Karolinska Institute Biobank)
- Jun Lu (Karolinska Institute)
Time Schedule
- Sat. November 8, 2014
- 12:00 – 13:10
- Reception
- 13:15 – 13:25
- Opening Remarks
- Masayuki Yamamoto (Tohoku University)
- 13:25 – 13:30
- Greetings from Tohoku Forum for Creativity Video
- Liam Baird (Program Coordinator of TFC)
- 13:30 – 17:10
- Session I: Clinical Application and Management of Biobanks
- 13:30 – 14:10
- Session I
Biobanking value: reflections from the Swedish experience Video - Mark Divers (KI Biobank)
- 14:10 – 14:40
- Session I
Aim and progress of Tohoku Medical Megabank project Video - Masayuki Yamamoto (ToMMo & Tohoku University)
- 14:40 – 15:05
- Session I
Opportunities and challenges with medical biobanking - Tove Rylander Rudqvist (KI Biobank)
- 15:30 – 15:55
- Session I
High throughput developments in medical biobanking - James Thompson (KI Biobank)
- 15:55 – 16:20
- Session I
Biobank construction based on cohort studies after the seismic disaster of 2011 Video - Naoko Minegishi (ToMMo)
- 16:20 – 16:45
- Session I
Data management and bioinformatics of thousands Japanese whole–genome project - Masao Nagasaki (ToMMo)
- 16:45 – 17:20
- Session I
Perspectives towards the development of personalized medicine by the ToMMo genome cohort Video - Jun Yasuda (ToMMo)
- 17:20 – 18:00
- Tour around Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization
- Sun. November 9, 2014
- 09:30 – 12:30
- Session II: Oxygen and Medicine
- 09:30 – 10:10
- Session II
Epigenetic mechanisms of gene regulation in hypoxia and cancer - Lorenz Poellinger (Karolinska Institute & National University of Singapore)
- 10:10 – 10:35
- Session II
A novel pharmacotherapy of preeclampsia - Nobuyuki Takahashi (Tohoku University)
- 10:35 – 11:05
- Session II
Drug discovery in kidney disease – From serendipity to rationality Video - Toshio Miyata (Tohoku University)
- 11:20 – 12:00
- Session II
The role of HIF isoforms in the physiology of hypoxia - Randall Johnson (Karolinska Institute & University of Cambridge)
- 12:00 – 12:30
- Session II
Hypoxia as the appropriate and realistic therapeutic target in kidney disease - Masaomi Nangaku (University of Tokyo)
- 13:30 – 17:30
- Session III: Redox and Diseases
- 13:30 – 14:10
- Session III
Redox regulation and signaling by thioredoxin and glutaredoxin systems - Arne Holmgren (Karolinska Institute)
- 14:10 – 14:40
- Session III
Renal fibrosis and anemia: cause, trigger and plasticity - Motoko Yanagita (Kyoto University)
- 14:40 – 15:05
- Session III
Thioredoxin and glutaredoxin systems in relation to superoxide dismutase - Jun Lu (Karolinska Institute)
- 15:05 – 15:35
- Session III
tRNA metabolism and mitochondrial dysfunction - Takaaki Abe (Tohoku University)
- 15:55 – 16:20
- Session III
Glutathione and Grx2 in Alzheimers disease - Lucia Coppo (Karolinska Institute)
- 16:20 – 16:50
- Session III
Creating the kidney in vitro - Ryuichi Nishinakamura (Kumamoto University)
- 16:50 – 17:30
- Session III
Inorganic nitrate and nitrite in health and disease - Jon Lundberg (Karolinska Institute)
- 17:30 – 17:40
- Closing Remarks
- Susumu Satomi (President of Tohoku University)
Poster
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Contact
Dr. Norio Suzuki
E–mail:sunorio*med.tohoku.ac.jp (change * to @)
*Registration is not required to join this
event. All researchers are free to attend this symposium.