Thematic Programs

Plant Stem Cells: Source of Plant Vitality

Information

Date

May 11, 2019 – May 14, 2019

Venue

May 11, 2019 – May 12, 2019
Auditorium of Graduate School of Life Sciences, Katahira Campus, Tohoku University [Campus map]

May 13, 2019 – May 14, 2019
Sakura Hall, Katahira Campus, Tohoku University [Campus map]

Keynote Speakers [Apr. 16, 2019 Updated]

Kiyokazu Agata (NIBB)
Elliot Meyerowitz (Caltech)
Keiko Torii (University of Washington)

Invited Speakers [Apr. 24, 2019 Updated]

Moto Ashikari (Nagoya University)
Magdalena Bezanilla (Dartmouth College)
Lieven De Veylder (Ghent University)
Venu Gonehal (UCRS)
Gohta Goshima (Nagoya University)
Soon-Ki Han (Nagoya University)
Mitsuyasu Hasebe (NIBB)
Toshinori Hayashi (Hiroshima University)
Kimitsune Ishizaki (Kobe University)
Masaki Ito (Nagoya University)
Toshiro Ito (NAIST)
Seisuke Kimura (Kyoto Sangyo University)
Yuki Kondo (University of Tokyo)
Ari Pekka Mähönen (University of Helsinki)
Takashi Makino (Tohoku University)
Aki Minoda (RIKEN IMS)
Kyoko Miura (Kumamoto University)
Ken Muneoka (Texas A&M University)
Naomi Nakayama (University of Edinburgh)
Ryuichi Nishihama (Kyoto University)
Carlos Filipe Pereira (Lund University)
Mitinori Saitou (Kyoto University)
Akiko Satake (Kyushu University)
Ross Sozzani (North Carolina State University)
Keiko Sugimoto (RIKEN CSRS)
Atsushi Suzuki (Kyusyu University)
Takuya Suzaki (University of Tsukuba)
Koji Tamura (Tohoku University)
Tomomi Tsubouchi (NIBB)
Naoyuki Uchida (Nagoya University)
Minako Ueda (Nagoya University)
Xian Sheng Zhang (Shandong Agricultural University)
Yunde Zhao (UCSD)

Organizers

Junko Kyozuka
(Professor, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University)
Masaaki Umeda
(Professor, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Shinjiro Yamaguchi
(Professor, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University)
David Jackson
(Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Time Schedule  [Apr. 24, 2019 Updated]

Saturday, May 11, 2019: Auditorium, Graduate School of Life Sciences

14:00 – 17:00

Registration

14:00 – 19:00

Poster viewing

15:25 – 15:30

Opening Remarks

Yoshiaki Maeda (Tohoku University)
Junko Kyozuka (Tohoku University)

Plenary Talk 1

15:30 – 16:15

Keiko Torii (University of Washington)

Cellular decision making during stomatal patterning and differentiation

Plenary Talk 2

16:15 – 17:00

Elliot Meyerowitz (Caltech)

Mechanical signaling in the shoot apical meristem

17:00 – 19:30

Welcome Party, Poster viewing

Sunday, May 12, 2019: Auditorium, Graduate School of Life Sciences

Session 1: Plant stem cells and meristems (Organizers; Yuki Kondo, Naoyuki Uchida)

09:00 – 09:25

David Jackson (CSHL)

An unexpected role of trehalose phosphate phosphatases in meristem determinacy.

09:25 – 09:50

Ari Pekka Mähönen (University of Helsinki)

Stem cell regulation in the Arabidopsis root vascular cambium

09:50 – 10:15

Xian Sheng Zhang (Shandong Agricultural University)

Interaction of master regulators WUS and STM specifies shoot stem cells in Arabidopsis

10:15 – 10:35

Kimitsune Ishizaki (Kobe University)

An evolutionarily conserved mechanism for production of secondary meristems in land plants

10:35 – 10:55

Coffee break

10:55 – 11:15

Masaaki Umeda (NAIST)

Genome maintenance strategies in root stem cells

11:15 – 11:35

Naomi Nakayama (University of Edinburg)

Synthetic biology with plant single cells to dissect mechanisms of cell differentiation

11:35 – 11:55

Yuki Kondo (University of Tokyo)

Competitive inhibition among BES/BZR transcription factors controls vascular stem cell differentiation.

11:55 – 12:15

Naoyuki Uchida (Nagoya University)

Coordination of cell layer-specific behaviors of stem cells in the shoot apical meristem.

12:15 – 13:00

Lunch

13:15 – 16:30

Excursion (Sendai City Tour; ZUIHODEN - Sendai castle - Botanical Garden)

Monday, May 13, 2019: Sakura Hall

Plenary Talk 3

09:00 – 09:45

Kiyokazu Agata (NIBB)

Stem cells and regeneration in animals

Session 2: Organ regeneration and stem cells in animals (Organizers: Kiyokazu Agata, Koji Tamura)

09:45 – 10:05

Koji Tamura (Tohoku University)

Reconstruction of organ morphology in vertebrate appendage regeneration

10:05 – 10:25

Takashi Makino (Tohoku University)

JmjC domain-encoding genes specifically conserved in highly regenerative animals

10:25 – 10:50

Toshinori Hayashi (Hiroshima University)

Study of the stem cell system from organ regeneration in the newt

10:50 – 11:10

Coffee break

11:10 – 11:35

Mitinori Saitou (Kyoto University)

Mechanism and reconstitution in vitro of human germ cell development

11: 35 – 12:00

Atsushi Suzuki (Kyusyu University)

Direct reprogramming to hepatic and intestinal lineages

12:00 – 12:30

Ken Muneoka (Texas A&M University)

Induced regeneration in mice: identifying sleeper stem cells

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch

Session3: Stem cells and lineage specification (Organizers: Tomomi Tsubouchi, Makoto Hayashi)

13:30 – 13:55

Carlos Filipe Pereira (Lund University)

Cell reprogramming in hematopoiesis and immunity

13:55 – 14:20

Ross Sozzani (North Carolina State University)

Stem-cell-ubiquitous genes spatiotemporally coordinate division through regulation of stem-cell-specific gene networks

14:20 – 14:40

Keiko Sugimoto (RIKEN CSRS)

Epigenetic control of cellular reprogramming in plants

14:40 – 15:00

Tomomi Tsubouchi (NIBB)

Unique regulation of dNTP pool size and its impact on DNA replication in mouse pluripotent stem cells

15:00 – 15:20

Aki Minoda (RIKEN IMS)

Single cell RNA-seq analysis of root apical meristem in Arabidopsis thaliana

15:20 – 15:40

Ryuichi Nishihama (Kyoto University)

Clonal analysis approach to revealing the mechanisms of stem cell formation in Marchantia polymorpha

15:40 – 16:00

Coffee break

Session 4: Intracellular Dynamics in Stem Cells (Organizers: Han Soon-ki, Gohta Goshima)

16:00 – 16:25

Magdalena Bezanilla (Dartmouth College)

Orchestrating plant form at the single cell level

16:25 – 16:50

Lieven De Veylder (Ghent University)

Replenishing damaged stem cells: A license to kill

16:50 – 17:10

Gohta Goshima (Nagoya University)

Consequences of chromosome mis-segregation in moss stem cell

17:10 – 17:30

Masaki Ito (Nagoya University)

Cell-cycle regulation in asymmetric division of plant stem cells

17:30 – 17:50

Minako Ueda (Nagoya University)

Live-cell imaging of the polarization dynamics of Arabidopsis zygote

17:50 – 18:10

Soon-Ki Han (Nagoya University)

Cell cycle regulation in stomatal differentiation

18:30 – 20:30

Conference Party at Sakura Hall

Tuesday, May 14, 2019: Sakura Hall

Session 5 : Hormonal control of plant stem cells (Organizers: Hitoshi Sakakibara, Toshiro Ito)

09:00 – 09:25

Yunde Zhao (UCSD)

A molecular network enables auxin to control organogenesis and plant growth

09:25 – 09:50

Venu Gonehal (UCRS)

A multi scale analysis of the Interplay of hormones and transcription factors in regulating growth patterns and gene expression

09:50 – 10:10

Toshiro Ito (NAIST)

Auxin-mediated termination of floral stem cell activities

10:10 – 10:30

Moto Ashikari (Nagoya University)

Activation of intercalary meristem for stem elongation in rice

10:30 – 10:50

Takuya Suzaki (University of Tsukuba)

A peptide hormone signaling in nitrate-induced control of nodulation

10:50 – 11:10

Coffee break

Session 6 : Evolutionary genomics and stem cells (Organizers: Akiko Satake, Seisuke Kimura)

11:10 – 11:30

Mitsuyasu Hasebe (NIBB)

Mechanisms of the cell division axis determination and the regeneration of apical stem cells with implication to the body plan evolution and the adaptation to land environment

11:30 – 11:50

Kyoko Miura (Kumamoto University)

Investigation of the mechanisms underlying longevity and cancer resistance of the naked mole rat

11:50 – 12:10

Akiko Satake (Kyushu University)

Comparative field transcriptomics in trees

12:10 – 12:30

Seisuke Kimura (Kyoto Sangyo University)

Plant regeneration in nature: Studies on natural vegetative propagation

12:30 –

Closing remarks

David Jackson (CSHL)

Registration

The registration will be closed once the capacity is reached.

For Invited Speakers

Abstract submission deadline: April 12, 2019
An abstract is requested from all invited speakers.
Please email the abstract to ppscsymposiumregister*grp.tohoku.ac.jp. (Change * to @)
Note: The abstract must be converted to the Word file and PDF file.
Poster Abstract: Download template [Word], [PDF]

For General Participants

Registration fee: 8,000 JPY
Banquet fee: 4,000 JPY
(Excursion is organized in this program. If you wish to attend Excursion, please notify us when you will register.)
Payment: Please pay the registration fee by cash at the registration desk. Any credit cards are not available.
Receipts will be issued when payment is made.

Call for Posters

Participants are encouraged to present a poster.
Poster dimensions are Width: 90cm, Height: 120cm.

Deadline for a poster abstract submission: April 12, 2019
If you wish to present a poster, please email an abstract of your poster to ppscsymposiumregister*grp.tohoku.ac.jp. (Change * to @)
Note: The abstract must be converted to the PDF file.
Poster Abstract: Download template [Word], [PDF]

Event Registration  [May 10, 2019 Updated]

Poster

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Contact

Email: kei.saito.c7＊tohoku.ac.jp (change＊to @)