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New Biological Frontiers Illuminated by Molecular Sensors and Actuators
Program
9:30 – 9:45 AM
Khalid Salaita, Emory University, USA*
Optomechanical Actuators for Controlling Mechanotransduction in
Living Cells
9:45 – 10:00 AM
Toru Komatsu, The University of Tokyo, Japan *
Synthetically Rerouting Phagocytosis by Rapidly Turning Inert
Cells into “Eat You” Mode
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Coffee Break
Socrates Lobby
Session 2
Harnessing and Manipulating Cellular Processes (II)
Discussion Leader:
Wei-Yuan Yang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Hsiao-Chun Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Organization of Intracellular Reactions with Heterologous
Protein Scaffold
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Takeharu Nagai, Osaka University, Japan
Revolutionary Bioimaging with Bright Luminescent Proteins —
Comparing Pros and Cons of Fluorescence and Luminescence
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Michael Lin, Stanford University, USA
Photodissociable Photoswitchable Dimeric Fluorescent Proteins
Enable Optical Control of Kinase Activity
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Lunch
Chopstix Restaurant
1:00 – 2:30 PM
Poster Session I
Plato
Session 3
Seeing the Unseen in vivo (I)
Discussion Leader:
Chia-Fu Chou, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
2:30 – 3:00 PM
Etsuko Kiyokawa, Kanazawa University, Japan
FRET Imaging in Organoids and Mice
3:00 – 3:30 PM
Ian Liau, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Multidisciplinary Optical Approach to Zebrafish Targeting
Cardiovascular Research
3:30 – 3:45 PM
Francois St-Pierre, Stanford University, USA *
Imaging Subcellular Voltage Dynamics in vivo with Improved
Genetically Encoded Indicators
*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts