Ion channel, transporter and receptors
■ISPC symposium (international science program committee symposium)
"Cutting-edge approaches to long-lasting questions and novel aspects of inward rectifier K+ channels -- A quarter-century anniversary of cDNA isolation” (ISPP, Israel)
Chairs Eitan Reuveny (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Yoshihiro Kubo (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan)
Speakers Keiko Ishihara (Kurume University, Japan)
Chung-Chin Kuo (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
I-Shan Chen (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan)
Eitan Reuveny (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
■LOC (Local organizing committee) symposium
"Membrane transporters related to diseases and drug development"
Chairs Naohiko Anzai (Chiba University, Japan)
Stefan Broer (The Australian National University, Australia)
Speakers Stefan Broer (The Australian National University, Australia)
Arthit Chairoungdua (Mahidol University Faculty of Science, Thailand)
Hiroko Segawa (Tokushima University, Japan)
Hiroko Segawa (Tokushima University, Japan)
Shinichi Sakamoto (Chiba University, Japan)
■LOC (Local organizing committee) symposium

Proton signalings and proton-related functions
Regulation of cell functions by phosphoinositides
Ca2+-permeable channels of excitable and non-excitable cells in health and disease
lternative GPCR and G-protein signaling in cardiovascular disease and therapy
TRP channels and inflammation/fibrosis

Cell signaling
■Special lecture
"Signaling by Mitochondrial Flashes"
Speaker Heping (Peace) Cheng (Peking University, China)
■ISPC symposium(international science program committee symposium)
"Mitochondrial Physiology and Pathophysiology"(KPS, Korea)
Chairs Kyu-Sang Park (Yonsei University, Korea)
Jin Han (Inje University, Korea)
Speakers Nicolas Demaurex (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Minho Shong (Chungnam National University, Korea)
Naotada Ishihara (Kurume University, Japan)
Kyu-Sang Park (Yonsei University, Korea)
■General symposium

Dynamics of membrane trafficking and intracellular signaling
Ca2+ signaling in health and disease
Zinc physiology and pathophysiology

Smooth muscle / autonomic system
■General symposium

Complexity and Diversity of Motility Regulation in Smooth Muscle
“Ins” and “outs” of smooth muscle
The role of the sympathetic nerves in health and disease

Cell homeostasis, Ageing and Anti-ageing
■Plenary lecture
"Looking Back on 30 Years of Autophagy Research: Dynamic Equilibrium of the Cell"
Speaker Yoshinori Ohsumi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
■LOC (Local organizing committee) symposium
"Molecular mechanisms of aging"(joint symposium with JAAM)
Chairs Shohei Mitani (Tokyo Women's Medical University, Japan)
Shigeo Horie (Juntendo University, Japan)
Speakers Makoto Kuro-o (Jichi Medical University, Japan)
Eiji Hara (Osaka University, Japan)
Xiaodong Wang (National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China)
Hiroshi Ito (Keio University, Japan)
■General symposium

Advances in the mastication and swallowing physiology to prepare for an aging society
Mechanisms of systemic beauty and health

Cardiovascular and circulation system, respiratory system
■Special lecture
"Tissue oxidative stress in the programming of organ damage in metabolic syndrome of developmental origin"
Speaker Julie Y. Chan (Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan)“The Sunao Tawara Memorial Lecture"
■General symposium

New Translational Insights on Cardiopulmonary Remodeling
New insights into baroreflex function for cerebral and cardiovascular regulation: Implications for human health and disease
New Paradigm in Physiology and Pathophysiology of Coagulation-fibrinolysis System Inflammation and Atherosclerosis
New insights into central mechanisms underlying hypertension
Calcium signaling in heart disease
Pulmonary hypertension and inflammation: the interdependent processes triggered by each other Molecular evidences Link Physical Exercise to Cardiovascular Improvement (also see in “Exercise”)
Adaptation mechanisms to external or internal environmental changes of respiratory system

Mechanobiology
■Special lecture
"Tentonin 3, a Mechanosensitive Channel with Baroreceptor Function"
Speaker Uhtaek Oh (Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
■LOC (Local organizing committee) symposium
"Mechanomedicine"
Chairs Keiji Naruse (Okayama University, Japan)
Hyoung-kyu Kim (Inje University, Korea)
Speakers Kimiko Yamamoto (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Sung Joon Kim (Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea)
Hiroshi Hibino (Niigata University, Japan)
Hiroshi Asahara (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan)
NEUROSCIENCE (Molecules, Neuron and glia)
■General symposium

Glia and Neurological Diseases: from Physiological to Pathological Roles of Astrocytes and Microglia
Contribution of microglia in health and disease of the brain
The potential roles of NMDAR in neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders: new findings and therapeutic targets

NEUROSCIENCE (Physiology of synapse and Neural circuits)
■ISPC symposium (international science program committee symposium)
"From synaptic and network plasticity to behavior"(CAPS, China)
Chairs Ying-Shing Chan (University of Hong Kong, China)
Tian-Le Xu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Speakers Tian-Le Xu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Hitoshi Okamoto (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan)
Ying-Shing Chan (University of Hong Kong, China)
Juan Lerma (Universidad Miguel Hernández, Spain)
■ISPC symposium (international science program committee symposium)
"Leveraging novel techniques to research and translate synaptic transmission and plasticity"(ISPP, Iran)
Chairs Javad Mirnajafi-Zadeh (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran)
Vahid Sheibani (Kerman Neuroscience Research Center, Iran)
Speakers Azar Omrani (University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Bechara John Saab (Mobio Interactive, Canada)
Qiang Liu (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Vahid Sheibani (Kerman Neuroscience Research Center, Iran)
Javad Mirnajafi-Zadeh (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran)
■LOC (Local organizing committee) symposium
"Advances in understanding cerebellar LTD and motor learning: A research field pioneered by Prof. Masao Ito, the leading co-founder of th FAOPS"
Chairs Yasuo Kawaguchi (National Institute for Physiological Science, Japan)
Masanobu Kano (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Kazuo Kitamura (University of Yamanashi, Japan)
Speakers Masanobu Kano (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Keiko Tanaka (Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Christian Hansel (The University of Chicago, USA)
Shinji Matsuda (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Jennifer Raymond (Stanford University, USA)
■LOC (Local organizing committee) symposium
"Cutting of Edge Optical Imaging of Neuronal Circuits and Synapses"
Chairs Haruo Kasai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Junichi Nabekura (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan)
Speakers Haruo Kasai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Ken-ichi Ohki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Ryohei Yasuda (Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, USA)
Valentin Nagerl (Bordeaux University, France)
■General symposium

Synaptic remodeling and beyond in health and disease
Cutting-edge Research in Neural Network Dynamics *Sponsorship by Women in Physiology of Japan (WPJ)
New molecular insights into the synaptic tagging and capture hypothesis
Dynamic signaling of axon and presynaptic terminals revealed by direct recordings
Optical neuroscience: reading and manipulating neural computation behind cognition, memory, and behavior
Implication of Cerebellar tonic inhibition for Brain function
Optogenetics: Contributions to Physiology and Medicine Beyond Brain Circuit-Breaking
Neural circuit basis of behavioral physiology (also see in Emition, Cognition and Behavior)

NEUROSCIENCE (Emotion, Cognition & Behavior)
■Special lecture
"Beyond memory circuit: Origins of metamemory and retrospection in the primate"
Speaker Yasushi Miyashita (RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan)"The Susumu Hagiwara Memorial Lecture"
■ISPC symposium (international science program committee symposium)
"Neurobiology of reward system in the Brain"(ISPP, Iran)
Chairs Abbas Haghparast (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran)
Abdolrahman Sarihi (Hamadan University, Iran)
Speakers Dipesh Chaudhary (New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
Jing Liang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Abbas Haghparast (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran)
Yonghui Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Abdolrahman Sarihi (Hamedan University, Iran)
■LOC (Local organizing committee) symposium
"Primate researches in Asian regions"
Chairs Suchinda Malaivijitnond (Chulalongkorn University & National Primate Research Centre, Thailand)
Atsushi Iriki (RIKEN, Japan)
Speakers Suchinda Malaivijitnond (Chulalongkorn University & National Primate Research Centre, Thailand)
Ikki Matsuda (Chubu University Academy of Emerging Sciences, Japan)
Michael D. Gumert (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Atsushi Iriki (RIKEN, Japan)
■LOC (Local organizing committee) symposium
"Toward understanding the neural basis of memory” (joint symposium with JNSS)"
Chairs Kaoru Inokuchi (University of Toyama, Japan)
Naoki Matsuo (Osaka University, Japan)
Speakers Kaoru Inokuchi (University of Toyama, Japan)
Bong-Kiun Kaang (Seoul National University, Korea)
Naoki Matsuo (Osaka University, Japan)
Teruhiro Okuyama (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Shigeyoshi Fujisawa (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan)
■General symposium

Brain pathways linking between emotion, behaviour and autonomic responses
The Social Brain: Recent Progress in Understanding Molecules and Networks of Social Behavior
Amygdala Neuronal Circuits in Adaptive Behaviors
Neural circuit basis of behavioral physiology (also see in Neural circuit)

NEUROSCIENCE (Sensory system)
■Plenary lectures
"Natural Products as Probes of the Pain Pathway: from Physiology to Atomic Structure"
Speaker David Julius (UCSF)
"Olfaction and Stress"
Speaker Linda Buck (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA)
■LOC (Local organizing committee) symposium
"Frontiers in pain physiology - from detection to the survival behavior"
Chairs Fusao Kato (The Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan)
Seog Bae Oh (Seoul National University, Korea)
Speakers Chien-Chang Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Seog Bae Oh (Seoul National University, Korea)
Xu Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Elena Bagley (The University of Sydney, Australia)
Yukari Takahashi (The Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan)
■General symposium

Biophysical mechanisms underlying nano-vibrations of the sensory epithelium in hearing organs
Social communication through sensory information
Contribution of brain research to the understanding of the physiology, psychology and communication of acute and chronic pain
Integrative neural processing of sound information in the higher auditory centers

NEUROSCIENCE (Neurobiology of Diseases)
■Special lecture
"Modeling Neurological/Psychiatric Diseases using iPSCs-technologies and Genetically Modified Non-human Primates"
Speaker Hideyuki Okano (Keio University, Japan)
■General symposium

Facilitation of Recovery of Motor Function After Paralysis
Plasticity of inhibitory signaling in Epilepsy: New Physiological Mechanisms
New insights into the cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurological diseases using experimental model systems

Sleep and chronobiology
■Special lecture
"Toward the Mysteries of Sleep"
Speaker Masashi Yanagisawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
■General symposium

Daily /adaptable Yin-Yang transitions in diverse physiological processes coordinated by multi-cellular Chrono-molecular signal

Muscle and Exercise physiology
■Special lecture
"The Beauty of Physiological Mechanisms in Skeletal Muscle Function and Fatigue"
Speaker Graham D. Lamb (La Trobe University, Australia)
■LOC (Local organizing committee) symposium
"Cutting-edge research topics on skeletal muscle plasticity in health and diseases"
Chairs FKatsumasa Goto (Toyohashi SOZO University, Japan)
Gordon S. Lynch (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Speakers Nobuharu L Fujii (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
Shuichi Machida (Juntendo University, Japan)
Gordon S. Lynch (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Katsumasa Goto (Toyohashi SOZO University, Japan)
■General symposium

Genomics of Sports and Exercise
Sports and Brain
Frontiers in Ca2+ release research in skeletal muscle: 50th anniversary from discovery of Ca2+-induced Ca2+ release
Molecular evidences Link Physical Exercise to Cardiovascular Improvement

Metabolism and nutrition / Gastrointestinal physiology
■ISPC symposium (international science program committee symposium)
"Metabolic syndrome and bone metabolism"(TPS, Thailand)
Chair Narattaphol Charoenphandhu (Mahidol University, Thailand)
Speakers Narattaphol Charoenphandhu (Mahidol University, Thailand)
Siriporn Chattipakorn (Chiang Mai University, Thailand)
Panan Suntornsaratoon (Mahidol University, Thailand)
Miyuki Kuno (Osaka City University, Japan)
■ISPC symposium (international science program committee symposium)
"Advances in the role of adipocyte in health and disease"(CPS, Taiwan)
Chair Po-Shiuan Hsieh (ational Defense Medical Center, Taiwan)
Speakers Yu-Hua Tseng (Harvard Medical School, USA)
Yau-Sheng Tsai (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
Juu-Chin Lu (Chang Gung University, Taiwan)
Toshimasa Yamauchi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
■ISPC symposium (international science program committee symposium)
"Gastrointestinal Control of Energy Metabolism"(CAPS, China)
Chairs Weizhen Zhang (Peking University Health Science Center, USA)
Jinxia Zhu (Capital Medical University, China)
Speakers Weizhen Zhang (Peking University Health Science Center, USA)
Jinxia Zhu (Capital Medical University, China)
Takafumi Sakai (Saitama University, Japan)
Andreas Stengel (University Medicine Berlin, Germany)
Jianping Ye (Shanghai Jiaotong University, USA)
■ISPC symposium (international science program committee symposium)
"Gastrointestinal microbiome and immunophysiology"(CPS, Taiwan)
Chairs Linda Yu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Shinji Fukuda (Keio University, Japan)
Speakers Shinji Fukuda (Keio University, Japan)
Sunny H Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
Linda CH Yu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Andre G Buret (University of Calgary, Canada)
■LOC (Local organizing committee) symposium
"Gastrointestinal microbiome and immunophysiology"(CPS, Taiwan)
Chairs Yasuhiko Minokoshi (ational Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan)
Shingo Kajimura (University of California San Francisco, USA)
Speakers Shingo Kajimura (University of California San Francisco, USA)
Juro Sakai (Tohoku University, Japan)
Hirofumi Misu (Kanazawa University, Japan)
Ichiro Manabe (Chiba University, Japan)
Yasuhiko Minokoshi (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan)
Masamitsu Fukuyama (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Tadashi Uemura (Kyoto University, Japan)
Koichi Kawakami (National Institute of Genetics, Japan)
Hiroshi Inoue (Kanazawa University, Japan)
Tony K.T. Lam (University of Toronto, Canada)
■General symposium

Life Style Related Diseases in Asia: Underlying Mechanisms, Functions and Behavioural Transitions
Neurobiology of obesity and its metabolic comorbidities

Perinatal and fetal physiology
■Special lecture
"The importance of understanding fetal physiology for detecting brain injury before birth"
Speaker Laura Bennet (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)
■ISPC symposium (international science program committee symposium)
"Maternal influences on offspring development"(AuPS, Australia)
Chairs Deanne Hryciw (Griffith University, Australia)
Mark Vickers (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Speakers Mark Vickers (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Hui Wang (Wuhan University, China)
Ken-ichi Ohta (Kagawa University, Japan)
Deanne Hryciw (Griffith University, Australia)
■ISPC symposium (international science program committee symposium)
"The consequences of preterm birth, intrauterine growth restriction and hypoxia-ischemia"(PSNZ, New Zealand)
Chair Laura Bennet (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Speakers Simerdeep Dhillon (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Tomoaki Ikeda (Mie University, Japan)
Julia Pitcher (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Bec Dyson (Otago University, New Zealand)
Temperature Physiology
■LOC (Local organizing committee) symposium
"Thermal biology: A new world of life science"
Chairs Makoto Tominaga (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan)
Kazuhiro Nakamura (Nagoya University, Japan)
Masao Doi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Speakers Makoto Tominaga (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan)
Craig Montell (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
D. Allan Drummond (University of Chicago, USA)
Kohki Okabe (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Takashi Yoshimura (Nagoya University, Japan)
Kazuhiro Nakamura (Nagoya University, Japan)
Jan Erik Siemens (Heidelberg University, Germany)
■General symposium

Hibernation and Torpor in mammals

Mathematical physiology
■ISPC symposium (international science program committee symposium)
"Physiome for organ function"(KPS, Korea)
Chairs Eun Bo Shim (Kangwon National University, Korea)
Chae-Hun Leem (University of Ulsan, Korea)
Speakers Vartan Kurtcuoglu (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Seiryo Sugiura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Chae Hun Leem (University of Ulsan, Korea)
Eun Bo Shim (Kangwon National University, Korea)
Education
■Special lecture
"Finding Instructional Balance Using the Educational Triangle"
Speaker Robert G. Carroll (East Carolina University, USA)
■LOC (Local organizing committee) symposium
"Teaching physiology; International perspectives"
Chairs Noriyuki Koibuchi (Gunma University, Japan)
Mei Ling Tsai (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
Speakers Masato Shibuya (Kagawa Education Institute of Nutrition, Japan)
Fabian C.L. Li (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Adrianta Surjadhana (Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia)
Arif Siddiqui (Barrett Hodgson University, Pakistan)
Mei Ling Tsai (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
Hwee Ming Cheng (Univeristy of Malaya, Malaysia)
Mangala Gunatilake (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka) **Voice from students
Physiology for future intervention
■General symposium

Substance abuse and addiction ~ From basic science to regulatory science
Intervention factors of neuronal irregular development: from gut bacteria to mental situation via chemicals