LOC Symposium

LOC Symposia

• ◆Advances in understanding cerebellar LTD and motor learning: A celebration of Masao Ito

  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)

• ◆Molecular mechanisms of aging

  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)
  

• ◆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)
  

• ◆Inter-tissue communications underlying metabolic and feeding control

  Chairs

  Yasuhiko Minokoshi (National 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)

• ◆Cutting-edge research topics on skeletal muscle plasticity in health and diseases

  Chairs

  Katsumasa Goto (Toyohashi SOZO University, Japan)
  Gordon S. Lynch (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
  Hidefumi Waki (Juntendo University, Japan)

  Speakers

  Nobuharu L Fujii (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
  Shuichi Machida (Juntendo University, Japan)
  Gordon S. Lynch (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
  **Other speakers are to be announced.

• ◆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)
  **Voice from students.

• ◆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)
  

• ◆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)

• ◆Cuttingー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)
  Kenichi Ohiki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
  Ryohei Yasuda (Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, USA)
  Valentin Nagerl (Bordeaux University, France)
  

• ◆Toward understanding the neural basis of memory

  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)
  

• ◆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)
  　　Shinichi Sakamoto(Chiba University, Japan)
  

• ◆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)