FAOPS2019 | Symposium

LOC Symposia

[Session: S1(Symposium1 (Local Organizing Committee Symposium))] March 29, Fri. 10:00-12:00Room A1F, Conference Center

Molecular mechanisms of aging

(Co-organized by: the Japanese Society of Anti-Aging Medicine)

Chairs	Shohei Mitani (Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Japan) Shigeo Horie (Juntendo University, Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)
Speakers	Makoto Kuro-o (Division of Anti-aging Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Japan) Eiji Hara (Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Japan) Xiaodong Wang (National Institute of Biological Sciences, China) Hiroshi Itoh (Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nephrology School of Medicine, Keio University, Japan)

[Session: S2(Symposium2 (Local Organizing Committee Symposium))] March 29, Fri. 10:00-12:00Room B3F, Conference Center

Thermal biology: A new world of life science

(Co-organized by: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Reserch on Innovative Areas ‘Thermal Biology’ of MEXT, Japan)

Chairs	Makoto Tominaga (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan) Masao Doi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Speakers	Makoto Tominaga (Division of Cell Signaling, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan) Kohki Okabe (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan) David Allan Drummond (Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Chicago, USA)

[Session: S4(Symposium4 (Local Organizing Committee Symposium))] March 29, Fri. 10:00-12:00Room D4F, Conference Center

Teaching physiology; International perspectives

Chair	Mei-Ling Tsai (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
Speakers	Masato Shibuya (Dept Physiol, Kagawa Nutrition Jr Col, Tokyo Japan, Japan) Fabian C.l. Lim (Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Adrianta Surjadhana (Department of Physiology,Ciputra University, Indonesia) Arif Siddiqui (Barrett Hodgson University, Pakistan)

[Session: S14(Symposium14 (Local Organizing Committee Symposium))] March 29, Fri. 15:10-17:10Room A1F, Conference Center

Advances in understanding cerebellar LTD and motor learning: Masao Ito Symposium

Chairs

Yasuo Kawaguchi (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan)
Masanobu Kano (Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Kazuo Kitamura (University of Yamanashi, Japan)

Speakers

Masanobu Kano (Department of Neurophysiology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Keiko Tanaka-Yamamoto (Center for Functional Connectomics (CFC), Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Korea)
Christian Hansel (Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago, USA)
Shinji Matsuda (Department of Engineering Science, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Jennifer L Raymond (Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA)

[Session: S15(Symposium15 (Local Organizing Committee Symposium))] March 29, Fri. 15:10-17:10Room B3F, Conference Center

Thermal biology: A new world of life science

(Co-organized by: Grant-In-Aid For Scientific Research on Innovative Areas ‘Thermal Biology’ of Mext, Japan)

Chairs	Makoto Tominaga (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan) Kazuhiro Nakamura (Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)
Speakers	Takashi Yoshimura (Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University, Japan) Kazuhiro Nakamura (Department of Integrative Physiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan) Jan Erik Siemens (Department of Pharmacology, Heidelberg University, Germany)

[Session: S17(Symposium17 (Local Organizing Committee Symposium ))] March 29, Fri. 15:10-17:10Room D4F, Conference Center

Teaching physiology; International perspectives

Chair	Noriyuki Koibuchi (Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)
Speakers	Mei-Ling Tsai (Department of Physiology,, National Cheng Kung University,, Taiwan) Cheng Hwee Ming (Department Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, Malaysia) Mangala Gunatilake (Dept. of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka) Noriyuki Koibuchi (Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)

[Session: S32(Symposium32 (Local Organizing Committee Symposium))] March 29, Fri. 18:30-20:00Room G5F, Conference Center

Membrane transporters related to diseases and drug development

Chair	Naohiko Anzai (Chiba University School of Medicine, Japan)
Co-Chair	Stefan Broer (The Australian National University, Australia)
Speakers	Stefan Broer (Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Australia) Arthit Chairoungdua (Department of Physiology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol university, Thailand) Hiroko Segawa (Department of Molecular Nutrition Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University Graduate School, Japan) Shinichi Sakamoto (Department of Urology, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)

[Session: S36(Symposium36 (Local Organizing Committee Symposium))] March 30, Sat. 10:00-12:00Room A1F, Conference Center

Inter-tissue communications underlying metabolic and feeding control in living body

Chairs

Yasuhiko Minokoshi (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan)
Shingo Kajimura (UCSF Diabetes Center, University of California, USA)

Speakers

Masamitsu Fukuyama (Laboratory of Physiological Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan)
Tadashi Uemura (Grad. Sch. of Biostudies, Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Koichi Kawakami (Division of Molecular and Developmental Biology, National Institute of Genetics, Japan)
Yasuhiko Minokoshi (Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan)
Karen SL Lam (Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong)

[Session: S37(Symposium37 (Local Organizing Committee Symposium))] March 30, Sat. 10:00-12:00Room B3F, Conference Center

Primate researches in Asian regions

Organizers	Suchinda Malaivijitnond (National Primate Research Center of Thailand-Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) Atsushi Iriki (Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, RIKEN, Japan)
Speakers	Suchinda Malaivijitnond (National Primate Research Center of Thailand-Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) Michael D Gumert (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Ikki Matsuda (Chubu University Academy of Emerging Sciences, Japan) Atsushi Iriki (Lab. for Symbolic Cognitive Development, Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, RIKEN, Japan)

[Session: S38(Symposium38 (Local Organizing Committee Symposium))] March 30, Sat. 10:00-12:00Room C3F, Conference Center

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

(Co-organized by: Japanese Society of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine)

Organizers

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

Speakers

Nobuharu L Fujii (Department of Health Promotion Sciences, Graduate School of Human Health Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
Shuichi Machida (Graduate School of Health and Sports Science, Juntendo University Graduate School of Health and Sports Science, Juntendo University, Japan)
Gordon S Lynch (Centre for Muscle Research, Department of Physiology, The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Katsumasa Goto (Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Toyohashi SOZO University, Japan)

[Session: S39(Symposium39 (Local Organizing Committee Symposium))] March 30, Sat. 10:00-12:00Room D4F, Conference Center

Cutting-Edge Optical Imaging of Neuronal Circuits and Synapses

(Co-organized by: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas ‘ABiS' of MEXT, Japan), (Co-sponsored by:Spectra-Physics)

Chair	Haruo Kasai (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Co-Chair	Junichi Nabekura (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan)
Speakers	Haruo Kasai (Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan) Kenichi Ohki (Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan) Ryohei Yasuda (Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, USA) Valentin Nagerl (Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux, France)

[Session: S48(Symposium48 (Local Organizing Committee Symposium))] March 30, Sat. 15:10-17:10Room A1F, Conference Center

Inter-tissue communications underlying metabolic and feeding control in living body

Chairs	Yasuhiko Minokoshi (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan) Shingo Kajimura (University of California, USA)
Speakers	Hiroshi Inoue (Institute for Frontier Science Initiative, Kanazawa University, Japan) Hirofumi Misu (Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Kanazawa University, Japan) Ichiro Manabe (Chiba University, Japan) Juro Sakai (Tohoku University School of Medicine, Molecular Physiology div., Japan) Shingo Kajimura (University of California, USA)

[Session: S49(Symposium49 (Local Organizing Committee Symposium))] March 30, Sat. 15:10-17:10Room B3F, Conference Center

Frontiers in pain physiology - from detection to the survival behavior (under the auspices of Japanese Association for Study of Pain)

Chairs

Fusao Kato (Jikei University, Japan)
Seog Bae Oh (Seoul National University, Korea)

Speakers

Xu Zhang (Institute of Neuroscience and State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Seog Bae Oh (Department of Neurobiology and Physiology School of Dentistry, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences College of Natural Sciences,Seoul National University, Korea)
Elena Bagley (Discipline of Pharmacology and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, Australia)
Yukari Takahashi (Dept Neurosci, Jikei Univ Sch Med, Japan)
Chien-Chang Chen (Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

[Session: S71(Symposium71 (Local Organizing Committee Symposium))] March 31, Sun. 10:30-12:30Room A1F, Conference Center

Toward understanding the neural basis of memory

(Co-organized by: the Japan Neuroscience Society)

Organizers	Kazuhiro Nakamura (Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan) Michisuke Yuzaki (Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)
Chair	Kaoru Inokuchi (University of Toyama, Japan) Naoki Matsuo (Osaka University, Japan)
Speakers	Naoki Matsuo (Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan) Kaoru Inokuchi (Faculty of Medicine, University of Toyama, Japan) Bong-Kiun Kaang (School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea) Teruhiro Okuyama (Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (IQB), The University of Tokyo, Japan) Shigeyoshi Fujisawa (RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan)

[Session: S79(Symposium79 (Local Organizing Committee Symposium))] March 31, Sun. 10:30-12:00Room I5F, Conference Center

Mechanomedicine

(Co-sponsored by: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S): Mechanomedicine)

Chairs	Keiji Naruse (Okayama University, Japan) Hyoung kyu Kim (Inje University, Korea)
Speakers	Kimiko Yamamoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Sung Joon Kim (Department of Physiology, Ischemic/Hypoxic Disease Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea) Hiroshi Hibino (Department of Molecular Physiology, Niigata University School of Medicine, Japan) Hiroshi Asahara (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan)

Symposia (Special Slots for International Scientific Program Committee/ FAOPS Councils)

[Session: S3(Symposium3 (International Scientific Program Committee Symposium))] March 29, Fri. 10:00-12:00Room C3F, Conference Center

Gastrointestinal microbiome and immunophysiology (CPS, Taiwan)

Chairs	Linda Chia-Hui Yu (National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taiwan) Shinji Fukuda (Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Japan)
Speakers	Shinji Fukuda (Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Japan) Sunny Hei Wong (Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) Linda Chia-Hui Yu (National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taiwan) Andre G. Buret (Biological Sciences, Inflammation Research Network, Canada)

[Session: S7(Symposium7 (International Scientific Program Committee Symposium))] March 29, Fri. 10:00-12:00Room G5F, Conference Center

From synaptic and network plasticity to behavior (CAPS, China)

Chairs

Ying-Shing Chan (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Tian-Le Xu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China)

Speakers

Tian-Le Xu (Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China)
Hitoshi Okamoto (Lab. for Neural Circuit Dynamics of Decision Making, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan)
Ying-Shing Chan (School of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Juan Lerma (Instituto de Neurociencias CSIC-UMH, San Juan de Alicante, Spain)

[Session: S9(Symposium9 (International Scientific Program Committee Symposium))] March 29, Fri. 10:00-12:00Room I5F, Conference Center

Metabolic syndrome and bone metabolism (TPS, Thailand)

Chair

Narattaphol Charoenphandhu (Center of Calcium and Bone Research (COCAB), Mahidol University, Thailand)

Speakers

Narattaphol Charoenphandhu (Center of Calcium and Bone Research (COCAB), Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand)
Siriporn C Chattipakorn (Neurophysiology Unit, Cardiac Electrophysiology Research and Training Center, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Thailand)
Panan Suntornsaratoon (Department of Physiology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Thailand)
Miyuki Kuno (Department of Anesthesiology, Osaka City University, Japan)

[Session: S16(Symposium16 (International Scientific Program Committee Symposium))] March 29, Fri. 15:10-17:10Room C3F, Conference Center

Gastrointestinal Control of Energy Metabolism (CAPS, China)

Chairs

Weizhen Zhang (Peking University Health Science Center, China)
Jinxia Zhu (Capital Medical University, China)

Speakers

Weizhen Zhang (Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Peking University Health Science Center, China)
Jinxia Zhu (Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Capital Medical University, China)
Ichiro Sakata (Graduate school of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Japan)
Andreas Stengel (Psychosomatic Medicine, University Tuebingen, Germany)
Jianping Ye (Central Lab, Shanghai Jiaotong University Affiliated 6th People’s Hospital East, China)

[Session: S19(Symposium19 (International Scientific Program Committee Symposium))] March 29, Fri. 15:10-17:10Room F5F, Conference Center

Mitochondrial Physiology and Pathophysiology (KPS, Korea)

Chairs	Kyu-Sang Park (Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Korea) Jin Han (Inje University, Korea)
Speakers	Motohiro Nishida (Division of Cradiocirculatory Signaling, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, National Institutes of Natural Sciences) Minho Shong (Department of Internal Medicine, Chungnam National University, Korea) Naotada Ishihara (Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Japan) Kyu-Sang Park (Department of Physiology, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Korea)

[Session: S41(Symposium41 (International Scientific Program Committee Symposium))] March 30, Sat. 10:00-12:00Room F5F, Conference Center

Leveraging novel techniques to research and translate synaptic transmission and plasticity (ISPP, Iran)

Chairs

Javad Mirnajafi-Zadeh (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran)
Vahid Sheibani (Neuroscience Research Center,Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran)

Speakers

Azar Omrani (Department of Transnational Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Bechara John Saab (Mobio Interactive, Canada)
Qiang Liu (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
Javad Mirnajafi-Zadeh (Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran)
Vahid Sheibani (Neuroscience Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran)

[Session: S44(Symposium44 (International Scientific Program Committee Symposium))] March 30, Sat. 10:00-12:00Room I5F, Conference Center

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 (Division of Integrated Autonomic Function, Department of Physiology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan)
Chung-Chin Kuo (Department of Physiology and Neurology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
I-Shan Chen (Division of Biophysics and Neurobiology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan)
Eitan Reuveny (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

[Session: S50(Symposium50 (International Scientific Program Committee Symposium))] March 30, Sat. 15:10-17:10Room C3F, Conference Center

Maternal influences on offspring development (AuPS, Australia)

Chair	Deanne Hryciw (Griffith University, Australia)
Speakers	Hui Wang (Department of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, China) Ken-Ichi Ohta (Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Japan) Deanne Helena Hryciw (School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Australia)

[Session: S72(Symposium72 (International Scientific Program Committee Symposium))] March 31, Sun. 10:30-12:30Room B3F, Conference Center

Neurobiology of reward system in the Brain (ISPP, Iran)

Chairs

Abbas Haghparast (Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran)
Abdolrahman Sarihi (Hamadan University of Medical Science, Iran)

Speakers

Dipesh Chaudhury (New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), United Arab Emirates)
Jing Liang (Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Abbas Haghparast (Neuroscience Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Iran)
Yonghui Li (Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Abdolrahman Sarihi (Neurophysiology Research Center, Hamadan Uni. of Med. Sci., Iran)

[Session: S74(Symposium74 (International Scientific Program Committee Symposium))] March 31, Sun. 10:30-12:30Room D4F, Conference Center

The consequences of preterm birth, intrauterine growth restriction and hypoxia-ischemia (PSNZ, New Zealand)

Chair	Laura Bennet (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Speakers	Simerdeep Kaur Dhillon (The University of Auckland, New Zealand) Rebecca Maree Dyson (Department of Paediatrics & Child Health, University of Otago Wellington, New Zealand) Julia B Pitcher (Robinson Research Institute, Adelaide Medical School, University of Australia, Australia) Tomoaki Ikeda (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)

[Session: S76(Symposium76 (International Scientific Program Committee Symposium))] March 31, Sun. 10:30-12:30Room F5F, Conference Center

Physiome for organ function (KPS, Korea)

Chairs	Eun Bo Shim (Kangwon National University, Korea) Chae-Hun Leem (University of Ulsan College of Medicine/Asan Medical Center, Korea)
Speakers	Vartan Kurtcuoglu (Institute of Physiology, University of Zurich, Switzerland) Seiryo Sugiura (UT-Heart Inc., Japan) Chaehun Leem (Department of Physiology University of Ulsan College of Medicine/Asan Medical Center, Korea) Eun Bo Shim (Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, Kangwon National University, Korea)

[Session: S77(Symposium77 (International Scientific Program Committee Symposium))] March 31, Sun. 10:30-12:30Room G5F, Conference Center

Advances in the role of adipocyte in health and disease (CPS, Taiwan)

Chair	Po-Shiuan Hsieh (National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan)
Speakers	Yu-Hua Tseng (Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, USA) Yau-Sheng Tsai (Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan) Juu-Chin Lu (Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Chang Gung University, Taiwan) Toshimasa Yamauchi (Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, The University of Tokyo, Japan)

General Symposium

[Session: S5(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 10:00-12:00 [Room E] 4F, Conference Center

New Translational Insights on Cardiopulmonary Remodeling

Chair	Masanari Umemura (Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)
Co-Chair	Lin Hai Kurahara (School of Medicine, Fukuoka-University, Japan)
Speakers	Aya Yamamura (Department of Physiology, Aichi Medical University, Japan) Masanari Umemura (Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan) Keita Saku (Department of Advanced Risk Stratification for Cardiovascular Disease, Center for Disruptive Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyushu University, Japan) Yong Zhang (Department of Pharmacology, Harbin Medical University, China)

[Session: S6(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 10:00-12:00 [Room F] 5F, Conference Center

Facilitation of Recovery of Motor Function After Paralysis

(Co-sponsored by: Uno Hospital)

Chair	Yukio Nishimura (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan)
Co-Chair	Takuya Takahashi (Yokohama City University, Japan)
Speakers	Takuya Takahashi (Department of Physiology Yokohama City University, Japan) Yukio Nishimura (Neural Prosthesis Project, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan) Seiji Etoh (Department of Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Japan) Marie-Claire Smith (Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, New Zealand)

[Session: S8(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 10:00-12:00 [Room H] 5F, Conference Center

Biophysical mechanisms underlying nano-vibrations of the sensory epithelium in hearing organs

(Co-sponsored by: the Society for Promotion of International Oto-Rhino-Laryngology)

Chair	Hiroshi Hibino (Niigata University School of Medicine, Japan)
Co-Chair	Tobias Reichenbach (Imperial College London, UK)
Speakers	Takeru Ota (Department of Molecular Physiology, Niigata University School of Medicine, Japan) Elizabeth Sue Olson (Departments of Otolaryngology and Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, USA) Fangyi Chen (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China) Manuela Nowotny (Institute of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Goethe University, Germany, German) Tobias Reichenbach (Imperial College London)

[Session: S10(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 10:00-12:00 [Room J] 2F, Exhibition Hall

Neural circuit basis of behavioral physiology

Chair	Shi-Bing Yang (Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Co-Chair	Tsung-Han Kuo (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
Speakers	Shi-Bing Yang (Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Hitoshi Aonuma (Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Japan) Kumi O Kuroda (Lab for Affiliative Social Behavior, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan) Ming-Yi Chou (Department of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Rebecca Campbell (Centre for Neuroendocrinology, Department of Physiology, University of Otago, New Zealand)

[Session: S11(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 10:00-12:00 [Room K] 2F, Exhibition Hall

Advances in the mastication and swallowing physiology to prepare for an aging society

Chair	Yoshitaka Oku (Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan)
Co-Chair	Makito Iizuka (Showa University School of Medicine, Japan)
Speakers	Tomio Inoue (Department of Oral Physiology, Showa University School of Dentistry, Japan) Takahiro Ono (Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata Univ., Japan) Mathias Dutschmann (Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Australia) Yoshitaka Oku (Department of Physiology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan) Makito Iizuka (Department of Physiology, Showa University School of Medicine, Japan)

[Session: S12(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 10:00-12:00 [Room L] 3F, Exhibition Hall

New insights into baroreflex function for cerebral and cardiovascular regulation: Implications for human health and disease

Chair	Shigehiko Ogoh (Toyo University, Japan)
Co-Chair	Paul J Fadel (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Speakers	Shigehiko Ogoh (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Toyo University, Japan) Paul J Fadel (Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, USA) Qi Fu (Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA, China) Scott Alan Smith (School of Health Professions, Department of Health Care Sciences, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA) Kanji Matsukawa (Department of Integrative Physiology, Hiroshima University, Japan)

[Session: S13(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 10:00-12:00 [Room M] 3F, Exhibition Hall

The role of the sympathetic nerves in health and disease

Chair	Rohit Ramchandra (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Speakers	Kate M Denton (Department of Physiology, Monash University, Australia) Mamoru Tanida (Department of Physiology II, Kanazawa Medical University, Japan) James T. Pearson (Department of Cardiac Physiology, National Cerebral & Cardiovascular Center, Japan) Rohit Ramchandra (Department of Physiology, The University of Auckland, New Zealand) Vaughan G Macefield (Human Autonomic Neurophysiology Lab, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia)

[Session: S18(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 15:10-17:10 [Room E] 4F, Conference Center

Dynamics of membrane trafficking and intracellular signaling

Chair	Yoh Takuwa (Kanazawa University, Japan)
Co-Chair	Yusuke Ohba (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Speakers	Won Do Heo (Department of Biological Sciences, KAIST, Korea) Noriko Takahashi (Department of Physiology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Japan) Yusuke Ohba (Department of Cell Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan) Kazuaki Yoshioka (Department of Physiology, Kanazawa University, Japan) Shige H. Yoshimura (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Japan)

[Session: S20(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 15:10-17:10 [Room G] 5F, Conference Center

Adaptation mechanisms to external or internal environmental changes of respiratory system

Chair	Hiroshi Onimaru (Showa University School of Medicine, Japan)
Co-Chair	Keiko Ikeda (International University of Health and Welfare, Japan)
Speakers	Keiko Ikeda (Department of Physiology, International University of Health and Welfare, Japan) Rishi R Dhingra (Division of Systems Neurophysiology, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health, Australia) Yasumasa Okada (Clin. Res. Ctr., Murayama Med. Ctr., Japan) Peter George Burke (Neuroscience Research Australia, Australia) Kun-Ze Lee (Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)

[Session: S21(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 15:10-17:10 [Room H] 5F, Conference Center

New Paradigm in Physiology and Pathophysiology of Coagulation-fibrinolysis System

Chair	Katsuya Hirano (Kagawa University, Japan)
Co-Chair	Tetsumei Urano (Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan)
Speakers	Tetsumei Urano (Department of Medical Physiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan) Yuko Suzuki (Department of Medical Physiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan) Katsuya Hirano (Department of Cardiovascular Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Japan) Nigel W. Bunnet (Columbia University, USA) Robert Lindsay Medcalf (Australian Centre for Blood Diseases, Monash University, Australia)

[Session: S22(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 15:10-17:10 [Room I] 5F, Conference Center

Proton signalings and proton-related functions

Chair	Yoshifumi Okochi (Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan)
Co-Chair	Ye Yu (China Pharmaceutical University, China)
Speakers	Yoshifumi Okochi (Integrative Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan) Toshihiko Kobayashi (Department of Molecular Immunology and Inflammation, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan) Emily Liman (Section of Neurobiology, University of Southern California, USA) Hiroshi Horiuchi (Division for Homeostatic Development, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan) Ye Yu (China Pharmaceutical University, Chaina)

[Session: S23(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 15:10-17:10 [Room J] 2F, Exhibition Hall

Glia and Neurological Diseases: from Physiological to Pathological Roles of Astrocytes and Microglia

Chair	Sun Kwang Kim (College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Korea)
Co-Chair	Hiroaki Wake (Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)
Speakers	Hiroaki Wake (Division of System Neuroscience, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan) Wen-Biao Gan (Skirball Institute, New York University School of Medicine, USA) Schuichi Koizumi (Department of Neuropharmacology, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine, University of Yamanashi, Japan) Sun Kwang Kim (Department of Physiology, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Korea)

[Session: S24(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 15:10-17:10 [Room K] 2F, Exhibition Hall

Complexity and Diversity of Motility Regulation in Smooth Muscle

Chair	Shinsuke Nakayama (Nagoya University, Japan)
Co-Chair	Masaru Watanabe (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
Speakers	Hiromi Tamada (Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya University, Japan) Jae Yeoul Jun (Department of Physiology, University of Chosun, Korea) Shunichi Kajioka (Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Kyushu University, Japan) Masaru Watanabe (Laboratory of Physiology, Graduate School of Human Health Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)

[Session: S25(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 15:10-17:10 [Room L] 3F, Exhibition Hall

Calcium signaling in heart disease

Chair	Shi-Qiang Wang (Peking University, China)
Co-Chair	Sun-Hee Woo (Chungnam National University, Korea)
Speakers	Sun-Hee Woo (College of Pharmacy, Chungnam National University, Korea) Junko Kurokawa (School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Japan) Wenjun Xie (School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China) Nagomi Kurebayashi (Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, Japan) Shi-Qiang Wang (College of LIfe Sciences, Peking University, China)

[Session: S26(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 18:30-20:00 [Room A] 1F, Conference Center

Synaptic remodeling and beyond in health and disease

Chair	Ryuta Koyama (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Co-Chair	Naofumi Uesaka (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Speakers	Ryuta Koyama (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan) Edward S Ruthazer (Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Canada) Yukiko Hori (Laboratory of Neuropathology and Neuroscience, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan) Yoshifumi Ueta (Dept Physiol, Div Neurophysiol, Grad Sch Med, Tokyo Women’s Med Univ, Japan) Naofumi Uesaka (Graduate School Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan)

[Session: S27(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 18:30-20:00 [Room B] 3F, Conference Center

Regulation of cell functions by phosphoinositides

Chair	Zhuan Zhou (Peking University, China)
Co-Chair	Yasushi Okamura (Osaka University, Japan)
Speakers	Zhuan Zhou (Peking University, China) Takafumi Kawai (Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan) Byung C. Suh (Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, DGIST, Korea) Junko Sasaki (Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan, Japan)

[Session: S28(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 18:30-20:00 [Room C] 3F, Conference Center

Molecular evidences Link Physical Exercise to Cardiovascular Improvement

Chair	Junjie Xiao (Shanghai University, China)
Co-Chair	Julie McMullen (Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia)
Speakers	Junjie Xiao (Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, School of Life Science, Shanghai University, China) Han Xiao (Institute of vascular medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, China) Julie Rae Mcmullen (Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia)

[Session: S29(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 18:30-20:00 [Room D] 4F, Conference Center

New insights into central mechanisms underlying hypertension

Chair	Julian FR Paton (Department of Physiology, University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Co-Chair	Sabine S. S. Gouraud (Ochanomizu University, Japan)
Speakers	Yoshitaka Hirooka (Department of Medical Technology and Sciences, International University of Health and Welfare, Japan) Julian FR Paton (Department of Physiology, University of Auckland, New Zealand) Jouji Horiuchi (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Toyo University, Japan) Sabine S. S. Gouraud (Dept. Biology, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan) Hidefumi Waki (Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Health and Sports Science, Juntendo University, Japan)

[Session: S30(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 18:30-20:00 [Room E] 4F, Conference Center

Substance abuse and addiction ~ From basic science to regulatory science

Chair	Tomoaki Shirao (Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)
Co-Chair	Bart A Ellenbroek (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Speakers	Ruri Kikura-Hanajiri (Division of Pharmacognosy, Phytochemistry and Narcotics, National Institute of Health Sciences, Japan) Kenji Hanamura (Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan) Kazutaka Ikeda (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan) Bart A Ellenbroek (School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Newzealand)

[Session: S31(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 18:30-20:00 [Room F] 5F, Conference Center

Genomics of Sports and Exercise

Chair	Noriyuki Fuku (Juntendo University, Japan)
Co-Chair	Ola Hanson (Lund University, Sweden)
Speakers	Eri Miyamoto-Mikami (Graduate School of Health and Sports Science, Juntendo University, Japan) Ola Hansson (Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden) Hirofumi Zempo (Department of Administrative Nutrition, Faculty of Health and Nutrition, Tokyo Seiei College, Japan)

[Session: S33(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 18:30-20:00 [Room H] 5F, Conference Center

New insights into Endocrinology and Metabolism

Chair	Izuki Amano (Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)
Co-Chair	Ronny Lesmana (Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia)
Speakers	Izuki Amano (Department of Integrative Physiology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan) Ronny Lesmana (Departement of basic science, Physiology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia) Megan Jean Ritter (Weill Cornell Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, USA) Munehiko Shibata (Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA)

[Session: S34(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 18:30-20:00 [Room I] 5F, Conference Center

Life Style Related Diseases in Asia: Underlying Mechanisms, Functions and Behavioural Transitions

Chair	Kanwal Preet Kochhar (All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India)
Co-Chair	Kishore Kumar Deepak (All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India)
Speakers	Naim A Khan (Universite de Bourgogne, France) Kishore Kumar Deepak (Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India) Kanwal Preet Kochhar (Department of physiology,All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India) Raj Kumar Yadav (Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India) Siddharth Sarkar (Department of Psychiatry and NDDTC, AIIMS, India)

[Session: S35(General Symposium)] March 29, Fri. 18:30-20:00 [Room J] 2F, Exhibition Hall

Frontiers in Ca2+ release research in skeletal muscle: 50th anniversary from discovery of Ca2+-induced Ca2+ release

Chair	Takashi Murayama (Juntendo University School of Medicine, Japan)
Co-Chair	Zhiguang Yuchi (Tianjin University, China)
Speakers	Takashi Murayama (Department of Pharmacology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Japan) Tsutomu Nakada (Department of Molecular pharmacology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Japan) Toshiko Yamazawa (Department of Molecular Physiology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan) Zhiguang Yuchi (School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin University, China)

[Session: S40(General Symposium)] March 30, Sat. 10:00-12:00 [Room E] 4F, Conference Center

Social communication through sensory information

Chair	Sachine Yoshida (Toho University, Japan)
Co-Chair	Masakazu Ide (National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, Japan)
Speakers	Chun-Hsiang Tan (Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan) Sachine Yoshida (Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Toho University, Japan) Chihiro Hiramatsu (Department of Human Science, Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, Japan) Emi Tamaki (Waseda University, Japan)

[Session: S42(General Symposium)] March 30, Sat. 10:00-11:30 [Room G] 5F, Conference Center

Physiological function of royal jelly contributing to healthy longevity - The effectiveness on Locomotive syndrome, Menopausal disorders, Infectious diseases -

(Co-sponsored by: Yamada Bee Company, Inc.)

Chair	Yoshinori Marunaka (Kyoto Industrial Health Association, General Incorporated Foundation, Japan; Ritsumeikan University, Japan; Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan)

Speakers	Hongmei Wu (Nutritional Epidemiology Institute and School of Public Health, China) Akira Minami (Department of Biochemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Japan) Shogo Misumi (Department of Environmental and Molecular Health Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Japan)

[Session: S43(General Symposium)] March 30, Sat. 10:00-12:00 [Room H] 5F, Conference Center

TRP channels and inflammation/fibrosis

Chair	Insuk So (Seoul National Univ, Korea)
Co-Chair	Ryuji Inoue (Fukuoka University, Japan)
Speakers	Chansik Hong (Department of Physiology, Chosun University School of Medicine, Korea) Lixia Yue (Department of Cell Biology, Calhoun Cardiology Center, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, USA) Lin Hai Kurahara (Department of Physiology, Fukuoka University, Japan) Seung-Kuy Cha (Department of Physiology, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Korea) Tzong-Shyuan Lee (Graduate Institute and Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

[Session: S45(General Symposium)] March 30, Sat. 10:00-12:00 [Room J] 2F, Exhibition Hall

New molecular insights into the synaptic tagging and capture hypothesis

Chair	Tomonori Takeuchi (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Co-Chair	Sreedharan Sajikumar (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Speakers	Szu-Han Wang (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK) Haruhiko Bito (Dept of Neurochemistry, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Japan) Sajikumar Sreedharan (Department of Physiology,, National University of Singapore, Singapore) Ted Abel (Iowa Neuroscience Institute, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and University of Iowa, USA) Tomonori Takeuchi (Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Denmark)

[Session: S46(General Symposium)] March 30, Sat. 10:00-12:00 [Room K] 2F, Exhibition Hall

Plasticity of inhibitory signaling in Epilepsy: New Physiological Mechanisms

Chair	Andrew Moorhouse (UNSW Sydney, Australia)
Co-Chair	Atsuo Fukuda (Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan)
Speakers	Zhong Chen (Zhejiang University, China) Chelsea Goulton (Department of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Australia) Atsuo Fukuda (Department of Neurophysiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan) Claudio Rivera (Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki, Finland) Dennis Lawrence Cheung (Division of Homeostatic Development, National Insititute for Physiological Sciences, Japan)

[Session: S47(General Symposium)] March 30, Sat. 13:30-15:00 [Room F] 5F, Conference Center

New Frontiers in Regenerative Medicine of Renal Function

(Co-sponsored by: Shinkoiwa CIinic)

Chair	Yoshinori Marunaka (Kyoto Industrial Health Association, General Incorporated Foundation, Japan; Ritsumeikan University, Japan; Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan)

Speakers	Eisei Sohara (Department of Nephrology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan) Ryuichi Nishinakamura (Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics, Kumamoto University, Japan) Takashi Yokoo (Department Internal of Medicine, Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan)

[Session: S51(General Symposium)] March 30, Sat. 15:10-17:10 [Room D] 4F, Conference Center

Cutting-edge Research in Neural Network Dynamics

(Organized by: Women in Physiology of Japan (WPJ))

Chair	Akiko Arata (Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan)
Co-Chair	Yumiko Yoshimura (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan)
Speakers	Seung-Hee Lee (Department of Biological Sciences, KAIST, Korea) Rie Kimura (Division of Visual Information Processing, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan) Jinhyun Kim (Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea) Chiaki Ohtaka-Maruyama (Neural Network Project, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan)

[Session: S52(General Symposium)] March 30, Sat. 15:10-17:10 [Room E] 4F, Conference Center

Sports and Brain

(Co-sponsored by: De Luca Foundation)

Chair	Kazuyuki Kanosue (Waseda University, Japan)
Co-Chair	Yukio Nishimura (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan)
Speakers	Toshiki Tazoe (Neural Prosthesis Project, Department of Dementia and Higher Brain Function, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan) Xiaohong Wan (School of Pychology, Beijing Normal University, China) Kimitaka Nakazawa (Department of Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan) Kouki Kato (Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Japan)

[Session: S53(General Symposium)] March 30, Sat. 15:10-17:10 [Room F] 5F, Conference Center

Dynamic signaling of axon and presynaptic terminals revealed by direct recordings

Chair	Shin-ya Kawaguchi (Society-Academia Collaboration for Innovation, Kyoto University, Japan)
Co-Chair	Haruyuki Kamiya (Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)
Speakers	Shin-Ya Kawaguchi (Society-Academia Collaboration for Innovation, Kyoto University, Japan) Federico F Trigo (Brain Physiology Laboratory, France, and University Paris Descartes, France) Mitsuharu Midorikawa (Department of Physiology, Division of Neurophysiology, School of Medicine, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Japan) Yousheng Shu (State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, China) Haruyuki Kamiya (Department of Neurobiology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)

[Session: S54(General Symposium)] March 30, Sat. 15:10-17:10 [Room G] 5F, Conference Center

Ca2+ signaling in health and disease

Chair	Xiaoqiang Yao (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
Co-Chair	Ryuji Inoue (Fukuoka University School of Medicine, Japan)
Speakers	Ryuji Inoue (Department of Physiology, Fukuoka University School of Medicine, Japan) Xiaoqiang Yao (School of Biomedical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) Huangtian Yang (Laboratory of Molecular Cardiology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Jianbo Yue (Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, China) Xiaodong Liu (Beihang University, China)

[Session: S55(General Symposium)] March 30, Sat. 15:10-17:10 [Room H] 5F, Conference Center

Brain pathways linking between emotion, behaviour and autonomic responses

Chair	Youichirou Ootsuka (Flinders University, Australia)
Co-Chair	Tomoyuki Kuwaki (Kagoshima University, Japan)
Speakers	Yoko Ikoma (Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Medical & Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Japan) Youichirou Yoyo Ootsuka (Centre for Neuroscience, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Australia) Christopher Vincent Dayas (School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of Newcastle, Australia) Gavan McNally (School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney,, Australia)

[Session: S56(General Symposium)] March 30, Sat. 15:10-17:10 [Room I] 5F, Conference Center

Optical neuroscience: reading and manipulating neural computation behind cognition, memory, and behavior

Chair	Masakazu Agetsuma (National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan)
Co-Chair	Luis Alberto Carrillo-Reid (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)
Speakers	Akiko Hayashi-Takagi (Lab of Medical Neurosci, IMCR, Gunma Univ, Japan) Masakazu Agetsuma (Division of Homeostatic Development, National Institute for Physiological Sciences Japan) Darcy Peterka (Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, USA) Luis Alberto Carrillo-Reid (Department of Developmental Neurobiology and Neurophysiolgy, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico) Misha Benjamin Ahrens (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, USA)

[Session: S57(General Symposium)] March 30, Sat. 15:10-17:10 [Room J] 2F, Exhibition Hall

Alternative GPCR and G-protein signaling in cardiovascular disease and therapy

Chair	Utako Yokoyama (Yokohama City University, Japan)
Co-Chair	Motohiko Sato (Aichi Medical University, Japan)
Speakers	Hemal Patel (UC San Diego & VA San Diego, USA) Hisaki Hayashi (Department of Physiology, Aichi Medical University, Japan) Utako Yokoyama (Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yokohama City University, Japan) Akiyuki Nishimura (Department of Translational Pharmaceutical Sciences, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan) Jin Han (Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Center, Inje University, Korea)

[Session: S58(General Symposium)] March 30, Sat. 15:10-17:10 [Room K] 2F, Exhibition Hall

Zinc physiology and pathophysiology

Chair	Toshiyuki Fukada (Tokushima Bunri University, Japan)
Co-Chair	Taiho Kambe (Kyoto University, Japan)
Speakers	Toshiyuki Fukada (Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima Bunri University, Japan) Adisorn Ratanayotha (Laboratory of Integrative Physiology, Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan) Ayako Fukunaka (Institute for Molecular & Cellular Regulation Gunma University, Japan) Taiho Kambe (Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Japan)

[Session: S59(General Symposium)] March 30, Sat. 15:10-17:10 [Room M] 3F, Exhibition Hall

Contribution of microglia in health and disease of the brain

Chair	Mami Noda (Kyushu University, Japan)
Co-Chair	Bo Peng (Shenzen Institutes of Advanced Technology, China)
Speakers	Bo Peng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Dandan Sun (Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, USA) Hiroshi Kiyama (Department of Functional Anatomy & Neuroscience, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan) Mami Noda (Kyushu University, Graduate School of Pharmaseutical Sciences, Japan)

[Session: S60(General Symposium)] March 31, Sun. 08:00-09:30 [Room C] 3F, Conference Center

Hibernation and Torpor in mammals

Chair	Yoshifumi Yamaguchi (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Co-Chair	Genshiro A Sunagawa (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan)
Speakers	Genshiro A Sunagawa (Laboratory for Retinal Regeneration, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan) Hiroshi Yamaguchi (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA) Yasutake Shimizu (Department of Basic Veterinary Science, Laboratory of Physiology, The United Graduate School of Veterinary Sciences, Gifu University, Japan) Jingxing Ou (National Eye Institute, National Institute of Health, USA) Yoshifumi Yamaguchi (Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Japan)

[Session: S61(General Symposium)] March 31, Sun. 08:00-09:30 [Room D] 4F, Conference Center

The Social Brain: Recent Progress in Understanding Molecules and Networks of Social Behavior

Chair	Sonoko Ogawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Co-Chair	Nandini Vasudevan (University of Reading, UK)
Speakers	Nandini Vasudevan (School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, UK) Sonoko Ogawa (Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, University of Tsukuba, Japan) Tomoko Soga (Brain Research Institute, School of Medicine and Health Science, Monash university, Malaysia) Larry James Young (Center for Social Neural Networks, University of Tsukuba, Japan)

[Session: S62(General Symposium)] March 31, Sun. 08:00-09:30 [Room E] 4F, Conference Center

Integrative neural processing of sound information in the higher auditory centers

Chair	Munenori Ono (Kanazawa Medical University, Japan)
Co-Chair	Ling Qin (China Medical University, China)
Speakers	Munenori Ono (Department of Physiology, Kanazawa Medical University, Japan) Hiroaki Tsukano (Department of Neurophysiology, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Japan) Ma Lanlan (Department of Physiology, China Medical University, China) Tomoyo Isoguchi Shiramatsu (Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Japan)

[Session: S63(General Symposium)] March 31, Sun. 08:00-09:30 [Room F] 5F, Conference Center

Implication of tonic inhibition for Brain function

Chair	Bo-Eun Yoon (Dankook University, Korea)
Co-Chair	C. Justin Lee (Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Speakers	Bo-Eun Yoon (Department of Molecular Biology, Dankook University, Korea) Kiyoshi Egawa (Department of Pediatrics, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Japan) C Justin Lee (Institute for Basic Science, Korea) Jin Bong Park (Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Korea)

[Session: S64(General Symposium)] March 31, Sun. 08:00-09:30 [Room G] 5F, Conference Center

New insights into the cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurological diseases using experimental model systems

Chair	Ching‐Yi Tsai (Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan)
Co-Chair	Sujira Mukda (Mahidol University, Thailand)
Speakers	Sujira Mukda (Research Center for Neuroscience, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Mahidol University, Thailand) Hui-Ching Lin (Department and Institute of Physiology, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan) Idris Long ( School of Health Sciences, Health Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia) Ching-Yi Tsai (Institute for Translational Research in Biomedicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan)

[Session: S65(General Symposium)] March 31, Sun. 08:00-09:30 [Room H] 5F, Conference Center

Intervention factors of neuronal irregular development: from gut bacteria to mental situation via chemicals

Chair	Sachiko Yoshida (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)
Co-Chair	Yasunari Kanda (National Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS), Japan)
Speakers	Yasunari Kanda (Division of Pharmacology, National Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS), Japan) Yoko Nomura (Queens College, The City University of New York, USA) Kenji J Tsuchiya (Research Center for Child Mental Development, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan) Jianzhong Hu (Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA) Sachiko Yoshida (Department of Environmental and Life Sciences, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)

[Session: S66(General Symposium)] March 31, Sun. 08:00-09:30 [Room I] 5F, Conference Center

Inflammation and Atherosclerosis

Chair	Yi Zhu (Tianjin Medical University, China)
Co-Chair	Ding Ai (Tianjin Medical University, China)
Speakers	Jeng-Jiann Chiu (National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan) Yoshiyuki Rikitake (Laboratory of Medical Pharmaceutics, Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Japan) Ding Ai (Department of Physiology, Tianjin Medical University, China) Yi Zhu (Department of Physiology, Tianjin Medical University, China)

[Session: S67(General Symposium)] March 31, Sun. 08:00-09:30 [Room J] 2F, Exhibition Hall

The potential roles of NMDAR in neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders: new findings and therapeutic targets

Chair	Wen-Sung Lai (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Co-Chair	Hisashi Mori (University of Toyama, Japan)
Speakers	Hisashi Mori (Department of Molecular Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Japan) Wen-Sung Lai (Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Ming-Kai Pan (Department of Medical Research, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan) Noboru Komiyama (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK)

[Session: S68(General Symposium)] March 31, Sun. 08:00-09:30 [Room K] 2F, Exhibition Hall

Pulmonary hypertension and inflammation: the interdependent processes triggered by each other

Chair	Xiaoqun Qin (Central South University, China)
Co-Chair	Qinghua Hu (Tongji Medical College, China)
Speakers	Ming Yang (University of Newcastle, Australia) Qinghua Hu (Department of Pathophysiology, Tongji Medical College, China) Weiguo Chen (Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Xiaoqun Qin (Department of Physiology, Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, China)

[Session: S69(General Symposium)] March 31, Sun. 08:00-09:30 [Room L] 3F, Exhibition Hall

Optogenetics: Contributions to Physiology and Medicine Beyond Brain Circuit-Breaking

Chair	Hiromu Yawo (Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences, Japan)
Co-Chair	George J. Augustine (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Speakers	George J. Augustine (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Moritoshi Sato (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan) Takao Nakata (Department of Cell Biology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan) Ko Matsui (Super-network Brain Physiology, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan) Hiromu Yawo (Department of Integrative Life Sciences Developmental Biology and Neurosciences, Tohoku University Graduate School of Life Sciences, Japan)

[Session: S70(General Symposium)] March 31, Sun. 08:00-09:30 [Room M] 3F, Exhibition Hall

Contribution of brain research to the understanding of the physiology, psychology and communication of acute and chronic pain

Chair	Mathieu Pich? (Universit? du Qu?bec ? Trois-Rivi?res, Canada)
Co-Chair	Pierre Rainville (University of Montreal, Canada)
Speakers	Pierre Rainville (Department of Stomatology, University of Montreal, Canada) Philip L. Jackson (School of Psychology, Laval University, Canada) Alice Wagenaar-Tison (Department of Chiropratic, Universit? du Quebec ? Trois-Rivi?res, Canada) Nobuhiro Watanabe (Department of Autonomic Neuroscience, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Japan)

[Session: S73(General Symposium)] March 31, Sun. 10:30-12:30 [Room C] 3F, Conference Center

New Twists in Understanding Taste

(Co-sponsored by: AJINOMOTO CO., INC.)

Chairs	Yuzo Ninomiya (Kyushu University, Japan)
	Robert F. Margolskee (Monell Chemical Senses Center, USA)
Speakers	Robert F. Margolskee (Monell Chemical Senses Center, USA) Atsuko Yamashita (Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Japan) Akiyuki Taruno (Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan) Yuzo Ninomiya (Division of Sensory Physiology, R&D Center for Five-Sense Devices, Kyushu University, Japan)

[Session: S75(General Symposium)] March 31, Sun. 10:30-12:30 [Room E] 4F, Conference Center

Ca2+-permeable channels of excitable and non-excitable cells in health and disease

Chair	Masayuki X Mori (Kyoto University, Japan)

Speakers	Takeshi Sakaba (Graduate School of Brain Science, Doshisha University, Japan) Guey-Shin Wang (Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Hua Huang (Department of Physiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore) Masayuki X Mori (Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Kyoto University, Japan) Jian Yang (Biological Sciences, Columbia University, USA)

[Session: S78(General Symposium)] March 31, Sun. 10:30-12:30 [Room H] 5F, Conference Center

“Ins” and “outs” of smooth muscle

Chair	Hikaru Hashitani (Nagoya City University, Japan)
Co-Chair	Dirk Ferdinand van Helden (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Speakers	Nick John Spencer (College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Australia) Russ Chess-Williams (Centre for Urology Research, Bond University, Australia) Jane Elizabeth Bourke (Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Department of Pharmacology, Monash University, Australia) Helena C. Parkington (Department of Physiology, Monash University, Australia) Hikaru Hashitani (Department of Cell Physiology, Nagoya City University, Japan)

[Session: S80(General Symposium)] March 31, Sun. 10:30-12:30 [Room J] 2F, Exhibition Hall

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

Chair	Masaaki Ikeda (Saitama Medical University, Japan)
Co-Chair	Teruya Tamaru (Toho University School of Medicine, Japan)
Speakers	Masaaki Ikeda (Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Japan) Teruya Tamaru (Department of Physiology, Toho University School of Medicine, Japan) Jae Bum Kim (Center for Adipose Tissue Remodeling, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea) Kimiko Shimizu (Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan) Gijsbertus Van Der Horst (Dept. of Molecular Genetics, Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands)

[Session: S81(General Symposium)] March 31, Sun. 10:30-12:30 [Room K] 2F, Exhibition Hall

Mechanisms of systemic beauty and health

Chair	Motohiro Nishida (ExCELLS, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan)
Co-Chair	Jin Han (Inje University, Korea)
Speakers	Joo Hyun Nam (Department of Physiology, Dongguk University College of Medicine, Korea) Yeun Ja Choi (Department of Biopharmaceutical Engineering, Dongguk University, Korea) Kenji Hamase (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan) Shushi Nagamori (Nara Medical University, Japan) Takuro Numaga-Tomita (Department of Creative Research, Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems: ExCELLS, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan)

[Session: S82(General Symposium)] March 31, Sun. 10:30-12:30 [Room L] 3F, Exhibition Hall

Amygdala Neuronal Circuits in Adaptive Behaviors

Chair	Ayako M Watabe (Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan)
Co-Chair	Pankaj Sah (The University of Queensland, Australia)
Speakers	Pankaj Sah (Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia) Ayako M Watabe (Institute of Clinical Medicine and Research, Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan) Joshua Johansen (RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan) Sayaka Takemoto-Kimura (NeuroscienceI, RIEM, Nagoya University, Japan)

[Session: S83(General Symposium)] March 31, Sun. 10:30-12:30 [Room M] 3F, Exhibition Hall

Neurobiology of obesity and its metabolic comorbidities

Chair	Makoto Fukuda (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
Co-Chair	Toshihiko Yada (Kansai Electric Power Medical Research Institute, Japan)
Speakers	Yusaku Iwasaki (Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan) Yong Xu (Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, USA) Feifan Guo (Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health(SINH), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Makoto Fukuda (Baylor College of Medicine, USA) Toshihiko Yada (Center for Integrative Physiology, Kansai Electric Power Medical Research Institute,Japan)

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SPONSORED SYMPOSIUM

Chair	Yuzo Ninomiya (Kyushu University , Japan) Robert F. Margolskee (Monell Chemical Senses Center, USA)
Speakers	Robert F. Margolskee (Monell Chemical Senses Center, USA) Atsuko Yamashita (Okayama University, Japan) Akiyuki Taruno (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan) Yuzo Ninomiya (Kyushu University, Japan)