Understanding Protein Structure Through Context

- Cryo-Electron Microscopy and Integrated Techniques -

背景から理解するたんぱく質構造　 -クライオ電子顕微鏡と統合的解析技術-

Advances in cryo-electron microscopy are transforming our understanding of biological systems at molecular resolution. This symposium will bring together researchers from diverse disciplines to discuss emerging technologies, scientific discoveries, and future directions in structural biology. Through interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration, the symposium aims to create new opportunities for next-generation structural biology.

Date : January 26 - 28, 2027

Venue : Okazaki Conference Center, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan

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Speakers

Yifan ChengUniversity of California San Francisco, USA

Making sense of disappearing density in single particle cryo-EM

Oliver ClarkeColumbia University, USA

Structures of ankyrin and stomatin complexes: Two mechanisms of membrane protein organization in the red blood cell

Radostin DanevUniversity of Tokyo, Japan

New developments in cryo-EM methodology and automation

Jaekyung HyunSungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Finding Order in Disorder: Structural Analysis of Pleomorphic and Symmetry-Broken Viral Capsids

Arjen JakobiDelft University of Technology, Netherlands

How bacteria float: Structural basis of buoyancy-mediated bacterial motility.

Masahide KikkawaUniversity of Tokyo, Japan

Structural basis of microtubule-based motor-cargo interaction and flagellar asymmetry

Hitoshi KurumizakaUniversity of Tokyo, Japan

Chromatin structure and dynamic as revealed by cryo-EM

Keiichi NambaUniversity of Osaka, Japan

Molecular mechanism of polymorphic supercoiling of the bacterial flagellar filament

Alex NobleCryoArcana, USA

Advancing CryoEM/ET Software with AI Agents

Haruo OgawaKyoto University, Japan

Structural Insights into the Gating Mechanism of the Cardiac Ryanodine Receptor

Stefan RaunserMax Planck Institute, Germany

Unlocking the secrets of the cytoskeleton and heart muscle

Peter B. RosenthalThe Francis Crick Institute, UK

Architecture for lipid-enveloped virus entry and assembly

John RubinsteinUniversity of Toronto, Canada

Cryo-EM of endogenous protein complexes from the mycobacterial electron transport chain

Jian-Ren ShenOkayama University, Japan

Features of the water-oxidizing enzyme of photosystem II revealed by cryo-electron microscopy

Reiya TaniguchiRIKEN Yokohama, Japan

Visualization of the nuclear pore complex in situ with cryo-ET

Atsuko YamashitaUniversity of Osaka, Japan

Integrated approaches toward understanding of oxalate: formate exchange by a transporter in an oxalate-degrading bacterium in the gut

Ken YokoyamaKyoto Sangyo University, Japan

Structure of Membrane Proteins in Native Biological Membranes

Program

DAY 1 January 26, 2027

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

DAY 2 January 27, 2027

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

Poster Session

Banquet

DAY 3 January 28, 2027

Lecture 5

Access

Okazaki Conference Center, National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Location Address: 8-1 Tenma, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8585, Japan

10 minutes walk from the South exit of Higashi-Okazaki Station

Contact

57th NIPS International Symposium Office

57this(at)nips.ac.jp

Chief Organizer

Kazuyoshi Murata

National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS)
38 Nihigonaka, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8585, Japan

+81-564-55-7893

+81-564-55-7895

kazum(at)nips.ac.jp

www.nips.ac.jp/struct

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Supported by

Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED), Platform Project for Supporting Drug Discovery and Life Science Research: Basis for Supporting Innovative Drug Discovery and Life Science Research (BINDS)

日本医療研究開発機構（AMED）, 創薬等先端技術支援基盤プラットフォーム生命科学・創薬研究支援基盤事業（BINDS）