Nano-LifeScience

15th Annual German-Japanese Colloquium

Hosted by: Freie Universität Berlin, Kanazawa University, JSPS Bonn Office
Date: February 7-8, 2019
Venue: Harnack-Haus – The conference Venue of the Max Planck Society（Berlin)
 

PROGRAM
 

February 6th

19:00

Scientific networking meeting/get together among PIs
 

February 7th

08:30

Registration

09:00

Welcome and opening remarks

  • Prof. Dr. Petra Knaus

  • Prof. Dr. Joachim Heberle

  • Prof. Dr. Toshio Ando

 

09:10

Special greeting
Prof. Dr. Verena Blechinger-Talcott
 

Session I

09:25

Rhodopsin based optogenetics: basics, applications and chances
Prof. Dr. Ernst Bamberg

10:10

Optical manipulation of intracellular Ca2+ dynamics
Prof. Dr. Hiromu Yawo

10:55

Coffee break

11:15

Folding alpha helical membrane proteins
Prof. Paula Booth

12:00

Automated single-molecule imaging and its application to cell signaling
Prof. Dr. Masahiro Ueda

12:45

Lunch break

13:45

Scientific Dahlem campus tour
 

Session II

14:45

Studies on biomolecules using single-molecule imaging technique
Prof. Dr. Yoshie Harada

15:30

Poster Session including short talks and coffee break

18:00

Closing remarks day 1

19:00

Social event
 

February 8th

10:00

Welcome and opening remarks
 

Session III

10:00

High-speed AFM: directly visualizing protein molecules during their functional activity
Prof. Dr. Toshio Ando

10:45

Mechanically detecting and directing molecular and cellular processes
Prof. Dr. Daniel Müller

11:30

Coiled coils as molecular force sensors for cell biology and materials science
Dr. Kerstin Blank

12:15

Lunch break
 

Session IV

13:15

Mechanisms of axonal transport investigated by high-speed and high-resolution imaging
Prof. Dr. Yasushi Okada

14:00

Functional protein architectures defining presynaptic active zones
Prof. Dr. Stephan Sigrist

14:45

Group photo & Coffee break

15:15

Pathogenic roles of exosomes, endogenous nano-particles
Prof. Dr. Rikinari Hanayama

16:00

Investigating cellular adhesion and mechanics using multiparametric atomic force microscopy
Dr. Tanja Neumann

16:45

Final discussion and concluding remarks

  • Prof. Dr. Petra Knaus

  • Prof. Dr. Joachim Heberle

  • Prof. Dr. Masahiko Hayashi

 

17:15

Introduction of JSPS programme
Tomoko Deguchi

18:30

Farewell and dinner meeting Japanese participants
 

February 9th

10:00–11:00: Lab tour Department of Physics; FU Berlin for those interested

Morning – (after)noon: Departure of foreign participants