Biology
Date: December 19th (Thursday)
Location: Room 332, College of Life Science
Chair: Prof. Min-Liang Kuo (NTU) and Prof. Kunio Takeyasu (KU)
Time |
Sub-Session: Plant & Cell Biology |
13:30 – 13:40 |
Welcome & Opening Remarks Dean, Prof. Min-Liang Kuo (NTU) |
13:40 – 14:05 |
Prof. Hiroaki Setoguchi (Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, KU) “Evolutionary Implication of Insular Plants on
Island Arc between Mainland Japan and Taiwan” |
14:05 – 14:30 |
Assoc. Prof. Jer-Ming Hu (NTU) “Molecular Phylogenetics
of Non-photosynthetic Parasitic Plant Balanophora laxiflora and Allied Taxa” |
14:30 – 14:55 |
Prof. Hideaki Miyashita (Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, KU) “Chlorophyll Diversity in
Cyanobacteria” |
14:55 – 15:20 |
Assoc. Prof. Chii-Shen Yang (NTU) “Light-activated Microbial Rhodopsins in Haloarchaea” |
15:20 – 15:35 |
Break |
15:35 – 16:00 |
Prof. Kunio Takeyasu (Graduate School of Biostudies,
KU) “AFM - From
Single Molecules to Living Cells” |
16:00 – 16:25 |
Prof. Yi-Chun Wu (NTU) “Temporal and Spatial
Regulation of Cell Migration” |
16:25 – 16:50 |
Prof. Fuyuki Ishikawa (Graduate School of Biostudies, KU) “Telomeres, Aging and Cancer” |
16:50 – 17:15 |
Assist. Prof. Chih-Tien Wang (NTU) “Regulation of Patterned
Spontaneous Activity during Neural Circuit Development” |
17:15 – 17:30 |
Closing Remarks Prof. Fuyuki Ishikawa (KU) |
Date: December 20th (Friday)
Location: Room 332, College of Life Science
Chair: Prof. Atsuko Sehara-Fujisawa (KU) and Prof. Hsin-Yu Lee (NTU)
Time |
Sub-Session:
Developmental Biology |
09:00 – 09:10 |
Welcome & Opening Remarks TBC (KU) |
09:10 – 09:35 |
Assist. Prof. Shih-Kuo Chen (NTU) “Functional Circuitry of Atypical Photoreceptor for Circadian Photoentrainment” |
09:35 – 10:00 |
Prof. Mineko
Kengaku (iCeMS, KU) “Principles and Mechanisms of Branch Pattern Formation Governing
Dendrite Growth Dynamics” |
10:00 – 10:25 |
Assist. Prof. Chia-Ying Chu (NTU) “Small RNAs and DDX proteins in Planarian Regeneration” |
10:25 – 10:40 |
Break |
10:40 – 11:05 |
Prof. Ryuichiro Kageyama (Institute for Virus Research, KU) “Oscillatory Gene Expression with Ultradian Rhythmes in Somitogenesis and
Neurogenesis” |
11:05 – 11:30 |
Assoc. Shih-Jye Lee (NTU) “DNA topoisomerase IIIa mediates dorsoventral patterning
by regulating BMP-Smad signaling in zebrafish” |
11:30 – 11:55 |
Prof. Atsuko Sehara-Fujisawa (Institute for Frontier
Medical Science, KU) “Exploring Roles
of ADAM Proteases Using Zebrafish” |
11:55 – 12:10 |
Closing Remarks Prof. Hsin-Yu Lee (NTU) |