Hiroo Imura
(Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office)
-Policy for the development of Japanese life sciences
Chairperson:
Akemi Suzuki
(RIKEN Frontier Group Director)
Keynote address
Yoshitaka Nagai
(Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute of Life Sciences)
-Coming developments in glycobiology and glycotechnology
-JAPAN CONSORTIUM FOR GLYCOSCIENCES (JCGS) :
OPSR/Kiko
Tatsuro Irimura
(Tokyo University)
-Diagnosis and therapy with genetically engineered lectin libraries
PGST
Yasuyuki Igarashi
(Hokkaido University)
-Sphingolipid biology and postgenomic research in Hokkaido
RIKEN Frontier
Akemi Suzuki
(RIKEN)
-Mass spectrometry and DNA microarray for glycobiology
Chairperson:
Koichi Furukawa
(Head Investigator, MEXT Research Project Glycomics)
MEXT Research Project Glycomics
Koichi Furukawa
(Nagoya University)
-Molecular mechanisms for the diseases based on the carbohydrate disorders
Toshisuke Kawasaki
(Kyoto University)
-Modulation of protein functions by glycans
Koji Kimata
(Aichi Medical University)
-Functional control of molecular complexes by carbohydrates
Chairperson:
Naoyuki Taniguchi
(CREST project leader)
CREST Project
Reiji Kannagi
(Aichi Cancer Center)
-Cell-cell interactions mediated by carbohydrate determinants
Yasuo Suzuki
(University of Shizuoka)
-Functional glycomics of viral infection and its application for the antiviral drugs
Shoko Nishihara
(Soka University)
-Drosophila functional glycomics
Yukishige Ito
(RIKEN)
-Synthetic approaches to the mechanism of glycoprotein quality control
Nobuto Koyama
(Takara Bio Inc.)
-Suppression of viral geneexpression by a glycosyltransferase
Makoto Kiso
(Gifu University)
-Chemical glycobiology: A synthetic approach
Chairperson:
Hisashi Narimatsu
(Deputy Director, Research Center for Glycoscience, AIST )
NEDO Project
Hisashi Narimatsu
(AIST )
-Comprehensive study on glycogenes with the aid of bioinformatics technology
Jigami Yoshifumi
(AIST)
-Toward the comprehensive expression of human glycosyltransferase genes in yeast as a tool for sugar chain synthesis
Shinichiro Nishimura
(Hokkaido University)
-Development of efficient glycoconjugate synthetic methods and application to medical science
Jun Hirabayashi
(AIST)
-Lectin-based glycan profiling
Katutoshi Takahashi
(AIST)
-Development of mass spectrometry toward glycoproteomics
Akihiko Kameyama
(AIST)
-Recent advance of carbohydrate structure analysis using mass spectrometry
Osamu Kanie
(Mitubishi Kagaku Institute)
-Development of new structural elucidation method for oligosaccharides
Closing Remarks
Hironobu Hashimoto
(President, JSCR )
