09:30Opening Remarks

Mitinori Saitou   Kyoto University/ASHBi

Germ Cells: Genetic and Epigenetic Inheritance

Session1-Part①

Chairperson: Mitinori Saitou
Kyoto University/ASHBi, Japan

09:40S1-1 Poly(UG)-tailed RNAs in Genome Defense and Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance

Scott Kennedy

Harvard Medical School, U.S.A.

10:10S1-2  Mammalian epigenetic inheritance at metastable epialleles – Agouti viable yellow revisited

Anne Ferguson-Smith

University of Cambridge, U.K.

Coffee Break (20 min.) 10:40-11:00

Session1-Part②

Chairperson: Anne Ferguson-Smith
University of Cambridge, U.K.

11:00S1-3  Genome Instability in the Human Germline: From Molecular Mechanisms to Reproductive Health

Eva R. Hoffmann

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

11:30S1-4  Mechanism and in vitro reconstitution of mammalian germ-cell development

Mitinori Saitou

Kyoto University/ASHBi, Japan

Lunch (50 min.) 12:00-12:50

Poster Session (65 min. each)
12:50-13:55 / Odd Number
13:55-15:00 / Even Number

Session2-Part①

Human Development In Vivo and In Vitro

Chairperson: Eva R. Hoffmann
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

15:05S2-1  Genomic Insights into Early Human Brain Development, Evolution, and Disease

Arnold Kriegstein

University of California, San Francisco(UCSF), U.S.A.

15:35S2-2  Regulation of neural stem cell fate

Yukiko Gotoh

The University of Tokyo/IRCN, Japan

16:05S2-3  Neural Development in Stem Cell Culture

Mototsugu Eiraku

Kyoto University/ASHBi, Japan

Coffee Break (20 min.) 16:35-16:55

Session2-Part②

Chairperson: Mototsugu Eiraku
Kyoto University/ASHBi, Japan.

16:55S2-4  Discovering cell types, cell dynamics, and cell regulators by single cell transcriptomics

Allon Klein

Harvard Medical School, U.S.A.

17:25S2-5  The understanding of stem cell niche for adult human endoderm-derived organs

Toshiro Sato

Keio University, Japan

Welcome Reception (100 min.) 18:00-19:40

Session2-Part③

Human Development In Vivo and In Vitro

Chairperson: Tadashi Isa
Kyoto University/ASHBi, Japan

09:00S2-6  Growing organs in vivo: interspecies organogenesis for transplantable organ generation

Hiromitsu Nakauchi

Stanford University, U.S.A.

09:30S2-7  Multicellular coordination in context

Takashi Hiiragi

Hubrecht Institute, Netherland/ASHBi, Japan

10:00S2-8  Towards a (bio)physical basis for morphogenesis

L. Mahadevan

Harvard University, U.S.A.

Coffee Break (20 min.) 10:30-10:50

Session2-Part④

Chairperson: Takashi Hiiragi
Hubrecht Institute, Netherland/ASHBi, Japan

10:50S2-9  Modeling Neurological diseases using Human iPS cell technologies and Genetically Modified Non-human primates

Hideyuki Okano

Keio University, Japan

11:20S2-10  Large-scaled adult brain network plasticity for recovery from spinal cord injury

Tadashi Isa

Kyoto University/ASHBi, Japan

11:50S2-11  Rare begets Common

Bruno Reversade

Institute of Medical Biology, A^*STAR, Singapore

Speaker's Photo Session (10 min) 12:20-12:30

Lunch (50 min.) 12:30-13:20

Poster Session -Free Discussion- (45 min.) 13:20-14:05

Session3-Part①

Human Genetics and Evolution

Chairperson: Yukiko Gotoh
The University of Tokyo/IRCN, Japan

14:10S3-1  Dynamics and evolution of human cis-regulatory elements

Yasuhiro Murakawa

Kyoto University/ASHBi, Japan

14:40S3-2  One brain, many genomes: Somatic mutation in human brain

Chris Walsh

Harvard Medical School, U.S.A.

Coffee Break (20 min.) 15:10-15:30

Session3-Part②

Chairperson: Yasuhiro Murakawa
Kyoto University/ASHBi, Japan

15:30S3-3  Deciphering Developmental Disorders

Matthew Hurles

Wellcome Sanger Institute, U.K.

16:00S3-4  A Neandertal Perspective on Recent Human Evolution

Svante Pääbo

Max Planck Institute, Germany

Award Ceremony & Closing Remarks (20 min.) 16:30-16:50