Hope for the Future

Program

9:00-9:05	Welcome address Dr. Kazuki Saito (Director, RIKEN CSRS)
9:05-9:10	Opening remarks Dr. Hiroshi Matsumoto (President, RIKEN)
9:10-9:15	Greetings Mr. Mitsuhiro Doishita (Director, Environment and Energy Division, MEXT)
*Keynote Lecture 1*
9:15-10:00	Dr. Akira Yoshino Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 Honorary Fellow, Asahi Kasei Corporation "The Future Society Engendered by Lithium-ion Batteries" 　　Break
*Session 1： Innovative Catalysts*
10:10-10:30	Dr. Zhaomin Hou Project Leader, RIKEN CSRS "Innovative Catalysts for Efficient Use of Natural Resources"
10:30-10:50	Prof. Cathleen M. Crudden Professor, Queen’s University, Canada "Organometallic catalysis: molecules and clusters in catalysis"
10:50-11:10	Prof. Masakazu Sugiyama Professor, The University of Tokyo "Integrated Electrochemical Systems for Scalable CO₂ Conversion to Chemical Feedstocks" 　　Break
*Session2： Leading-edge Polymers*
11:20-11:40	Dr. Hideki Abe Project Leader, RIKEN CSRS "Contribution of new functional polymers to realization of a sustainable society"
11:40-12:00	Prof. Kyoko Nozaki Professor, The University of Tokyo "Heterolytic Cleavage of H₂ for Hydrogenolysis of Polar Bonds"
12:00-12:20	Prof. Sudesh Kumar Professor, Universiti Sains Malaysia "Development of a sustainable and low cost process for the production of biodegradable plastics (polyhydroxyalkanoates) from oil palm biomass" 　　Lunch
*Session 3： Innovative Plant Biotechnology*
13:20-13:40	Dr. Minami Matsui Project Leader, RIKEN CSRS "To the goal of Innovative plant biotechnology -Contributing to sustainable food and biomass production through development of plant trait improvement techniques-"
13:40-14:00	Prof. Wilhelm Gruissem Professor, ETH Zürich "Genetic engineering and CRISPR-Cas9 strategies for sustainable micronutrient and yield increases in rice and cassava"
14:00-14:20	Dr. Ken Shirasu Vice Project Leader, RIKEN CSRS "Plant Symbiosis Research for Agricultural and Environmental Sustainability" 　　Break
*Session 4： Metabolic Genome Engineering*
14:30-14:50	Dr. Akihiko Kondo Project Leader, RIKEN CSRS "Metabolic genome engineering project: Overview and examples in microorganisms"
14:50-15:10	Prof. Anne Osbourn Professor, John Innes Centre "Finding drugs in the garden: Harnessing plant metabolic diversity"
15:10-15:30	Dr. Masami Hirai Vice Project Leader, RIKEN CSRS "Approaches to metabolic genome engineering of plant" 　　Break
*Session 5: Early career scientists*
15:40-15:50	Dr. Sobi Asako Senior Scientist, RIKEN CSRS "Towards Sustainable Organic Synthesis Using Sodium"
15:50-16:00	Dr. Miki Fujita Senior Scientist, RIKEN CSRS "Plant Phenomics Links Between Plant Science and the Future of Agriculture"
16:00-16:10	Dr. Masanori Izumi Senior Scientist, RIKEN CSRS "Dissecting a recycling system in plants– towards the development of sustainable agricultural production"
*Keynote Lecture 2*
16:10-16:55	Prof. Johan Rockström Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research Professor, Earth System Science, University of Potsdam "Sustainable Resource Science in the Anthropocene: Governing the Global Commons within Planetary Boundaries" 　　Break
*Panel Discussion*
17:05-17:45	Panel discussion
17:45-17:50	Closing remarks Dr. Yuko Harayama (Executive Director of RIKEN)