Events 2017

Dec. 27, 2017 14:00-15:00: CSRS Seminar
"Developing a sustainable seed system for cassava in Southeast Asia"
Speaker: Dr. Hiroki Tokunaga
(Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS))
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Plant Genomic Network Research Team)
Dec. 20, 2017 16:00-17:00: Interdisciplinary Seminar
"Imaging and Manipulation of Temperature in Living Cells: Uncovering Unique Mechanism of Intracellular Thermal Signaling"
Speaker: Dr. Kohki Okabe
(Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo/ JST PRESTO)
Venue:S110, Sustainable Resource Science Building, Wako campus
Contact: CSRS Wako seminar series organizers (Catalysis and Integrated Research Group)
Dec. 20, 2017 14:00-15:00: CSRS Seminar
"The Ancient Transcription Factor ZHOUPI Controls An Evolutionary Innovation In Marchantia"
Speaker: Dr. Justin Goodrich
(Institute of Molecular Plant Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3BK, UK)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Cell Function Research Team)
Dec. 19, 2017 10:30-11:30: CSRS Seminar
"Different Perspectives of Compound Screening from Chemical-based to Receptor-based Screening"
Speaker: Dr. Ratklao Siriwach (Kyoto University)
Venue: C214/C216, Central Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Metabolic Systems Research Team)
Dec. 15, 2017 11:00-12:00: CSRS Seminar
"Coupling growth and identity specification of auxin-induced organogenesis"
Speaker: Dr. Teva Vernoux
(Laboratoire Reproduction et Developpement des Plantes, ENS de Lyon, France)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Cell Function Research Team)
Dec. 14, 2017 14:00-15:00: iSYM Seminar
"New Insights into the Basis of Innate Immunity in Plants"
Speaker: Dr. Scott C. Peck
(Biochemistry Department, University of Missouri, USA)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Plant Immunity Research Group
Dec. 13, 2017 13:00-14:00: RIKEN Seminar
"Development of polyion complex vesicle (PICsome) for biomedical applications"
Speaker: Prof. Akihiro Kishimura
(Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering Kyushu University)
Venue: 535/537, Main Research Building, Wako campus
Contact: Enzyme Research Team
Dec. 12, 2017 12:50-17:50: RIKEN Symposium
Frontiers on Chemistry and Analytical Technology (XVIII)
Venue: Suzuki Umetaro Hall, Bioscience Building, Wako campus
Language: Japanese
Contact: Molecular Structure Characterization Unit
Nov. 28, 2017 13:00-18:00: RIKEN Symposium
Japan-China joint symposium on natural products to promote the use of high magnetic field and high sensitivity NMR
Venue: Main Office Building Hall, Yokohama campus
Oct. 31, 2017 16:00-17:00: Interdisciplinary Seminar
"Rare-Earth-Catalyzed C-H Bond Activation for Organic Synthesis and Olefin Polymerization"
Speaker: Dr. Masayoshi Nishiura
(Advanced Catalysis Research Group, RIKEN CSRS)
Venue:S110, Sustainable Resource Science Building, Wako campus
Contact: CSRS Wako seminar series organizers (Biofunctional Catalyst Research Team)
Oct. 26, 2017 13:30-14:30: Interdisciplinary Seminar
"Protein-Like Inorganic Nanoparticles for Orbital Controlled Electrocatalysis and Chiral Plasmonics"
Speaker: Prof. Ki Tae Nam
(Associate Professor of Seoul National University)
Venue:S110, Sustainable Resource Science Building, Wako campus
Contact: CSRS Wako seminar series organizers (Biofunctional Catalyst Research Team)
Oct. 24, 2017 15:00-16:00: iSYM Seminar
"Effector-triggered defence against apoplastic fungal pathogens of oilseed rape"
Speaker: Dr. Henrik Stotz
(School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Plant Immunity Research Group
Oct. 24, 2017 14:00-15:00: CSRS Seminar
"Genome-wide association study of drought tolerance and gene cloning in maize seedlings"
Speaker: Prof. Feng Qin
(College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University)
Venue: E215/E217, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Biomass Research Platform Team
Oct. 24, 2017 13:00-14:00: CSRS Seminar
"Role of DNA methylation in reproductive success"
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Bouyer/ Souraya Khouider
(Epigenetics & Epigenomics
Institut de Biologie de l'ENS (IBENS), France)
Venue: C214/C216, Central Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Cell Function Research Team)
Oct. 24, 2017 10:00-11:00: RIKEN Seminar
"Glasstransition behaviours in silk and the exploration of engineering applications of silk materials"
Speaker: Prof. Juan Guan
(School of Material Sciences and Engineering, Beihang University, China)
Venue: 535/537, Main Research Building, Wako campus
Contact: Enzyme Research Team
Oct. 5, 2017 10:30-11:30: iSYM Innovation Seminar
"KWS – a different kind of plant breeding company with research institutes in US and Europe."
Speaker: Dr. Derek Bartlem
(Head of Research USA, KWS Gateway Research Center, USA)
Venue: C214/216 , Central Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Plant Immunity Research Group
Oct. 4, 2017 14:00-15:00: CSRS Seminar
"Interplay between phosphorylation and ubiquitination in plant immune signaling"
Speaker: Dr. Jacqueline Monaghan
(Assistant Professor of Plant Biology Queen’s University, Canada)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Plant Immunity Research Group)
Sep. 29, 2017 10:00-15:00: CSRS Seminar
1) 10：00-10：45
"The plant guard cell as a paradigm for the analysis of immunity and pathogen virulence"
Speaker1: Prof. Brad Day
(Professor & Associate Chair for Research, Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University)
2) 10：45-11：30
" Modularityin Jasmonate Signaling for Multi-stress Tolerance"
Speaker2: Dr. Gregg A. Howe
(MSU Foundation Professor,Department of Energy-Plant Research Laboratory;Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology;Plant Resilience Institute,Michigan State University)
3) 13:30-14:15
" Regulation of Freezing Tolerance and Salicylic Acid-MediatedImmunity by Arabidopsis CAMTA Transcription Factors"
Speaker3: Dr. MichaelThomashow
(MSU FoundationProfessor, Department of Energy-Plant Research Laboratory; Department of Plant, Soil and MicrobialSciences;Plant ResilienceInstitute,Michigan StateUniversity)
4) 14:15-15:00
"The Genetic and PhysiologicalBasis of Adaptation to Divergent Habitats"
Speaker4: Dr. DavidB. Lowry
( AssistantProfessor,Departmentof Plant Biology,Michigan State University)
Venue: C214/216, Central Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Plant Immunity Research Group)
Sep. 27, 2017 16:00-17:00: Interdisciplinary Seminar
"Exploring the impact of protein acylation on the biology of bacteria"
Speaker: Dr. Saori Kosono
(Laboratory of Microbial Metabolomics, Biotechnology Research Center, The University of Tokyo)
Venue:S110, Sustainable Resource Science Building, Wako campus
Contact: CSRS Wako Seminar Series (Molecular Ligand Target Research Team)
Sep. 11, 2017 15:00-16:30: RIKEN Seminar
"Redox Switchable Catalysis"
Speaker: Prof. Paula L. Diaconescu
(Chemistry & Biochemistry Department, UCLA, U.S.A.)
Venue: S507, Chemistry & Materials Physics Bldg, Wako campus
Contact: Advanced Catalysis Reseach Group
Sep. 7, 2017 14:00-17:00: CSRS Seminar
1) 14：00-15：00
"Tomato root gene expression atlas"
Speaker1: Dr. Kaisa Kajala
(Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, the Netherland)
2) 15：00-16：00
"The dynamics of molecular and cellular processes in the maize leaf growth zone in well-watered and drought conditions"
Speaker2: Dr. Hilde Nelissen^{^1},2
(^1 Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 927, 9052
Gent, Belgium
^2 Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Technologiepark 927, 9052
Gent, Belgium)
3) 16：00-17：00
"Stressed! How plants cope through dynamic responses."
Speaker3: Dr. José R. Dinneny
(Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, USA)
Venue: E717/719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Cell Function Research Team)
Sep. 7, 2017 14:00-15:00: RIKEN Seminar
"Application of plant cell, tissue and organ culture methodology
for manipulation of plant stem cells"
Speaker: Prof. Shinjiro Ogita
(Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Prefectural University of Hiroshima)
Venue: Main Research Bldg. 5th Floor Meeting Room (535/537), Wako campus
Contact: Enzyme Research Team
Sep. 5, 2017 15:00-16:30: RIKEN Seminar
"Chemoselective Manipulation of Boryl Groups With or Without Metals"
Speaker: Prof. Pengfei Li
(Center for Organic Chemistry,
Frontier Institute of Science and Technology Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
Venue: S507, Chemistry & Materials Physics Bldg, Wako campus
Contact: Advanced Catalysis Reseach Group
Aug. 30, 2017 15:00-16:00: CSRS Seminar
"Bursaphelenchus okinawaensis: an emerging genetic model for plant-parasitic nematodes"
Speaker: Dr. Ryoji Shinya
(Senior Assistant with tenure (Principal Investigator), Department of Agriculture, Meiji University)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Plant Immunity Research Group)
Aug. 29, 2017 15:00-16:30: RIKEN Seminar
"Carbon and Catalysis"
Speaker: Prof. Tiow-Gan Ong
(Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Venue: S507, Chemistry & Materials Physics Bldg, Wako campus
Contact: Advanced Catalysis Reseach Group
Aug. 18, 2017 13:00-14:00: CSRS Seminar
"Biochemical dissection of stomatal ABA signaling: From the receptor to DNA"
Speaker: Dr. Yohei Takahashi
(University of California, San Diego)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Synthetic Genomics Research Group
Aug. 2, 2017 10:30-11:30: CSRS Seminar
"Grafting for systemic signaling studies"
Speaker: Dr. Michitaka Notaguchi
(Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences & ITbM, Nagoya University)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Plant Genomic Network Research Team)
Jul. 21, 2017 16:00-17:00: Interdisciplinary Seminar
"Functional analyses of the Arabidopsis type-B cytokinin response regulators ARR1, ARR10 and ARR12 in plant responses to drought"
Speaker: Dr. Chien Van Ha
(Postdoctoral Researcher, Plant Genomic Network Research Team, RIKEN CSRS)
Venue:S110, Sustainable Resource Science Building, Wako campus
Contact: CSRS Wako Seminar Series (Enzyme Research Team)
Jul. 19, 2017 15:00-16:00: CSRS Seminar
"Klebsormidium as model alga to study primitive terrestrial adaptation"
Speaker: Dr. Koichi Hori
(School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Dormancy and Adaptation Research Unit)
Jul. 18, 2017 14:00-15:00: CSRS Seminar
"Functions of noncoding RNAs in plant growth and development"
Speaker: Prof. Nam-Hai Chua
(Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, Rockefeller University, New York Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Gene Discovery Research Group
Jul. 13, 2017 16:00-17:00: CSRS Seminar
"Flowers, hairs, and insects - trials of non-model plant researches"
Speaker: Dr. Seiji Takeda
(Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Cell Function Research Team)
Jul. 7, 2017 15:00-16:30: RIKEN Seminar
"Natural Products Total Synthesis Using Photo-reaction"
Speaker: Prof. Shuanhu Gao
(Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Chemical Processes School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering East China Normal University)
Venue: S507, Chemistry & Materials Physics Bldg, Wako campus
Contact: Advanced Catalysis Reseach Group
Jul. 6, 2017 13:00-14:00: CSRS Seminar
"Long-range symplastic calcium transmission in plants"
Speaker: Masatsugu Toyota
(Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saitama University / Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Venue: C210/C212, Central Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Cell Function Research Team)
Jun. 29, 2017 14:00-15:00: CSRS Seminar
"Identification of a non-canonical de novo DNA methylation pathway regulating dormancy-specific imprinting and cold-induced dormancy"
Speaker: Dr. Luis Lopez-Molina
(Department of Plant Biology, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Dormancy and Adaptation Research Unit)
Jun. 23, 2017 16:30-17:30: RIKEN Seminar
"Chemical Epigenetics - Inhibiting readers and erasers of the epigenetic code"
Speaker: Prof. Manfred Jung
(Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Freiburg)
Venue: S311, Bioscience Bldg, Wako campus
Contact: Chemical Genomics Research Group
Jun. 22, 2017 14:00-16:00: CSRS Seminar
1)"Detecting core microboimes for designing natural and agricultural
ecosystems"
Speaker1: Dr. Hirokazu Toju
(Associate Professor, Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University)
2)"Claident: A high-throughput analysis pipeline for metabarcoding and DNA barcoding studies"
Speaker2: Dr. Akifumi S. Tanabe
(Researcher, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Plant Immunity Research Group
Jun. 21, 2017 13:00-14:00: CSRS Seminar
"Identifying cell types and subpopulations by single cell RNA-seq"
Speaker: Dr. Aki Minoda
(Epigenome Technology Exploration Unit, RIKEN CLST)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Cell Function Research Team)
Jun. 20, 2017 13:00-17:20: RIKEN Symposium
Molecular Structure Characterization 2017
Venue: Suzuki Umetaro Hall, Bioscience Building, Wako campus
Language: Japanese
Contact: Molecular Structure Characterization Unit
Jun. 6, 2017 15:00-16:00: CSRS Seminar
"Regulation of plant Cl channels and role of bacterial K/Cs transporters"
Speaker: Prof. Nobuyuki Uozumi
(Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University)
Venue: C214/C216, Central Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Regulatory Network Research Unit)
Jun. 1, 2017 16:00-17:00: Interdisciplinary Seminar
"Genome and transcriptome analysis of biomass plants and construction of their databases"
Speaker: Dr. Yuko Makita (Synthetic Genomics Research Team, RIKEN CSRS)
Venue:Room S110, Sustainable Resource Science Building, Wako campus
Contact: CSRS Wako Seminar Series (Natural Product Biosynthesis Research Unit)
May. 26, 2017 17:00-18:00: RIKEN Seminar
"Chemical Synthesis of Very Large Molecules"
Speaker: Prof. Jeffrey W. Bode
(ETH Zurich, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience)
Venue: S507, Chemistry & Materials Physics Bldg, Wako campus
Contact: Catalysis & Integrated Research Group
May. 26, 2017 16:00-17:00: RIKEN Seminar
"Synthesis of water-soluble fullerene derivatives and bioapplication"
Speaker: Prof. Yoko Yamakoshi
(ETH Zurich, Department of Chemistry and Applied Bioscience)
Venue: S507, Chemistry & Materials Physics Bldg, Wako campus
Contact: Catalysis & Integrated Research Group
May. 22, 2017 16:00-17:00: Interdisciplinary Seminar
"Computational Physics and Chemistry: Our recent activity from Industrial Applications to Category Theory"
Speaker: Dr. Shinichiro Nakamura
(Head of Nakamura Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Industry Partnerships)
Venue:S110, Sustainable Resource Science Building, Wako campus
Contact: CSRS Wako Seminar Series (Enzyme Research Team)
May. 15, 2017 15:00-16:00: CSRS Seminar
"Analyses of infection mechanisms of plant parasitic root-knot nematodes, M. incognita"
Speaker: Prof. Shinichiro Sawa
(Kumamoto University, Graduate School of Science and Technology)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Plant Symbiosis Research Team)
May. 10, 2017 15:00-16:30: RIKEN Seminar
"Highly Reactive Heavy Alkaline-Earth Complexes for Hydroelementation and Dehydrocoupling Catalysis"
Speaker: Prof.Jean-François Carpentier
(Catalysis & Organometallics, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Rennes 1, France)
Venue: S507, Chemistry & Materials Physics Bldg, Wako campus
Contact: Advanced Catalysis Reseach Group
May. 9, 2017 11:00-12:00: CSRS Seminar
"Florigen, its antagonists and plant domestication"
Speaker: Dr. Yuval Eshed
(Dept. of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel.)
Venue: C210/C212, Central Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Cell Function Research Team)
Apr. 12, 2017 13:30-14:30: CSRS Seminar
"Conserved cold shock domain proteins enhance reprogramming in land plants and metazoans"
Speaker: Dr. Yosuke Tamada
(Division of Evolutionary Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Cell Function Research Team)
Apr. 10, 2017 14:00-15:00: CSRS Seminar
"Deciphering convergent evolution at a molecular level"
Speaker: Dr. Kenji Fukushima
(David Pollock lab, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Plant Immunity Research Group)
Apr. 5, 2017 16:00-17:00: Interdisciplinary Seminar
"Metabolic engineering to polymer science: Next-generation polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) for biomedical research"
Speaker: Dr. Christopher T. Nomura
(The State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF))
Venue:S110, Sustainable Resource Science Building, Wako campus
Contact: CSRS Wako Seminar Series (Enzyme Research Team)
Apr. 5, 2017 13:30-15:30: CSRS Seminar
1) 13：30-14：30
"Plant Genes Important for Agrobacterium-mediated Plant Transformation"
Speaker1: Prof. Stanton B. Gelvin
(Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University)
2) 14：30-15：30
"VIP1 and its family members are not important for Agrobacterium-mediated transformation"
Speaker2: Dr. Lan-Ying Lee
(Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University)
Venue: C210/C212, Central Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Plant Genomic Network Research Team )
Mar. 27, 2017 15:00-16:00: RIKEN Seminar
"Innovative antibiotics from microorganisms: Some case studies"
Speaker: Dr. Rolf Müller
(Managing Director of the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research, Saarland (HIPS) )
Venue: 408 Seminar Room, Chemical Biology Building, Wako campus
Contact: Chemical Biology Group
Mar. 24, 2017 15:00-16:30: RIKEN Seminar
"Exploring Transition Metal Catalysts for Making and Breaking Polymers"
Speaker: Prof. Zhibin Guan
(Department of Chemistry, University of California, USA)
Venue: S507, Chemistry & Materials Physics Bldg, Wako campus
Contact: Advanced Catalysis Reseach Group
Mar. 24, 2017 10:00-12:00: CSRS Seminar
"Computational Mass Spectrometry: How informatics assists metabolite identification and omics research"
Speaker: Dr. Justin van der Hooft (University of Glasgow)
Dr. Steffen Neumann (Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle)
Dr. Juho Rousu (Aalto University)
Dr. Reza Salek (European Bioinformatics Institute)
Venue: C214/C216, Central Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Metabolome Informatics Team
Mar. 21, 2017 15:00-16:00: CSRS Seminar
"Molecular dialog between plants and microbiota at a distance – private or public?"
Speaker: Dr. Ryohei Thomas Nakano
(Department of Plant Microbe Interactions, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Plant Immunity Research Group)
Mar. 14, 2017 14:00-15:00: CSRS Seminar
"Lotus-Rhizobium symbiosis is facilitated by the novel Nod factor receptor"
Speaker: Dr. Ei-ichi Murakami
(Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Denmark)
Venue: E717, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Plant Symbiosis Research Team)
Mar. 7, 2017 10:30-11:30: RIKEN Seminar
"Antifungal nucleosides: Mechanism of biosynthesis and potentials for genomics-guided discovery"
Speaker: Dr. Kenichi Yokoyama
(Assistant Professor / PI, Duke University Medical Center, Department of Biochemistry)
Venue: 408 Seminar Room, Chemical Biology Building, Wako campus
Contact: Chemical Biology Group
Feb. 27-28, 2017: International Symposium
Environmental Stress Adaptation and Memory in Plants
Venue: Main Office Building Hall, Yokohama campus
Contact: Plant Genomic Network Research Team
Feb. 23, 2017 16:00-17:00: Interdisciplinary Seminar
"Chemistry-based approach to plant hormone signaling"
Speaker: Dr. Shinya Hagihara
(Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University)
Venue:S110, Sustainable Resource Science Building, Wako campus
Contact: CSRS Wako Seminar Series (Catalysis and Integrated Research Group)
Feb. 16, 2017 14:00-15:00: CSRS Seminar
"Failure is the mother of success -Learning from 3 failures in plant fertilization-"
Speaker: Dr. Ryushiro Kasahara
(Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Nagoya University)
Venue: C210/C212, Central Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Cell Function Research Team)
Feb. 8, 2017 16:00-17:00: CSRS Seminar
"ABC transporters are major players in plant hormone transport"
Speaker: Dr. Enrico Martinoia (University Zurich)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Plant Productivity Research Group)
Feb. 3, 2017 13:30-14:30: CSRS Seminar
"Photoactivation and inactivation mechanisms of plant cryptochromes"
Speaker: Dr. Yoshito Oka
(Professor, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, P.R.China)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Synthetic Genomics Research Group)
Feb. 1, 2017 13:30-14:30: CSRS Seminar
"Balancing the effects of hormones in transcriptional regulation of phytochemicals"
Speaker: Dr. Ling Yuan (Professor, University of Kentucky, USA)
Venue: C218/C220, Central Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Metabolic Systems Research Team)
Jan. 30, 2017 16:00-17:00: Interdisciplinary Seminar
"A global genetic interaction network maps a wiring diagram of cellular function"
Speaker: Dr. Charles Boone
(Molecular Ligand Target Research Team, CSRS / Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto)
Venue:S110, Sustainable Resource Science Building, Wako campus
Contact: CSRS Wako Seminar Series (Molecular Ligand Target Research Team)
Jan. 24, 2017 13:00-14:00: CSRS Seminar
"Adaptation of plants to aquatic environments: Studies on heterophylly and vegetative propagation in semi-aquatic plant, Rorippa aquatica"
Speaker: Dr. Seisuke Kimura
(Kyoto Sangyo University)
Venue: C218/220, Central Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Cell Function Research Team
Jan. 19, 2017 14:00-15:00: RIKEN Seminar
"Efficient Separation and Transfer of Photogenerated Charges - the Key Scientific Issue of Solar Energy Conversion"
Speaker: Prof. Hongxian Han
(State Key Laboratory of Catalysis & Solar Energy Division, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Venue: Sustainable Resource Science Bldg S110, Wako campus
Contact: Biofunctional Catalyst Research Team
Jan. 17, 2017 14:00-15:00: CSRS Seminar
"Phosphate status-dependent control of interactions with endophytic Colletotrichum fungi in Arabidopsis thaliana"
Speaker: Dr. Kei Hiruma
(Assistant Professor Graduate School of Biological Sciences Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Venue: E717/E719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: CSRS Yokohama Seminar Series (Plant Immunity Research Group)