- Dec. 25, 2014
10:30-12:00
- RIKEN Seminar
"Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Solar to Chemical Energy Conversion"
Speaker: Prof. Katsushi Fujii
(Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo)
Language: Japanese
Venue: S310, Bioscience Building, Wako campus
Contact: Biofunctional Catalyst Research Team
- Dec. 12, 2014
15:00-17:00
- RIKEN Seminar
"Research and Development of Chemistry Company"
Speaker: Dr. Terunori Fujita
(Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.)
Language: Japanese
Venue: Suzuki Umetaro Hall, Bioscience Building, Wako campus
Contact: Advanced Catalysis Research Group
- Dec. 11, 2014
14:00-15:00
- CSRS Seminar
"Histone mediated regulation of genome activity"
Speaker: Prof. Frederic Berger
(Senior Group Leader, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI), Austria)
Venue: E717/719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Plant Proteomics Research Unit
- Dec. 8, 2014
9:00-17:00
- International Symposium
"Collaboration between Japan and Vietnam for the sustainable future
-Plant science, agriculture and biorefinery-"
Venue: Agricultural Genetics Institute (AGI), Hanoi, Vietnam
- Dec. 2, 2014
13:00-14:00
- CSRS Seminar
"The explanation for the pH-dependent recovery of Photoactive Yellow Protein upon photoactivation"
Speaker: Dr. Nur Alia Oktaviani
(University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Venue: Room 435, Main Research Building, Wako campus
Contact: Enzyme Research Team
- Dec. 2, 2014
13:00-14:00
- CSRS Seminar
"Quiescence or growth? How to build organelles? Lessons from the analysis of leaf and chloroplast development by light"
Speaker: Dr. Enrique Lopez-Juez
(Senior lecture, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Venue: C218/220, Central Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Gene Discovery Research Group
- Dec. 1, 2014
14:00-15:00
- CSRS Seminar
"Proteomic characterization of the repertoire of RNA-binding proteins"
Speaker: Dr. Koshi Imami
(University of British Columbia, Centre for High-Throughput Biology, Canada)
Venue: E717/719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Plant Proteomics Research Unit
- Nov. 28, 2014
10:00-17:30
- Plant Reprogramming Workshop
Venue: Main Office Building Hall, Yokohama campus
Contact: Cell Function Research Team
- Nov. 26, 2014
11:00-12:30
- RIKEN Seminar
"From Conventional Ligands to Engineered Enzymes: Rh(III) Catalysis for C-H Activation"
Speaker: Prof. Tomislav Rovis
(Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, USA)
Venue: S507, Chemistry & Materials Physics Bldg, Wako campus
Contact: Catalysis and Integrated Reseach Group
- Nov. 26, 2014
10:00-17:30
- International Workshop on
Plant Water Stress Responses and Water-Use Efficiency
Venue: Yayoi Auditorium, Ichijo Hall, The University of Tokyo
- Nov. 20, 2014
1) 14:30-16:00
2) 16:00-17:30
- RIKEN Seminar
1) "SN1-type stereoselective organocatalytic reactions"
Speaker: Prof. Pier Giorgio Cozzi
(Department of Chemistry, University of Bologna, Italy)
2) "Biomimetic Catalysis in Green Organic Transformations"
Speaker: Prof. Jan-Erling Backvall
(Department of Chemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden)
Venue: S507, Chemistry & Materials Physics Bldg, Wako campus
Contact: Catalysis and Integrated Reseach Group
- Nov. 18, 2014
16:00-17:00
- RIKEN Epigenetics Seminar Series No. 4
"A small RNA mediated regulation of a stress-activated retrotransposon in Arabidopsis"
Speaker: Dr. Hidetaka Ito
(Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University)
Venue: C212, Central Research Building, Yokohama Campus
*Live telecast at Wako (S310, Bioscience Bldg.), Kobe (E206, Bldg. D) and Tsukuba (Moriwaki Hall)
Contact: Plant Genomic Network Research Team
- Oct. 31, 2014
15:00-16:00
- RIKEN Seminar
Part I: "Perfluoroarylborane catalyzed frustrated Lewis pair hydrosilations: mechanism, applications and scope"
Part II: "New ligand platforms for organometallic approaches to water splitting"
Speaker: Prof. Warren E. Piers
(Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, Canada)
Venue: S507, Chemistry & Materials Physics Building, Wako campus
Contact: Advanced Catalysis Research Group
- Oct. 30, 2014
1) 16:30-17:15
2) 17:15-18:00
- RIKEN CSRS NBT Seminar Series No.3
1) "CRISPR/Cas9 mediated gene disruption of a basal land plant, Marchantia polymorpha"
Speaker: Dr. Shigeo Sugano
(University of Tokushima)
2) "Genome modifications in the cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus, using CRISPR/Cas9 system"
Speaker: Dr. Takahito Watanabe
(University of Tokushima)
Venue: E717/719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Gene Discovery Research Group / Plant Genomic Network Research Team
- Oct. 30, 2014
13:00-14:00
- CSRS Seminar
"Aquaporins: how water channel proteins favour plant life in an ever changing environment"
Speaker: Dr. Christophe Maurel
(Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique(CNRS), France)
Venue: C218/220, Central Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Plant Genomic Network Research Team
- Oct. 30, 2014
11:00-12:00
- CSRS Seminar
"Small RNA-directed control of the plant immune response and its targeting by bacterial effectors"
Speaker: Dr. Lionel Navarro
(Institut de Biologie de l'ecole Normale superieure(IBENS), France)
Venue: E717/719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Plant Immunity Research Group
- Oct. 23, 2014
15:00-16:00
- CSRS Seminar
"Two Dicers DCL3 and DCL4 have different enzymatic properties in Arabidopsis thaliana"
Speaker: Prof. Toshiyuki Fukuhara
(Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)
Venue: E717/719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Cell Function Research Team
- Oct. 20, 2014
15:00-16:30
- RIKEN Seminar
"Studies on halogenated marine natural products as inspired by their probable biosynthesis"
Speaker: Prof. David Christopher Braddock
(Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, UK)
Venue: S507, Chemistry & Materials Physics Building, Wako campus
Contact: Catalysis and Integrated Reseach Group
- Oct. 16, 2014
13:00-14:00
- CSRS Seminar
"OIL PALM: PRODUCTIVE, VERSATILE AND GREEN"
Speaker: Dr. Meilina Ong-Abdullah
Principal Research Officer, Advanced Biotechnology & Breeding Centre, Malaysian Palm Oil Board, Malaysia)
Venue: E717/719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Plant Immunity Research Group
- Oct. 16, 2014
10:30-12:00
- CSRS Seminar
1) "The role of ARF8 and ARF6 in late stamen development in Arabidopsis"
Speaker: Dr. Maura Cardarelli
(IBMN/CNR, Rome, Italy)
2) "CULLIN neddylation is globally regulated during seedling development in Arabidopsis thaliana"
Speaker: Dr. Giovanna Serino
(IBMN/CNR and Sapienza University, Rome, Italy)
Venue: E717/719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Cell Function Research Team
- Oct. 15, 2014
14:00-15:00
- CSRS Seminar
"A systems approach for the elucidation of the static and dynamic gene regulatory networks"
Speaker: Dr. Kengo Morohashi
(Cell Function Research Team, RIKEN CSRS)
Venue: E717/719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Cell Function Research Team / Dormancy and Adaptation Research Unit / Plant Proteomics Research Unit
- Oct. 8, 2014
1) 13:00-13:45
2) 13:45-14:30
- CSRS Seminar
1) "Getting information from the outside - signal perception from the extracellular space (in plants)"
Speaker: Dr. Michael Wrzaczek
(Plant Biology, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Finland)
2) "The Silver Birch Genome"
Speaker: Dr. Jarkko Salojävri
(Plant Biology, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Finland)
Venue: E717/719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Plant Proteomics Research Unit
- Oct. 6, 2014
1) 14:00-14:45
2) 14:45-15:30
3)
15:45-16:45
--> 3) Canceled
- CSRS Seminar
1) "Understanding and Engineering Alkaloid Pathways"
Speaker: Pro. Sarah E. O' Connor
(The John Innes Centre, Department of Biological Chemistry, Norwich, UK)
2) "Tomato trichome defensive metabolism: biochemical and genetic dissection and evolutionary
signatures"
Speaker: Prof. Robert L. Last
(Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, USA)
3) "Connecting the dots: linking PAMP perception to receptor kinase-mediated immune outputs"
Speaker: Prof. Cyril Zipfel
(The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK)
Venue: C214/216, Central Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Metabolomics Research Group / Plant Immunity Research Group
- Oct. 2, 2014
15:00-16:00
- CSRS Seminar
"Endocytosis and sterol biosynthesis in the induction of Plant immunity"
Speaker: Prof. Adi Avni
(Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, ISRAEL)
Venue: E717/719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Plant Immunity Research Group
- Sep. 24, 2014
1) 10:00-10:45
2) 10:45-11:30
- CSRS Seminar
1) "Unlocking Plant Metabolic Diversity"
Speaker: Prof. Anne Osbourn
(Norwich Research Park, Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy Alliance, John Innes Centre, UK)
2) "New approaches to the identification of cytochromes P450 functions"
Speaker: Prof. Daniele Werck
(CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Strasbourg, France)
Venue: C214/216, Central Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Metabolomics Research Group
- Sep. 16, 2014
15:00-16:30
- RIKEN Seminar
"Development of PI3K β-sparing inhibitor GDC-0032 (Taselisib)"
Speaker: Dr. Travis Remarchuk
(Genenteck, Inc., USA)
Venue: S507, Chemistry & Materials Physics Building, Wako campus
Contact: Catalysis and Integrated Reseach Group
- Sep. 16, 2014
15:00-16:00
- CSRS Seminar
"The expression of alternative splicing and Long intergenic non-coding RNAs in Arabidopsis root"
Speaker: Dr. Masashi Yamada
(Duke University, Philip Benfey lab)
Venue: E717/719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Cell Function Research Team
- Sep. 11, 2014
15:00-16:00
- CSRS Seminar
"Modeling stem cell networks to identify key regulators of plant root development"
Speaker: Dr. Rosangela Sozzani
(North Carolina State University)
Venue: E717/719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Cell Function Research Team
- Sep. 8, 2014
16:00-18:00
- CSRS Seminar
"Cyclic Nucleotide-Gated Ion Channels- Insights from mutant screen"
Speaker: Dr. Keiko Yoshioka
(Professor, Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto)
Venue: S311, Bioscience Building, Wako campus
Contact: Gene Discovery Research Group
- Sep. 6, 2014
10:00-17:00
- OPEN DAY - RIKEN Yokohama Campus & Yokohama City University, Tsurumi Campus
- Sep. 1, 2014
14:00-15:00
- CSRS Seminar
"Principles of Genetic and Chemical-Genetic Networks"
Speaker: Dr. Charles M. Boone
(Molecular Ligand Target Research Team, RIKEN CSRS / University of Toronto)
Venue: C218/220, Central Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Gene Discovery Research Group
- Jul. 23, 2014
15:00-16:00
- CSRS Seminar
"Molecular mechanisms of mineral element distribution in rice"
Speaker: Dr. Jian Feng Ma
(Professor, Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University)
Venue: E717/719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Plant Productivity Systems research Group
- Jul. 14, 2014
14:00-16:00
- RIKEN Seminar
"In Situ Characterization of Electrochemical Processes by Various Synchrotron-based Techniques"
Speaker: Dr. Takuya Masuda
(Surface Characterization Group, Nano Characterization Unit,
Advanced Key Technologies Division,
National Institute for materials Science)
Venue: Seminar Room 209, Nanoscience Joint Laboratory, Wako campus
Contact: Biofunctional Catalyst Research Team
- Jul. 10, 2014
14:00-17:20
- RIKEN Seminar
1) "Immortal Polymerization and its Applications for Constructuring Topological and Functional Polymers"
Speaker: Prof. Dongmei Cui
(Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences)
2) "1,4-Butadiene and 3,4-Isoprene Copolymer with Different Sequence Distribution Prepared by Sole Yttrium Cationic Species"
Speaker: Prof. Bo Liu
(Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences)
3) "Transition Metal Mediated Functionalization of C-H/B-H Bonds of Carboranes"
Speaker: Prof. Zuowei Xie
(Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Venue: S507, Chemistry and Materials Physics Building, Wako campus
Contact: Advanced Catalysis Research Group
- Jun. 11, 2014
16:00-17:20
- RIKEN Seminar
"Chelating sigma-Aryl Post-Metallocenes: Probing [C−H···F−C] Contacts as Synthetic Models of Weak Attractive Ligand–Polymer Interactions"
Speaker: Prof. Michael C W CHAN
(Associate Professor of Department of
Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong)
Venue: S507, Chemistry and Materials Physics Building, Wako campus
Contact: Advanced Catalysis Research Group
- May. 22, 2014
15:00-17:00
- RIKEN Seminar
"Ecological implications of electron transfer between microbes and
conductive materials"
Speaker: Dr. Soichiro Kato
(Bioproduction Research Institute, The National Institute of Advanced
industrial Science and Technology)
Venue: Seminar Room N351, 3F Bioscience Building, Wako campus
Contact: Biofunctional Catalyst Research Team
- Apr. 21-22, 2014
9:30-17:40
9:30-12:00
- The 3rd RIKEN-SNU Workshop on Chemical Biology for Health and Resource Sciences
Venue: Suzuki Umetaro Hall & 3F Lobby, Bioscience Building, Wako campus
Contact: Molecular Ligand Target Research Team
- Mar. 31, 2014
14:00-15:00
- CSRS Seminar
"New frontiers between plant responses to stress and development and applications for health and fuel production"
Speaker: Dr. Alessandra Devoto
(School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway - University of London)
Venue: C212, Central Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Plant Genomic Network Research Team
- Mar. 27, 2014
10:00-11:40
- RIKEN Seminar
1) "A functional genomics approach to improving microbial fermentation"
Speaker: Dr. Jeff Piotrowski
(Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, University of Wisconsin)
2) "Systems level insights from large-scale analysis of genetic interactions in yeast"
Speaker: Dr. Chad Myers
(Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota)
Venue: #S311, Bioscience Building, Wako campus
Contact: Molecular Ligand Target Research Team
- Mar. 20, 2014
15:00-17:00
- CSRS Seminar
"Recent Progress in Organic Photovoltaics to Achieve Efficiency beyond 10%"
Speaker: Dr. Doo Kyung Moon
(Professor, College of Engineering, Department of Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Konkuk University, Korea)
Venue: #424/426, Main Research Building, Wako campus
Contact: Bioplastic Research Team
- Mar. 12, 2014
14:00-16:00
- RIKEN CSRS NBT Seminar Series No.2
1) "Technologies and Their Applications in Crop Improvements"
Speaker: Dr. Caixia Gao
(Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Science)
2) "Mammalian genome engineering with the CRISPR/Cas system"
Speaker: Dr. Fei Ann Ran
(Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)
Venue: E717/719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
*Live telecast at Wako (#S310, Bioscience Building) and Tsukuba (4F Conference Room, Informatics and JCM Building)
Contact: Plant Genomic Network Research Team /
Gene Discovery Research Group
- Mar. 11, 2014
16:15-17:15
- CSRS Seminar
"Bryophytes as bio-indicators in the Amazon Forest"
Speaker: Dr. Charles Zartman
(Senior Researcher of National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA), Brazil)
Venue: RIKEN Yokohama campus, Yokohama City University building 1F, Lecture room 1
Contact: Biomass Research Platform Team
- Mar. 3, 2014
14:00-15:00
- CSRS Seminar
"The use of transcriptomics and metabolomics for pathway discovery in the lignin field"
Speaker: Dr. Ruben Vanholme
(Dr. Wout Boerjan Lab., VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University)
Venue: C214/216, Central Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Metabolomics research Group
- Mar. 05-06, 2014
9:30-17:20
9:30-12:30
- UK-Japan Workshop
Rhizosphere InteracXons -towards Global Food Security‐
Venue: Main Auditorium, Main Office Building Hall, Yokohama campus
Contact: Plant Immunity Research Group
- Feb. 17, 2014
14:00-15:30
- CSRS Seminar
"Cyanobacterial photoresponsive sysmtems and their application to optogentics and bioimaging"
Speaker: Dr. Rei Narikawa
(Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo)
Venue: E717/719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Synthetic Genomics Research Team
- Feb. 14, 2014
14:00-15:00
- CSRS Seminar
"The shape and the function of root-associated bacterial community in a natural habitat"
Speaker: Dr. Ryohei Thomas Nakano
(Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany)
Venue: E717/719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Plant Immunity Research Group
- Feb. 12, 2014
15:00-16:00
- CSRS Seminar
"Circadian Clocks and Signalling in Arabidopsis"
Speaker: Dr. Alex A.R. Webb
(Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK)
Venue: E717/719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Plant Immunity Research Group
- Jan. 22, 2014
14:00-15:30
- CSRS Seminar
"GENETIC ANALYSIS OF RNA-SILENCING PATHWAY IN ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA"
Speaker: Dr. Tatsuo Kanno
(Plant Genome Engineering Research Unit, Agrogenomics Research Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences / PRESTO, JST)
Venue: E717/719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Synthetic Genomics Research Team
- Jan. 15, 2014
14:00-15:30
- CSRS Seminar
"The mechanistic bases for microRNA-mediated translational repression in plants"
Speaker: Dr. Hiro-oki Iwakawa
(Institute of Molecular and Cellular
Biosciences, The University of Tokyo)
Venue: E717/719, East Research Building, Yokohama campus
Contact: Synthetic Genomics Research Team
