Outline of the event

• Opening Date and Time: January 29, 2025 9:00～17:00
• Location:Rokko Hall, Kobe University Centennial Hall(1-1 Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe,Hyogo, Japan)
• Admission: Free
• Application

Program

• Opening address (Ken-ichi Yoshida)

   

• Session 1 (Chair: Chiaki Ogino)

  Haruko Takeyama. Advanced Technologies for Unraveling Microbial Functions: Developments in Single-Cell Omics

   Masahiro Takagi. Membrane dynamics and cell signal transduction

• Session 2 (Chair: Ken-ichi Yoshida)

  Matthew Chang. Synthetic biology: Learning the way toward precision biological design

  Ken Yoshida. Elucidation and application of the bacterial inositol metabolic system

  Christoph Wittmann. Advancing Corynebacterium glutamicum for industrial, medical, 
  and environmental innovations

• Video Massages (Moderator: Ken-ichi Yoshida)
  Sang Yup Lee, and Jo-Shu Chang

• Session 3 (Chair: Tomohisa Hasunuma)

  Paul Freemont. Cell-free expression: a strategy for prototyping parts, pathways, xenobiotics and reconstituting complex systems for different biotechnology applications

  Xinhui Xing. Development of enabling biobreeding technology and instruments for 
  advancements of green biomanufacturing

• Session 4 (Chair: Jun Ishii)

  Huimin Zhao. An AI-powered Biofoundry for Synthetic Biology

  Chenli Liu. Quantitative synthetic biology: build-learn-build

• Memorial lecture (Chair: Toshiro Shirakawa)

  Akihiko Kondo. 30 years of research at Kobe University

• Closing remarks (President Masato Fujisawa)

• End of the event
  cf.28th January James Liao (Chair: Hasunuma) Evolutionary engineering of methylotrophic E. coli