The 27th Naito Conference

Membrane Dynamics and Lipid Biology [I]

Period	2010/06/29 (Tue.) - 2010/07/02 (Fri.)
Venue	CHATERAISE Gateaux Kingdom SAPPORO（Hokkaido）
Participants	Lectures：26 Posters：60

Unexpected findings about roles of sphingolipids revealed by knockout animals

[Yoshio HIRABAYASHI]

Laboratory for Molecular Membrane Neuroscience, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan, Japan
Synchrotron radiation structural biology of proteins functioning at biological membrane

[Hideo AGO]

RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Japan, Japan
Imaging of lipid dynamics with mass spectrometry

[Mitsutoshi SETOU]

Department of Molecular Anatomy, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan, Japan
Navigating the lipid map: new technologies and surprising findings about sphingolipid biology and disease

[Alfred MERRILL]

School of Biology and the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, USA
Methylation of the sterol nucleus, a novel mechanism of the hormonal regulation of dauer larva formation in Caenorhabditis elegans

[Teymuras V. Kurzchalia]

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany, Germany

CERT-dependent trafficking of ceramide

[Kentaro HANADA]

Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan, Japan
Novel roles of sphingolipids revealed by metabolic engineering

[Howard RIEZMAN]

Department of Biochemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Swizerland
Mammalian ceramide synthases

[Anthony FUTERMAN]

Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, Israel
Specificity of elongation of saturated, very long-chain fatty acids provides a link to C24 sphingolipid synthesis

[Akio KIHARA]

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan, Japan
Metabolomic analysis of polyunsaturated fatty acid-derived mediators in inflammation

[Makoto ARITA]

Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan, Japan

The role of ABCA1, ABCA7 and other ABC transporters in megkaryopoiesis and platelet senescence

[Gerd SCHMITZ]

Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medical Center, Germany, Germany
Mechanism and regulation of ABCA1, a cholesterol efflux pump

[Kazumitsu UEDA]

Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), Kyoto University, Japan, Japan
Keratinocyte lipid transporter ABCA12 plays a key role in epidermal keratinization and barrier function

[Masashi AKIYAMA]

Department of Dermatology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, Japan
Lipids in germ cell biology

[Ruth LEHMANN]

Developmental Genetics Program, Skirball Institute and HHMI, Department of Cell Biology, NYU School of Medicine, USA, USA
Sphingosine 1-phosphate efflux transporter

[Akihito YAMAGUCHI]

Department of Cell Membrane Biology, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Japan, Japan

Sensing membrane curvature through ALPS motifs

[Bruno ANTONNY]

Institut de Pharmacologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS et Universite de Nice, France, France
Membrane dynamic during autophagy in yeast

[Yoshinori OHSUMI]

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, Japan
Role of type Iγ phosphatidylinositol-phosphate kinase in epithelial morphogenesis

[Richard ANDERSON]

Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Program, University of Wisconsin, USA, USA
Regulation and functional significance of phospholipid asymmetry

[Kazuma TANAKA]

Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan, Japan
Phospholipid dynamics and membrane polarity formation

[Masato UMEDA]

Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan, Japan

Phospholipase A2 and acyltransferase (Lands' cycle) in membrane remodeling and production of lipid mediators

[Takao SHIMIZU]

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan, Japan
The crosstalk between lysophosphatidic acid and phingosine-1-phosphate signaling in zebrafish heart morphogenesis

[Junken AOKI]

Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan, Japan
Lysophosphatidic acid in health and disease

[Gabor TIGYI]

Department of Physiology and University of Tennessee Cancer Institute, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA, USA
S1P signaling at the vascular-immune nexus

[Timothy HLA]

Weill Medical College, Cornell University, USA, USA
Through lipid signaling to lipid dynamics: a new challenge in sphingolipid biology

[Yasuyuki IGARASHI]

Frontier Research Center for Post-genome Science and Technology, Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University,, Japan