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Day 1   Monday 15 January
  16:00~17:00      Registration
  17:00~19:00      Mixer

Day 2  Tuesday 16 January
     9:00~9:10      Opening Remarks
    9:10~9:50     
Kunio Takeyasu (Invited) (Abstract)
                          
(Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto Univ., Japan)
                         
  "Biological application of nano-scale imaging and single-molecule
                           manipuration techniques"

 
9:50~10:30      Suzanne Jarvis (Invited) (Abstract)
                           (Trinity college Dublin, Ireland)
                         
  "Using nano-mechanics to explore biological function"

  10:30~10:50    Break
  10:50~11:30    
Paolo Facci (Invited) (Abstract)
                          
(S3-INFM-CNR, Physics Dep. Univ. of Modena, Italy)
                                  "Retrieving functional and conformational information from single
                             proteins: towards an AFM-based approach"
 
 
11:30~12:10    Peter Hinterdorfer (Invited) (Abstract)
                           (Institute for Biophysics, Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz,
 Austria)
                        
  "Molecular recognition force microscopy/spectroscopy"
 
  12:10~14:00    Lunch
  14:00~14:40   
Atsushi Ikai (Invited)  (Abstract)
                           (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
                         
  "Wedding of biochemistry and mechanics by force"

  14:40~15:00    
Masaru Kawakami  (Abstract)
                          
(JAIST, Japan)
                         
 "Novel force ramp AFM technique adopting single molecule events for
                            dynamic force spectroscopy"
 
  15:00-15:20    
Masami Kageshima  (Abstract)
                           (Osaka Univ., Japan)

                         
  "Equilibrium and non-equilibrium processes and internal friction in
                            dynamics of single biopolymer"
                        
  15:20~15:40    Break
  15:40~16:00   
Masaki Tanemura  (Abstract)
                           (Nagoya Inst. Technology, Japan)
                          
"Small-scale batch fabrication and characterization of carbon nanofiber probes"
 
16:00~16:40    Takeshi Fukuma (Invited)  (Abstract)
                           (Trinity college Dublin, Ireland)
                         
  "Direct imaging of water/lipid interface by frequency modulation
                             atomic force microscopy at sub-angstrom resolution"
 
16:40~17:00    Jason Cleveland  (Abstract)
                           (Asylum Research, USA)
                          
"Dual frequency AFM"

 
17:00~17:15    Platinum Sponsor Lecture by Veeco Japan
                         
  Mayumi Misawa  (Abstract)
                         
"The new nanoscope V SPM controller"
  17:15~17:30    
Platinum Sponsor Lecture by Olympus
                            Akitoshi Toda  (Abstract)
                                "Small cantilevers to penetrate the market"


Day 3  Wednesday 17 January

   9:00~9:40      
Toshio Ando (Invited)  (Abstract)
                           (Dep. of Physics, Kanazawa Univ., Japan)

                         
  "Instrumentation of high-speed AFM and observation of protein dynamics"
 
 9:40~10:20     Chia-Hsiang Menq (Invited)  (Abstract)
                           (Dep. of Mechanical Engineering,
The Ohio State Univ. , USA)

                         
  "Control of tip position using co-located magnetic actuation for high-speed AFM"
 
10:20~10:40    Break
  10:40~11:20   
Levent Degertekin (Invited)  (Abstract)
                           (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
                         
  "AFM probe structures with integrated interferometric sensing and
                            electrostatic actuation"

 
11:20~12:00    Hirofumi Yamada (Invited)  (Abstract)
                           (Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto Univ., Japan)

                         
  "Subnanometer-resolution imaging in liquid by frequency modulation atomic
                             force microscopy"
 

  12:00~14:00    Lunch
  14:00~14:20   
Noriyuki Kodera  (Abstract)
                          
(Dep. of Physics, Kanazawa Univ., Japan)
                         
 "Structural dynamics of acto-myosin V revealed by high-speed AFM"
 
14:20~14:40    Daisuke Yamamoto  (Abstract)
                          
(Dep. of Physics, Kanazawa Univ., Japan)
                         
 "Chaperonin GroEL-GroES action captured by high-speed AFM"
                    
  14:40~15:20   
Christian Le Grimellec (Invited)  (Abstract)
                           (Centre de Biochimie Structurale, Univ. Montpellier I, France)
                        
  "Alkaline phosphatase interactions with ordered membrane domains"
  15:20~16:00    
Simon Scheuring (Invited)  (Abstract)
                           (Institut Curie - Research, UMR-CNRS 168, France)

                         
  "High-resolution AFM of the supramolecular assembly of membrane proteins
                             in native membranes"

  16:00~16:20    Break
  16:20~17:00   
Sonia Antoranz Contera (Invited)  (Abstract)
                           (Bionanotechnology IRC, Physics Dep., Univ. of Oxford, UK)
                         
  "Relating structure, biomechanics and function of single membrane proteins"

  17:00~17:40    
Takayuki Uchihashi (Invited)  (Abstract)
                           (Dep. of Physics, Kanazawa Univ., Japan)
                         
  "Improvements in the high-speed AFM and observation of membrane
                            protein dynamics"
 
17:40~17:55    Platinum Sponsor Lecture by Research Institute of Biomolecule Metrology, Co. Ltd.
                           
Takashi Morii
                          
"New lineup of RIBM products: SXM-advance, SXM-basic and high-speed
                            AFM
NanoLiveVision"
  18:30~21:00    Dinner Party at a Japanese Style of Restaurant

Day 4  Thursday 18 January
 
   9:00~9:40      Andrew E. Pelling (Invited)  (Abstract)
                           (Dep. of Medicine and the LCN, Univ. College London)
                         
  "Mechanobiology: Non-imaging applications of AFM in cell biology"
 
  9:40~10:20    
Chikashi Nakamura (Invited)  (Abstract)
                           (AIST, Japan)
                           "Cell surgery: A novel living cell manipulation technology using
                             nanoneedle and AFM"
      
  10:20~10:40  
Takaharu Okajima  (Abstract)
                        
 (Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
                         
"Viscoelastic properties of living cells investigated by time-domain AFM analysis"
   
 
10:40~11:00    Break
  11:00~12:00    Business Meeting for Discussion of International Collaboration
                             (Kanazawa Univ. & Foreign Scientists)
  12:00~18:00    Lunch & Excursion