Program
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