Meeting Program

The door will open at 9：45

10:00-10:05
Opening Remarks: Isao Katsura (Director General, NIG)

10:05-10:45
Norbert Perrimon (Harvard Medical School, HHMI)
Functional genomics in Drosophila

10:45-11:15
Shu Kondo (NIG)
Genome-scale CRISPR/Cas9 resources for Drosophila research

11:15-11:45
Tatsushi Igaki (Kyoto University)
Mechanisms and roles of tumor-suppressive cell competition

Lunch 11:45-13:00

13:00-13:40
Feng Zhang (Broad Institute, McGovern Institute, NIG Visiting Professor)
Advances in genome editing technologies

13:40-14:20
Jin-Soo Kim (Seoul National University)
Genome-wide target specificities of CRISPR nucleases and deaminases

14:20-14:35 Break

14:35-15:15
Kousuke Yusa (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
Identification of novel drug targets using CRISPR screens in cancer

15:15-15:45
Yusuke Miyanari (National Institute for Basic Biology) Genome-wide screening for regulators of chromatin accessibility

15:45-16:15
Masato Kanemaki (NIG)
Rapid protein depletion in human cells by the auxin-inducible degron technology

16:15-18:00 Poster session

18:30- Scientific Information Exchange Meeting (at en france)

10:00-10:30
Koichi Kawakami (NIG)
The Tol2 transposon-mediated genetic methods in zebrafish and their applications to the study of functional neuronal circuits

10:30-11:00
Haruna Takeda (Kanazawa University)
Sleeping Beauty transposon mutagenesis identified genes involved in colorectal cancer progression

11:00-11:10 Break

11:10-11:50
Yi Shi (Shanghai Jiao Yong University)
Chromatin 3D and cancer

11:50-12:20
Itsuro Inoue (NIG)
Somatic mutations in endometriosis and endometrial tissues

Lunch 12:20-13:15

13:15-13:55
Didier Stainier (Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, NIG Visiting Professor)
Genetic compensation is triggered by mutant mRNA degradation

13:55-14:25
Toshihiko Shiroishi (NIG)
Phase transition of Shh enhancers in morphological evolution

14:25-14:40 Break

14:40-15:20
Ramesh Pillai (University of Geneva)
RNA methylation in mammalian development

15:20-15:50
Kuniaki Saito (NIG)
Small RNA-mediated retrotransposon silencing in Drosophila

15:50
Concluding Remarks: Koichi Kawakami (NIG)