Schedule

Day 1, April 13th

Time Program
10:00–10:30 Registration
10:30–10:40 Opening Remarks
10:40–11:30 Keynote Lecture 1 (Chair: Yuki Okada)
  Pai-Chi Li — Reflected Shear Wave Computed Tomography (R-SWCT) for Mechanobiology
11:30–13:00 Lunch Break
13:00–14:20 Session 1: AI and Systems Biology (Chair: Ryuichiro Nakato)
  Ryuichiro Nakato — Can large language models identify genome regulatory machinery?
  Che Lin — AI for Smart Healthcare: From Clinical Intelligence to Drug Discovery
  Hsueh-Fen Juan — How Single Cell Omics Drives AI Powered Drug Discovery and Cancer Immunotherapy
  Shunsuke Sumi — Machine learning for RNA design and discovery
14:20–14:40 Coffee Break
14:40–16:00 Session 2: Advanced Technology for Biology (Chair: Yukihide Tomari)
  Yusuke Sakai — DNA Topology, Nanostructure, and Architecture: From Scratch
  Hotaka Kobayashi — In-cell single-molecule imaging of mRNA translation
  Hsi-Sheng Goan — Quantum Machine Learning for Medical Diagnosis
  Fumiko Kawasaki — Understanding heterogenous maternal piRNA inheritance via single-egg RNA sequencing
16:00–16:40 Coffee Break
16:40–18:00 Session 3: Brain and Neuroscience (Chair: Akihiro Funamizu)
  Yusuke Kishi — Epigenetic regulation during neuronal aging
  Hao-Li Liu — From Clinical Evidence to Biophysical Mechanisms: Unraveling Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation in Epilepsy
  Teruhiro Okuyama — Representations of Social Memory in Ventral CA1 Neurons
  Akihiro Funamizu — Exploring the natural and artificial neural networks for decision making
18:00–18:30 Buffer / Transition / Break
18:30–20:30 Mixer for the selected speakers

Day 2, April 14th

Time Program
09:30–10:10 Keynote Lecture 2 (Chair: Akihiro Funamizu)
  Yutaro Yamada (Sakana AI) — The AI Scientist: Towards Automating Discovery with Agents
10:10–10:20 Buffer
10:20–11:40 Session 4: Optical Biology (Chair: Hotaka Kobayashi)
  Shi-Wei Chu — High-speed volumetric optical inspection of brain
  Takashi Fukaya — Enhancer dynamics in living Drosophila embryos
  Chenghan Ho — A new method for nucleosome cryo-EM analysis by the co-expression of all four histones in E. coli cells
  Lumi Negishi — The Central Laboratory: A Core Facility Supporting Research at the Institute for Quantitative Biosciences
11:40 Group Photo (Building Entrance)
11:40–13:00 Lunch Break
13:00–14:20 Session 5: Immunology and Disease (Chair: Takashi Fukaya)
  Genta Furuya — Cross-species reactive IgA balances the gut microbiome by targeting a physicochemical pattern of pathobiont proteins
  Donald Cameron — Using MD simulations to predict protein interactions and oncogenic enzymatic activity
  Takumi Maruhashi — Immune regulation by LAG-3, an inhibitory co-receptor of a unique target selectivity
  Tomoatsu Hayashi — Development and single-cell analysis of RBP-targeted nucleic acid therapeutics for intractable cancers
14:20–15:00 Coffee Break
15:00–16:40 Session 6: Chromatin and Epigenetics (Chair: Donald Cameron)
  Ruby Yun-Ju Huang — 3D Genome Architecture of Epithelial Plasticity Across Species
  Yutaro Hori — Stability and transcriptional regulation of the ribosomal RNA gene cluster in mammals
  Syoin Tei — Dual roles of cohesin in transcription initiation and pausing
  Kristian Jeppsson (Online) — Exploring chromosome-bound SMC complexes by MINFLUX microscopy
  Masashi Hada — Genome compartments guide protamine replacement and genome integrity during sperm chromatin condensation
16:40 Closing Remarks
17:00-18:00 IQB tour for the NTU professors