September 4 (Thu)

11:30-12:30Poster Setup

12:30-12:35Opening remarks Ryuichi Nishinakamura (Kumamoto University, Japan)

Session I　12：35 - 14：15

12:35-13:00	Hitoshi Niwa (RIKEN, Japan) Input and output of pluripotency-associated transcription factor network
13:00-13:25	Hiroshi Sasaki (Kumamoto University, Japan) Mechanisms of cell fate specification in preimplantation mouse embryos
13:25-13:50	Randy L Johnson (University of Texas, US) Control of liver progenitor cell development by the Hippo signaling pathway
13:50-14:15	Ed Stanley (The Royal Children's Hospital, Australia) Using Genetically tagged pluripotent stem cells to study pancreatic ifferentiation in vitro

Session II　14：30 - 15：45

14:30-14:55	Nobuaki Shiraki (Kumamoto University, Japan) Methionine metabolism regulates maintenance and differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells
14:55-15:20	Henrik Semb (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) From pancreas development to making beta cells in a dish
15:20-15:45	Takanori Takebe (Yokohama City University, Japan) Vascularized and functional human liver from an iPSC-derived organ bud transplant

Session III　16：00 - 17：15

16:00-16:25	Atsuhiro Taguchi (Kumamoto University, Japan) Redefining the in vivo origin of nephron progenitors enables generation of three-dimensional kidney structures from pluripotent stem cells in vitro
16:25-16:50	Benjamin Dekel (Sheba Medical Center, Israel) Generating optimal human kidney stem/progenitor cells
16:50-17:15	Toshiro Sato (Keio University, Japan) Intestinal Stem Cell Niche Signaling in Homeostatic and Diseased Epithelium.

17:15-18:20One-minute poster presentation

18:30-21:00Poster session & mixer (PDF:153KB)

September 5 (Fri)

Session IV　9：00 - 10：40

9:00-9:25	Francois Guillemot (NIMR, MRC, UK) Transcriptional control of the regulation of neural stem cell activity?
9:25-9:50	Hidehiko Inomata (RIKEN, Japan) Scaling of Dorsal-Ventral Patterning by Embryo Size-Dependent Degradation of Chordin
9:50-10:15	Yoshihiro Morishita (RIKEN, Japan) Quantitative analysis of tissue deformation dynamics during vertebrate limb development
10:15-10:40	Atsuko Sehara-Fujisawa (Kyoto University, Japan) Novel Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Skeletal Muscle Regeneration

Session V　11：05 - 12：20

11:05-11:30	Yosuke Mukoyama (NIH, US) Branching morphogenesis and differentiation in vascular development?
11:30-11:55	Erika Matunis (Johns Hopkins University, US) Connecting stem cell self renewal and the maintenance of adult sexual identity in the testis stem cell niche
11:55-12:20	Shosei Yoshida (NIBB, Japan) Mouse spermatogenic stem cells: their identity and dynamics

12:20-14:20Poster session & Lunch (PDF:153KB)

Session VI　14：20 - 16：00

14:20-14:45	Shinjiro Hino (Kumamoto University, Japan) The molecular mechanisms of metabolism-epigenome crosstalk
14:45-15:10	Yasuhiro Yamada (Kyoto University, Japan) Dissecting cancer biology by studying induced pluripotency
15:10-15:35	Alexander Medvinsky (University of Edinburgh, UK) Development of haematopoietic stem cells: cellular hierarchy and mechanisms
15:35-16:00	Toshio Suda (Keio University, Japan) Haematopoietic stem cell activity and ageing

16:00-16:05Concluding remarks　Shoen Kume (Kumamoto University, Japan)