GeneExpression Systems, Inc & Appasani Research Conferences and Educational Institue (ARCEI.ORG)
Jointly Presents

First International: Therapeutics Discovery Symposium Asia
Small RNAs to Stem Cells & Epigenetic Reprogramming Asia-2013 Meeting
On
‘RNA Regulation to Delivery, Programming to Pluripotency & Therapeutics’

Date: November 25 – 26, 2013

Venue: Sanjo Conference Hall, University of Tokyo Hongo Campus, Tokyo, JAPAN

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SCOPE OF THE MEETING:
Small RNAs to Stem Cells & Epigenetic Reprogramming Asia-2013 is our first meeting in our ‘Therapeutics Discovery Symposium Asia Series,’ and Second International Meeting on this related topic. The first was held at Embassy Suites, Burlingame-San Francisco, California, USA on December 5-6, 2009, which was inaugurated by UCSF Professor Dr. Deepak Srivastava. The purpose and scope of this symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion of the current state of the art of rapidly evolving and inter-related RNA biology, Stem Cell Biology and Epigenomics fields. These have attracted a much attention in recent years from both academic and industry laboratories, so we combined and grouped into ‘Small RNAs to Stem Cells & Epigenetic Reprogramming.’

In this international meeting, prominent researchers (Developmental biologists, cell biologists, molecular biologists, computational biologists, neurobiologists, clinicians, chemists and physicists)  from both academia and industry will gather and discuss the applications in form of keynote lectures, invited talks, short oral, and poster presentations. All the members (except keynote speakers) who participate in this symposium have to register for the meeting by paying the appropriate registration fee. This meeting is for PhD students and professors from academia, R&D scientists, executives from biotech and pharmaceutical industry.
 

Unique Global Event in Combining Small RNAs Biology with Reprogramming Biology & Epigenetics

Meet Experts From: World Premier International Research Universities/Institutes/Companies

Krishnarao APPASANI, PhD., MBA Founder & CEO GeneExpression Systems, Inc Waltham, MA USA

Keynote Speakers:

	Hideyuki OKANO, MD, PhD. P rofessor of Physiology & Chairman of Graduate School of Medicine Keio University School of Medicine Tokyo, Japan Title: Post-transcriptional regulation of stem cell properties
	Shunsuke ISHII, PhD.          Chief Scientist RIKEN Tsukuba Institute Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Title: Inheritance of stress-induced epigenome changes

Other Speakers:

	Nagy HABIB, MB Ch, PhD, FRCS Professor of Surgery Imperial College of London Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK Title: Differentiation of CD34+ cells using small activating RNA targeting the Islet β-cell transcriptional factor MafA		Kenzaburo TANI, MD, PhD. Professor of Medical Genomics Medical Institute of Bioregulation Kyushu University Hospital Fukuoka, Japan Title: MicroRNA-targeted coxsackievirus B3 infection markedly reduces its toxicity without losing its original oncolytic activity
	Piero CARNINCI, PhD.                                             Director of the Division of Genomic Technologies RIKEN CLST Yokohama, Kanagawa, JAPAN Title: Identification of novel long-non-coding RNAs that are important for maintenance of iPS		Yangming WANG, PhD.                                           Professor of Molecular Medicine & PI, Lab. of Stem Cells and Noncoding RNAs Peking University Beijing, PR. China Title: MicroRNA regulation of cell cycle and self-renewal in embryonic stem cells
	Matthew HSU, PhD. Director of R&D-Bioscience Division Merck Millipore, Inc. Temecula, California, USA Title: miRNA profiling of cancer cells using SmartFlareTM, a novel live-cell RNA detection technology		Kumiko SAEKI, MD, PhD. Director of the Division of Stem Cell Therapy Research Institute National Center for Global Health & Medicine Tokyo, Japan Title: Production of functional brown adipocytes from human pluripotent stem cells
	Hiroshi SUZUKI, MD.  Molecular Pathology University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan Title: Understanding RNA language for the future nucleic acid medicine		Hironori WAKI, MD, PhD.                                        Project Associate Professor Graduate School of Medicine-University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan Title: Genome-wide profiling of brown fat-specific open regulatory regions tdentifies NFIA as a transcriptional regulator of brown fat–muscle cell lineage specification
	Toru NAKANO, MD, PhD.                           Professor of Pathology Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences Osaka University School of Medicine Suita, Osaka, JAPAN Title: Artificial induction of germ cell specific gene silencing through piRNA pathway		Yota MURAKAMI, PhD.                                           Professor of Chemistry Hokkaido University Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan Title: Noncoding RNAs & RNAi-directed heterochromatin formation
	Noemi FUSAKI, PhD.                         Team Leader-JST PRESTO Keio University School of Medicine Tokyo, Japan Title: Efficient generation of integration-free patient-specific pluripotent stem cells and drug screening		Yu Fujita, MD.  Research Associate in Respiratory Diseases Jikei University School of Medicine & Division of Molecular and Cellular Medicine National Cancer Center Research Institute Tokyo, Japan Title: A novel microRNA-mediated regulation of lung cancer stem cells
	Hidetoshi TAHARA, PhD. Professor of Cellular & Mol. Biology Hiroshima University Hiroshima, Japan Title: Therapeutic role of microRNAs in cancer and cellular senescence		Kuniaki SAITO, PhD. Associate Professor of Molecular Biology Keio University School of Medicine Tokyo, Japan Title: piRNA pathway in Drosophila
	Sun LEI, PhD. Assistant Professor Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore Title: Title: long non-coding RNA in adipocyte development		Li ZENG, PhD. Principle Investigator Neural Stem Cell Research Lab National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore Title: Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) regulates the proliferation and differentiation of neural progenitors by antagonising miRNA in the developing cerebral cortex
	Stefano GUSTINCICH, PhD. Co-founder of TranSINE Technologies Co. Ltd. RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Japan & Associate Professor of Neurobiology International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy Title: SINEUPs: a new functional class of natural and synthetic antisense non-coding RNAs that activate translation		Chanil Chang                                                            Director of R&D institute BioMolecular Therapeutics, Inc. Seoul, Korea Title: Anti-Scar therapeutics development using cell-penetrating asymmetric RNAi triggers
	Hideo AKIYAMA, PhD.                                             Deputy General Manager New Projects Development Division Toray Industries, Inc. Kamakura, Kanagawa, JAPAN Title: Blood miRNA as a cancer biomarker		Akihiko OKUDA, MD., PhD. Professor & Chair of Developmental Biology Research Center for Genomic Medicine Saitama Medical University Hidaka, Saitama, Japan Title: Underlying the molecular bases of cell death phenotype of Max-null embryonic stem cells
	Mari DEZAWA, MD, PhD. Professor & Chair of Stem Cell Biology Tohoku University School of Medicine Sendai, Japan Title: Discovery of intrinsic pluripotent stem cells, Muse cells, that resides in adult human mesenchymal tissues		Hodaka FUJII, MD, PhD. Associate Professor Osaka University Suita-shi, Osaka, Japan Title: Locus-specific biochemical analysis of genome functions by iChIP and enChIP
	Ryuichi ONO, PhD.                                                   Assistant Professor of Epigenetics Tokyo Medical & Dental University Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan Title: Evolution of mammalian viviparity by retrotransposon-derived imprinted genes		Makoto INAKI, PhD.                                                 Researcher in Genetics National Research Institute for Child Health and Development Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan Title: Primary human B lymphocyte-derived iPS cells, their generation and application
	Takashi SONOKI, MD, PhD. Associate Professor of Hematology/Oncology Wakayama Medical University Wakayama, Japan Title: MiR125 is an oncomir in both myeloid or lymphoid tumors as shown mouse models		Timothy LEE BioSpherix, Ltd. Lacona, New York, USA Title: Better manufacturing practice for cell therapies
	Takanori TAKEBE, MD. Assistant Professor in Regenerative Medicine  Yokohama City University School of Medicine Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan  Title: Vascularized and functional human liver from an iPSC-derived organ bud transplant		Yasuo OUCHI, PhD. Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences Chubu University Kasugai, Aichi, Japan Title: The emerging role of microRNA biogenesis in adult neurogenesis and schizophrenia

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