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Date

November 30 – December 2, 2012

 

Venue

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, California

 

Session Topics:

 

Epigenetics: Was Lamarck Right?

Artificial Cells and Tissues by Chemistry

Ocean Acidification / N2O

Potential Replacements for Rare Earths

Auction Theory and Mechanism Design

Personalized Medicine

Second Law of Thermodynamics

Aftermath of Disasters

 

List of Participants:

   PGM: Planning Group Member
Chairs, Speakers (US side): to be announced
Epigenetics: Was Lamarck Right? (Bioscience/Life Science) Glossary
PGM [Co-chair] Takeharu NAGAI Osaka University  
PGM Joy K. WARD University of Kansas  
Chair Jennifer BRISSON University of Nebraska-Lincoln 
Speaker Tania L. ROTH University of Delaware 
Speaker Hidetoshi SAZE Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology 
Artificial Cells and Tissues by Chemistry (Chemistry/Biochemistry) Glossary
PGM Yasuteru URANO The University of Tokyo  
PGM Torsten FIEBIG Northwestern University  
Chair Shin-ichiro M. NOMURA Tohoku University 
Speaker Daniel GIBSON J. Craig Venter Institute 
Speaker Hiroaki ONOE The University of Tokyo 
Ocean Acidification / N2O (Earth Science/Environment) Glossary
PGM Yusuke YOKOYAMA The University of Tokyo  
PGM David H. MCNEAR University of Kentucky  
Chair Michael BEMAN University of California, Merced 
Speaker Kristy J. KROEKER University of California, Davis 
Speaker Sakae TOYODA Tokyo Institute of Technology 
Potential Replacements for Rare Earths (Materials Sciences/Biomaterials) Glossary
PGM Yuka TABE Waseda University  
PGM Helen H. LU Columbia University  
Chair Toshiharu TERANISHI Kyoto University 
Speaker Ping LIU University of Texas at Arlington 
Speaker Tomoyuki OGAWA Tohoku University 
Auction Theory and Mechanism Design (Mathematics/Applied Mathematics/ Informatics) Glossary
PGM Kazuhisa MAKINO The University of Tokyo  
PGM Jake HOFMAN Microsoft Research    
Chair Sergei VASSILVITSKII Google Research 
Speaker Takayuki ITO Nagoya Institute of Technology 
Speaker Sebastien LAHAIE Microsoft Research 
Personalized Medicine (Medical/Neuroscience) Glossary
PGM Toshihiko HOSOYA RIKEN  
PGM Gonzalo E. TORRES University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine  
Chair Taku MIYAGAWA The University of Tokyo 
Speaker Makoto ARAI Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science 
Speaker Elizabeth WORTHEY Medical College of Wisconsin 
Second Law of Thermodynamics (Physics/Astrophysics/Astronomy) Glossary
PGM Yusuke KATO The University of Tokyo  
PGM [Co-chair] Heather LEWANDOWSKI JILA, University of Colorado  
Chair Kensuke KOBAYASHI Osaka University 
Speaker Gavin CROOKS Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 
Speaker Takahiro SAGAWA Kyoto University 
Aftermath of Disasters (Social Sciences) Glossary
PGM Daiji KAWAGUCHI Hitotsubashi University  
PGM Peter S. DODDS University of Vermont  
Chair Carter T. BUTTS University of California, Irvine 
Speaker Yasuyuki SAWADA University of Tokyo 
Speaker Tricia WACHTENDORF University of Delaware 

 

General Participants(Japan side)
Waka AOYAMA Hokkaido University
Makoto ARITA The University of Tokyo
Tatsushi IGAKI Kobe University
Miya ISHIHARA National Deffense Medical College
Toshimasa ISHII Hokkaido University
Kiyoto KASAI The University of Tokyo
Junichiro KURODA Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
Hiroaki KUSUNOSE Ehime University
Kazuhiro MAESHIMA National Institute of Genetics
Masanori MATSUZAKI National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) 
Makiko NAKAMURO Tohoku University
Yasushi OKADA RIKEN
Yusuke OKAZAKI Kyushu University
Hirotaka ONO Kyushu University
Yuko SAKURAI Kyushu University
Masaru SASAKI Osaka University
Tomohiro SASAMOTO Chiba University
Ryoko SHIMADA Japan Women's University
Yoshinori TAKANO Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
Shinya YOSHIOKA Osaka University
General Participants(US side)
Jill ANDERSON University of South Carolina
Matthew BOGYO Stanford University
Edward A. BOTCHWEY Georgia Institute of Technology
Kate CARROLL Scripps Research Institute
Damon CENTOLA Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jennifer N. Cha University of Colorado
Sandeep Robert DATTA Harvard Medical School
Diva D. De LEON University of Pennsylvania
Arne D. EKSTROM University of California, Davis
Elham FINI North Carolina A&T State University
Brian GLAZER University of Hawai'i, Manoa
Marta GONZALEZ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Amy E. HOFMANN University of California, Berkeley
Jacob HOOKER Harvard Medical School
Ali KHADEMHOSSEINI Harvard Medical School
LaShanda KORLEY Case Western Reserve University
Krista LISDAHL University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Emilia MOROSAN Rice University
Dustin RUBENSTEIN Columbia University
Richard SCHALLER Northwestern University
Megan SCHWAMB Yale University
Emily TROEMEL University of California, San Diego
Herschel WADE Johns Hopkins University
Matthew WILLARD Case Western Reserve University

Program(PDF)

 

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