Japanese American Frontiers of Science Symposium | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

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International Program Department,
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
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2014

	Date	:	December 5 – December 7, 2014
	Venue	:	Hotel New Otani


	Session Topics:
	- Cells in Computers - Advanced Chemical Imaging – Molecular Imaging Probes & BioPhotonics - Climate Change and Food Security - Biomimickry/Biomimetics - Origami – Paper Folding and Its Generalization - Human Microbiome – Links to Health and Disease - Metrology and Standards - The Metabolism of Cities: Energy, Scalability, and Societal Well-Being
	Program (PDF) Abstract & Glossary (PDF) Report on the 14th JAFoS Symposium by PGM Co-Chair Dr. Hosoya (PDF) Questionnaire Results (PDF)


	List of Participants:
	PGM: Planning Group Member

Cells in Computers (Biology/Life Science)
PGM	Kazuhiro MAESHIMA	National Institute of Genetics
PGM (Co-Chair)	Joy K. WORD	University of Kansas
Chair	Akira FUNAHASHI	Keio University
Speaker	Koichi TAKAHASHI	RIKEN
Speaker	Jonathan KARR	Mount Sinai Hospital
Advanced Chemical Imaging – Molecular Imaging Probes & BioPhotonics (Chemistry/Biochemistry)
PGM	Miya ISHIHARA	National Defense Medical College
PGM	Jacob HOOKER	Harvard Medical School
Chair	Etsuko KIYOKAWA	Kanazawa Medical University
Speaker	Masaru ISHII	Osaka University
Speaker	Alan Pradip JASANOFF	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Climate Change and Food Security (Earth Science/Environment)
PGM	Yusuke YOKOYAMA	The University of Tokyo
PGM	David H. McNEAR	University of Kentucky
Chair	Jennifer Anne BURNEY	University of California, San Diego
Speaker	Kiyoshi TAKAHASHI	National Institute for Environmental Studies
Speaker	Marshall BURKE	Stanford University
Biomimickry/Biomimetics (Materials Sciences/Biomaterials)
PGM	Shinya YOSHIOKA	Osaka University
PGM	LaShanda KORLEY	Case Western Reserve University
Chair	Mathias Kolle	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Speaker	Kaori KAMATA	Tokyo Institute of Technology
Speaker	Jeffrey Karp	Harvard Medical School / Brigham Women’s Hospital
Origami – Paper Folding and Its Generalization (Mathematics/Applied Mathematics/Informatics)
PGM	Kazuhisa MAKINO	Kyoto University
PGM	Sebastien LAHAIE	Microsoft Research
Chair	Ryuhei UEHARA	Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Speaker	Tomohiro TACHI	The University of Tokyo
Speaker	Thomas HULL	Western New England University
Human Microbiome – Links to Health and Disease (Medical/Neuroscience)
PGM (Co-Chair)	Toshihiko HOSOYA	RIKEN
PGM	Gonzalo E. TORRES	University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
Chair	Dan KNIGHTS	University of Minnesota
Speaker	Shinji FUKUDA	Keio University
Speaker	Laura M. COX	New York University Langone Medical Center
Metrology and Standards (Physics/Astrophysics/Astronomy)
PGM	Kensuke KOBAYASHI	Osaka University
PGM	Emilia MOROSAN	Rice University
Chair	Mark KELLER	U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Speaker	Naoki KURAMOTO	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Speaker	Jon R. PRATT	U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
The Metabolism of Cities: Energy, Scalability, and Societal Well-Being (Social Sciences)
PGM	Daiji KAWAGUCHI	Hitotsubashi University
PGM	Peter DODDS	University of Vermont
Chair	Yasuhiro SATO	Osaka University
Speaker	Luis BETTENCOURT	Santa Fe Institute
Speaker	Kentaro NAKAJIMA	Tohoku University

General Participants(Japan side)

Aya TAKAHASHI

Tokyo Metropolitan University

Yoshiki HAYASHI

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Sayaka UCHIDA

The University of Tokyo

Katsuhisa MATSUURA

Tokyo Women's Medical University

Mayuri INOUE

Okayama University

Yuki KIMURA

Hokkaido University

Chika MINEJIMA

International Christian University

Motoyasu KOBAYASHI

Kogakuin University

Shuji FUJII

Osaka Institute of Technology

Takayuki MUROSAKI

Asahikawa Medical University

Kazunori SATO

Osaka University

Junichi YAMAGISHI

National Institute of Informatics

Kazuo KITAMURA

Yamanashi University

Michinori SAITO

Kyoto University

(Absent)

Rieko MURAMATSU

Osaka University

Akiko UEDA

University of Tsukuba

Takeru SUZUKI

Nagoya University

Chisa HOTTA

The University of Tokyo

Yukiko ASAI

The University of Tokyo

Hisaki KOHNO

Kyoto University

General Participants(US side)

Arash Bashirullah

University of Wisconsin

Jennifer Cherrier

Florida A&M University

Jose Clemente

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Adam P. Eisele

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Thomas Epps

University of Delaware

Shelly Flagel

University of Michigan

David Hanson

University of New Mexico

Janneke Hille Ris Lambers

University of Washington

Mona Jarrahi

University of California, Los Angeles

Yu-Ru Lin

University of Pittsburgh

Randall McEntaffer

University of Iowa

Rebekah Miller (Hooker)

EMD Millipore, a subsidiary of Merck KGaA

Geoff Morris

Kansas State University

Carrie Newman Ferrario

University of Michigan

Bradley Olsen

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rodney Priestley

Princeton University

Alyssa Rhoden

NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center

Anne Schaefer

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Elizabeth Wilson

University of Minnesota