The Faculty of Advanced Life Science will hold the International Life Science Symposium “Causes, circumstances, and consequences of chromosome abnormalities” on November 25, 2024.
Causes, circumstances, and consequences of chromosome abnormalities
Date: Monday, November 25, 2024, 13:00-16:30
Place: Shionogi Innovation Center 1F Community Hall [Hokkaido University Area Map]
Objective:
With the rapid development of disease genome analysis in recent years, the actual status of chromosome aberrations involved in the pathogenesis of a wide range of diseases, including cancer, developmental disorders, and neurological diseases, is becoming clear. In conjunction with this, it has become clear that the phenomena generally regarded as “chromosome aberrations” have different causes and processes in different tissues and disease types, and they have different biological consequences. If we can understand the principles that give rise to the “patterns” of chromosome aberrations that characterize diseases and their meanings, we can expect to pave the way for rational mitigation and resolution of cellular and tissue dysfunction caused by chromosome aberrations, for which no intervention has been available until now. Based on these expectations, research is becoming more active, combining knowledge and technologies from various fields, such as tumor biology, genome informatics, bio-imaging, and synthetic biology, to explore the principles of pathogenesis caused by chromosome aberrations and the methods to control them.
In this symposium, we will invite the following people conducting leading research on topics related to chromosome aberrations to hold heated discussions based on the latest findings, aiming to form the foundation for future international collaborative research.
Invited Speakers:
- Dr. Sarah McClelland (Professor, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London)
https://www.bci.qmul.ac.uk/staff/professor-sarah-mcclelland/ - Dr. Kozo Tanaka (Professor and Director, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University)
https://www2.idac.tohoku.ac.jp/dep/molonc/index.html - Dr. Shin-ichiro Takebayashi (Professor, Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie Univ.)
https://katsu2634molcell.wixsite.com/molcellbio - Dr. Shinya Ohta (Associate Professor, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido Univ.)
https://www.igm.hokudai.ac.jp/3dgenome/ja/member.html
Organized by Ryo Yamaguchi and Ryota Uehara (Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido Univ.)
***This symposium is supported by the “Next Generation Life Science International Network Formation Support Program”, an intra-departmental fund launched in FY2023 by the Faculty of Advanced Life Science.