Program

Program & Abstracts


(September 17,2021 updated)


Monday, August 30, 2021

8:00 - 8:10
Introduction of the Fujihara Foundation of Science (DVD)


8:10 - 8:15
Welcome Remarks
Hironori Iwase (The Fujihara Foundation of Science, Japan)


8:15 - 8:20
Welcome Remarks
Nobutaka Hirokawa (Chairman of the Review Board of The Fujihara Foundation of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan)


8:20 - 8:30
Opening Remarks
Noriko Osumi (Tohoku University School of Medicine, Japan)


Session 1

Discussion Leader: Shinichi Furuya (Sony CSL)


S1-1 8:30 - 9:00 (Web: 18:30 - 19:00@Dollas)
Cell type-specific transcriptional networks in brain evolution and disease
Genevieve Konopka (Department of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center)


S1-2 9:00 - 9:40 (Web: 17:00 - 17:40@San Diego)
Searching for the uniqueness of the human brain using organoids and L1 retrotransposons
Alysson Muotri (Dept. of Pediatrics & Cellular Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego)


S1-3 9:40 - 10:10
Individuality of musical expertise and brain
Shinichi Furuya (Sony CSL)


10:10 - 10:30
Discussion for Session 1


Session 2

Discussion Leader: Noriko Osumi (Tohoku University School of Medicine)


S2-1 10:30 - 10:55
Individuality in the developing human brain
Fumitaka Homae (Department of Language Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University)


S2-2 10:55 - 11:20
Transgenerational epigenetics: a possible molecular mechanism for emergence of individual differences
Noriko Osumi (Tohoku University School of Medicine)


S2-3 11:20 - 11:45
Non-invasive phenotyping tools for discovering individuality of macaques and rodents
Tomohiro Shibata (Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology)


11:45 - 12:05
Discussion for Session 2


Poster Session

14:40 - 15:40 Poster Session (Odd number)

15:40 - 16:40 Poster Session (Even number)


Session 3

Discussion Leader: Itaru Imayoshi (The Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)


S3-1 16:40 - 17:05
Roles of postnatal and adult neurogenesis in brain development and maturation
Itaru Imayoshi (The Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)


S3-2 17:05 - 17:30
Genetic and environmental etiology of individual differences in personality traits and psychopathology
Yusuke Takahashi (Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University)


S3-3 17:30 - 18:00 (Recorded video distribution)
Anesthesia-Induced Brain Oscillations: A Natural Experiment in Human Neurodevelopment
Patrick Purdon (Massachusetts General Hospital)


18:00 - 18:20
Discussion for Session 3



18:30 - 20:00
Break



Session 4

Discussion Leader: Hiroki R. Ueda (1. Systems Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 2. Laboratory for Synthetic Biology, Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, RIKEN)


S4-1 20:00 - 20:30
Systems Biology of Mammalian Sleep/Wake Cycles ~Phosphorylation Hypothesis of Sleep~
Hiroki R. Ueda (1. Systems Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 2. Laboratory for Synthetic Biology, Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, RIKEN)


S4-2 20:30 - 21:00 (Web: 13:30 - 14:00@Dresden)
The social brain: How we think and feel with others
Philipp Kanske (Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience, Technische Universität Dresden)


S4-3 21:00 - 21:30 (Web: 14:00 - 14:30@Paris)
Towards a gene-level map of resilience to genetic variants associated with autism
Thomas Bourgeron (Institut Pasteur/Université de Paris)


S4-4 21:30 - 22:00 (Web: 8:30 - 9:00@Boston)
Methods for Time-Frequency Analysis
Emery Brown (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)


22:00 -22:20
Discussion for Session 4



Tuesday, August 31, 2021


Session 5

Discussion Leader: Takashi Tominaga (Institute of Neuroscience, Tokushima Bunri University)


S5-1 8:30 - 9:00 (Web: 16:30 - 17:00@Pasadena)
Pondering over individual differences in depth, and on surface - general principles, local rules, and cases in hyper-scan data
Shinsuke Shimojo (Division of Biology & Biological Engineering, CalTech)


S5-2 9:00 - 9:25
Membrane voltage imaging: Bird's-eye survey of the brain activity in one-time events when individuality emerges
Takashi Tominaga (Institute of Neuroscience, Tokushima Bunri University)


9:25 - 9:45
Discussion for Session 5


Session 6

Discussion Leader: Mikio Hoshino (National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology & Psychiatry)

S6-1 9:50 - 10:15
Memory reactivation as a mechanism for individual differences in psychiatric disease
Takuya Sasaki (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University)


S6-2 10:15 - 10:40
Quantitative assessment of brain transcriptome dynamics and cellular individuality in primate neuropsychiatric disease model
Yasuhiro Go (Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS), National Institutes of Natural Sciences)


S6-3 10:40 - 11:05
Novel function of Down Syndrome Cell Adhesion Molecule in mammarian brain development
Mikio Hoshino (National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology & Psychiatry)


11:05 - 11:25
Discussion for Session 6


11:25 - 11:35
Closing Remarks
Itaru Imayoshi (Kyoto University)