Symposium D

Paper Title
Integrated model membrane for biophysical studies and biomedical applications
Short Biography
Dr. Kenichi Morigaki is a Professor at Kobe University, Japan. He obtained Ph.D. from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Zurich (Switzerland) in 1998. After postdoctoral research at Max-Planck-Institute of Polymer Research (Mainz, Germany) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland), he returned to Japan in 2002 to join AIST. He moved to Kobe University in 2009, where he is a Professor at Biosignal Research Center and Graduate School of Agricultural Science. He has been working on self-assembly of the biological/ environmental systems. His research group currently works on the development of complex and functional model biological membrane on a solid support.

Paper Title
Fluorescence single molecule tracking in biomembranes and its application to material sciences
Short Biography
Dr Ryugo Tero is a Professor of Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan. His group works on assembly and dynamics of lipid and protein molecules in artificial biomembranes on solid substrates. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 2003, and progressed his research on lipid bilayer membranes based on interface chemistry in Institute for Molecular Science, Japan, and Toyohashi University of Technology. He is Fellow of the Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science.

Paper Title
Functional measurement of membrane proteins that utilizes microwells sealed with lipid bilayers in the presence of ionic liquid
Short Biography
Yoshiaki Kashimura is a senior research scientist at NTT Basic Research Laboratories and Bio-Medical Informatics Research Center, NTT Corporation. He received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D degrees in chemistry from The University of Tokyo in 1993, 1995, and 1999, respectively. He joined NTT Basic Research Laboratories as a research scientist in 1999. From 2005 to 2006, he was a visiting professor at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. His research interests include biodevices for functional analysis of membrane proteins.

Paper Title
New tools for the functional analysis of membrane proteins based on lipid bilayer systems
Short Biography
Ayumi Hirano-Iwata is a Professor at Tohoku University, Japan. She received her PhD from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1998. From 1998 to 2001, she worked as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow. In 2001, she was appointed as a research associate at Nihon University. In 2003, she moved to the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) after being granted a JSPS postdoctoral fellowship for Research Abroad. In 2006 she was appointed a research associate at Tohoku University and was promoted to an associate professor in 2008. Her research interests include biodevices based on the combination of fabrication technologies and biomaterials, such as bilayer lipid membranes and neuronal cells.

Paper Title
Nanopore Sensors Using Probe-Type Lipid Bilayer Systems
Short Biography
Kan Shoji is an Associate Professor at Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan. He received his PhD from Osaka University, Japan in 2016. Then, He worked as a JSPS Research Fellow at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan and University of Cincinnati, USA. His group currently aims to develop new bio-hybrid systems by combining microfabrication techniques, electrochemistry, robotics, and structural DNA nanotechnology.