NIAS-COE International Symposium
"Protein Trafficking Mechanism and its Application to Molecular Farming"

November 11 (Thuesday)
10:00-10:10Opening Remark
Kenichi Higo (NIAS, Japan)
Session 1
Chair person : Maurice M. Moloney
10:10-10:55Elizabeth E Hood (ProdiGene, USA)
Maximizing recombinant protein accumulation in corn
10:55-11:40Rainer Fischer (Inst. for Biol. I, Germany)
Molecular and cellular approaches for maximizing recombinant protein production in plant expression systems
11:40-12:15Yasunobu Matsumoto (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Development of edible vaccine for animals-Cholera toxin as mucosal adjuvant-
12:15-13:30Lunch Time
Session 2
Chair person : Henry Daniell
13:30-14:05Jun Imamura (Plantech Res.Inst. Japan)
Production of conjugated linolenic acid, punicic acid in rapeseed and rice.
14:05-14:50Maurice M. Moloney (Univ. of Calgary, Canada)
Affinity capture on seed oilbodies of recombinant proteins deposited in various subcellular compartments
14:50-15:25Fumio Takaiwa (NIAS, Japan)
New Immunotherapy using T cell epitope peptide expressed in seed
15:25-15:45Coffee Break
Session 3
Chair person : Elizabeth H. Hood
15:45-16:20Yuichiro Watanabe (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Mechanism of plant virus movement and its application to foreign gene production in plant
16:20-17:05Henry Daniell (Univ. of Central Florida, USA)
Production of biopharmaceuticals, monoclonals and edible vaccines via chloroplast engineering
17:05-17:50Peter R. Shewry (Univ. of Bristol, UK)
The use of transgenic wheat to study the trafficking of gluten proteins and their effect on grain processing properties
18:20-20:20Banquet
November 12 (Wednesday)
Session 4
Chair person : Alessando A. Vitale
9:00-9:45Brian A. Larkins (Univ. of Arizona, USA)
Zein deposition in protein bodies and its relationship to maize endosperm texture
9:45-10:20Akihiko Nakano (RIKEN, Japan)
Mechanisms and dynamics of membrane trafficking in the plant endocytic and vacuolar pathways"
10:20-10:40Coffee Break
10:40-11:25John C. Rogers (Washington State Univ., USA)
Sorting of proteins to the protein storage vacuole".
11:25-12:00Ikuko Nishimura (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Vacuolar-sorting system for storage proteins
12:00-13:10Lunch Time
Session 5
Chair person : Brian A. Larkins
13:10-13:45Shigeru Utsumi (Kyoto Univ. Japan)
Vacuolar sorting determinants of soybean ƒÀ-conglycinin ƒ¿'and ƒÀsubunits
13:45-13:55Alessandro Vitale (IBBA, Italy)
Protein maturation and accumulation in the plant endoplasmic reticulum and their implications for molecular farming
14:30-15:05Hikaru Satoh (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Mutants involving in the intracellular process for accumulation of rice glutelin in protein body
15:05-15:40Yasushi Kawagoe (NIAS, Japan)
GFP illuminates dynamic protein sorting system in transgenic rice endosperm
15:40-15:50 Fumio Takaiwa
Closing Remark