Program

Nov. 16th (Wed)

Reception 9:00 ~ 9:30

9:30

Welcome address

Nobutaka Hanagata, Vice President, NIMS

9:35

Scope

Jun Nakanishi, Group Leader, NIMS

9:40-10:25

User-Programmable Control of Biomaterial Mechanics (Plenary)

Cole DeForest , Weyerhauser Endowed Professor, University of Washington

10:25-10:50

Development of Rotaxane- and Cyclophane-based Supramolecular Mechanophores (Invited)

Yoshimitsu Sagara, Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology

10:50-11:10

Shape-Memory Actuators for Biomedical Applications

Mitsuhiro Ebara, Group Leader, NIMS

11:10-11:35

Membrane Curvature Sensing by Amphipathic Helical Peptide-based Probes for the Analysis of Extracellular Vesicles (Invited)

Yusuke Sato, Associate Professor, Tohoku University

11:35-11:55

Development of Adaptive Interfaces for Cell Mechanobiology Studies

Jun Nakanishi, Group Leader, NIMS

Group photo & lunch 11:55 ~ 13:00

13:00-13:45

Polymer Mechanochemistry Based on Dynamic Covalent Mechanophores (Plenary)

Hideyuki Otsuka, Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology

13:45-14:05

Discrete Softening of Biomaterial IPNs Through Orthogonal Enzymatic Degradation for Mechanobiological Studies (Invited)

Irina Kopyeva, Doctoral Student, University of Washington

14:05-14:25

Mechanically-responsive Luminescent Lanthanide(III) Coordination Materials

Yuichi Hirai, lCYS Researcher, NIMS

14:25-14:50

Leveraging Biomaterials to Understand Melanoma Aggressiveness from Their Migratory Phenotypes (Invited)

Sylvia Ganda, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of New South Wales

14:50-15:10

Dimension Control of Ion Transport Pathways for Electromechanical Actuators

Masafumi Yoshio, Group Leader, NIMS

Coffee break 15:10 ~ 15:35

15:35-16:20

Microstructured Materials for Mechanobiology (Plenary)

Kristopher Kilian, Scientia Associate Professor, University of New South Wales

16:20-16:45

Modelling Multicellular Dynamics for Versatile Prediction of Microtissue Morphology Formed on 3D Engineered Scaffolds (Invited)

Tadahiro Yamashita, Senior Assistant Professor, Keio University

16:45-17:05

Self-Healing Soft Materials Based on Ionic Liquids

Ryota Tamate, Independent Scientist, NIMS

17:05-17:30

Biomechanical Approaches for Investigating the Roles of Actin-Nucleus Interactions in Vascular Cell Functions (Invited)

Kazuaki Nagayama, Professor, Ibaraki University

17:30-17:50

Spatio-Temporal Manipulation of Cellular Functions Based on Shape Memory Polymers

Koichiro Uto, Independent Scientist, NIMS

17:50

Closing

Koichiro Uto, Independent Scientist, NIMS

Invited dinner (only for speakers) 18:30 ~ 20:30

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