Period：2026-03-02~ 2026-03-09

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Topic：An inordinate fondness for symbionts: Beneficial bacteria as sources of evolutionary innovations in beetles
Speaker：Prof. Martin Kaltenpoth (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)
Date：2026-03-03 11:00 - 12:00
Place：Auditorium A134, Agricultural Technology Building, Academia Sinica

Topic：Decoding Beta Cell Vulnerability and Engineering Resilience: Insights from Genome-Wide CRISPR Screens
Speaker：Dr. Erica Pei-Shan Cai (Indiana Biosciences Research Institute, USA)
Date：2026-03-04 10:00 - 11:50
Place：3F Meeting Room, Genomics Research Center

Topic：Intron Retention as a Bidirectional Homeostat: Stress Fingerprints and Therapeutic Readouts
Speaker：Prof. Norihiro Okada (Kitasato University, Tokyo)
Date：2026-03-05 15:00 - 16:30
Place：Auditorium, 1st Floor, Interdisciplinary Research Building

Topic：The landscape of protein phosphorylation dynamics under heat stress in Marchantia Polymorpha/ N6-methyladenosine (m6A) of mRNAs mediates the growth fitness of young Arabidopsis seedlings
Speaker：Dr. Kuan-Hung Lin/ Mr. Yen-Chiun Chen(Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica)
Date：2026-03-06 10:30 - 11:30
Place：Multifunction Room R106, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology (IPMB) Building, Academia Sinica

Topic：Molecular and circuit mechanisms of functional brain development
Speaker：Dr. Kazuo EMOTO (The University of Tokyo, JAPAN)
Date：2026-03-09 11:00 - 12:30
Place：Auditorium, ICOB

Topic：Induced Proximity Drug Modalities: Hijacking Mother Nature to Control Protein Function
Speaker：Dr. Craig M. Crews (Yale University, USA)
Date：2026-03-09 15:30 - 17:00
Place：IBC 103 Auditorium

Topic：Dissecting Photosymbiosis to Understand the Present and Reconstruct the Past
Speaker：Dr. Shinichiro Maruyama (The University of Tokyo)
Date：2026-03-10 10:00 - 11:30
Place：Auditorium, 1st Floor, Interdisciplinary Research Building

Topic：Human Gut Organoids for Modelling Intestinal Immune Responses to Infection and Inflammation: Insights from MAIT Cells
Speaker：Associate Professor Edwiin Leeansyah (Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, China)
Date：2026-03-11 10:30 - 11:50
Place：3F Meeting Room, Genomics Research Center

Topic：Mechanisms regulating neural diversification, tissue size, and polarity: implications for regeneration
Speaker：Dr. Michel CAYOUETTE (IRCM, Canada)
Date：2026-03-11 11:00 - 12:30
Place：Auditorium, ICOB

Topic：Coupling between membrane lipid scrambling and ion transport
Speaker：Ms. Risa Matsui (Kyoto University, Japan
Date：2026-03-12 11:00 - 12:00
Place：IBC R209

Topic：The Biomarker — From Engineering Innovation to Clinical Digital Medicine
Speaker：Dr. Yasue Mitsukura (Keio Univ.)
Date：2026-03-12 14:00 - 15:00
Place：B1B Lecture Room, IBMS

Topic：Modeling diabetes in a dish: hPSC-derived platforms show INSR drives metabolic shifts
Speaker：Dr. Max Friesen (Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, USA)
Date：2026-03-16 10:00 - 11:50
Place：3F Meeting Room, Genomics Research Center

Topic：Seed Institute--Moving Nuclei, Making Seeds: How Actin Controls Fertilization and Shapes Seed Development
Speaker：Dr. Tomo Kawashima (Associate Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky, USA)
Date：2026-03-16 11:00 - 13:00
Place：Auditorium A134, Agricultural Technology Building

Topic：IMMUNOGENOMIC CANCER EVOLUTION: A framework of immunosuppressive mechanisms in the tumor microenvironment
Speaker：Dr. Hiroyoshi Nishikawa (Kyoto Univ.)
Date：2026-03-17 11:00 - 12:00
Place：B1C Auditorium, IBMS

Topic：Aging and Adult Neurogenesis
Date：2026-03-09 08:30 ~ 2026-03-11 17:20
Place：B1 Auditorium, IMB

Date：2026-03-13 07:30 ~ 2026-03-14 17:45
Place：B1C Lecture Room, IBMS

In this review, we synthesize current knowledge on the bidirectional gut-heart dialogue, emphasizing immunometabolic signaling, cross-organ integration, and regenerative mechanisms

We present a comprehensive biophysical and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis of thermally stable ubiquitin and its ProteinMPNN-designed variants, R4 and R10, together with a second system based on the less stable ISG15 C-terminal domain (ISG15-CTD).

We explored the mechanism of bacterial oligosaccharide-immune stimulation and shed the light on the vaccination or immune based therapy against pathogenic bacteria infection.

We establish a unified mechanistic framework for designing encapsulation-stable yet trigger-responsive liposomes by elucidating how membrane-anchored peptides interact with membranes.

Our study reveals pathways contributing to osteoclast differentiation.

This study not only establishes a novel method for reconstructing prehistoric coral reef food webs but also provides quantitative indicators for assessing the health of modern marine ecosystems.

In this study, we examine how C-terminal variations—arising from disease-associated nonstop mutations, alternative splicing, and translational readthrough—affect protein half-lives.

Our study reveals how splicing contributes to host adaptation during endosymbiosis and highlights the evolutionary dynamics of short introns in eukaryotes.

Our findings define a conserved Wdr4/Mettl1-let7-TOR-JNK axis that couples miRNA m7G methylation to translation control, ribosome biogenesis, and intestinal tissue integrity.

Our findings define a conserved Wdr4/Mettl1-let7-TOR-JNK axis that couples miRNA m7G methylation to translation control, ribosome biogenesis, and intestinal tissue integrity.

This study uncovers the molecular mechanisms underlying the promotion of anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) tumor progression by EpCAM signaling via the ERK-EGR1-TNF-α axis

These findings uncover a new layer of translational control by light signals and demonstrate how dynamic ribosomal protein modification ensures robust seedling development in response to changing environmental conditions

abPFN-PanMETAI offers a rapid, accurate, and non-invasive tool for early PDAC detection, with strong potential for clinical application.