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WINGS Lecture

WINGS Lecture aims to cultivate interdisciplinary mind and to foster international talents. We invite prominent foreign researchers at quarterly intervals to give innovative lectures about life science field. Small group interviews are also provided.
Four sets of Lecture attendance, Interview participation and Reporting will satisfy 2 credits. Over-years participation is allowed, also starting before registration for the curriculum is.

   

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1th Season

Lecturer: Prof. Tom N. Grossmann, PhD
    Chair of Biomimetic Chemistry,     Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences,     Amsterdam Institute of Molecular and Life Sciences

【Lecture】
Title: Addressing Intracellular Targets with Proteomimetics - Too Big to Succeed?
Date: Apr 22, 2024 (Mon) 16:00-17:00 pm
Venue: Room No.56, 1F Faculty of Engineering Bldg. 5, Hongo-Campus
Curriculum ID: B-2024-c01_
Link for
Registration
Deadline: Noon, Apr 15, 2024 (Mon)
Abstract

【Interview】
Date: Apr 22, 2024 (Mon) 17:10-17:40 pm
Venue: Room No.57, 1F Faculty of Engineering Bldg. 5, Hongo-Campus
Curriculum ID: B-2024-c01_b
Link for Registration
Deadline: Noon, Apr 15, 2024 (Mon)

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2023

1st Season

Lecturer: Prof. Yan Lee, PhD
    Professor, Department of Chemistry,
    Seoul National University, Korea

Link for Special Page

【Lecture】
Title: Peptides for Drug Delivery
Date: May 12, 2023 (Fri) 10:00-10:45 am
Held Online (zoom)
Curriculum ID: B-2023-c01_a
Link for Registration
Deadline: Apr 21, 2023 (Fri)
Abstract

【Interview】
Date: May 12, 2023 (Fri) 11:00-12:00 am
Held Online (zoom)
Curriculum ID: B-2023-c01_b The registration form is informed only on e-mail
Deadline: Apr 21, 20223 (Fri) Noon

2nd Season

Lecturer: Prof. Richard KITCHING, PhD
    Professor, Department of Medicine and Nephrologist Monash Health,
    Monash University

【Lecture】
Title: Why Glomerulonephritis Matters
Date: Jul 24, 2023 (Mon) 10:00-11:00 am
Venue: Tetsumon Memorial Hall
Curriculum ID: B-2023-c02_a
Link for Registration
Abstract

【Interview】
Date: Jul 24, 2023 (Mon) 11:00-12:00 am
Venue: Tetsumon Memorial Hall
Curriculum ID: B-2023-c02_b
Link for Registration

3rd Season

Lecturer: Prof. Christopher J. Chang, PhD
    Class of 1942 Chair Professor Departments of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology,
    University of California, Berkeley

【Lecture】
Title: Transition Metal Signaling and Metalloallostery: Bioinorganic Chemistry Beyond Active Sites
Date: Nov 16, 2023 (Thr) 13:00-15:00 pm
Venue: Seminar room No.6, 13F Faculty of Medicine Experimental Research Bldg.
Curriculum ID: B-2023-c03_a
Link for Registration
Deadline: Nov 6, 2023 (Mon)
Abstract

【Interview】
Date: Nov 16, 2023 (Thr) 15:00-16:00 pm
Venue: Seminar room No.6, 13F Faculty of Medicine Experimental Research Bldg.
Curriculum ID: B-2023-c03_b
Link for Registration
Deadline: Nov 6, 2023 (Mon)

4th Season

Lecturer: Prof. Mark Stoneking, PhD
    Professor, GECO Evolutionary and Computational Genomics
    Université Claude Bernard Lyon

Link for Special Page

【Lecture】
Title: Archaic Genomes and Insights into Human Evolution
Date: Nov 21, 2023 (Tue) 17:00-18:00 pm
Venue: Online (zoom)
Curriculum ID: B-2023-c04_a
Link for Registration
Deadline: Nov 13, 2023 (Mon)
Abstract

【Interview】
Date: Nov 21, 2023 (Tue) 18:15-18:45 pm
Venue: Online (zoom)
Curriculum ID: B-2023-c04_b
Link for Registration
Deadline: Nov 13, 2023 (Mon)

2022

1st Season

Lecturer:Prof. Michelle Monje, MD PhD
    Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Professor, by courtesy, of Neurosurgery, Pathology, Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Stanford University

Link for Special Page

【Lecture】
Title:Neuron-glial interactions in health and disease : from cognition to cancer
Date:May 10, 2022 (Tuesday) 10:30-11:30
Held Online (zoom)
Registration has been closed
Abstract

【Interview】
Date:May 10, 2022 (Tuesday) 11:30-12:30
Held Online (zoom)
Registration has been closed on May 9th.

2nd Season

Lecturer:Prof. Hanry Yu, PhD
    Professor, Mechanobiology Institute,
National University of Singapore

Link for Special Page

【Lecture】
Title:Simplifying complex cell-based models for mechanobiological studies and screening application
Date:Jun 06, 2022 (Monday) 2:00-3:20 pm
Held Online (zoom)
Registration has been closed
Abstract

【Interview】
Date:Jun 06, 2022 (Monday) 3:20-3:50 pm
Held Online (zoom)
Registration has been closed on May 31st.

3rd Season

Lecturer:Prof. Hironori Funabiki, PhD
    Professor, Head of Laboratory,
    The Rockefeller University

Link for Special Page

【Lecture】
Title:Cell cycle control of chromatin structure and function
Date:Oct 06, 2022 (Thursday) 9:00-10:30
Held Online (zoom)
Registration closed on Sep 28, 2022
Curriculum ID:B-2022-c03_a
Abstract

【Interview】
Date:Oct 06, 2022 (Thursday) 10:45-11:30
Held Online (zoom)
Registration closed on Sep 28, 2022
Curriculum ID:B-2022-c03_b

4th Season

Lecturer:Prof. Rodney Rothstein, PhD
    Professor, Department of Genetics and Development,
    Columbia University Medical Center

Link for Special Page

【Lecture】
Title:Seeing is believing: break-induced mitotic recombination from 1936 to 2022
Date:Nov 17, 2022 (Thursday) 5:00-5:50 pm
Held Online (zoom)
Registration closed on Nov 04, 2022
Curriculum ID:B-2022-c04_a
Abstract

【Interview】
Date:Nov 04, 2022 (Thursday) 6:00-6:30 pm
Held Online (zoom)
Registration closed on Sep 28, 2022
Curriculum ID:B-2022-c04_b

2021

1st Season

Lecturer:Dr. Mark D. Okusa, M.D., FASN
    John C. Buchanan Distinguished Professor of Medicine
    Chief, Division of Nephrology
    Director, Center for Immunity, Inflammation and Regenerative Medicine
    University of Virginia

【Lecture】
Title:Biomechanical Approaches To Understand Mechanisms of Acute Kidney Injury
Date:Apr 20, 2021 (Tuesday) 8:00-9:00 am
Held Online (zoom)
Registration has been closed
Abstract

【Interview】
Date:Apr 20, 2021 (Tuesday) 9:00-10:00 am
Held Online (zoom)
Registration has been closed on Apr 16th.


2nd Season

Lecturer:Dr. Michael Douek, M.D.
    Professor of Surgical Sciences & Breast Cancer,
    University of Oxford

Link for Special Page

【Interview】
Topic:Device trials, tribulations and challenges: The Oxford Surgical Interventional Trials Unit - setting up new surgical trials
Date:Jun 28, 2021 (Monday) 5:00-6:00 pm
Held Online (zoom)
Registration has been closed

【Interview】
Date:Jun 28, 2021 (Monday) 6:20-7:00 pm
Held Online (zoom)
Registration has been closed


3rd Season

Lecturer:Prof. Laura Kiessling
    Novartis Professor of Chemistry,
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Link for Special Page

【Interview】
Topic:Chemical biology to elucidate the biological roles of carbohydrates, with a focus on learning new mechanistic concepts
Date:Sep 3, 2021 (Friday) 9:00-10:30 am
Held Online (zoom)
Registration has been closed on Sep 2nd.

【Interview】
Date:Sep 3, 2021 (Friday) 8:00-8:45 am
Held Online (zoom)
Registration has been closed on Aug 31st.

4th Season

Lecturer:Dr. Piero Carninci
    Head of Genomics Research Centre – Functional Genomics, Genomics;
    Research group leader, Carninci Group Team Leader for Laboratory for Transcriptome Technology
    and Deputy Centre Director at the RIKEN

【Lecture】
Title:Long non-coding RNAs in cellular networks and genome regulation
Date:Dec 6, 2021 (Monday) 9:30-11:00
Held Online (zoom)
Registration has been closed
Abstract

【Interview】
Date:Dec 6, 2021 (Monday) 11:00-12:00
Held Online (zoom)
Registration has been closed

2020

1st Season

Lecturer:Dr. Michael Rosen
Professor and Chair, Department of Biophysics,
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Howard Hughes Medical Institute

【Interview】
Title:Cellular Organization Through Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation
Date:Jun 20, 2020 (Saturday) 8:00-9:00 am
Held Online (zoom)
Registration has been closed on Jun 18th.
Abstract

【Interview】
Date:Jun 23, 2020 (Tue) 8:40-9:20 am
Held Online (zoom)
Registration has been closed on Jun 17th.


2nd Season

Lecturer:Dr. Nobuhiko Hata
Professor, Department of Radiology,
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

【Lecture】
Title:Developing and clinically deploying innovative devices in image-guided therapy- strategies and use cases
Date:Oct 30, 2020 (Friday) 8:30-10:00 am
Held Online (zoom)
Registration has been closed on Oct 27th.
Abstract

【Interview】
Date:Nov 10, 2020 (Tuesday) 8:30-9:30 am
Held Online (zoom)
Registration has been closed on Nov 5th.


3rd Season

Lecturer:Dr. Li Gan
Director,
Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer's disease Research Institute,
Weil Cornell Medicine

【Lecture】
Title:Maladaptive microglial response in tauopathy
Date:Dec 8, 2020 (Tuesday) 9:00-10:30 am
Held Online (zoom)
Registration has been closed on Dec 3rd.
Abstract

【Interview】
Date:Dec 8, 2020 (Tuesday) 10:30-11:30 am
Held Online (zoom)
Registration has been closed on Dec 3rd.


4th Season

Lecturer:Dr. Robert Martienssen Link
Professor & HHMI Investigator
Cancer Center Member
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

【Lecture】
Title:Epigenetically activated small RNAs are modified in pollen and mediate chromosome segregation and dosage
Date:Mar 2, 2021 (Tuesday) 9:00-10:30 am
Held Online (zoom)
Registration has been closed on Mar 1st.
Abstract

【Interview】
Date:Mar 2, 2021 (Tuesday) 10:30-11:30 am
Held Online (zoom)
Registration has been closed on Mar 1st.