SPEAKERS & PANELISTS

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Chair: Philip Campbell (NPG)

Ryoji Noyori (RIKEN, Tokyo)
Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne)

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Co-chairs: Yoshiyuki Sakaki (RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, Yokohama) and Peter Ashman (NPG)

Edison Liu (Genome Institute, Singapore)
Hiroshi Komiyama (The University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
Chak-Sing Lau (APLAR, Hong Kong)

BREAKOUT SESSION:Web Technologies and Infrastructures for networking

Co-chairs: Timo Hannay (NPG) and Katsuhiko Umehara (Mayor, Sendai)

Atsushi Sunami (GRIPS, Tokyo)
Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne)
Hiroaki Kitano (Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Tokyo)
Masao Ito (Special Advisor, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN)
Mathukumalli Vidyasagar (Tata Consultancy Service, Hyderabad)
Lee Dirks (Microsoft, Redmond)

BREAKOUT SESSION:Stem Cells

Co-chairs: Monya Baker (NPG) and Douglas Sipp (CDB)

Alan Trounson (Monash University, Melbourne)
Dorairajan Balasubramanian (L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad)
Dong-Wook Kim (Stem Cell Research Center, Seoul)
Shin-Ichi Nishikawa (CDB, Kobe)
Xiangzhong (Jerry) Yang (University of Connecticut, Storrs)
John Yu (Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Taipei)
Surapol Issaragrisil (Mahidol University, Bangkok)

BREAKOUT SESSION:Molecular biology and biotechnology

Co-chairs: Nick Campbell (NPG) and John Mattick (University of Queensland)

Jeongbin Yim (Seoul National University, Seoul)
Dangsheng Li (Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Shanghai)
Tasuku Honjo (Kyoto University, Kyoto)
Zhangliang Chen (China Agricultural University, Beijing)
Edison Liu (Genome Institute, Singapore)

BREAKOUT SESSION:Nanotechnology

Co-chairs: Peter Rodgers (NPG) and Adarsh Sandhu (Tokyo Institute of Technology and NPG)

Hiroyuki Sakaki (Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya)
Jackie Ying (IBN, Singapore)
Jo-Won Lee (TND, Seoul)
Sishen Xie (CAS, Beijing)