An Update on Molecular Motors:
     Open Challenges and New Perspectives

 

This workshop aims to bring together practitioners in the field to focus on future perspectives and newly emerging questions on the study of the working mechanisms of molecular motors. In particular, current theoretical and experimental challenges will be addressed and suggestions on how to tackle them will be shared. On the other hand, ideas on how the study of molecular motors, as a fundamental research, can benefit other disciplines, e.g. cell biology, medicine, nano-tech, data science, statistical physics, etc., will also be discussed to inspire further cross-disciplinary collaborations.

    November 20 - 21, 2018


    Multi-purpose room (second floor), Electrical, Information and Physics Building No. 1 (D10)
   Tohoku University Aobayama Campus
    (about 10-min walk from the subway station (Aobayama))
（東北大学青葉山キャンパス 工学研究科 電気情報応物系 1号館 2階 ユーティリティ室）


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25min Talk + 10min Discussion, HDMI and RGB cables are available.

20 Nov. 2018    

TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
13:00	Shoichi Toyabe (Tohoku)  Stefano Bo  (NORDITA)	Welcome remarks
13:15	Eiro Muneyuki (Chuo)	Energetics of Thermophilic F1 motor
13:50	Yohei Nakayama (Chuo)	Unreliability of stochastic thermodynamics to quantify the energy balance of F1-ATPase
14:25	COFFEE BREAK
14:45	Hiroshi Ueno  (Tokyo)	Rotation of the engineered F1-ATPase with non-catalytic α-type P-loops
15:20	Ken'ya Furuta  (NICT)	Re-design of linear molecular motors
15:55	George Mogami  (Tohoku)	Sliding of actomyosin derived from hydration free energy
16:30	SHORT BREAK
16:40	Mariel Zarco Zavala  (Tokyo)	The Chemomechanical Coupling of the F1 ATPase of Paracoccus denitrificans
17:15	Hiroyuki Noji (Tokyo)	The remaining issues on F1-ATPase
17:50	Free discussion
18:20	COOKING
19:00	DINNER

21 Nov. 2018

TIME	SPEAKER	TITLE
9:30	Akihiko Nakamura (IMS)	Processive chitinase is Brownian ratchet moving unidirectionally by fast catalysis
10:05	Kei-ichi Okazaki (IMS)	Estimating dynamic energy landscape of biomolecular motors from single-molecule trajectories: Application to a linear motor chitinase
10:40	Ryota Shinagawa (Tohoku)	Prediction of mechanical properties of F1-ATPase by measuring the torque dependence of rotational diffusion coefficient
11:15	COFFEE BREAK
11:45	Chun-Biu Li (Stockholm)	Inter- and intra-molecular heterogeneities: Are they common and good for the function of motor proteins?
12:20	Shuichi Nakamura (Tohoku)	Mechanisms of assembly and rotation of the bacterial flagellar motor
12:55	LUNCH
14:00	Jun Ando (IMS)	High-speed, high-precision, single-molecule imaging of dynein with plasmonic nanoparticles
14:35	Kiyoto Kamagata (Tohoku)	Ecological search dynamics of DNA-binding proteins for target DNA
15:10	Kyogo Kawaguchi (RIKEN)	Stochastic dynamics of multi-agent biological systems
15:45	Chun-Biu Li (Stockholm)	Closing remarks

    Stefano Bo (NORDITA (The Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics))
    Chun-Biu Li (Stockholm U)
    Shoichi Toyabe (Tohoku U)
    Hiroyuki Noji (Tokyo U)


    Shoichi Toyabe
    Aoba 6-6-05, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan
    Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University
    TEL/FAX: +81-22-795-7950
    toyabe_at_tohoku.ac.jp (please substitute _at_ by @)