Speakers

Y Sano (Yamaguchi Univ., Japan ), H S Kim (Chonnam Natl Univ., Korea), H Mochizuki (Kitasato Univ., Japan)

O Takikawa (National Ctr Geriatrics Gerontol., Japan), S Y Kim (Ajou Univ., Korea), K Takeuchi (Niigata Univ., Japan)

B G Kang (Samsung Medical Ctr, Korea), S K Kim (Seoul Natl Univ., Korea), H J Cha (CHA Univ., Korea)

H Ito (Tokyo Med Den Univ., Japan), H Sumi (Osaka Univ., Japan), K O Uhm (National Ctr Geriatrics Gerontol., Japan)

H Horie (Kanagawa Dent College, Japan), K Ishikawa (Tokyo Med Dent Univ., Japan), S Ishii (Keio Univ., Japan)

T Seki (Tokyo Medical Univ., Japan), D S Park (Chungbuk Natl Univ.,Korea), K Itoh (Kyoto Pref Univ. of Med., Japan)

Y S Song (Soonchunhyang Univ., Korea), K Ishikawa (Tokyo Med Dent Univ., Japan), Y B Lee (Ajou Univ., Korea)

H Okazawa (Tokyo Med Dent Univ., Japan ), H J Ree (Hallym Univ., Korea), K Watabe (Tokyo Met Inst Neurosci., Japan)

Program Schedule

Time	Title	Speaker
08:00 - 08:30	Registration
08:30 - 08:40	Opening Remarks: Seung U. Kim (Chung-Ang Univ. )

SESSION 1

Chair : Makoto Michikawa (National Ctr Geriatrics Gerontol., Japan)
Y B Lee (Ajou Univ., Korea)

08:40 -09:00	S1-1	Establishment of a new conditionallyimmortalized human brain microvascularendothelial cell line retaining an in vivo blood-brain barrier function	asuteru Sano (Yamaguchi Univ., Japan )
09:00 - 09:20	S1-2	Establishment of immortalized human brainmicrovessel endothelial cells a	H S Kim (Chonnam Natl Univ.,Korea)
09:20 - 09:40	S1-3	Parkin gene therapy	Hideki Mochizuki (Kitasato Univ., Japan)
09:40 - 10:00	S1-4	Endogenous Neurotoxin Quinolinic Acid MayPlay a Primary Role in the Pathology ofAlzheimer’s Disease by Increasing the Amyloid	Osamu Takikawa (NationalCtr geriatrics Gerontol.,Japan)
10:00 - 10:20		Coffee Break

SESSION 2

Chair : M C Lee (Chonnam Natl Univ., Korea)
Yoshihiro Arakawa (The Univ. of Tokyo Hospital, Japan)

10:20 - 10:40	S2-1	In vitro silencing of L1cam in developing corticalneurons	Kyoko Itoh (Kyoto PrefecturalUniv. of Medicine, Japan)
10:40 - 11:00	S2-2	Neurogenin1 as a Transcriptional Regulator ofNeural Development	S Y Kim (Ajou Univ.,Korea)
11:00 - 11:20	S2-3	Brain development abnormality in the micelacking in the enzymes synthesizing chondroitinsulfate	Kosei Takeuchi (Niigata Univ., Japan)
11:20 - 11:40	S2-4	Ex-vivo expansion of human adult neural stemcells by activation of Notch- and c-MET signalingpathways	B G Kang (Samsung MedicalCenter)
11:40 - 12:00	S2-5	Therapeutic targeting mouse metastaticmedulloblastoma using carboxylesteraseexpressing neural stem cells	S K Kim (Seoul Natl Univ.,Korea)
12:00 - 13:00		Lunch Break

SESSION 3

Chair : Kazunori Sango (Tokyo Metr Inst for Neurosci., Japan)
S K Kim (Seoul Natl Univ., Korea)

13:00 - 13:20	S3-1	Mutant huntingtin impairs Ku70-mediated DNArepair	Hikaru Ito (Tokyo Medical andDental Univ., Japan)
13:20 - 13:40	S3-2	Abnormal maintenance of mitochondrialmembranes in Group VIA phospholipase A2knockout mice	Hisae Sumi (Osaka Univ.,Japan)
13:40 - 14:00	S3-3	Senescent growth arrest in mesenchymal stemcells is bypassed by Wip1-mediateddownregulation of intrinsic stress signalingpathways	H J Cha (CHA Univ., Korea)
14:00 - 14:20	S3-4	Oxidized galectin-1 regulates macrophages toregenerate injured nerves	Hidenori Horie (KanagawaDental College, Japan)
14:20 - 14:40	S3-5	Modeling SCA31 non-coding pentanucleotideexpression in cultured cells	Kinya Ishikawa (TokyoMedical and Dental Univ.,
14:40 - 15:00		Coffee Break

SESSION 4

Chair : H Y Suh-Kim (Ajou Univ., Korea)
Yohei Okada (Keio Univ. School of Medicine, Japan)

15:00 - 15:20	S4-1	How do GFAP-expressing neural progenitorsdivide and generate neuron-committed progenyin the postnatal hippocampus?	Tatsunori Seki (TokyoMedical Univ., Japan)
15:20 - 15:40	S4-2	Establishment of immortalized adult rodentSchwann cell lines to study peripheral nervedisorders	Kazuhiko Watabe (TokyoMetropolitan Institute forNeuroscience, Japan)
15:40 - 16:00	S4-3	Differentiation of human neural crest stem cellstransplanted in the rat penile corpus	Y S Song (SoonchunhyangUniv., Korea)
16:00 - 16:20	S4-4	The localization of the C terminal fragment of α1A calcium channel influences the CREB targettranscription and cellular toxicity	Kinya Ishikawa (TokyoMedical and Dental Univ.,
16:20 - 16:50		Coffee Break

SESSION 5

Chair : Masahiko Takano (International Univ. of Health and Welfare, Japan
Y S Song (Soonchunhyang Univ., Korea)

16:50 - 17:10	S5-1	ATBF1 interacts with amyloid precursor proteinand enhances amyloid protein production	Kyung-Ok Uhm (National CtrGeriatrics Gerontol., Japan)
17:10 - 17:30	S5-2	Suppression of the novel ER protein MAXER bymutant ataxin-1 in Bergman glia contributes tonon-cell autonomous toxicity	Hitoshi Okazawa (TokyoMedical and Dental Univ.,
17:30 - 17:50	S5-3	Roles of Lysophosphatidic acid in regulation ofcell survival and differentiation in immortalizedhippocampal progenitor cells	H J Ree (Hallym Univ.,Korea)
17:50 - 18:10	S5-4	Analysis of forebrain cholinergic neurons frommouse embryonic stem cells	Seiji Ishii (Keio Univ. Schoolof Medicine, Japan)
18:10 - 18:30	S5-5	Human neural stem cells encoding cholineacetyltransferase gene improve cognition in ratmodels of cognitive dysfunction	DS Park (Chungbuk NatlUniv., Korea)
18:30 - 18:50	S5-6	Microglial P2X7 receptor expression correlateswith neurodegeneration in the APPswe/PS1dE9mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease	Y B Lee (Ajou Univ., Korea)
18:50		Closing Remarks: Makoto Michikawa
19:00		Reception