Workshop

8th Workshop

“Brainstorming towards understanding and
using photoreactive molecules”

【 Date 】	January 24-25, 2015
【 Venue 】	Okayama ikoi no mura http://www.ikoi-okayama.com/
【 Organizers 】	Yuki Sudo (Okayama University) Izuru Kawamura (Yokohama National University) Miharu Eguchi (NIMS)
【 Contact 】	Yuki Sudo (Okayama University) E-mail: sudo@pharm.okayama-u.ac.jp

Program 2015/1/24 (Sat.)

13:30-13:35	Explanation about the workshop
Session-1 【Chair: Yuki Sudo (Okayama University)】
13:35-14:00	OP-1 Yasuhisa Mizutani (Osaka University) 『Coupling between photoisomerization and protein structural changes』
14:00-14:25	OP-2 Shigehiko Hayashi (Kyoto University) 『Understanding and Designing Color Variants of Retinal Binding Proteins by Molecular Simulations』
14:25-14:50	OP-3 Takashi Nakanishi (NIMS-MANA) 『Luminescent Property of Pyrene-core Unit Isolated Liquid Molecules』
14:50-15:50	Coffee Break
Session-2 【Chair: Izuru Kawamura (Yokohama National University)】
15:05-15:30	OP-4 Hisako Sato (Ehime Univ.) 『Emission Behavior of Iridium (III) Complexes Adsorbed on a Clay Surface』
15:30-15:55	OP-5 Takuya Nakashima (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) 『Structure and Photoreaction of Oligoheteroarylenes with Flexible Molecular Framework』
15:55-16:20	OP-6 Takeharu Nagai (Osaka University) 『Genetically-encoded tools to optically control and image Ca²⁺ dynamics』
16:20-16:35	Coffee Break
Session-3 【Chair: Miharu Eguchi (NIMS)】
16:35-17:00	OP-7 Satoshi Takeuchi (Molecular Spectroscopy Lab. & RAP, RIKEN) 『Ultrafast time-domain Raman study of photoreceptive responses』
17:00-17:25	OP-8 Hiromichi Niikura (Waseda University) 『Development of a photoelectron momentum imaging system combined with single-isolated attosecond EUV pulses』
17:25-17:50	OP-9 Keisuke Saito (University of Tokyo) 『Structure- Function Relationships of Chlorophylls in Photosynthetic Proteins』
18:00-19:00	Poster presentation
19:00-21:00	Dinner
21:00-	Extended discussion

Program 2015/1/25 (Sun.)

7:00-8:50	Breakfast
Session-4 【Chair: Yasuhisa Mizutani (Osaka University)】
9:00-9:25	OP-10 Yuki Sudo (Okayama University) 『Functional and structural studies on a novel retinal protein TR having high stability and its potential as an optogenetic tool』
9:25-9:50	OP-11 Izuru Kawamura (Yokohama National University) 『In-situ photo-irradiated solid-state NMR studies of retinal photoisomerization and detection of photointermediates』
9:50-10:15	OP-12 Miharu Eguchi (NIMS) 『Interaction between Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance and Dye Molecules』
10:15-10:30	Coffee Break
Session-5 【Chair: Shigehiko Hayashi (Kyoto University)】
10:30-10:55	OP-13 Yasuyuki Ozeki (University of Tokyo) 『Vibrational Spectroscopic Imaging with stimulated Raman scattering』
10:55-11:20	OP-14 Tatsuya Iwata (Nagoya Institute of Technology) 『Attraction of yellow flavin-binding photoreceptive proteins -what can be obtained by infrared spectroscopy-』
11:20-11:45	OP-15 Tomohisa Takaya (Gakushuin University) 『Structure and dynamics of carotenoids in the S₂(1B_u⁺) state as observed by ultrafast time-resolved near-IR spectroscopy』
11:50-13:00	Lunch
Session-6 【Chair: Satoshi Takeuchi (RIKEN)】
13:00-13:25	OP-16 Masakazu Morimoto (Rikkyo University) 『Mechanical Performance of Photochromic Molecular Crystals』
13:25-13:50	OP-17 Shinichi Enami (Kyoto University) 『Water Interfaces and Micro-Environment in Living Systems』
13:50-	Concluding remarks

Poster Presentation

P-1 Takashi Tsukamoto (Okayama University)
『Structural and Functional Characterization of Thermophilic Rhodopsin』

P-2 Ryota Nishikawa (Yokohama National University)
『Hydrogen bond alterations of Tyr174 and Tyr199 of Phoborhodopsin in the lipid environment as studied by solid-state¹³C MAS NMR』

P-3 Shinya Tahara (RIKEN)
『Excited-state dynamics of Anabaena sensory rhodopsin investigated by femtosecond Kerr-gate fluorescence measurement』

P-4 Yoshitaka Kato (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
『Mutational study on Anabaena sensory rhodopsin which shows characteristic retinal isomerization』

P-5 Taisuke Hasegawa (Kyoto University)
『Assessing Molecular Mechanism of High Thermal Stability of Thermophilic Rhodopsin by Molecular Dynamics Simulation』