– Cryo-Electron Microscopy and Integrated Techniques –

Advances in cryo-electron microscopy are transforming our understanding of biological systems at molecular resolution. This symposium will bring together researchers from diverse disciplines to discuss emerging technologies, scientific discoveries, and future directions in structural biology. Through interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration, the symposium aims to create new opportunities for next-generation structural biology.

 

開催概要

Date

January 26 – 28, 2027

Venure

Okazaki Conference Center, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan

 Official Website（Registration）

https://www.nips.ac.jp/struct/57thNIPSIS/

 

Speakers

Yifan Cheng (University of California San Francisco, USA)
Making sense of disappearing density in single particle cryo-EM

Oliver Clarke (Columbia University, USA)
Structures of ankyrin and stomatin complexes: Two mechanisms of membrane protein organization in the red blood cell

Radostin Danev (University of Tokyo, Japan)
New developments in cryo-EM methodology and automation

Jaekyung Hyun (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea)
Finding Order in Disorder: Structural Analysis of Pleomorphic and Symmetry-Broken Viral Capsids

Arjen Jakobi (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
How bacteria float: Structural basis of buoyancy-mediated bacterial motility.

Masahide Kikkawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Structural basis of microtubule-based motor-cargo interaction and flagellar asymmetry

Hitoshi Kurumizaka (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Chromatin structure and dynamic as revealed by cryo-EM

Keiichi Namba (University of Osaka, Japan)
Molecular mechanism of polymorphic supercoiling of the bacterial flagellar filament

Alex Noble (CryoArcana, USA)
Advancing CryoEM/ET Software with AI Agents

Haruo Ogawa (Kyoto University, Japan)
Structural Insights into the Gating Mechanism of the Cardiac Ryanodine Receptor

Stefan Raunser (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
Unlocking the secrets of the cytoskeleton and heart muscle

Peter B. Rosenthal (The Francis Crick Institute, UK)
Architecture for lipid-enveloped virus entry and assembly

John Rubinstein (University of Toronto, Canada)
Cryo-EM of endogenous protein complexes from the mycobacterial electron transport chain

Jian-Ren Shen (Okayama University, Japan)
Features of the water-oxidizing enzyme of photosystem II revealed by cryo-electron microscopy

Reiya Taniguchi (RIKEN Yokohama, Japan)
Visualization of the nuclear pore complex in situ with cryo-ET

Atsuko Yamashita (University of Osaka, Japan)
Integrated approaches toward understanding of oxalate: formate exchange by a transporter in an oxalate-degrading bacterium in the gut

Ken Yokoyama (Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan)
Structure of Membrane Proteins in Native Biological Membranes

 

Program

Day1 (January 26, 2027)

AM	Lecture 1
PM	Lecture 2

 

 

 

Day2 (January 27, 2027)

AM	Lecture 3
PM	Lecture 4 Poster Session Banque

 

 

 

 

Day3 (January 28, 2027)

AM

Lecture 5

 

 

Contact

57th NIPS International Symposium Office

Email: 57this_at_nips.ac.jp

 

Chief Organizer

Kazuyoshi Murata
Email: kazum_at_nips.ac.jp
Web site: https://www.nips.ac.jp/struct/

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