Ⅰ. Life, Health, and Brain Sciences

Thursday, June 2nd

09:00 - 10:30

Health Monitoring and Disease Detecting Using a Smart Device

Prof. Jo Woon Chong (Texas Tech University)

10:00 - 11:30

Environment-dependent binary protein interactome of a cell

Prof. Dae-Kyum Kim (Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center)

Friday, June 3rd

09:30 - 11:00

Skin-Attachable Nanomesh Sensor without Sensory Interference

Prof. Sunghoon Lee (The University of Tokyo)

11:00 - 12:30

Microfluidic/microsystem approaches for liquid biopsy: from circulating marker isolations to their therapeutic use

Prof. Yoon-Tae Kang (University of Michigan)

Wednesday, June 8th

10:00 - 11:30

How Do Neurons Die in Neurodegenerative Diseases?: Cell Autonomous and Non-cell Autonomous Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration

Prof. Tae-In Kam (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)

Friday, June 10th

10:00 - 11:30

Allo- and xeno-tranplantation in sensitized nonhuman primate model

Prof. Jean Kwun (Duke University)

10:00 - 11:30

Multidisciplinary applications of “omics” in food science

Prof. Si Hong Park (Oregon State University)

Wednesday, June 15th

15:30 - 17:00

Research and applications in predictive toxicology: a review on our progress, impact and challenges

Dr. Barry Hardy (Edelweiss Connect)

Thursday, June 16th

10:00 - 11:30

The epigenetics of aging — how to reset the aging clock

Dr. Jae-Hyun Yang (Harvard Medical School)

10:00 - 11:30

Metabolomics of Aging

Prof. Sun Hee Yim (Texas Tech University)

Friday, June 17th

09:30 - 11:00

A basic research guided development of an engineered human probiotic to prevent pathogen colonization

Prof. Muthiah Kumaraswami (Houston Methodist Research Institute)

Monday, June 20th

10:00 - 11:30

Application of bioinformatics analysis: From Academia to Industry

Dr. Ted Hong (AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals)

10:30 - 12:00

Non-antibiotic Therapies to Combat Infectious Diseases

Dr. Suryang Kwak (Washington University in St. Louis)

Tuesday, June 21st

16:00 - 17:30

Ferroptosis targeting in disease

Prof. Tom Vanden Berghe (University of Antwerp)

Wednesday, June 22nd

09:00 - 10:30

Role of Basic Research in New Drug Discovery

Dr. Seung Wook Yang (Amgen)

Monday, June 27th

10:00 - 11:30

Biohybrid active matters for molecular and cell transports

Prof. Hyunjoon Kong (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

11:00 - 12:30

Nuclear Mechanobiology: Why it matters to Musculoskeletal Repair

Prof. Su-Jin Heo (University of Pennsylvania)

Tuesday, June 28th

14:00 - 15:30

Three-Dimensional (3D) Bioprinting

Prof. Moo-Yeal Lee (University of North Texas)

16:00 - 17:30

Brain rhythms and natural language processing

Prof. Hyojin Park (University of Birmingham)

Friday, July 1st

10:00 - 11:30

suPAR and ICOSL; Factors affecting renal function and therapeutic targets for glomerular disease

Prof. Eunsil Hahm (Rush University Medical Center)

10:00 - 11:30

Virus Engineering for Biomedical Science

Prof. Seung-Wuk Lee (University of California, Berkeley)

Monday, July 4th

10:00 - 11:30

The history of Alzheimer's disease research

Prof. Seonil Kim (Colorado State University)

Tuesday, July 5th

14:00 - 15:30

Structural Basis for the Ferredoxin-dependent Electron Transfer

Prof. Genji Kurisu (Osaka University)

16:00 - 17:30

From surveillance to physiopathology of animal influenza viruses of zoonotic potential

Prof. Mariette Ducatez (INRA, ENVT)

Wednesday, July 6th

10:00 - 11:30

Uncovering struggles between viruses and the host immunity of sphingolipid network

Prof. Bumsuk Hahm (University of Missouri-Columbia)

Thursday, July 7th

10:00 - 11:30

Bioinformatics studies using AI approaches for precision medicine of fusion genes

Prof. Pora Kim (UT Health Science Center at Houston)

Friday, July 8th

15:00 - 16:30

Population Immunity to Zoonotic Influenza Viruses

Prof. Sook-San Wong (The University of Hong Kong)

16:00 - 17:30

Host and viral determinants of influenza virus interspecies transmission

Prof. Mark Zanin (The University of Hong Kong)

16:00 - 17:30

Drug discovery of small molecules and antibodies

Dr. Wolfgang Fecke (EU-OPENSCREEN)

Monday, July 11th

11:00 - 12:30

Wiring the brain: cellular and molecular mechanisms of neural circuit formation

Prof. Won Chan Oh (University of Colorado School of Medicine)

Tuesday, July 12th

10:00 - 11:30

Self-aligning Nanojet (SA-N) in electrospinning: A simple yet versatile nanomanufacturing tool for flexible and wearable electronics in the future.

Prof. Jiyoung Chang (The University of Utah)

Wednesday, July 13th

10:00 - 11:30

CAR T Cells and Cancers

Dr. Sang-Yun Lee (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)

16:00 - 17:30

Research on efficacy, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of acupuncture

Prof. Claudia Witt (University of Zurich)

Thursday, July 14th

10:00 - 11:30

Exploring the role of mobile DNA in human health and disease

Prof. Eunjung Alice Lee (Harvard Medical School)

Friday, July 15th

09:00 - 10:30

Developing predictive models for assessing the risk for drug-induced liver injury in humans during drug development

Dr. Minjun Chen (FDA NCTR)

10:00 - 11:30

Quantification of neurotransmission in the living human brain

Dr. Eunkyung Park (University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics)

10:00 - 11:30

Big Data Analysis and Drug Development in Pharmaceutical Industry

Dr. Lee Farrand (Yuhan Australia & New Zealand)

10:00 - 11:30

Neuromodulatory roles of cytokines in the brain

Prof. Yeong Shin Yim (University of Pennsylvania)

Tuesday, July 19th

16:00 - 17:30

In vitro and in vivo investigation of protein aggregation: structure, thermodynamics and pathomechanism

Prof. Kardos József (Eötvös Loránd University)

16:30 - 18:00

Recombinant protein production in CHO cells

Prof. Tae Kwang Ha (Technical University of Denmark)

Thursday, July 21st

10:00 - 11:30

Cut, Trim, and Heal DNA Wounds.

Prof. Sang Eun Lee (UT Health Science Center at San Antonio)

Friday, July 22th

10:00 - 11:30

How neurons encode memory: Molecular mechanisms of memory formation

Prof. Joongkyu Park (Wayne State University School of Medicine)

11:00 - 12:30

Engineering yeast strains for producing food ingredients and value-added products

Prof. Eun Joong Oh (Purdue University)

Tuesday, July 26th

09:00 - 10:30

Predictive modeling with Tox21 data

Dr. Ruili Huang (NCATS/NIH)

Friday, July 29th

14:00 - 15:30

Computational (nano)toxicology using AI and machine learning

Prof. Dave Winkler (La Trobe University)