November 24, 2021 (Wed), "PDB50 Anniversary Symposium in Asia" will be held online

In commemoration of PDB's 50 year anniversary, "PDB Asia 50 Anniversary Symposium - At the Cutting Edge of Structural Biology in Asia and Protein Data Bank's 50 Years of History -" will be held with the following contents.

Date

November 24, 2021 (Wed) * all the time and date are shown in JST(=UTC+9)

Venue

Online

Background and Abstract

In 1971, the structural biology community established the single global archive for 3D macromolecular structure data: the Protein Data Bank (PDB). Approximately one fourth of the entire PDB data originated from Asia. In 2000, Protein Data Bank Japan (PDBj) started on-site data processing as a newly founded Asian hub for PDB data resource. Since 2001, PDBj has provided our newly developed online Data-out services available freely and publicly through our own web site (https://pdbj.org), which we have enhanced through the years. With the establishment of the worldwide PDB in 2003, we have served as one of its regional data centers, collaborating on Data-in and Data-out activities on a global scale.

In 2021, we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of our single global archive, especially this time in Asia, and want to discuss the frontier of the Structural Biology in Asia.

The one-day online symposium consists 2 sessions: e-poster presentations and a series of lectures. Students and postdoctoral fellows are especially encouraged to join and will be eligible for poster prizes. Early and late stage career scientists are encouraged to submit an abstract for poster presentation during the symposium.

The event will be recorded and made available to registered participants after the meeting.

Language

English

Participation/Presentation Fee

Free

Schedule

Poster session (jointly organized as an International IPR Seminar, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University)

10:00-10:10	Opening and introduction
10:10-10:50	Presentation by odd-number IDs
10:50-11:00	Break
11:00-11:40	Presentation by even-number IDs

Anniversary symposium (jointly organized as the satellite event of the The Satellite Event of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Biophysics Society of Japan)

Session 1: Chaired by Prof. Haruki Nakamura (Osaka University)
13:30-14:15	"50 years of PDB history in Asia" Genji Kurisu (Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University; PDBj, Japan)
	"CryoEM structure of small heat shock protein" Kyeong Kyu Kim (Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Republic of Korea)
Session 2: Chaired by Prof. Atsushi Nakagawa (Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University)
14:25-15:10	"Structure of the sodium-dependent phosphate transporter reveals insights into human solute carrier SLC20" Yuh-Ju Sun (Institute of Bioinformatics and Structural Biology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
	"Molecular movies and beyond" So Iwata (Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan)
Session 3: Chaired by Prof. Toshimichi Fujiwara (Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University)
15:20-16:05	"Membrane protein function by NMR" Ichio Shimada (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan)
	"Structural biology by an advanced electron cryomicroscope with atomic resolution and high-speed imaging" Keiichi Namba (Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, RIKEN SPring-8 & BDR, Japan)
Session 4: Chaired by Prof. Kenji Mizuguchi (Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University)
16:15-17:00	"Structural and mechanistic dissection of the Wnt signaling pathway" Wenqing Xu (National Facility for Protein Science in Shanghai (NFPS), ShanghaiTech University)
	"A new era in structural biology: the impact of structure prediction using AI methods" Sameer Velankar (Protein Data Bank in Europe, European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute)
17:00-17:05	Closing

Organizers

• Genji Kurisu (Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University; PDBj)
• Toshimichi Fujiwara (Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University; PDBj)

Sponsor

Protein Research Foundation

Registration Period

Registration for Poster Presentation

September 6, 2021 (Mon) - October 17, 2021 (Sun) 23:59 (JST)

Note: Registration will be closed earlier when the number of posters reach 100.

Registration for Participation

September 6, 2021 (Mon) - November 8, 2021 (Mon) 23:59 (JST)

Submission of Poster Material

November 1, 2021 (Mon) - November 8, 2021 (Mon) 23:59 (JST) November 12, 2021 (Fri) 17:00 (JST)

Registration for Presentation/Participation

Please registor from here.

Notes

• This symposium will be held as a satellite event at the 59 annual meeting of the Japanese Society of Biophysics. In case you are registered to participate in the annual meeting, please also register to participate in this symposium, for the purpose of operation and administration.
• Even if you register for this event, you cannot participate in the annual program.
• Acquired personal information is used only within the scope of the purpose of acquisition.

Points of Registration for Poster Presentation

Eligibility for Presentation Application

Any researchers can apply the presentation. You don't have to be a member of the Japanese Society of Biophysics. You can apply for only one presentation as presentater. Presentations at the Biophysical Society annual meeting are not counted here, that is you can be presented at both this poster session and the annual meeting.

Themes of Poster

• Protein Structure and Supramolecular complexes
• RNA/DNA molecular machines
• Application of Structural Biology
• X-ray/XFEL
• NMR
• 3DEM
• Bioinformatics/Protein Structure Prediction

Number of Presentation

100 (Registration will be closed earlier when the number of posters reach 100.)

Confirmation Mail

When the registration is completed, a notice email will be sent automatically. Poster numbers (IDs) and presentation registration procedures will be sent separately by the end of October 2021. Please avoid registering with a free email address because it may be recognized as spam.

PDBj Poster Prize

Excellent posters prepared by students and post-doc students will be awarded.

Submission of Presentation Material

Please register your presentation material (still image or video) from November 1, 2021 (Mon) to November 8, 2021 (Mon) (JST: 23:59) on the Japan Society of Biophysics website using the confit system. During the registration period, you can review, modify, or cancel your registration. We will not accept any modification or registration after the registration period.

Secretariat

c/o Protein Data Bank Japan, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Japan

Email: db_sec@protein.osaka-u.ac.jp

Tel: +81-6-6879-4311