Organizers | IZFS

Conference Organizing Committee

Corinne Houart, PhD (Chair) President of the IZFS King's College London	Florence Marlow, PhD Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai
Hitoshi Okamoto, MD, PhD (Co-Chair) RIKEN Center for Brain Science	Didier Stainier, PhD Max Planck Institute of Heart and Lung Research
Miguel Luis Concha, PhD Universidad de Chile	Han Wang, PhD Center for Circadian Clocks, Soochow University
Hiromi Hirata, PhD Aoyama Gakuin University	Karina Yaniv, PhD Weizmann Institute of Science
Tohru Ishitani, PhD Osaka University

Satoshi Ansai
Kyoto University

Kazuhide Asakawa
National Institute of Genetics (NIG)

Toshikatsu Hanada
Oita University

Masahiko Hibi
Nagoya University

Shinichi Higashijima
NIBB

Motoyuki Itoh
Chiba University

Koichi Kawakami
NIG

Kazu Kikuchi
NCVC

Shosei Kishida
Kagoshima University

Jun Kitano
NIG

Makoto Kobayashi
Tsukuba University

Fumi Kubo
NIG

Rie Kusakabe
Kansai University

Ichiro Masai
OIST

Takaaki Matsui
Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Yuichiro Mishima
Kyoto Sangyo University

Kaoki Mochizuki
NCVC

Kazutoshi Mori
Kyoto University

Nobuhiro Nakamura
Kyoto Sangyo University

Kiyoshi Naruse
NIBB

Hiroshi Nishina
Tokyo Medical Dental University

Yukiko Ogino
Kyushu University

Yoshihiro Omori
Nagahama Institute of Bioscience and Technology

Li-Kun Phng
Riken

Atsuko Sehara
Kyoto University

Yukihiko Sugimoto
Kumamoto University

Hiroyuki Takeda
Kyoto Sangyo University

Hideaki Takeuchi

Tohoku University

Sachiko Tsuda
Saitama University

Soken Tsuchiya
Kumamoto University

Hironori Wada
Kitazato University

Saori Yokoi
Hokkaido University

Cardiovascular	Infection & Immunity
Amber Stratman Li-Kun Phng	Pedro Hernandez Cedra Edan Foley
Cell Biology	Lifespan and Aging
Steffen Scholpp Mie Wong	Yumi Kim Miguel Godinho Ferreira
Circuits and Behaviour	Neurobiology
Takashi Kawashima Drew Robson	Jason Rihel Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi
Disease Models	Organ Formation & Function
Kazuhide Asakawa Hideaki Matsui	Rebecca Wingert Lingfei Luo
Early Development, Morphogenesis and Patterning	Physiology & Metabolism
Tohru Ishitani Margot Williams	Rachel Brewster Andrew Cox
Emerging Technologies	Regeneration
Shiaulou Yuan Jennifer Li	Alessandro De simone Mathilda Mommersteeg
Evolution and comparative biology	Stem Cells
Shigehiro Kuraku Tetsuya Nakamura	Feng Liu Gage Crump
Germline, Sex Determination & Reproduction	Sustainability, Environmental Biology and Toxicology
Yaniv Elkouby Satoshi Ansai	Vivanna Vedder Max Breuer
High throughput whole organism research
Sean Megason Merlin Lange