We held “Pre-symposium for S-FISNA: Structure and Function of Nucleic Acids,” a pre-symposium for “Supra FIBER International Summit for Nucleic Acids (S-FISNA),” and presented the research results.

Frontier Institute for Biomolecular Engineering Research (FIBER), Konan University regularly holds “FIBER FUTURE COLLEGE” as a public lecture series inviting leading researchers in the field of nucleic acid chemistry. As part of this initiative, we held “Pre-symposium for S-FISNA ‘Structure and Function of Nucleic Acids’,” a pre-symposium for “Supra FIBER International Summit for Nucleic Acids (S-FISNA),” and presented the research results.

●Date : Feb. 28, 2024, 13:00-17:00
●Venue : Lecture Room, Konan University Port Island Campus
●Format：Hybrid of face-to-face and online via Zoom
●Lecture Language：English　

●Program
Opening Remarks: Professor Naoki Sugimoto (Frontier Institute for Biomolecular Engineering Research (FIBER), Konan University)

【 Lecture 1 】 13:30-14:00
(Chair: Associate Professor Tamaki Endoh)
・ Speaker: Associate Professor Hisae Tateishi-Karimata
・ Affiliation: Frontier Institute for Biomolecular Engineering Research (FIBER), Konan University
・ Lecture Title: Regulation of gene expression across species regulated by nucleic acid structures

【 Lecture 2 】 14:00-14:30
(Chair: Associate Professor Tamaki Endoh)
・ Speaker: Associate Professor Zoë A. E. Waller
・ Affiliation: Drug Discovery, Pharma & Bio Chemistry, UCL School of Pharmacy
・ Lecture Title: Revealing the details of i-motif DNA structures

【 Lecture 3 】14:45-15:15
(Chair: Associate Professor Shuntaro Takahashi)
・ Speaker: Professor Yoshiko Miura
・ Affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University
・ Lecture Title: Rational design of biofunctional polymers

【 Lecture 4 】15:15-15:45
(Chair: Associate Professor Shuntaro Takahashi)
・ Speaker: Professor Fumi Nagatsugi
・ Affiliation: Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University
・ Lecture Title: Development of reactive molecules for RNA higher-order structures

【 Lecture 5 】16:00-16:30 PM
(Chair: Associate Professor Miki Imanishi)
・ Speaker: Professor Tracy Bryan
・ Affiliation: Children’s Medical Research Institute, University of Sydney; Unit Head, Cell Biology Unit; Head of Postgraduate Studies (CMRI)
・ Lecture Title: Interactions of the enzyme telomerase with G-quadruplex DNA

Open Discussion
Closing Remarks: Professor Janez Plavec (Slovenian NMR Center)