[Event Announcement] 2nd Water Bio Research Meeting (October 10-11, 2026)

さやか小林

Aug 27

3 min read

The second Water Bio Research Meeting will be held as follows.

We encourage everyone to participate.

[Date and time] Saturday, October 10, 2026 – Sunday, October 11, 2026

[Venue] Keio University Shinanomachi Campus

Integrated Medical Science Research Building, 1st Floor Lounge (Egg Room)

*This will be held at the same venue as the first day of last year's event.

Address: 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo

Access: 5-minute walk from Shinanomachi Station (JR Sobu Line)

8-minute walk from Kokuritsu-Kyogijo Station (Toei Oedo Line)

　　　　　https://www.keio.ac.jp/ja/maps/shinanomachi.html

The lounge on the first floor of the Integrated Medical Science Research Building is number ⑦ on the campus map.

　　　　　Please enter through the East Gate.

[Participation fee (including social gathering fee)]

General admission: 5,000 yen / Students: 1,000 yen

*Fees will be collected at the reception desk on the day of the event.

[How to register]

Please apply via the URL below.

▼Participation and Abstract Submission Form

　　https://forms.gle/RyCVJbhKwzdFTnEx9

[Application Deadline]

Until Tuesday, September 15, 2026

【program】

◎ Day 1: Saturday, October 10th

<13:00-14:00>

Special Lecture 1: "Identification of Central Nervous System Cells that Control the Sensation of Drinking Water"

Presenter: Haruyuki Taruno (Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University)

Chairperson: Mutsuo Nuritani (Department of Pharmacology, Keio University School of Medicine)

~15-minute break~

<14:15-16:15>

Symposium: "Optimizing Water Systems as a Survival Strategy"

Organizer: Masato Yasui (Department of Pharmacology, Keio University School of Medicine)

1) Plants: Ken Yokogawa (Faculty of Engineering, Kitami Institute of Technology)

2) Insects: Takahiro Kikawada (National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Department of Biological Function Utilization)

(Extreme Environment Tolerance Utilization Group)

3) Mammals: Naohiko Anzai (Department of Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University)

~15-minute break~

<16:30-17:30>

Poster presentation (5-minute presentation)

Chairperson: Hitoshi Ii (Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science)

Eiji Yamamoto (Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University)

1) "Elucidation of water dynamics in brain tissue using multimodal multiphoton microscopy"

Wakana Ozaki (Doctoral student, Graduate School of Medicine, Keio University)

2) "Technological Development and Current Status of Isotope-Labeled Water Imaging Using Multi-Nuclide MRI"

Hiroyuki Kameda (Department of Diagnostic Radiology/Department of Dental Radiology, Hokkaido University Hospital)

3) "Analysis of the molecular mechanism of water transport in the water channel Aquaporin-4 using molecular simulations"

Naonobu Kuribayashi (Doctoral student, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University)

4) "Identification and analysis of perivascular spaces exhibiting specific molecular dynamics"

Masaki Tomioka (Doctoral student, Graduate School of Medicine, Keio University)

5) Spectroscopic evaluation of changes in albumin hydration number associated with the addition of low molecular weight molecules.

Kei Dorotani (Master's Program, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University)

6) "Nonlinear Raman imaging of Drosophila testicular pterin metabolites"

Hu Zuliang (Department of Pharmacology, Keio University School of Medicine)

7) "Effects of Sub-THz electric fields on 5'-GMP structure and dynamics"

Yuki Hongo (Yamamoto Laboratory, Department of Systems Design Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University)

8) "Elucidation of the hydration state exhibited by carboxylated polylysine under liquid-liquid phase separation"

Mizuki Yamamoto (Doctoral student, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo)

9) "Development of microfluidic devices for transport control and measurement"

Masahiro Motoyuki (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science)

<17:30-19:30> Poster presentations and social gathering

◎ Day 2: October 11th (Sunday)

<9:30-10:30>

Special Lecture 2: "Low-Dimensional Modeling and Control of Flow Fields Using Machine Learning"

Presenter: Koji Fukagata (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University)

Chairperson: Shu Takagi (Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo)

~10-minute break~

<10:40-12:45>

Oral presentation (20 minutes presentation, 5 minutes Q&A)

Chairperson: Shigeo Wada (Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University)

Keiichiro Shirakami (Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University)

1) "Behavioral syllable abnormalities in AQP4-deficient mice"

Mitsuhiro Morita (Graduate School of Science, Kobe University)

2) "Visualization of cerebral water dynamics using stimulated Raman scattering microscopy"

Takanori Shinozuka (Department of Pharmacology, Keio University School of Medicine)

3) "MRI: Estimation of cerebrospinal fluid flow field using Diffusion-weighted Imaging"

Yoshitaka Bito (Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University)

4) "A mathematical model of water diffusion inside and outside cells of brain parenchyma"

Masayoshi Kowaguchi (Department of Pharmacology, Keio University School of Medicine)

5) "A Consideration of Ultrasonic Neuromodulation"

Shu Takagi (Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo)