ISOT/JASTS 2004 Program (06/27) July 5 (Monday) 13:00 - Registration ----------- 15:00 - 18:00 ---------- Opening Ceremony [President: Takashi Yamamoto, Osaka University, Japan, Vice President: Tohoru Fushiki, Kyoto University, Japan] I. Plenary lectures : (Room A) PL-1 The importance of human smell: reassessing the evidence Gordon M. Shepherd Department of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8011, USA, [email protected] [Chairperson: Kensaku Mori, University of Tokyo, Japan] PL-2 Individual differences and the chemical senses Gary K. Beauchamp Monell Chemical Sense Center, Philadelphia PA, 19104, [email protected] [Chairperson: Yuzo Ninomiya, Kyushu University, Japan] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18:30 - 20:00 Welcome Party (Swan Hall) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. Symposium sessions July 6 (Tuesday) --------- 8:40 - 11:50 --------- Session Symposium 1-1 8:40 Taste sensor and electronic nose (Room B1) [Organizers: Kiyoshi Toko, Kyushu University, Japan, Hidehito Nanto, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan] S1-1-1 “Electronic Nose”– new condition monitoring devices for environmental applications Krishna C. Persaud Department of Instrumentation and Analytical Science, UMIST, Manchester, UK, [email protected] S1-1-2 Study of odor recorder for dynamical change of odor Takamichi Nakamoto Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 152-8522 Japan, [email protected] S1-1-3 The taste sensor Kiyoshi Toko Department of Electronics, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, 1 Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku,Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan, [email protected] u.ac.jp S1-1-4 A voltammetric electronic tongue Patrik Ivansson, Christina Krantz-Rülcker, Fredrik Winquist, and Ingemar Lundström S-SENCE and Laboratory of Applied Physics, Linköping University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden, [email protected] S1-1-5 Sensor fusion of taste and odor sensors Teruaki Katsube Faculty of Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-Okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama, 338-8570, Japan Session Symposium 1-2 8:40 Candidate receptors and signal transduction mechanisms for umami taste (Room B2) [Organizers: Yuzo Ninomiya, Kyushu University, Japan, Kumiko Sugimoto, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan] S1-2-1 Introductory remarks on umami taste Yuzo Ninomiya1. and Kumiko Sugimoto2 1Section of Oral Neuroscience, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812- 8582, 2Section of Fundamental Oral Health Care Science, School of Oral Health Care Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry,Tokyo Medical and Dental University,1-5-45 Yushima, Tokyo 113-8549, JAPAN S1-2-2 Structure-function relationships of T1R family taste receptors Li X., Hong Xu, Lena Staszewski, and Elliot Adler Senomyx, Inc., CA, USA S1-2-3 Cloning and characterization of a novel mGluR1 variant from vallate papillae that functions as a receptor for umami stimuli A. San Gabriel1, Hisayuki Uneyama1, Sumio Yoshie2, and Kunio Torii1 1Institute of Life Sciences, Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Kawasaki 210-8681, Japan, 2Nippon Dental University, Niigata, Japan S1-2-4 Expression of phospholipase C-β4 in rat circumvallate papillae Takashi Toyono, Shinji Kataoka, Yuji Seta, and Kuniaki Toyoshima Department of Oral Anatomy and Neurobiology, Kyushu Dental College, 2-6-1 Manazuru, Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyushu, 803-8580 Japan, [email protected] S1-2-5 Multiple pathways for signaling glutamate taste in rodents Nirupa Chaudhari, Yutaka Maruyama, Stephen Roper, and Kristina Trubey Dept of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA, [email protected] S1-2-6 Downstream signaling effectors for umami taste Sue C. Kinnamon1,2, Weihong Lin1,2, Tatsuya Ogura1,2, Collin Ruiz1,2, and Eugene Delay3 1Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University; 2Rocky Mountain Taste and Smell Center, Denver, CO; 3Regis University, Denver, CO, [email protected] S1-2-7 Signal transduction of umami taste: insights from knockout mice Minqing Rong1,2, Wei He1,2, Keiko Yasumatsu3, Zaza Kokrashvili1, Bedrich Mosinger1, Yuzo Ninomiya3, Robert F. Margolskee1,2, and Sami Damak1,4 2 1Department of Physiology and Biophysics, 2Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029. 3Section of Oral Neuroscience, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan. 4 Nestlé Research Center, Vers-Chez-les-Blanc, CH-1000 Lausanne, Switzerland Closing remarks Kumiko Sugimoto, Tokyo Medical and Dental Univ., Japan Session Symposium 1-3 8:40 Current topics in the development and regeneration of the olfactory and vomeronasal systems (Room C1) [Organizers: Shigeru Takami, Kyorin University, Japan, Masumi Ichikawa, Tokyo Metropolitan Inst. Neurosci., Japan] Introduction Masumi Ichikawa Tokyo Metropolitan Inst. Neurosci., Japan S1-3-1 The roles of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the development and maturation of nasal chemoreceptor neurons Shigeru Takami, Rumi Hasegawa, and Fumiaki Nishiyama Department of Anatomy, School of Health Sciences, Kyorin University, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-8508, Japan, [email protected] S1-3-2 Testing the role of cell surface carbohydrates in guidance of olfactory sensory axons by the genetic engineering of terminal saccharides Brian. Key, and James. St. John School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia, [email protected] S1-3-3 Expression of bHLH transcription factors and IGFs in the non-sensory patches, olfactory epithelium and vomeronasal organ Yuko Suzuki Department of Oral Anatomy, School of Dentistry, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, Ishikari-Tobetsu 061-0293, Japan, [email protected] S1-3-4 The postnatal development of the rat vomeronasal organ Elke Weiler1, and Albert I. Farbman2 1Department of Neurophysiology, Ruhr-University, Universitaetsstr. 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany, 2Department of Neurobiology & Physiology, Northwestern University, 2205 Tech Drive, Evanston, IL 60208-3520, USA, [email protected] S1-3-5 A new surgical approach to the study of vomeronasal system regeneration Masato Matsuoka1, Masao Norita1, and Richard M. Costanzo2 1Division of Neurobiology & Anatomy, Niigata University Graduate School of Med. & Dent. Sciences, Niigata, Japan, 2Dept. of Physiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA, [email protected] S1-3-6 Restoring olfaction: a view from the olfactory epithelium James E. Schwob Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA, [email protected] S1-3-7 Regeneration and rewiring the olfactory bulb 3 Richard M. Costanzo Department of Physiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VAp 23298-0551, USA, [email protected] Session Symposium 1-4 8:40 Neural and behavioral responses in higher centers of olfaction and taste (Room C2) [Organizer: Norihiko Onoda, Kanazawa Medical University, Japan] S1-4-1 Odor-intensity coding in the anterior piriform cortex Norihiko Onoda Department of Physiology, Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan, [email protected] S1-4-2 Chemotopic arrangement for taste quality discrimination in the cortical taste area Hiroshi Yoshimura Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan, [email protected] S1-4-3 Convergence of olfactory and gustatory connections onto the endopiriform nucleus in the rat Tokio Sugai Department of Physiology, Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan ---------Coffee break--------- S1-4-4 Involvement of forebrain glucose-monitoring neurons in taste information processing: Electrophysiological and behavioral studies Zoltán Karádi, Balázs Lukáts, Szilárd Papp, Lászlo Lénárd, and Gábor Takács Pécs University, Medical School, Institute of Physiology, Neurophysiology Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), H-7602 Pécs, P.O.B. 99, Hungary, [email protected] S1-4-5 ERP and MRI olfactory studies of brain in aging and Alzheimer's disease Claire Murphy, Barbara Cerf-Ducastel, Rose Calhoun-Haney, Anne Wiser, and Sally Ferdon San Diego State University and UCSD, San Diego, [email protected] ------------ 12:10 - 13:00 --------- Lunch on Seminar 12:10 Umami: It’s past and future Yojiro Kawamura, Emeritus Professor of Osaka University [Chairperson: Kenzo Kurihara, Aomori University, Japan] ------------ 13:10 - 17:20 --------- Session Symposium 1-5 13:10 Trigeminal sensation (Room B1) [Organizers: Michio Komai, Tohoku University, Japan, Toda K., Nagasaki University, Japan, Makoto Tominaga, Mie University, Japan] 13:10 S1-5-1 Molecular mechanisms of trigeminal nociception and sensation of pungency Makoto Tominaga Center for Integrative Bioscience, National Institute of Natural Sciences, Japan, [email protected] 4 13:40 S1-5-2 TRP channels and thermosensation Ardem Patapoutian Department of Cell Biology, ICND202, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, [email protected] 14:10 S1-5-3 Coexpression of vanilloid receptor subtype-1 and acid-sensing ion channel genes in the human trigeminal ganglion neurons Shinya Ugawa1, Takashi Ueda1, Masataka Nagao2, and Shoichi Shimada1 1Department of Molecular Morphology and 2Department of Forensic