Program

July 27

	9:00	:	Registration
	9:30	:	Kunihiko Kaneko (Tokyo) "Life Science as Complex Systems: Constructive, Dynamic, and Developmental Approach"
	10:30	:	Pier Luigi Luisi (ETH) "Liposome Microreactors as Models for Biological Cells"
	11:30	:	Tadashi Sugawara (Tokyo) "Replicating Giant Vesicles Triggered by Chemical Reaction"
	12:10	:	Lunch
	13:30	:	John S McCaskill (GMD, Bonn) "Spatial Evolution of Coupled Molecular Systems" (tentative)
	14:30	:	Tetsuya Yomo (Osaka, Tokyo) "A synthetic approach to development of genetic information"
	15:10	:	Comment by Walter Fontana (Santa Fe Institute)
	15:30	:	Break
	15:50	:	James Shapiro (Chicago) "Genome System Architecture and Natural Genetic Engineering in Evolution"
	16:50	:	Akiko Kashiwagi (Osaka) "Population structure dependency of fitness observed through experimental molecular evolution"
	17:30	:	Poster Session
	18:30	:	Party

July 28

	9:00	:	Uri Alon (Weizmann) "Reverse engineering gene circuits using accurate real time expression measurements from living cells"
	10:00	:	Kenji Yasuda (Tokyo) "On-chip Analysis System for Individual Cells"
	10:40	:	Alexander Mikhailov (FHI, Berlin) "Self-organization in living cells"
	11:20	:	Lunch (+ Poster)
	13:00	:	Cornelis J Weijer (Dundee) "The control of cell movement during Dictyostelium morphogenesis"
	14:00	:	Paulien Hogeweg (Utrecht) "Computing organisms: from genome to morphology"
	15:00	:	Break
	15:30	:	Makoto Asashima (Tokyo) "In Vitro Control of Organogenesis and Body Plane by Activin and Other Factors in Xenopus laevis embryo"
	16:30	:	Discussion on theory of development
	17:00	:	Concluding Remarks