As of November 25, 2008

Plenary Lecturers:

Mina Bissell (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA)
Kazuhiro Nagata (Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto Univ. Kyoto, Japan)
Francesco Ramirez (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY ,USA)
Toshio Suda (Keio University, Tokyo, Japan)

Invited Speakers:

Takayuki Asahara (Tokai University, Isehara, Japan)
Kathryn Cheah (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Hiroyasu Esumi (National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa ,Japan)
Amanda Fosang (University of Melbourne & MCRI, Melbourne, Australia)
Reiichi Higashiyama (Tokai University, Isehara, Japan)
Eri Arikawa-Hirasawa (Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan)
Keisuke Horiuchi (Keio University, Tokyo, Japan)
Shiro Ikegawa (Center for Genomic Medicine, RIKEN, Yokohama, Japan)
Hiroshi Kitagawa (Kobe Pharmaceutical University, Kobe, Japan)
Shireen Lamande (Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia)
Joan Marini (Bone & Extracellular Matrix Branch NICHD, NIH)
Masayuki Miyasaka (Osaka University, Suita, Japan)
Satsuki Mochizuki (Keio University, Tokyo, Japan)
Atsuhito Nakao (University of Yamanashi,Yamanashi, Japan)
Yoshiro Niitsu (Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan)
Yoshifumi Ninomiya (Okayama University, Okayama, Japan)
Christopher M. Overall (Canada Research Chair in Metalloproteinase Proteomics and Systems Biology, Canada)
Jeffrey W.Pollard (Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva Univ., NY, USA)
Ruben Postel (Dutch Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Stephan J. Reshkin (University of Bari, Bari, Italy)
Motoharu Seiki (The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
Kiyotoshi Sekiguchi (Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Suita, Japan)
Nobuyuki Takakura (Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka Univ., Suita, Japan)
Shin'ichi Takeda (National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan)
Eric Thompson (St. Vincent's Institute and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia)
Noriko Yamaguchi (Akita University, Akita, Japan)
Toshiyuki Yoneda (Osaka University, Suita, Japan)