Past Gakuyugo Seminar |

AY2007 3rd Gakuyugo Seminar

Date&Time:
Sep 26, 2007 
Venue:
Professor Tsunehiro Takeda

Development of a helium circulation system for the MEG system

Professor Tsunehiro Takeda

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In this seminar, I will first introduce the three-dimensional optometer that I have developed to simultaneously measure the three major functions of the eye (focus adjustment, eye movement, and pupil reaction). Next, I will introduce typical brain measurement devices for the brain, which is closely related to the eye. Then, I will introduce the MEG (Brain Shigemeter), which measures the weak magnetic field of less than 1/100 millionth of the geomagnetic field generated by brain activity, and show what kind of measurements are possible. Finally, I will talk about our helium circulation system, which allows us to completely circulate the liquid helium used to make the SQUIDs used in the MEG superconductive, so that once filled, they are maintenance free for one year.

Associate Professor Fugaku Aoki

"Reprogramming of gene expression before and after fertilization and cloned animals"

Associate Professor Fugaku Aoki

The birth of life begins when a sperm and an egg join to form a fertilized egg. In this process, the egg, which is a differentiated cell, is transformed into a pluripotent embryo, and it is thought that reprogramming of gene expression occurs during this process. In this talk, I will present the results of my research on this mechanism. In this talk, I will present the results of my research on this mechanism, and I will also include the topic of cloned animals.

Professor Toshiaki Hisada

Development of a multi-scale, multi-physics heart simulator for medical drug discovery

Professor Toshiaki Hisada

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The purpose of this research is to create a new medical science integrated with computational science by reproducing a virtual human heart that integrates multi-level physiological phenomena from micro to macro in a computational machine, which will be useful for medical treatment and drug discovery. We have already completed a cardiac model starting from a mathematical model of cellular ion channels and contractile proteins to ventricular contraction and blood pumping modeled by the finite element method. We have also developed cardiomyocytes based on the finite element method, which will be incorporated into a seamless multiscale multiphysics heart simulator, which is unprecedented in the world. It is also expected to contribute to computational science and computer science as an application of Japan's next supercomputer (K computer).

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