Symposium 8        "Noninvasive Estimation of Cell Quality for Transplantation"

Organizers:Mutsumi Takagi (Hokkaido University, Japan)
                   Ryuji Kato (Nagoya University, Japan)
                   Ioan Notingher (University of Nottingham, UK)

9:40

         Chairperson: Ryuji Kato (NagoyaUniversity, Japan)  

   S8-1    Mutsumi Takagi (Hokkaido University, Japan)

        "Noninvasive measurement of differentiation, cell cycle, and tumorigenesis of
         adherent humancells"

10:05
   S8-2    Kenji Yasuda (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan)

        "Image cytometry"

10:35
   S8-3    Ioan Notingher (University of Nottingham, UK)

        "Label-free characterization of individual live cells
          by confocal Ramanmicro-spectroscopy"

11:05

         Chairperson:Mutsumi Takagi (Hokkaido University, Japan)

   S8-4    Ayumi Hirano-Iwata,Ryo-taro Yamaguchi, Yuki Aonuma,
                Yasuo Kimura and Michio Niwano  (Tohoku University, Japan)

         "In situreal-time monitoring of cell responses by using surface infrared
          specrtroscopy"

11:35
   S8-5    Shuichiro Fukushima, Reiko Maehara, Tsutomu Araki
               and Masahiro Kino-oka  (Osaka University, Japan)

        "Second-harmonic-generation microscopy for quality evaluation of
          extracellular matrix"

12:05
   S8-6    Ryuji Kato, Kenji Kojima, HirotoSasaki, Asuka Miwa, Hirofumi Shiono,
                 Kii Hiroaki, Takuyuki Uozumi, Seijiro Kiyota, Ken Tomioka
                 and Hiroyuki Honda    (Nagoya University, Japan)

        "Bioinformatics-based cell quality classification using cultured cell image"