10月末にサンフランシスコで開かれるBIOMODジャンボリーの関連イベントとして、8月末にBIOMOD日本大会を行います。ウェブページの準備や発表練習の機会として活用してください。審査員からのフィードバックをもとに、サンフランシスコ大会で活躍できることを期待します。また、日本のチームは日本大会の成績に応じてトラベルアワードが支給されます。詳しくは以下の情報を参照してください。当日のプログラムおよび各チームのアブストラクト・Webページが公開されました。
As a related event of BIOMOD jamboree at San Francisco in the end of October, BIOMOD Japan Meeting takes place in the end of August. Please use it as an opportunity to prepare a webpage and practice oral presentation. Taking the feedback from judges, we hope you can do your best at the jamboree in San Francisco. Depending on the ranking of Japan meeting, Japanese teams are eligible for travel award. Please look the following detail information.
・名称（Name）：BIOMOD日本大会2019 (BIOMOD Japan Meeting 2019)
・日付（Date）：8月31日土曜日（31st of August, Saturday）
・時間（Time）：14:30-17:25
・場所（Place）：東京大学生産技術研究所 (Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo)
・会場（Room）：S棟プレゼンテーションルーム (Presentation room, S building)
https://goo.gl/maps/8zVge7DLNoADqLJ59
https://www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/access/
https://www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/access/
・主催（Sponsorship）：SICE知能分子ロボティクス調査研究会 (The SICE research committee for Intelligent Molecular Robotics)
・共催（Co-sponsorship）：JST分子ロボット倫理研究会（SIG Molecular Robotics Ethics, JST）
・共催（Co-sponsorship）：東京大学生産技術研究所 藤井研究室 (Applied Microfluidic Systems Lab, The University of Tokyo)
・参加資格（Who can join）
BIOMOD日本大会2019には、サンフランシスコ大会に出場予定、あるいはウェイティングリストに申し込んだチームが参加することができます。
Teams who are participating the jamboree at San Francisco or in the waiting list can join the BIOMOD Japan Meeting.
登録費、参加費（Registration fee, participation fee）：無料（Free）
会場までは自費で来てください。
懇親会には参加費がかかります。
Please come to the conference place at your own expense.
Social gathering costs some money.
・締切（Deadlines）
7/19（金）（19th of July, Friday）：エントリー締め切り (Entry due)
8/17（土）（17th of August, Saturday） 23:59： アブストラクト締め切り（Abstract due）
8/24（土）（24th of August, Saturday）23:59 ：ウェブページ締め切り（Webpage due）
8/28（水）（28th of August, Wednesday）23:59 ：ELSI締め切り（ELSI due）
・8/31スケジュール（予定）（Schedule of 31st of August）
113:30-14:30 設営、プロジェクター確認（Prepare, check projector）
14:30-14:33 中茎先生、挨拶（Greeting from prof. Nakakuki）
14:33-14:36 藤井先生、挨拶 (Greeting from prof. Fuji)
14:36-14:40 ルール説明（Rule）
14:40-15:05 関西大（TEAM KANSAI）
15:05-15:30 東大（TEAM TOKYO）
15:30-15:45 休憩（Break）
15:45-16:10 東北大（Team Sendai）
16:10-16:35 九工大（YOKABAIO）
16:35-16:40 集合写真（Group photo）
16:40-16:55 休憩（Break）
16:55-17:15 小長谷先生、ELSI（ELSI from prof. Konagaya）
17:15-17:25 表彰式（Awards）
17:25-17:30 村田先生、総評（Closing remarks from prof. Murata）
17:30- 解散（End）
18:00- 懇親会（Social gathering）
アーペ（生産技術研究所内にあるレストラン）
当日チームごとに懇親会参加者の懇親会費を集金します。
教員と学生が同じ会場で合同で行います。
Ape (Restaurant in the campus of Institute of Industrial Science)
We collect fee of the social gathering from each team at the conference.
Both faculty mentors and students gather to the same restaurant.
・8/31（土）は、駒場リサーチキャンパス（東京大学生産技術研究所）の東門は施錠されており、正門からしか入れません。
ご注意ください。
On 31st of August (Sat.), only the main entrance of Komaba research campus (the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo) is open, and the east entrance is closed.
Please be careful.
・エントリーは、以下の情報を締め切りまでに川又に送ってください。
Send the following entry information to Kawamata before the deadline.
チーム名（英語）
Name of the team
学生代表氏名、メールアドレス
Name and mail address of the student leader
教員氏名、メールアドレス
Name and mail address of the faculty mentor
学生メンター氏名、メールアドレス（もしいれば）
Name and mail address of the graduate student mentor (if any)
発表順番などの希望（やむを得ない事情があれば）
Request of the order to present (if you have any unavoidable reason)
・アブストラクトは締め切りまでに川又に送ってください。
英語150ワード以内。
Send the abstract to Kawamata before the deadline.
150 words max in English.
・ウェブページは、URLを8/24の締め切りまでに川又に送り、その後は以下のELSIの情報を除いて編集しないこと。
Send the URL of the webpage to Kawamata before the deadline of 24th of August, and do not edit it except the ELSI information (see below) after that.
ウェブページには、英語のELSI（Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications）の情報を、8/28の締め切りまでに追加してください。以下のトラベルアワードのために必要です。
Add the information of ELSI (Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications) to the webpage before the deadline of 28th of August. It is necessary for the travel award (see below).
・日本チームは順位に応じてトラベルアワードを贈呈します。
Japanese teams are eligible for travel award depending on their ranking.
1位：3名分旅費相当 (1st place : flight cost of around three students)
2位：2名分旅費相当 (2nd place : flight cost of around two students)
3位：1名分旅費相当 (3rd place : flight cost of around one student)
4位：1名分旅費相当 (4th place : flight cost of around one student)
上限額および条件あり。
Note that there is an upper limit and conditions.
・口頭発表・質疑応答（Oral presentation and question and answer）：25分（25 minutes）
発表10分、質疑応答14分、交代1分
10 minutes of presentation, 14 minutes of question and answer, 1 minute for changing
・審査員はBIOMODと同じポイント制度に従い、ウェブページと口頭発表を採点します。
Judges use the same point system of BIOMOD competition to evaluate the webpage and the oral presentation.
http://biomod.net/judging/
・審査員は8/30（金）までにウェブページの採点結果を川又に送ってください。
Judges send their scores of the webpage to Kawamata before 30th of August (Friday).
・審査員は8/31（土）発表終了後、休憩時間に口頭発表の採点結果を川又に送ってください。
Judges send their scores of the oral presentation to Kawamata during the break after the presentation on 31st of August (Saturday).
・川又のメールアドレス（Mail address of Kawamata）： kawamata[at]molbot.mech.tohoku.ac.jp
プログラムオーガナイザー（Program organizer）：川又 生吹 (Ibuki Kawamata)
ローカルオーガナイザー（Local organizer）：奥村 周 (Shu Okumura)、Anthony Genot
・アブストラクト（Abstract）・Webページ
関西大学（TEAM KANSAI）”https://biomod2019.wixsite.com/kansai-univ”
In recent years, DNA Origami is attracting attention. It is an innovative technology that allows free design and creation of desired nanoscale structures. DNA Origami is expected to be applied to various purposes such as molecular robots. One interesting example of molecular robots is “Nanocars”.
Here, we propose a Nanocar made with DNA Origami technique. First, we designed DNA sequence for one-wheeled car body and will make DNA Origami based on this design. Next, two of the car bodies will be connected by appropriate staple strands to create “DNA Origami Bicycle”. Finally, staple strands with azobenzene moieties will be introduced to crosslink the tire and shaft. With this azobenzene-tethered DNA, formation and dissociation of a DNA duplex can be reversibly photo-regulated by cis–trans isomerization of the azobenzene. By using this mechanism, we can achive control of driving.
In the future, we will challenge car racing by DNA nanocar.
東大（TEAM TOKYO）”https://biomodtokyo2019.github.io/wiki/”
Swarm Robotics consists of simple robots and their communication system, and it is gathering attention for its flexibility and adaptability to environment which cannot be achieved by one robot.
Here, we aim to achieve nano-scale swarm robot systems with two components: 1. reaction fields derived from ON-OFF DNA concentration condition using polymerase, exonuclease and nickase 2. swarm robots consist of beads with DNA strands which react the DNA concentration situations. The behavior of swarm robots involves the aggregation of DNA-modified beads by a linker DNA which is synthesized only when the field DNA is ON.
The strong points in our project are simplification and downsizing of high sensing technology in a moderate condition by a bottom-up approach.
These can be applied to molecular sensing such as visualization and simplification in medical examinations.
東北大（Team Sendai）”https://teamsendai2019biomod.github.io/HelloGit/”
A recent study has succeeded in making 100 times-swelling hydrogel by DNA-crosslinked acrylamide in which the crosslink extends linearly by incorporating DNA hairpins through Hybridization Chain Reaction (HCR).
Although the method achieved an extraordinary swelling rate, the gel cannot shrink.
It just stops swelling when it runs out of DNA hairpins.
Here, we propose a novel design of DNA-linked hydrogel that can not only extend but shrink, like a muscle fiber. In the above swelling gel by HCR, hairpin DNAs are incorporated at one end of linking complex which allows linear elongation of the crosslink. Based on the same design, we add a novel shrinking mechanism which removes DNA from the other end of the complex. We call it “reverse hybridization chain reaction(RHCR)” .
In the future, our DNA hydrogel muscle may contribute to the development of highly designable metamorphic robots.
九工大（YOKABAIO）”https://yokabio2019.github.io/Web/Home/Home.html”
Enzymes are essential substance for all living. For example, the reason why we can take in nutrients through meals is that what we take in from the mouth is broken down by an enzymatic reaction and can be absorbed. If we don’t have any enzymes, we can’t get nutrients.
However, enzymes have some weak points. The one is not to happen frequently enzyme reaction because active center is so small compared the size of enzyme molecule. We came up with a new machine that does the activity like active center of enzymes increased responding. The way is using two DNA origami connected each other on a side. The one is bound a substrate and the other is bound a catalyst, and the two molecules react forcibly by folded two DNA origami. We dream this machine can make two molecules they aren’t specific each other react effectively.