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International Sports Science Network Forum in Nagano 2004

1. Conference Overview

(1) Forum title

International Sports Science Network Forum in Nagano 2004:

For Promotion and Health and Welfare in the Aging Society

(2) Forum affiliations

Organized by: Shinshu University

Supported by: The Japanese Society of Physical Fitness & Sports Medicine

The Physiological Society of Japan

The Uehara Memorial Foundation

Matsumoto City

JTRC

(3) Forum schedule

November 10 (Wed.), 11 (Thu.), 12 (Fri.), 2004.

[ Extension Lecture for Citizens, 13 (Sat.)]

(4) Venue

Hotel Buena-Bista

1-2-1Honjo, Matsumoto 390-0814, JAPAN

TEL +81-263-37-0111/ FAX +81-263-37-0666

http://www.buena-bista.co.jp/

(5) Objective and Characteristics of the Forum

With an advent of aging society in Japan, participation of sports science has been more expected for the improvement of well-being. Fields such as preventive medicine and rehabilitation medicine are to play the main roles. Despite these demands, the research system for sports science in Japan has not been well organized as in the Western countries.

This hindering the development of sports sciences in this country may arise from subdivision of academic genre. If sports science is a practical and applied science, project type of studies are desirable. Scientists and practitioners can sustain their urge for attaining common research goals. However, the advancement in modern analytical science, like molecular biology, separates sports sciences into more sophisticated sub-fields. The diversity in researches inevitably results in lack of understanding between different but relative fields. In addition, minute classification of researches creates a bottleneck for understanding humans as a total system where each component is integrated as a whole. Resulting dissociation between academic interests and practical needs is likely to suppress the establishment of well-organized research system.

To solve the problems, we had held three forums in Nagano; GSSI-Sports Science Network Forums in 1999 and 2000, and International Sports Science Form in 2001, each of which about 150 young investigators from different research field participated in. In the forums, we successfully picked up several research topics to solve recent social problems and some groups of investigators to work together for them. The achievements were published in three volumes of Exercise, Nutrition, and Environmental Stress (vols.1-3) after each forum from Cooper Publishing. However, we thought that we should further continue to make a network among more number of young investigators to share the concept and that we should invite more number of investigators from private companies and practitioners from the field to join the network. By doing these, we will be able to propose some research projects to match the demands raised from the field, which, we thought, enable us to receive financial supports from the government and/or private companies more easily.

For these purposes, the following points are unique in the Forum:

1) We will give a chance of presentation to young investigators around 30 years old, who are actively doing research, in addition to the senior ones, to extend the network to the younger generation.

2) Speakers present their research outcomes in the light of sports science, and indicate the significance of the research for practical application.

3) We will invite investigators from private companies as well as practitioners in the field to fill the gap between “research” and “practice”.

3) Several foreign scientists are invited as distinguished speakers to have international exposure and critical view for presentations. Presentation and discussion contents are published internationally through Cooper Publishing.

4) We will appeal the usefulness of sports medical sciences to citizens by holding an extension lecture after the forum.

The feature of the forum is thus totally different from conventional forums. It is our sincere wish that the concept greatly serves as a momentum for promoting sports sciences in Japan.

2. Main Theme

(1) Theme for the Forum 2004

Current social problems may be;

1) progressive increasing in elderly population

2) increase in life habit disease

3) higher energy consumption in pursuit of amenity.

As basic research to solve the problems, the studies on

1) exercise training program to improve quality of life for the elderly people,

2) nutritional supplements during exercise training,

3) adaptation mechanisms to environmental stress,

are listed up, and as applied research, the studies on

1) longitudinal experimental planning to judge the effects of exercise and/or nutritional treatments in a large population.

2) genetic back ground to differentiate the effects of treatments in individuals,

3) utilization of IT network for the treatments suitable for individual physical characteristics in the field.

3. Program

November 10 (Wed)
20:00 -21:00	Reception
November 11 (Thu)
7:25-7:20	Opening Remarks
1. Central Mechanisms
7:30- 8:20	Biological Clock and Physical Exercise	Ken-ichi Honma	Chiared by K. Kanosue
	Break
2. Respiration & Metabolism
8:30- 9:20	Exercise, Metabolism, and Cytokine	Bente Pedersen	Chaired by T. Watanabe
	Break
9:30- 9:55	Evaluation of heterogeneities in oxygen supply and uptake in skeletal muscle and their physiological roles during exercise	Masaki Mizuno	Chaired by S. Koga
9:55-10:20	Oxidative stress-stimulated glucose transport in skeletal muscle	Yasuki Higaki
	Break
3. Circulation & Muscle Blood Flow I
10:30- 11:20	Muscle Blood Flow and Exercise	Michael Joyner	Chaired by K. Matsukawa
11:20- 12:30	Lunch
12:30- 12:55	Exercise, endothelin, and nitric oxide	Seiji Maeda	Chaired by T. Nishiyasu
12:55- 13:20	Reduced alpha-adrenergic vasoconstriction and enhanced cardiac baroreflex sensitivity	Shizue Masuki
	Break
13:30- 14:20	Muscle blood flow: adaptation to anemia	Niki Dietz	Chaired by K. Miki
18:30- 20:30	Party
November 12 (Fri.)
3. Circulation & Muscle Blood Flow II
7:30- 8:20	Physical Activity and Vascular Adaptations in Health and Disease	Ronald Terjung	Chaired by A. Ishihara
	Break
8:30- 8:55	Acute shift in baroreflex control of sympathetic nerve activity during exercise and sleep	Misa Yoshimoto	Chiard by M. Saitoh
8:55- 9:20	The interaction between central command and the arterial baroreflex	Hidehiko Komine
	Break
4. Temperature regulation and Body Fluid
9:30- 10:20	Heat stress and neural control of the circulation in humans	Craig Crandall	Chaired by O. Shido
	Break
10:30- 10:55	Nonthermoregulatory modification of sweating and skin blood flow	Manabu Shibasaki	Chaired by Y. Inoue
10:55- 11:20	Effects of hyperosmolality on maintenance of arterial pressure in dehydrated and exercising humans	Yoshi-ichiro Kamijo
11:20- 12:30	Lunch
5. Epidemiology: Nutrition and Exercise
12:30- 13:20	Non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT): Environment and Biology	James Levine	Chaired by K. Tokuyama
	Break
13:30- 14:20	The effects of rowing on health promotion in older people	Mitsuru Higuchi	Chaired by K. Imaizumi
	Break
14:30- 15:20	Mortality in the Elderly: Potential Risk Factors and their Significance	Irwin Schatz	Chaired by T. Katsumura
	Closing Remarks

Extension lectures for citizens (in Japanese)

Theme: Preventive Medicine & Sports: the healthy elderly promise the bright future of the local community.

Venue

Matsumoto Culture Center

69-2 Mizukuma, Matsumoto 390-03, JAPAN/ TEL +81-263-34-7100

November 13 (Sat.)
12:55- 13:00	Opening Remarks
13:00- 13:05	Welcome Address	Akira Sugenoya	Mayor of Matsumoto City
13:05- 13:10	Welcome Address	Atsushi Komiyama	President of Shinshu Univ.
13:10- 14:00	Joy by exercise	Yoshiki Umazume	Chaired by K. Tanaka
14:00- 14:50	National Project for Health Promotion	Terukazu Yoshimitsu
	Break
15:00- 15:30	e-Health Promotion System	Masa-aki Hanaoka	Chaired by F. Tajima
15:30- 16:00	Advance in JTRC	Hirokazu Gen-no
16:00- 16:30	Supplement for the elderly	Tatsuya Doi
16:30- 16:35	Closing Remarks

4. Discussion style and publication procedures

The discussion starts before the forum under following procedure.

1) Each speaker shall submit English manuscript of approximately 6,000 to 9,000 words (approximately 10 to 15 pages in B5 size sheet; 150mm x 228mm) to the Steering Committee Chairman (Nose), at latest by September 1^st , 2004 (a chart or a table is counted as 300 words).

2) The Chairman shall bind the manuscripts, and send a copy to all the participants, at latest by October 15^th , 2004.

3) Reviewers, appointed for each session, shall review the manuscripts and summarize their comments before the Forum.

4) Reviewers shall present their prepared views in the discussion following the presentation at the Forum. Other participants are welcomed to join the discussion. Discussion is held in order to consummate and generalize the content of the presentation.

5) Each speaker shall modify their own manuscripts after the Forum, according to the discussion held after the presentation, and shall submit the revise to the Chairman by December 20^th, 2004.

6) The Steering Committee Chairman and vice Chairman shall conduct the final review and submit the completed manuscript to Cooper Publishing Group, LLC.

7) The chairman shall request each presenter for the proof reading of the printing draft. Publication shall be completed within one month after the last submission of the printing draft.

Publisher:

Cooper Publishing Group, LLC, 2694 Garfield Road North, Suite 26, , P.O. Box1129 Traverse City, MI 49686, U.S.A. TEL 0011-231-933-9958/ FAX 0011-231-933-9964

e-mail ICooper100@aol.com

5. Organizing Committee

Honorary Advisors

Yoshio Kuroda Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo,

IOC Medical Committee Member

Atsushi Komiyama President, Shinshu University

Advisors

Yoshiki Umazume The Jikei University School of Medicine.

The chief commissioner, The Japanese

Society of Physical Fitness and Sports

Yoshiteru Shimomitsu Tokyo Medical University

Ken-ichi Honma Hokkaido University

Kazuyuki Knaosue Waseda University

Toshio Ohashi Dean, Shinshu University School of Medicine

Shun-ichiro Taniguchi Shinshu University Graduate School of Medicine

Steering Committee

Hiroshi Nose (Chairman) Shinshu University Graduate School of Medicine

Kazuhiko Imaizumi Waseda University

Shunsaku Koga Kobe Design University

Kenju Miki Nara Women's University

Business Committee

Yoshimitsu Inoue (Chairman) Osaka International University

Narihiko Kondo Kobe University

Kei Nagashima Waseda University

Takeshi Nishiyasu Yamaguchi University

Akira Takamata Nara Women's University

International Keynote Speakers

Craig Crandall University of Texas

Niki Dietz Mayo Clinic and Foundation

Michael Joyner Mayo Clinic and Foundation

Jim Levine Mayo Clinic and Foundation

Bente Pedersen Copenhagen Muscle Res. Ctr.

Irwin Schatz Hawaii University

Ronald Terjung Missouri University

Participants

Tatsuya Doi Ohtsuka Pharmaceutical Co.

Hirogazu Gen-no Sanyo Electrical Co.

Takafumi Hamaoka National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Kanoya

Masa-aki Hanaoka Kissei Comtec Co.

Naoyuki Hayashi Kyushu University

Yasuki Higaki Saga Medical University

Akihiko Ishihara Kyoto University

Yoshi-ichiro Kmaijo Shinshu University

Toshihito Katsumura Tokyo Medical University

Hidehiko Komine Inst. of Industrial Technology.

Seiji Maeda The University of Tsukuba

Masaki Mizuno Waseda University

Shizue Masuki Mayo Clinic & Foundation

Kanji Matsukawa Hiroshima University

Keiko Morimoto Nara Women's University

Yoshinobu Ohira Osaka University

Mitsuru Saitoh Toyoda Institute of Technology

Osamu Shido Shimane Medical University

Manabu Shibazaki Nara Women's University

Hideaki Soya The University of Tsukuba

Fumihiro Tajima Wakayama Medical College

Kiyoji Tanaka The University of Tsukuba

Kunpei Tokuyama The University of Tsukuba

Fumio Yamasaki University of Occupational and Environmental Health

Misa Yoshimoto Nara Women's University

Tatsuo Watanabe University of Tottori

Secretariat Office

Akiko Okamura

Department of Sports Medical Sciences,

Institute on Aging and Adaptation,

Shinshu University Graduate School of Medicine

3-1-1 Asahi, Matsumoto, 390-8621 Japan

TEL +81-263-37-2682

FAX +81-263-34-6721

i-sports@sch.md.shinshu-u.ac.jp