" What Does Comparative Genomics Tell Us about the Evolutionary Conservation and Dynamic Changes of the Regulatory Mechanisms for Tissue Specific Gene Expression? " Hitoshi Okamoto (RIKEN BSI, Japan)
Session 2: Biology I *Chair: M. Yamashita (Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
" Evolutionary Diversification of Visual Opsin Repertoires and Their Expression Regulation in Fish Revealed by Studies of Zebrafish and Medaka " Shoji Kawamura (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
" Bone Formation in Medaka: Modeling of Vertebral Bone " Akira Kudo ( Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan )
" The Sequential Action of CXCR4b and CXCR7/RDC1 Receptor Systems in the Regulation of PGC Migration Revealed by Medaka Mutants " Takao Sasado ( Nagahama Inst. Bio-Sci. & Tech., Japan )
" Medaka ENU-Mutagenesis for Studying Thymus Development " Norimasa Iwanami ( Univ. Tokushima, Japan )
" Gene Regulation of the Myogenic Regulatory Factor myf5 Gene of Zebrafish "
Huai Jen Tsai ( National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan )
" Ojoplano Links Polarized Secretion to Tissue Morphogenesis " Joachim Wittbrodt ( Univ. Heidelberg / EMBL, Germany )
" Mutations Affecting Liver Development and Function in Medaka, Oryzias latipes " Hiroshi Nishina ( Tokyo Med. & Dental Univ., Japan )
Reception
Reception at the Okazaki Conference Center 18:30-20:30
February 29, Friday
Session 3: Genome *Chair: M. Westerfield (Univ. Oregon, USA)
" Potential Applications of Next Generation Sequencers to the Analysis of the Medaka Genome " Shinichi Morishita ( Univ. Tokyo, Japan )
" Medaka Genome Sequence: Insights into the Chromosomal Evolution and the Gene Evolution in Fish " Kiyoshi Naruse ( NIBB, Japan )
" Inactivation of Medaka Genes by Target-Selected Mutagenesis " Yoshihito Taniguchi ( Kyoto Univ., Japan )
Session 4: Biology II *Chair: J. Wittbrodt (Univ. Heidelberg / EMBL, Germany)
" A Mutant Medaka Fish Identifies a Novel Cytoplasmic Protein Responsible for Human Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia " Hiroyuki Takeda ( Univ. Tokyo, Japan )
" Induction of Otic Development in Medaka " Thomas Czerny ( Univ. Applied Sci., Austria )
" Analysis of Social Interactions Using Adult Medaka Fish " Hideaki Takeuchi ( Univ. Tokyo, Japan )
" Characterising Genes Expressed in Neural Stem Cells of the Medakafish Brain " Jean-Stephane Joly ( INRA / CNRS, France )
Session 5: Technology *Chair: Y. Taniguchi (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
" Generation of Nuclear Transplants from Adult Somatic Cells in Medaka " Yuko Wakamatsu ( Nagoya Univ., Japan )
" Haploid Embryonic Stem Cells from Medaka " Yunhan Hong ( National Univ. Singapore, Singapore )
Session 6: Biology III *Chair: M. Schartl (Univ. Wuerzburg, Germany)
" Genomic Instability Mediated by Germ Cells " Richard Winn ( Univ. Georgia, USA )
"Transgenic Marine Medaka (Oryzias melastigma): A Sensitive Sentinel for Estrogenic Endocrine Disrupters " Shuk Han Cheng ( City Univ. Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR )
" Osterix Regulates Bone Formation in Medaka " Christoph Winkler ( National Univ. Singapore, Singapore )
" Sexual Differentiation of the Medaka Brain: Identification of a Gene Predominantly Expressed in the Female Brain, cyp19a2 " Kataaki Okubo ( NIBB, Japan )
Concluding Remarks 16:00-16:10
Yoshitaka Nagahama ( Deputy Director-General, NIBB, & Representative of National Bioresource Project, Medaka, Japan )