The 64th NIBB Conference
Evolution of Seasonal Timers
Program
| April 22 (Fri) at the Okazaki Conference Center (OCC) | |
| 08:45 - 09:15 | Registration |
| Opening Remarks | |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Masayuki Yamamoto (Director General, National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan) |
| Andrew Loudon (University of Manchester, UK) | |
| Plenary lecture 1 | |
| Chair: Norihito Nakamichi | |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | "Natural Variation in Plant Circadian Clocks" |
| C. Robertson McClung (Dartmouth College, USA) | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| Session 1: The measurement of seasonal time in invertebrates | |
| Chair: David Hazlerigg | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | "Sea, Sun and Moon: Marine Models for the Study of Endogenous Timers" |
| Kristin Tessmar-Raible (University of Vienna, Austria) | |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | "Seasonal Time Measurement by the Circannual Clock in a Beetle" |
| Hideharu Numata (Kyoto University, Japan) | |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | "Neuroendocrine Control of Development Plasticity in Drosophila: Implication for Seasonal Adaptation in Insects" |
| Ryusuke Niwa (University of Tsukuba, Japan) | |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Short Talk from Poster No. 1 |
| "Functional Connections among Neurons Involved in Photoperiodic Control of Diapause in the Blow Fly, Protophormia terraenovae" | |
| Sakiko Shiga (Osaka City University, Japan) | |
| 12:30 - 12:40 | Group Photo |
| 12:40 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| Session 2: The measurement of seasonal time in a plant model | |
| Chair: Takashi Yoshimura | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | "Synthetic Molecules Changing Plant Circadian Clock" |
| Norihito Nakamichi (Nagoya University, Japan) | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | "Photoperiodic Control of Flowering in Rice" |
| Takeshi Izawa (National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan) | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | "Molecular Phenology in Plants: Seasonal Responses of Gene Expression under Natural Environments" |
| Hiroshi Kudoh (Kyoto University, Japan) | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | "Flowering Phenology under Seasonal and Aseasonal Environments: Gene Expression Assessment in the Temperate and Tropical Zones" |
| Akiko Satake (Kyushu University, Japan) | |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Short Talk from Poster No. 5 |
| "The Modulation of Circadian Periods is Linked to a Local Adaptation of Critical Day-lengths for Flowering in a Japanese Short-day Duckweed" | |
| Tomoaki Muranaka (Nagoya University, Japan) | |
| Data-blitz and Poster (Odd numbers) | |
| 16:15 - 18:00 | Data-blitz and Poster (Odd numbers) Poster Title (PDF 63KB) |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | Mixer |
| April 23 (Sat) at OCC | |
| Plenary lecture 2 | |
| Chair: David Hazlerigg | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | "Revisiting the Bunning Hypothesis" |
| Michael Menaker (University of Virginia, USA) | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Coffee Break |
| Session 3: The measurement of seasonal time in non-mammalian models I | |
| Chair: Nicholas Foulkes | |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | "Measuring Light and Time in Fish" |
| Nicholas S. Foulkes (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | "Evolution of Seasonal Timekeeping in Salmonids" |
| David Hazlerigg (UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Norway) | |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | "Genetic Mechanisms Underlying Variation in Seasonal Reproduction between Stickleback Ecotypes" |
| Jun Kitano (National Institute of Genetics, Japan) | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Short Talk from Poster No. 8 |
| "Expression of Photosignal Transduction-related Genes in the Saccus Vasculosus of Fishes" | |
| Masayuki Iigo (Utsunomiya University, Japan) | |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| Session 4: The measurement of seasonal time in non-mammalian models II | |
| Chair: David Burt | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | "Dual Photoperiodic Control Hypothesis of Avian Breeding Cycles" |
| Alistair Dawson (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK) | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | "Binary Switching of Calendar Cells" |
| Andrew Loudon (University of Manchester, UK) | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | "Transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulation of Seasonal Timing" |
| David W. Burt (The Roslin Institute/University of Edinburgh, UK) | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Coffee Break |
| Plenary lecture 3 | |
| Chair: Masayuki Iigo | |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | "Evolution of Seasonality in Migration of Freshwater eels" |
| Katsumi Tsukamoto (Nihon University, Japan) | |
| Data-blitz and Poster (Even numbers) | |
| 16:15 - 18:00 | Data-blitz and Poster (Even numbers) Poster Title (PDF 63KB) |
| April 24 (Sun) at OCC | |
| Plenary lecture 4 | |
| Chair: Andrew Loudon | |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | "Circannual Rhythms of Reproduction and Heterothermy in Hibernating Ground Squirrels" |
| Brian M. Barnes (University of Alaska, USA) | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Coffee Break |
| Session 5: The measurement of seasonal time in a mammalian model | |
| Chair: Valérie Simonneaux | |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | "Circadian Clock Neurons in the SCN Encode Seasonal Time" |
| Jihwan Myung and Toru Takumi (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan) | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | "RFRP neurons, a Hypothalamic Doorway for Seasonal Cues" |
| Valérie Simonneaux (Institut des Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives, France) | |
| 11:15 - 11:45 |
"Towards Understanding the Mechanism of Seasonal Time Measurement: an Interdisciplinary Approach" |
| Takashi Yoshimura (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan) | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Short Talk from Poster No. 19 |
| "Orchestration of Hypothalamic Gene Expression in Natural Photoperiod over the Course of One Year in The Siberian Hamster" | |
| Perry Barrett (Rowett Institute for Nutrition and Health, UK) | |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Short Talk from Poster No. 20 |
| "Evidence for Systemic Remodeling prior to Hibernation in the Syrian Hamster (Mesocricetus auratus)" | |
| Yoshifumi Yamaguchi (The University of Tokyo, Japan) | |
| Closing Remarks | |
| 12:15 | Takashi Yoshimura (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan) |
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