Symposium/Meeting

Meeting

" Evolution: Genomes, Cell Types and Shapes "

Organizers:	Detlev Arendt, EMBL Heidelberg Shigeru Kuratani, RIKEN CDB Mitsuyasu Hasebe, NIBB Naoto Ueno, NIBB
Venue:	Okazaki Conference Center, Okazaki, Japan
Date:	November 21-23, 2008
Link to 　Meeting Website

**Program**
November 21 (Friday)
13:00-14:00	Registration
14:00-14:10	Opening Remarks 　　Kiyotaka Okada (Director-General, NIBB)
Evolution of Animal Body Plans　Chair : Detlev Arendt
14:10-14:40	Detlev Arendt (EMBL Heidelberg) "The Evolutionary Origin of the Bilaterian CNS: A Cell Type Perspective"
14:40-15:10	Ulrich Technau (Univ. Vienna) "The Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis as a Model System for the Study of the Evolutionary Origin of Mesoderm and Bilaterality"
15:10-15:40	Shigeru Kuratani (RIKEN, CDB) "What Does It Take to Be a Turtle?"
15:40-16:00	Coffee-break
16:00-16:30	Daniel M. Chourrout (Univ. Bergen) "Evolution of Lineage-Specific Functions in the Tunicate Oikopleura dioica"
16:30-16:45	Yuuri Yasuoka (Univ. Tokyo)　*Short talk from posters “Evolutionary Roots of Blastoporal Expression and ‘Organizer’ Activity of the Vertebrate Gastrula Organizer Gene lhx1 and Its Ancient Paralog lhx3”
16:45-17:00	Raju Tomer (EMBL Heidelberg)　*Short talk from posters “The Evolution of Mushroom Body and Telencephalic Cell Types, Studied by Single Cell Expression Profiling of Platynereis dumerilii Larvae”
17:30-19:30	Poster Session
November 22 (Saturday)
Evolution of Animal Body Plans　Chair : Detlev Arendt
8:40-9:10	Christopher J. Lowe (Univ. Chicago) "The Role of Secreted Ligands in Nervous System Patterning during Deuterostome Evolution"
Evolution of Genomes　Chair : Lars Steinmetz
09:10-9:40	Lars Steinmetz (EMBL Heidelberg) "Recombination Patterns Across the Yeast Genome"
09:40-10:10	Peer Bork (EMBL Heidelberg) "Bridging Genotypes and Phenotypes by Data Integration"
10:10-10:40	Michael Knop (EMBL Heidelberg) "Evolution of Mutational Robustness in the Yeast Genome: A Link to Essential Genes and Meiotic Recombination Hot Spots?"
10:40-10:55	Ikuo Uchiyama (NIBB)　*Short talk from posters “Multiple Genome Alignment for Identifying the Genomic Core among Moderately Related Microbial Genomes”
10:55-11:10	Coffee-break
Evolution of Gene Regulatory Networks　Chair : Eileen E. Furlong
11:10-11:40	Eileen E. Furlong (EMBL Heidelberg) "Developmental Networks in cis: Can We Decipher the Code?"
11:40-12:10	Nori Satoh (Kyoto Univ.) "The Origin and Evolution of Chordates"
12:10-13:05	Lunch
13:05-13:35	Francois Spitz (EMBL Heidelberg) "The Role of Gene Regulatory Architecture in Vertebrate Development and Evolution"
13:35-13:50	Ya-Hsin Liu (EMBL Heidelberg)　*Short talk from posters “Eya and STAT Are Conserved Components of Myogenesis, but Differently Regulated, between Vertebrates and Drosophila”
Evolution of Plants　Chair : Jim Haseloff
13:50-14:20	Jim Haseloff (Univ. Cambridge) "Morphogenetic Engineering of Plant Systems"
14:20-14:50	Hirokazu Tsukaya (Univ. Tokyo) "Genetic Basis of Leaf Shape/Size Evolution"
14:50-15:20	John L. Bowman (Monash Univ.) "Evolution of Body Plans in Land Plants"
15:20-15:50	Mitsuyasu Hasebe (NIBB) "PcG Gene Manages Life Cycle by Regulating Pluripotent Stem Cell Character"
15:50-16:20	William E. Friedman (Univ. Colorado) "An Evolutionary-Developmental Perspective on the Angiosperm Reproductive Syndrome"
16:20-16:35	Takahiro Yamaguchi (NIBB)　*Short talk from posters “Evo-Devo of Unifacial Leaves in Monocots”
16:35-16:55	Coffee-break
Evolution of Phylum-specific Traits　Chair : Michael Akam
16:55-17:25	Michael Akam (Univ. Cambridge) "Early Embryonic Patterning and Segmentation in Onychophorans and Myriapods"
17:25-17:55	Mikiko Tanaka (Tokyo Inst. Tech.) "Heterochronic Shift in Hox-Mediated Activation of Sonic hedgehog Leads to Morphological Changes during Vertebrate Fin Evolution"
17:55-18:25	Masataka Okabe (The Jikei Univ. School of Med.) "Transition from Aquatic to Terrestrial Life and Evolution of the Vertebrate Pharynx"
18:25-18:55	Fumitoshi Ishino (Tokyo Med. & Dental Univ.) "Evolution of Placentation in Eutherian Mammals Contributed by Exaptation of PEG10 and PEG11/RTL1 from Retrotransposons"
18:55-19:10	Yoshihito Niimura (Tokyo Med. & Dental Univ.)　*Short talk from posters “On the Origin and Evolution of Vertebrate Olfactory Receptor Genes: Comparative Genome Analysis among 23 Chordate Species”
19:10-20:30	Mixer
November 23 (Sunday)
Evolution of Vision & Brain　Chair : Claude Desplan
09:00-09:30	Claude Desplan (NY Univ.) "Detection and Processing of Color Information in Drosophila"
09:30-10:00	Norihiro Okada (Tokyo Inst. Tech.) "Multiple SINE Insertions Made Our Brain Mammalian?"
10:00-10:30	Tetsuo Yamamori (NIBB) "Identification and Characterization of the Genes Specifically Expressed in the Primate Neocortical Areas"
10:30-10:45	Norio Miyamoto (Univ. Tsukuba)　*Short talk from posters “Development of the Nervous System in the Acorn Worm Balanoglossus simodensis”
10:45-11:05	Coffee-break
Evolution of Regeneration　Chair : Kiyokazu Agata
11:05-11:35	Kiyokazu Agata (Kyoto Univ.) "Evolution of the Complex Brain by Increasing Cellular Complexity: When was the Neural Stem Cell System First Established?"
11:35-12:05	Koji Tamura (Tohoku Univ.) "A Variety of Limb Regeneration Abilities in Tetrapods"
12:05-12:35	Sumihare Noji (Univ. Tokushima) "Regulation of the Leg Size and Shape through the Fat Signaling Pathway during Regeneration"
12:35-12:45	Closing Remarks 　　Detlev Arendt (EMBL Heidelberg)