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
“Evolutionary Roots of Blastoporal Expression and ‘Organizer’ Activity of the Vertebrate Gastrula Organizer Gene lhx1 and Its Ancient Paralog lhx3”
Yuuri Yasuoka (Univ. Tokyo) *Short talk from posters
16:45-17:00
“The Evolution of Mushroom Body and Telencephalic Cell Types, Studied by Single Cell Expression Profiling of Platynereis dumerilii Larvae”
Raju Tomer (EMBL Heidelberg) *Short talk from posters
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
“Multiple Genome Alignment for Identifying the Genomic Core among Moderately Related Microbial Genomes”
Ikuo Uchiyama (NIBB) *Short talk from posters
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
“Eya and STAT Are Conserved Components of Myogenesis, but Differently Regulated, between Vertebrates and Drosophila”
Ya-Hsin Liu (EMBL Heidelberg) *Short talk from posters
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
“Evo-Devo of Unifacial Leaves in Monocots”
Takahiro Yamaguchi (NIBB) *Short talk from posters
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
“On the Origin and Evolution of Vertebrate Olfactory Receptor Genes: Comparative Genome Analysis among 23 Chordate Species”
Yoshihito Niimura (Tokyo Med. & Dental Univ.) *Short talk from posters
19:10-20:30
Mixer
Nov. 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
“Development of the Nervous System in the Acorn Worm Balanoglossus simodensis”
Norio Miyamoto (Univ. Tsukuba) *Short talk from posters
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"