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The 54th NIBB Conference "New Frontiers in Medaka Model - Genome, Bioresources and Biology - "

Organizers Minoru Tanaka (NIBB)
Venue Okazaki Conference Center, Okazaki, Japan
Date Feb. 28-29, 2008
Link Official Website (http://www.nibb.ac.jp/conf54/)
Poster The 54th NIBB Conference

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  The medaka is an emerging model vertebrate and is beginning to aid the exploration of new fields of biology. The symposium was the first international symposium after the core facility of NBRP medaka was transferred to and established at NIBB and the entire genomic sequence of medaka was published. The symposium focused on not only a variety of biological studies but also on the genome and bioresources. First rate scientists from Japan, Asia, Europe and America gathered at the symposium and surveyed the biology of medaka, the novel skills that support the biology, the genomic information infrastructure and a variety of medaka resources, and discussed the future of such studies. Although the symposium did not set up a poster presentation for young scientists and students, more than 100 researchers participated in the conference.

  The presentations on the basic sciences covered wide areas of biology, from the fundamental issues of development, evolution and genome research to the analysis of behavior. This represents one feature of medaka biology, together with its application to environmental assessment and toxicology. It is noteworthy that most of these studies were based on or were closely associated with genomic infrastructures and novel technologies that have recently become available for the researchers.

  The symposium attracted considerable attention from a wide audience and was reported in the May issue of “nature DIGEST”, vol.5 2008. Several speakers from the symposium were interviewed by a reporter in the article.

  Lastly, I’d like to briefly mention that this was the first NIBB conference that accepted donations from several overseas companies. An unexpectedly wide and high level of attention to and interest in biology using medaka in the scientific community was indicated by the response. (Minoru Tanaka) 

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Program

 

February 27, Wednesday
Registration for Invited Speakers     18:00-20:00
 
February 28, Thursday
Registration at the Okazaki Conference Center (Venue)   8:45-9:00
Opening Remarks   9:00-9:05
        Minoru Tanaka ( Conference Organizer, NIBB, Japan )
 
Session 1: Strains and Bioresource    *Chair: K. Naruse (NIBB, Japan)
" National BioResource Project in Japan "
        Yukiko Yamazaki ( NIG, Japan )
" Links between Zebrafish and Medaka Resources Support Collaborative Research "
        Monte Westerfield ( Univ. Oregon, USA )
" Diversity of Sex Determining Genes in Oryzias Fishes "
        Satoshi Hamaguchi ( Niigata Univ., Japan )
 
- - - - - - - -    Coffee Break     10:35-10:50    - - - - - - - -
 
" 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)
 
- - - - - - - -    Group Photo and Lunch     11:50-13:30    - - - - - - - -
 
Session 2: Biology I (cont.)
" Evolution and Function of the Male Sex Determining Gene in Medaka "
        Manfred Schartl (Univ. Wuerzburg, Germany)
" Importance of Germ Cells on Sexual Differentiation of Medaka "
        Minoru Tanaka ( NIBB, Japan )
" Sexual Plasticity in Fish "
        Yoshitaka Nagahama ( NIBB, Japan )
" The Sex-Determining Locus in Fugu (the Tiger Pufferfish) "
        Kiyoshi Kikuchi ( Univ. Tokyo, Japan )
 
- - - - - - - -    Coffee Break     15:10-15:30    - - - - - - - -
 
*Chair: H. Takeda (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 )
 
- - - - - - - -    Coffee Break     10:20-10:35    - - - - - - - -
 
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 )
 
- - - - - - - - - -    Lunch     12:35-13:30    - - - - - - - - - -
 
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 )

 

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