National Institute for Basic Biology
| Organizers | Kiyotaka Okada (NIBB) Hirokazu Tsukaya (Univ. Tokyo / NIBB) Mikio Nishimura (NIBB) Mitsuyasu Hasebe (NIBB) Takahiro Yamaguchi (NIBB) |
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| Venue | Okazaki Conference Center, Okazaki, Japan |
| Date | Sep. 13-15, 2008 |
| Link | Official Website （http://www.nibb.ac.jp/conf55/） |
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For three days in mid-September 2008, from the 13th to the 15th, 147 people gathered in the Okazaki Conference Center and discussed the present and future of Plant Science under the title of “Frontiers of Plant Science in the 21st Century”. The topics ranged from cellular, developmental, and genetic biology to systems biology, evolutional biology and engineering. The program of the conference can be found on our home page at https://www.nibb.ac.jp/conf55. As a joint conference with the International Symposium, we had a special panel discussion, “Frontiers of Plant Science in the 21st Century”, on the afternoon of the 14th, which was organized and held by a group of our graduate students as part of their Graduate Student Education Program. This special session was sponsored by the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai).
After the conference, we asked several attendants to give us a frank review of the aims and execution of the conference. The comments and advice that we received will be a great help to us in improving future NIBB conferences and can be found below. (Kiyotaka Okada)
September 13 (Sat) at Okazaki Conference Center
08:45- Registration at the Main hall, Okazaki Conference Center
09:15-09:20 Opening Remarks Kiyotaka Okada (Director-General, NIBB)
Session 1 Plant Cell
Chairs: Paul Knox and Ikuko Hara-Nishimura
09:20-10:00 “Plant Cell Walls, Pectic Arabinans and Plant Growth”
Paul Knox (Univ. Leeds, UK)
10:00-10:30 “Different Vacuole-Mediated-Defense Strategies Against Invading Viral and Bacterial Pathogens”
Ikuko Hara-Nishimura (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
10:30-10:45 “Light-Dependent Mitochondrial Intracellular Positioning in Arabidopsis thaliana Mesophyll Cells”
Md. Sayeedul Islam (Osaka Univ., Japan), * Short talk from posters
Session 2 Phytohormones
Chairs: Stefan Kepinski and Moto Ashikari
10:45-11:25 “Quantitative and Contextual Modelling of Transcriptional Responses to Auxin”
Stefan Kepinski (Univ. Leeds, UK)
11:25-11:55 “Regulation in Ethylene Signaling Allows Rice to be Aquatic”
Moto Ashikari (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
11:55-12:10 “Polyamine-Dependent Control of Stem Elongation in Arabidopsis”
Taku Takahashi (Okayama Univ., Japan), * Short talk from posters
- - - - - - - - 12:10-13:30 Lunch - - - - - - - -
13:30-14:30 Poster Session (odd numbers)
Session 3 Systems Biology and Evo-Devo
Chairs: Gerrit T.S. Beemster and Takahiro Yamaguchi
14:30-15:10 “Systems Biology Approaches to Leaf Development”
Gerrit T.S. Beemster (Ghent Univ., Belgium)
15:10-15:40 “Evolutionary Developmental Studies on Unifacial Leaves in Monocots”
Takahiro Yamaguchi (NIBB, Japan)
15:40-15:55 “Profiling of Regulatory Network Governing Arabidopsis Leaf Development”
Frederik Coppens (Ghent Univ., Belgium)
15:55-16:10 “Gene Losses in the Cultivated Rice Unveiled by Comparative Analysis with Wild Relatives”
Hiroaki Sakai (Nat’l Inst. Agrobiol. Sci., Japan), * Short talk from posters
- - - - - - - - 16:10-16:25 Coffee break - - - - - - - -
Session 4 Leaf Development
Chairs: Jose Luis Micol and Yasunori Machida
16:25-17:05 “Lessons from a Search for Leaf Mutants in Arabidopsis thaliana”
Jose Luis Micol (Univ. Miguel Hernandez, Spain)
17:05-17:35 “Roles of ASYMMETRIC LEAVES2 (AS2) and ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1 (AS1) of Arabidopsis thaliana in Leaf Development”
Yasunori Machida (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
17:35-17:50 “Growth Coordination is Essential for Arabidopsis Leaf Flatness”
Jose Manuel Perez-Perez (Univ. Miguel Hernandez, Spain)
17:50-18:05 “Analysis of enlarged fil-expression domain1 (enf1) Mutant Defective in Establishment of the Adaxial-Abaxial Axis in Leaves”
Koichi Toyokura (Kyoto Univ. / NIBB, Japan), * Short talk from posters
- - - - - - - - 18:10- Banquet - - - - - - - -
September 14 (Sun)
Session 5 Flower Induction Mechanism
Chairs: George Coupland and Antonis Giakountis
09:00-09:40 “Seasonal Control of Flowering in Annual and Perennial Plants”
George Coupland (Max Planck Inst., Germany)
09:40-09:55 “Molecular-Genetic Analysis of Natural Variation in Day Length Perception for Flowering in Arabidopsis”
Antonis Giakountis (Max Planck Inst., Germany)
09:55-10:10 “Intragenic Elements and the Evolution of the Floral C-Function”
Barry Causier (Univ. Leeds, UK)
10:10-10:25 “APETALA1 Homolog Expression is Induced Immediately by a Single Short-Day in Pharbitis nil”
Ryuta Sasaki (Univ. Tsukuba, Japan), * Short talk from posters
- - - - - - - - 10:25-10:45 Coffee break - - - - - - - -
Session 6 New Model Plants and Engineering
Chairs: Hiroshi Ezura and Yoshikazu Tanaka
10:45-11:15 “Comprehensive Resources for Tomato Functional Genomics Based on the Miniature Model Tomato Micro-Tom”
Hiroshi Ezura (Univ. Tsukuba, Japan)
11:15-11:45 “Engineering Metabolic Pathway in Floricultural Species to Achieve Novel Colour Flower and Water Remediation”
Yoshikazu Tanaka (Suntory Ltd., Japan)
11:45-12:00 “The Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha L. as an Unique Model Plant”
Kimitsune Ishizaki (Kyoto Univ., Japan), * Short talk from posters
- - - - - - - - 12:00-13:30 Lunch - - - - - - - -
13:30-14:30 Poster Session (even numbers)
Panel Discussion: Frontiers of Plant Science in the 21st Century
14:30-17:00 Organizing Chair
Tsuyoshi Aoyama (NIBB / Sokendai)
Discussion Chair
Seiji Takeda (NAIST)
Christian Breuer (RIKEN Plant Sci. Center)
Panelist
Tsuyoshi Aoyama (NIBB / Sokendai)
Barry Causier (Univ. Leeds, UK)
Frederik Coppens (Ghent Univ., Belgium)
Antonis Giakountis (Max Planck Inst., Germany)
Yasunori Ichihashi (Univ. Tokyo / NIBB)
Jose M. Perez-Perez (Univ. Miguel Hernandez, Spain)
Bo Sun (National Univ. Singapore, Singapore)
Toshiaki Tameshige (Kyoto Univ. / NIBB)
September 15 (Mon)
Session 7 Meristem Organization
Chairs: Venugopala R. Gonehal and Toshiro Ito
09:00-09:40 “A Gene Expression Map of the Shoot Apical Meristem Stem-Cell Niche of Arabidopsis thaliana”
Venugopala Reddy Gonehal (UC Riverside, USA)
09:40-10:10 “Downstream Activities of the Homeotic Protein AGAMOUS in Arabidopsis Flower Development ”
Toshiro Ito (National Univ. Singapore, Singapore)
10:10-10:25 “How Homeotic Protein AGAMOUS Controls Floral Meristem Determinacy in Arabidopsis”
Bo Sun (National Univ. Singapore, Singapore)
10:25-10:40 “Molecular Dissection of CLV3 Peptide Signalling”
Shigeyuki Betsuyaku (Univ. Tokyo, Japan), * Short talk from posters
- - - - - - - - 10:40-11:00 Coffee break - - - - - - - -
Session 8 Intercellular Signaling and Epigenetics
Chairs: Yoshikatsu Matsubayashi and Tetsuji Kakutani
11:00-11:30 “Novel Approaches to Identify Peptide Hormone Candidates in Arabidopsis”
Yoshikatsu Matsubayashi (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
11:30-12:00 “Genetics of DNA Methylation in the BONSAI Locus”
Tetsuji Kakutani (NIG, Japan)
12:00-12:15 “RNAi-Mediated Crop Improvement for Sustainable Resistance to Plant-Parasitic Nematodes”
Richard Collins (Univ. Leeds, UK)
12:15-12:30 “ANXUR1 and 2, Sister Genes to FERONIA/SIRENE are Male Factors for Coordinated Fertilization”
Saori Miyazaki (NIBB, Japan), * Short talk from posters
- - - - - - - - 12:30-13:30 Lunch - - - - - - - -
Session 9 Plant-Microbe Interaction
Chairs: Paul Schulze-Lefert, Masayoshi Kawaguchi and Ko Shimamoto
13:30-14:00 “Long-Distance Control of Nodulation in Lotus japonicus”
Masayoshi Kawaguchi (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
14:00-14:40 “Natural Chemical Diversity in the Brassicaceae: A Novel Glucosinolate Degradation Pathway Mediates Broad-Spectrum Antifungal Defense”
Paul Schulze-Lefert (Max Planck Inst., Germany)
14:40-15:10 “Defensome Model for Rice Innate Immunity”
Ko Shimamoto (NAIST, Japan)
15:10-15:25 “Signal Integration between MAMP-Triggered Immunity and Abiotic Stress Responses”
Yusuke Saijo (Max Planck Inst., Germany)
15:25-15:40 “Nonhost Resistance of Arabidopsis to Anthracnose Fungi”
Yoshitaka Takano (Kyoto Univ., Japan), * Short talk from posters
15:40-15:45 Closing Remarks
Hirokazu Tsukaya (Univ. Tokyo / NIBB, Japan)
