National Institute for Basic Biology
| Organizers | John L. Bowman (Monash University, Australia) Takayuki Kohchi (Kyoto University, Japan) Takashi Ueda (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan) |
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| Venue | Conference Center, Okazaki, Japan |
| Date | Dec. 16 -18, 2017 |
| Link | Official Website （http://www.nibb.ac.jp/conf65/） |
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The 65th NIBB Conference "Renaissance of Marchantia polymorpha ~ the genome and beyond" was held at the Okazaki Conference Center from 16th December to 18th December 2017. Professor Takayuki Kohchi (Kyoto University, Japan), Professor John L. Bowman (Monash University, Australia) and I organized the conference. The liverwort “Zenigoke” (Marchantia polymorpha) was already described in the literature of pharmaceutical sciences in ancient Greece, and in the past 200 years Marchantia has been used as a model plant in modern biology. In the latter half of the 20th century its position as a major model plant was temporarily taken over by other plant species such as Arabidopsis thaliana, but in recent years Marchantia has been reevaluated because of its merits in the life cycle and body plan as well as its manageability as a research material. Combined with the establishment of various tools and techniques for molecular genetic studies, this plant is now getting hot attention from plant scientists. Furthermore, the paper on the draft genome of M. polymorpha was published in the October 5th issue of Cell, 2017. Under these circumstances, the NIBB Conference was planned to discuss deeply fundamental biological functions and physiologies of plants as well as to promote future collaborative research.
The conference was held with 30 invited speakers from 10 countries and 115 general participants from 9 countries. Three plenary lectures, 27 invited talks, 16 short talks selected from posters, 6 topics in a technology workshop, and 58 posters were presented. Throughout the entire conference program, including scientific sessions and the banquet on the last day, all participants enjoyed deep discussions from various perspectives, ranging from individual biological phenomena, to the future roles to be played by Marchantia, and the future of plant science. After the meeting, we received a lot of messages from both foreign and domestic participants, many of which said “the conference was very meaningful and stimulating for future research”. It is a great pleasure for the organizers to have such a fruitful international conference as the NIBB conference.
The organizers appreciate all the participants for their exciting talks and lively discussion. We are also thankful to the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (MEXT) “Multidimensional Exploration of Logics of Plant Development”, the Interuniversity Bio-Backup Project for Basic Biology (IBBP), the Support Program for Interaction-based Initiative Team Studies (SPIRITS) by Kyoto University, and the Daiko Foundation for financial support. We are also most grateful to the Office of International Cooperation, NIBB for the intensive support. I would like to conclude this message with words from John Bowman, “after the Renaissance at NIBB/OCC… the Enlightenment!”.
Takashi Ueda (On behalf of the Organizers)
| December 16 (Sat) at the Okazaki Conference Center (OCC) | |
| 12:00 - 13:20 | Registration starts |
| Opening Remarks | |
| 13:20 - 13:25 | Masayuki Yamamoto (Director General, National Institute for Basic Biology) |
| 13:25 - 13:30 | Takayuki Kohchi (Kyoto University) |
| 13:30 - 13:35 | Hirokazu Tsukaya (University of Tokyo/Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience) |
| Plenary lecture 1 Chair: Takayuki Kohchi | |
| 13:35 - 14:15 | "Conservation of interaction of TALE class HD KNOX and BELL in the alternation of generations in Marchantia polymorpha" |
| John L. Bowman (Monash University) | |
| Session 1 | Chair: Roberto Solano |
| 14:15 - 14:35 | "Sex chromosomes – the unique and sexy in the Marchantia genome" |
| Katsuyuki T. Yamato (Kindai University) | |
| 14:35 - 15:05 | "Genomic Profiling in Marchantia polymorpha" |
| Frederic Berger (Gregor Mendel Institute) | |
| 15:05 - 15:25 | "DICER-LIKE1 Controls Cell Fate Specification In Marchantia polymorpha" |
| Mario A. Arteaga-Vazquez (Universidad Veracruzana) | |
| 15:25 - 15:45 | "Identification and Gene-editing of MIR genes in haploid of the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha" |
| Shih-Shun Lin (National Taiwan University) | |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Coffee Break |
| Session 2 | Chair: Takashi Araki |
| 16:15 - 16:35 | "Maniac Questions in Marchantia Leading to General Questions in Plant Science" |
| Masaki Shimamura (Hiroshima University) | |
| 16:35 - 16:50 | "Marchantia polymorpha ssp:Speciation, Hybridisation and Molecular Evolution" |
| Anna-Malin Linde (Uppsala University) from posters | |
| 16:50 - 17:10 | "MarpolBase: Genome Database for Marchantia polymorpha" |
| Yasukazu Nakamura (National Institute of Genetics) | |
| Technology Workshop (Transformation/CRISPR/Imaging) Chair: Ryuichi Nishihama | |
| 17:10 | Shoko Tsuboyama-Tanaka (Utsunomiya University) |
| Yutaka Kodama (Utsunomiya University) | |
| Shigeo S. Sugano (Ritsumeikan University) | |
| Shoji Mano (National Institute for Basic Biology) | |
| Ryuichi Nishihama (Kyoto University) | |
| Aino Komatsu (Kyoto University) | |
| Discussion | |
| 18:30 | Welcome Reception & Dinner |
| December 17 (Sun) at the Okazaki Conference Center (OCC) | |
| Session 3 | Chair: Kimitsune Ishizaki |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | "Evolutionary Divergence In The Bioactive Jasmonate In Land Plants" |
| Roberto Solano (CNB-CSIC) | |
| 09:30 - 09:50 | "Toward Understanding of Cytokinin-Mediated Control of Organogenesis" |
| Shiori S. Aki (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) | |
| 09:50 - 10:20 | "Origin and Evolution of the Nuclear Auxin Response System" |
| Dolf Weijers (Wageningen University) | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | "Archetypal Roles of Abscisic Acid in Vegetative Desiccation Tolerance and Sugar Responses Revealed by Analysis of the PYRABACTIN RESISTANCE1-like Protein" |
| Daisuke Takezawa (Saitama University) from posters | |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee Break |
| Session 4 | Chair: Frederic Berger |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | "Diversification of Membrane Trafficking Pathways During Land Plant Evolution Unraveled with Marchantia polymorpha" |
| Takashi Ueda (National Institute for Basic Biology) | |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | "Phototropin as Thermosensor for Chloroplast Cold-Avoidance Response in Marchantia polymorpha" |
| Yutaka Kodama (Utsunomiya University) | |
| 11:50 - 12:05 | "Microtubule-dependent directional growth of rhizoids in Marchantia polymorpha" |
| Hiroyasu Motose (Okayama University) from posters | |
| 12:05 - 12:20 | "The roles of ANGUSTIFOLIA in thallus morphogenesis of Marchantia polymorpha" |
| Tomoyuki Furuya (University of Tokyo) from posters | |
| 12:20 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| Plenary lecture 2 Chair: Liam Dolan | |
| 13:30 - 14:10 | "Effects of Cellular Changes to the Evolution of Land Plant Development and Life Cycle" |
| Mitsuyasu Hasebe (National Institute for Basic Biology) | |
| Session 5 | Chair: John L. Bowman |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | "Making New Bryophyte Model System Using Genome Sequencing and Transformation Technique" |
| Keiko Sakakibara (Rikkyo University) | |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | "The Genome and Ecological Evolution of a Charalean Alga Chara braunii" |
| Hidetoshi Sakayama (Kobe University) | |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | "New Insights into the Sexual Reproduction in Unicellular Zygnematophycean Alga, Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale Complex" |
| Hiroyuki Sekimoto (Japan Women’s University) | |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | "Emerging Functions of Land Plant Type Genes in a Charophyte Alga Klebsormidium nitens" |
| Hiroyuki Ohta (Tokyo Institute of Technology) | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session 6 | Chair: Masaaki Umeda |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | "Mechanisms for Shape Variation Amongst Thalloid Liverworts" |
| Jill Harrison (University of Bristol) | |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | "Roles of Auxin in the Formation of Stem Cells in Marchantia polymorpha" |
| Ryuichi Nishihama (Kyoto University) | |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | "Local CLE Peptide Signaling in the Marchantia polymorpha Meristem" |
| Yuki Hirakawa (Gakushuin University) from posters | |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | "Evolutionary-Developmental Analysis of ALOG Family Protein in Marchantia polymorpha" |
| Satoshi Naramoto (Tohoku University) | |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | "Gemma and Gemma Cup Development in Marchantia polymorpha" |
| Kimitsune Ishizaki (Kobe University) | |
| Poster Flash Talks | |
| 17:40 | |
| Poster Session Poster Title (PDF 61KB) | |
| 18:30 | Posters with Odd numbers |
| 19:30 | Posters with Even numbers |
| December 18 (Mon) at the Okazaki Conference Center (OCC) | |
| Session 7 | Chair: Junko Kyozuka |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | "Cell Wall-Related Gene Families in Land Plants" |
| Kazuhiko Nishitani (Tohoku University) | |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | "Functional Evolution of NAC Transcription Factors – Regulatory Mechanisms underlying Differentiation of Water-conducting/Supporting Cells –" |
| Taku Demura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) | |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | "Establishment of The Plant-Microbe Interaction Research in Marchantia polymorpha" |
| Hirofumi Nakagami (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research) | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | "Regulation of Development and Stress Responses by the ROS-Ca2+ Signaling Network in plants" |
| Kazuyuki Kuchitsu (Tokyo University of Science) | |
| 10:20 - 10:35 | "Circadian Regulation of Growth and Development in Marchantia polymorpha via an Evolutionarily Conserved Evening Complex" |
| Anja Billhardt (Uppsala University) from posters | |
| 10:35 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session 8 | Chair: Kazuyuki Kuchitsu |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | "Biosynthesis of Terpenoids in Marchantia polymorpha" |
| Feng Chen (University of Tennessee) | |
| 11:20 - 11:35 | "Growth condition of Marchantia polymorpha affects number of oil body cells and amounts of secondary metabolites" |
| Kenji Matsui (Yamaguchi University) from posters | |
| 11:35 - 11:50 | "Biogenesis and Morphogenesis of the Oil Body" |
| Takehiko Kanazawa (National Institute for Basic Biology) from posters | |
| 11:50 - 12:05 | "Regulation and Biosynthesis of Phenolics in Marchantia polymorpha" |
| Hiroyoshi Kubo (Shinshu University) from posters | |
| 12:05 - 12:20 | "Evolution of Pi-sensing along the plant kingdom" |
| Felix Rico-Resendiz (LANGEBIO-CINVESTAV) from posters | |
| 12:20 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| Plenary Lecture 3 Chair: Dolf Weijers | |
| 13:30 - 14:10 | "Evolution of genetic mechanisms controlling the development of land plant rooting structures" |
| Liam Dolan (University of Oxford) | |
| Session 9 | Chair: Mario A. Arteaga-Vazquez |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | "The Ancient Transcription Factor ZHOUPI Controls An Evolutionary Innovation In Marchantia" |
| Justin Goodrich (University of Edingburgh) from posters | |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | "The Role of DNA Methylation in Marchantia polymorpha" |
| Yoko Ikeda (Okayama University) from posters | |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Coffee Break |
| Session 10 | Chair: Keiji Nakajima |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | "Light-Regulated Induction of Sexual Reproduction in Marchantia polymorpha" |
| Takayuki Kohchi (Kyoto University) | |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | "BONOBOs Are Evolutionarily Conserved Transcription Factors Required for Germ Cell Fate Determination in Land Plants" |
| Shohei Yamaoka (Kyoto University) from posters | |
| 15:45 - 15:55 | "A MYB Transcription Factor Controls Female Sexual Differentiation in Marchantia polymorpha" |
| Tetsuya Hisanaga (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) from posters | |
| 15:55 - 16:05 | "A Long Non-coding RNA Module for Sex Differentiation in the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha" |
| Keitaro Okahashi (Kyoto University) from posters | |
| 16:05 - 16:20 | "Analysis of Autophagy during Spermiogenesis in Marchantia polymorpha" |
| Takuya Norizuki (National Institute for Basic Biology) from posters | |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | "Role of DUO1 in male gamete development in land plants" |
| Takashi Araki (Kyoto University) | |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | "Reprogramming of DNA Methylation during the M. polymorpha life cycle" |
| Ueli Grossniklaus (University of Zurich) | |
| Closing Remarks | |
| 17:00 | John L. Bowman (Monash University) |
| 17:20 | Banquet |
