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The Second Okazaki Biology Conference Program |
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-Breakfast |
7:00 – 9:00 |
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-Registration / Chair Meeting |
9:00 – 11:40 |
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-Lunch |
11:40 – 12:40 |
| -Meeting logistics, Dr. Yuichi Suwa
(OBC Secretary, AIST, Tsukuba) |
12:45 – 13:00 |
-Opening Speech, Dr. Yoshitaka Nagahama
(National Institute for Basic Biology)
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13:00 – 13:20 |
-Key Note Lecture by Dr. Jim Tiedje
(Center for Microb. Ecol., Michigan State Univ. , USA )
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13:20 – 14:00 |
| -Coffee Break |
14:00 – 14:20 |
| -Group Meeting by each session |
14:20 – 14:50 |
| -Remarks of Session 4, Dr. Kiwamu Minamisawa ( Tohoku Univ. ) |
14:50 – 15:00 |
4-1: Using field-based DNA stable isotope probing (SIP) to explore
the
identity and activity of biodegrading microbial populations in
soil and sediment
Dr. Eugene L. Madsen (Cornell Univ. USA) |
15:00 – 15:40 |
4-2: RNA Stable Isotope Probing
Dr. Andrew S. Whiteley (CEH Oxford , UK ) |
15:40 – 16:20 |
| -Coffee Break |
16:20 – 16:40 |
4-3: Theory and application of DNA microchip in microbial community
analysis
analysis
Dr. Wen-Tso Liu (National Univ. of Singapore , Singapore ) |
16:40 – 17:20 |
4-4: Dynamics of rhizobial expression and microevolution: what can
we know by array analysis?
Dr. Kiwamu Minamisawa (Tohoku Univ., Japan) |
17:20 – 18:00 |
4-5: Microbial genome evolution - comparative genome analysis of
pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria -
Dr. Ken Kurokawa (Nara Inst. Sci. Technol. , Japan ) |
18:00 – 18:40 |
| - Introduce with each other/Mixer |
18:40 – 21:00 |
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-Breakfast |
7:00– 8:40 |
4-6: Community structure and evolution in an acid mine drainage
ecosystem
Dr. Eric E. Allen ( Univ. of California , Berkeley , USA ) |
8:40 – 9:20 |
4-7: Eco-genomic explorations into antarctic bacterioplankton
communities
Dr. Alison Murray (Desert Res. Inst., USA ) |
9:20 – 10:00 |
4-8: The uncultivated Crenarchaeota from soil: what do we learn from
metagenomics?
Dr. Alexander H. Treusch ( Darmsta dt Univ. of Technol. , Germany ) |
10:00 – 10:40 |
| -Coffee Break |
10:40 – 11:10 |
-Remarks of Session 3,
Dr. Masanori Saito (Natl. Inst. Agr-Env. Sci.) |
11:10 – 11:20 |
3-1: Evolution of cooperation and conflict Dr. Paul Rainey
(The Univ. of Auckland , New Zealand ) |
11:20 – 12:00 |
| -Lunch/Group photo |
12:00 – 13:30 |
3-2: Biofilm systems – microbes, polymers and microhabitats –
Dr. Thomas R. Neu ( UFZ Center for Env. Res. , Germany ) |
13:30 – 14:10 |
3-3: Endosymbiotic bacteria of insects: biological significance of hidden
players
Dr. Takema Fukatsu (AIST, Tsukuba , Japan ) |
14:10 – 14:50 |
| -Coffee Break |
14:50 – 15:10 |
3-4: Cellular symbioses within the symbiotic microbial community in
the gut of termites
Dr. Moriya Ohkuma (RIKEN, Wako, Japan) |
15:10 – 15:50 |
3-5: The ectomycorrhizal interaction studied by global expression
analyses
Dr. Bengt Söderström (Lund Univ., Sweden) |
15:50 – 16:30 |
| -Coffee Break |
16:30 – 16:50 |
3-6: Creation, organization and maintenance of genetic variability
in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Dr. Alexander M. Koch (Univ. of Lausanne, Switerland) |
16:50 – 17:30 |
| Short talks |
17:30 – 18:40 |
| Poster/Video Presentations |
20:00 – 21:00 |
P1-1: Microbes in million years aged groundwater of deep geothermal aquifer
in the
Great
Artesian Basin, Australia
Dr. Hiroyuki Kimura ( Shizuoka Univ. , Japan ) |
P2-1: Influence of global volcanisms on C, N and P elemental cycles on the early
earth
and its constraints on the evolution of early life
Dr. Takeshi Kakegawa ( Tohoku Univ. , Japan ) |
P2-2: Sequence-specific cleavage of 16S rRNA with oligonucleotides and ribonuclease
H: a rapid and simple approach to the rRNA-based quantitative detection of
microorganismsin complex ecosystems
Dr. Yuji Sekiguchi (AIST, Tsukuba , Japan ) |
P2-3: Production of novel genes discovered by environmental genomics from
hydrothermal environments
Dr. Mayumi Sasaki (AIST, Tsukuba , Japan ) |
P3-1: Long distance transport of phosphate in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi:
linking structure and function
Dr. Yukari Kuga-Uetake ( Shinshu Univ. , Japan ) |
P3-2: Horizontal transfer of symbiotic bacteria to host offspring in the light organ
symbiosis between Photobacterium leiognathi and leiognathid fish
Dr. Minoru Wada (Ocean Res. Inst., Univ. of Tokyo , Japan ) |
P3-3: A cell-to-cell signaling molecule produced by environmental indigenous bacteria
enhances tolerance to an antimicrobial of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Dr. Nobuhiko Nomura ( Univ. of Tsukuba , Japan ) |
P4-1: Genomic and phenotypic comparison of mesorhizobial isolates from
Lotus species
in
Japan and other places
Dr. Kazuhiko Saeki ( Osaka Univ. , Tokyo ) |
P4-2: Isolation of novel acidophilic or acido-tolerant heterotrophic bacteria from
Japanese
acidic environments and their phylogenetic diversity
Dr. Tsuyoshi Yasuta (Natl. Inst. Technol. Eval. , Japan ) |
S-1: Autoecological study of a γ-hexachlorocyclohexane (γ-HCH) decomposing
bacterium
in the soil of long-term experimental upland field
Dr. Keishi Senoo ( Univ. of Tokyo , Japan ) |
S-2: Attempts on potential rate measurements of anaerobic ammonia oxidation in
freshwater sediments and sewage sludges
Dr. Yuichi Suwa (AIST, Tsukuba , Japan ) |
S-3: Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) of in situ microbial activity
Dr. Thomas R. Neu ( UFZ Center for Env. Res. , Germany ) |
| -Dinner |
18:40 – 20:00 |
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-Breakfast |
7:00– 8:20 |
3-7: Fine tuning of nodulation by complementary rhizobial signals
Dr. William Broughton ( Univ. of Geneve , Switzerland ) |
8:20 – 9:00 |
3-8: Challenged by micro-oxia: How rhizobia adapt to the symbiotic
life style
Dr. Hauke Hennecke (Inst. Microbiol., ETH, Switzerland ) |
9:00 – 9:40 |
| -Coffee Break |
9:40 – 10:00 |
| -Remarks of Session 2, Dr. Hiroyuki Ohta ( Ibaraki Univ. ) |
10:00 – 10:10 |
2-1: Development of bacterial community on fresh volcanic deposits
Dr. Hiroyuki Ohta ( Ibaraki Univ. , Japan ) |
10:10 – 10:40 |
2-2: Microbial colonization of and succession on recent volcanic deposits
Dr. Gary M. King ( Univ. of Maine , USA ) |
10:40 – 11:20 |
2-8: Microbial diversity and community structure in pristine and
disturbed soils at different climatic zones
Dr. Vigdis Torsvik ( Univ. of Bergen , Norway ) |
11:20 – 12:00 |
| -Lunch/then free |
12:00 – 18:20 |
| -Dinner |
18:20 – 19:20 |
| -Remarks of Session 1, Dr. Kenji Kato ( Shizuoka Univ. ) |
19:30 – 19:40 |
1-1: A paleoproterozoic planetary suicide attempt: did the evolution of
oxygenic photosynthesis trigger the first snowball earth?
Dr. Joseph L. Kirschvink (California Inst. Technol. , USA ) |
19:40 – 20:20 |
1-2: Horizontal gene transfer accelerates genome innovation and
evolution
Dr. James A. Lake (UCLA, Los Angeles, USA) |
20:20 – 21:00 |
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-Breakfast |
7:00– 8:20 |
1-3: Sharing genes and sharing environments: two versions of
cooperation
Dr. Gary J. Olsen ( Univ. of Illinois , USA ) |
8:20 – 9:00 |
1-4: Water activity as a factor affecting the development of microbial
communities in solid-phase environments
Dr. Akira Hiraishi ( Toyohashi Univ. of Technol. , Japan ) |
9:00 – 9:40 |
| -Coffee Break |
9:40 – 10:00 |
1-5: Analysis of structure, function, and eco-physiological interactions
among community members in complex multispecies biofilms
Dr. Satoshi Okabe ( Hokkaido Univ. , Japan ) |
10:00 – 10:40 |
1-6: Microbial alteration of geochemistry beneath the soil
Dr. Kenji Nanba ( Univ. of Tokyo , Japan )
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10:40 – 11:20 |
1-7: Distribution of novel “ Epsilonproteobacteria ” in microbial mats
from
terrestrial caves and springs with sulfidic water
Dr. Annette Summers Engel (Louisiana State Univ., USA ) |
11:20 – 12:00 |
| -Lunch |
12:00 – 13:30 |
1-8: Unseen prokaryotic communities in the earth's interior
Dr. Fumio Inagaki (JAMSTEC, Japan ) |
13:30 – 14:10 |
| -Coffee Break |
14:10 – 14:30 |
2-3: Fungal component in sub-aerial rock-inhabiting communities: role
in land colonization and contribution to biogeochemistry of rock surfaces
Dr. Anna A. Gorbushina (Carl v. Ossietzky Univ. , Germany )
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14:30 – 15:10 |
2-4: Emission and consumption of carbonyl sulfide by a chemolitho-
autotroph Thiobacillus thioparus THI115 and distribution of micro-
organisms carrying the relevant activities in natural environments
Dr. Yoko Katayama ( Tokyo Univ. of Agr. Technol. , Japan ) |
15:10 – 15:50 |
| -Coffee Break |
15:50 – 16:10 |
2-5: Chemoautotrophic bacteria in biogeochemical cycling
Dr. Daniel J. Arp ( Oregon State Univ. , USA ) |
16:10 – 16:50 |
2-6: Autotrophic nitrification in acidic tea field soil
Dr. Masahito Hayatsu ( Shizuoka Univ. , Japan ) |
16:50 – 17:30 |
2-7: Mobile xenobiotic-degrading genes and their mobility in soil
bacteria
Dr. Masataka Tsuda ( Tohoku Univ. , Japan ) |
17:30 – 18:10 |
| -Farewell Mixer |
18:10 – 21:00 |
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-Breakfast
/Check out |
7:00 – 9:40 |
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-Talk, Prof. Masayuki Ohmori ( Saitama Univ. , Tokyo ) |
9:40 – 10:20 |
| -Coffee Break |
10:20 – 10:40 |
| -Comprehensive and Concluding Discussions, MO, JMT and NIBB |
10:40 – 11:20 |
| -Free talk for Future |
11:20 – 12:00 |
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