Session 5Diversity of Endosymbionts and Partner Shift
10:40-11:15
“Comparative Bacterial Endosymbiont Diversity from Lucinisca nassula and Phacoides pectinata (Lucinidea: Bivalvia): Hints of Dual Symbiosis”
Annette Summers Engel (Louisiana State Univ., USA)
11:15-11:50
“Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and Evolution of Myco-Heterotrophy in Plants”
Jun Yokoyama (Yamagata Univ., Japan)
11:50-12:25
“Community Shifts in Legume-Associated Microbes by Host Symbiotic System and Nitrogen”
Kiwamu Minamisawa (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
12:25-13:25
Lunch
Excursion: Kakegawa Flower & Bird Garden
Session 6Insect-Microbe Symbiosis
15:30-16:05
“Symbiotic Xyleborus System: An Ideal Extreme Biofacies”
Dale M. Norris (Univ. Wisconsin, USA)
16:05-16:40
“Genomes of Symbiotic Bacterial Species in Termite Gut”
Yuichi Hongoh (Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan)
16:40-17:10
Coffee Break
17:10-17:45
“The ‘Entangled Bank’ of an Intracellular Symbiosis: Mobile Genetic Elements in Wolbachia”
Seth Bordenstein (Vanderbilt Univ., USA)
17:45-18:20
“Evolutionary Origin and Biological Function of Insect Endosymbionts”
Takema Fukatsu (AIST, Japan)
18:20-18:50
General Discussion
19:00-20:30
Banquet
Session 7New Developments by Young Scientists
20:30-21:00
“Molecular Analysis of Symbiotic System in Arbuscular Mycorrhiza”
Naoya Takeda (NIBB, Japan)
21:00-21:30
“Nitrogen-Fixing Symbiosis between the Actinobacterium Frankia and Trees”
Ken-ichi Kucho (Kagoshima Univ., Japan)
“Phenotypic Plasticity for the Establishment of Symbiosis”
Kazufumi Hosoda (Osaka Univ., Japan)
09:35-10:10
“Synthetic Yeast Cooperation: An Experimental and Mathematical Approach”
Wenying Shou (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res. Ctr., USA)
10:10-10:40
Coffee Break
Session 9Symbiotic Systems of Microbes
10:40-11:15
“Network Reconstruction Approaches for the Cyanobacterial Symbiont Nostoc punctiforme”
Holger Jenke-Kodama (OIST, Japan)
11:15-11:50
“How Does a Photo-/Heterotrophic Endosymbiosis Evolve?: An Experimental Analysis of the Endosymbiotic Evolution in a Long-Term Microcosm Culture”
Toshiyuki Nakajima (Ehime Univ., Japan)
Session 10 Symbiotic Signaling
11:50-12:20
“Symbiotic Roles of Rhizobial Type III Secretion Systems”
Shin Okazaki (Nara Women’s Univ., Japan)
12:20-13:30
Lunch
13:30-14:05
“Host Plant Ethylene Production and Perception Structures the Culturable Root Bacterial Endophyte Community of Nicotiana attenuata”
Ian T. Baldwin (Max Planck Inst., Germany)
14:05-14:40
“Two Plant-Microbe Symbioses Governed by the Common System”
Makoto Hayashi (NIAS, Japan)
14:40-15:15
“The Evolution of Root Nodule Symbiosis in Legume”
Masayoshi Kawaguchi (NIBB, Japan)