National Institute for Basic Biology
Organizers | Detlev Arendt (EMBL Heidelberg) Shigeru Kuratani (RIKEN CDB) Mitsuyasu Hasebe (NIBB) Naoto Ueno (NIBB) |
---|---|
Venue | Okazaki Conference Center, Okazaki, Japan |
Date | Nov. 21-23, 2008 |
Link | Meeting Website (http://www.nibb.ac.jp/emblmeeting/) |
Poster |
![]() |
Four graduate students from EMBL were invited to contribute to the meeting and presented their work. They also had chances to meet with graduate students of NIBB and exchange thoughts on their scientific life at each institution.
Nov. 21, Friday | |
---|---|
13:00-14:00 | Registration |
14:00-14:10 | Opening Remarks Kiyotaka Okada (Director-General, NIBB) |
Evolution of Animal Body Plans Chair : Detlev Arendt |
|
14:10-14:40 |
Detlev Arendt (EMBL Heidelberg) "The Evolutionary Origin of the Bilaterian CNS: A Cell Type Perspective" |
14:40-15:10 |
Ulrich Technau (Univ. Vienna) "The Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis as a Model System for the Study of the Evolutionary Origin of Mesoderm and Bilaterality" |
15:10-15:40 |
Shigeru Kuratani (RIKEN, CDB) "What Does It Take to Be a Turtle?" |
15:40-16:00 | Coffee break |
16:00-16:30 |
Daniel M. Chourrout (Univ. Bergen) "Evolution of Lineage-Specific Functions in the Tunicate Oikopleura dioica" |
16:30-16:45 |
“Evolutionary Roots of Blastoporal Expression and ‘Organizer’ Activity of the Vertebrate Gastrula Organizer Gene lhx1 and Its Ancient Paraloglhx3” Yuuri Yasuoka (Univ. Tokyo) *Short talk from posters |
16:45-17:00 |
“The Evolution of Mushroom Body and Telencephalic Cell Types, Studied by Single Cell Expression Profiling of Platynereis dumeriliiLarvae” Raju Tomer (EMBL Heidelberg) *Short talk from posters |
17:30-19:30 | Poster Session List of Poster titles |
Nov. 22, Saturday | |
Evolution of Animal Body Plans Chair : Detlev Arendt |
|
8:40-9:10 |
Christopher J. Lowe (Univ. Chicago) "The Role of Secreted Ligands in Nervous System Patterning during Deuterostome Evolution" |
Evolution of Genomes Chair : Lars Steinmetz |
|
09:10-9:40 |
Lars Steinmetz (EMBL Heidelberg) "Recombination Patterns Across the Yeast Genome" |
09:40-10:10 |
Peer Bork (EMBL Heidelberg) "Bridging Genotypes and Phenotypes by Data Integration" |
10:10-10:40 |
Michael Knop (EMBL Heidelberg) "Evolution of Mutational Robustness in the Yeast Genome: A Link to Essential Genes and Meiotic Recombination Hot Spots?" |
10:40-10:55 |
“Multiple Genome Alignment for Identifying the Genomic Core among Moderately Related Microbial Genomes” Ikuo Uchiyama (NIBB) *Short talk from posters |
10:55-11:10 | Coffee break |
Evolution of Gene Regulatory Networks Chair : Eileen E. Furlong |
|
11:10-11:40 |
Eileen E. Furlong (EMBL Heidelberg) "Developmental Networks in cis: Can We Decipher the Code?" |
11:40-12:10 |
Nori Satoh (Kyoto Univ.) "The Origin and Evolution of Chordates" |
12:10-13:05 | Lunch |
13:05-13:35 |
Francois Spitz (EMBL Heidelberg) "The Role of Gene Regulatory Architecture in Vertebrate Development and Evolution" |
13:35-13:50 |
“Eya and STAT Are Conserved Components of Myogenesis, but Differently Regulated, between Vertebrates and Drosophila” Ya-Hsin Liu (EMBL Heidelberg) *Short talk from posters |
Evolution of Plants Chair : Jim Haseloff |
|
13:50-14:20 |
Jim Haseloff (Univ. Cambridge) "Morphogenetic Engineering of Plant Systems" |
14:20-14:50 |
Hirokazu Tsukaya (Univ. Tokyo) "Genetic Basis of Leaf Shape/Size Evolution" |
14:50-15:20 |
John L. Bowman (Monash Univ.) "Evolution of Body Plans in Land Plants" |
15:20-15:50 |
Mitsuyasu Hasebe (NIBB) "PcG Gene Manages Life Cycle by Regulating Pluripotent Stem Cell Character" |
15:50-16:20 |
William E. Friedman (Univ. Colorado) "An Evolutionary-Developmental Perspective on the Angiosperm Reproductive Syndrome" |
16:20-16:35 |
“Evo-Devo of Unifacial Leaves in Monocots” Takahiro Yamaguchi (NIBB) *Short talk from posters |
16:35-16:55 | Coffee break |
Evolution of Phylum-specific Traits Chair : Michael Akam |
|
16:55-17:25 |
Michael Akam (Univ. Cambridge) "Early Embryonic Patterning and Segmentation in Onychophorans and Myriapods" |
17:25-17:55 |
Mikiko Tanaka (Tokyo Inst. Tech.) "Heterochronic Shift in Hox-Mediated Activation of Sonic hedgehogLeads to Morphological Changes during Vertebrate Fin Evolution" |
17:55-18:25 |
Masataka Okabe (The Jikei Univ. School of Med.) "Transition from Aquatic to Terrestrial Life and Evolution of the Vertebrate Pharynx" |
18:25-18:55 |
Fumitoshi Ishino (Tokyo Med. & Dental Univ.) "Evolution of Placentation in Eutherian Mammals Contributed by Exaptation of PEG10 and PEG11/RTL1 from Retrotransposons" |
18:55-19:10 |
“On the Origin and Evolution of Vertebrate Olfactory Receptor Genes: Comparative Genome Analysis among 23 Chordate Species” Yoshihito Niimura (Tokyo Med. & Dental Univ.) *Short talk from posters |
19:10-20:30 | Mixer |
Nov. 23, Sunday | |
Evolution of Vision & Brain Chair : Claude Desplan |
|
09:00-09:30 |
Claude Desplan (NY Univ.) "Detection and Processing of Color Information in Drosophila" |
09:30-10:00 |
Norihiro Okada (Tokyo Inst. Tech.) "Multiple SINE Insertions Made Our Brain Mammalian?" |
10:00-10:30 |
Tetsuo Yamamori (NIBB) "Identification and Characterization of the Genes Specifically Expressed in the Primate Neocortical Areas" |
10:30-10:45 |
“Development of the Nervous System in the Acorn Worm Balanoglossus simodensis” Norio Miyamoto (Univ. Tsukuba) *Short talk from posters |
10:45-11:05 | Coffee break |
Evolution of Regeneration Chair : Kiyokazu Agata |
|
11:05-11:35 |
Kiyokazu Agata (Kyoto Univ.) "Evolution of the Complex Brain by Increasing Cellular Complexity: When was the Neural Stem Cell System First Established?" |
11:35-12:05 |
Koji Tamura (Tohoku Univ.) "A Variety of Limb Regeneration Abilities in Tetrapods" |
12:05-12:35 |
Sumihare Noji (Univ. Tokushima) "Regulation of the Leg Size and Shape through the Fat Signaling Pathway during Regeneration" |
12:35-12:45 | Closing Remarks Detlev Arendt (EMBL Heidelberg) |