Program
November 30 (Mon) at the Okazaki Conference Center (OCC) | |
9:00 | Registration |
Opening Remarks | |
10:00 - 10:30 | Masayuki Yamamoto (Director General, National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan) |
Taisen Iguchi (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan) | |
Lecture 1 | |
10:30 - 11:15 | “From Biomolecules to Behavior: Analysis of the Impact of Environmental Factors on Thyroid Hormone-Dependent Frog Metamorphosis” |
Caren C. Helbing (University of Victoria, Canada) | |
11:15 - 12:00 | “Transgenerational Inheritance of Prenatal Obesogen Exposure” |
Bruce Blumberg (University of California, Irvine, USA) | |
12:00 - 12:10 | Group Photo |
12:10 - 13:00 | Lunch |
Session 1: Developmental plasticity and ecotoxicology | |
13:00 - 13:45 | “Towards the Understanding of Sexually Dimorphic Horn Formation” |
Teruyuki Niimi (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan) | |
13:45 - 14:30 | “Evolutionary and Developmental Underpinnings of Insect Polyphenisms” |
Toru Miura (Hokkaido University, Japan) | |
14:30 - 14:50 | Coffee Break |
14:50 - 15:35 | “Genomic revelations of mutualism: the pea aphid and its obligate bacterial symbiont” |
Shuji Shigenobu (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan) | |
15:35 - 16:20 | “Genomes as Indicators of Environmental Stress” |
Joseph R. Shaw (Indiana University, USA) | |
16:20 - 16:40 | Coffee Break |
16:40 - 17:25 | “Phylotoxicology: Breaking the Artificial Divide Between Human- and Eco-toxicology” |
John Colbourne (The University of Birmingham, UK) | |
Poster Session & Mixer | |
17:30 - 19:30 | Poster Session & Mixer Poster Title (PDF 75KB) |
December 1 (Tue) at OCC | |
Session 2: Estrogen receptors and endocrine disruption | |
08:45 - 09:15 | “Cloning and functional characterization of Holocephalan elephant shark, Callorhinchus milii, estrogen receptors” |
Yoshinao Katsu (Hokkaido University, Japan) | |
09:15 - 09:45 | “Effects of Developmental Exposure to Diethylstilbestrol on Female Reproductive Organs of Mice” |
Tomomi Sato (Yokohama City University, Japan) | |
09:45 - 10:15 | “Long-Term Influences of Environmental Factors on Sex Determination and Differentiation in the American Alligator” |
Satomi Kohno (Medical University of South Carolina, USA) | |
10:15 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
Lecture 2 | |
10:30 - 11:15 | “Environmental Gestagens disrupt Endocrine Systems in Amphibians” |
Werner Kloas (Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany) | |
11:15 - 12:00 | “Development and Application of Transgenic Fish for Endocrine Disruption Chemical Research” |
Charles R. Tyler (University of Exeter, UK) | |
12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch |
Lecture 3 | |
13:00 - 13:45 | “Environmental Signaling: The Past and Future of Endocrine Disruption” |
John A. McLachlan (Tulane University, USA) | |
13:45 - 14:00 | Coffee Break |
Session 3: Endocrine disruptors and fish biology | |
14:00 - 14:30 | “Gene Expression of Vitellogenin, Choriogenin and Estrogen Receptors in the Livers of Male Medaka (Oryzias Latipes) Exposed to Equine Estrogens” |
Koji Arizono (Prefectural University of Kumamoto, Japan) | |
14:30 - 15:00 | “Examination of Testing Method to Evaluate Androgenic and Anti-androgenic Potency of Chemicals Using Medaka (Oryzias latipes) and Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)” |
Masaki Nagae (Nagasaki University, Japan) | |
15:00 - 15:30 | “Sex-reversal induced by steroidogenic chemicals in the medaka” |
Tohru Kobayashi (University of Shizuoka, Japan) | |
15:30 - 15:45 | Coffee Break |
Short Presentations | |
15:45 - 16:30 | Short Presentations from posters |
16:30 - 16:45 | Coffee Break |
Session 4: Environmental research and approaches for future | |
16:45 - 17:15 | “Critical Appraisal and Perspectives on Gastropod Imposex Studies” |
Toshihiro Horiguchi (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan) | |
17:15 - 17:45 | “The Concept of “Signal Toxicity” for the Planning of Research on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Issues” |
Jun Kanno (National Institute of Health Sciences, Japan) | |
17:45 - 18:15 | “Development of Regulatory Approaches to Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in Europe” |
Michael Roberts (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK) | |
December 2 (Wed) at OCC | |
Session 5: Endocrine disruptions in aquatic environment | |
08:45 - 09:15 | “Endocrine disrupting chemicals for the invertebrate” |
Norihisa Tatarazako (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan) | |
09:15 - 09:45 | “Nuclear receptors in the Pacific Oyster, Crassostrea gigas, reveal clear sequence homology to vertebrate species but do not directly promote the use of molluscs as surrogates for vertebrate risk assessment” |
Tim P. Bean (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), UK) | |
09:45 - 10:15 | “Do Environmental Estrogens Induce Feminization of Wild Fish in Coastal Waters?” |
Kiyoshi Soyano (Nagasaki University, Japan) | |
10:15 - 10:30 | Coffee Break |
10:30 - 11:00 | “The stickleback embryo toxicity test (sFET) as a platform for investigating chemical mode of action” |
Ioanna Katsiadaki (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), UK) | |
11:00 - 11:30 | “Sexual Disruption in Roach in UK Rivers - Causes, Mechanisms and Consequences” |
Anke Lange (University of Exeter, UK) | |
11:30 - 12:00 | “Effect assessment of pharmaceuticals of environmental concern- a multigenerational approach” |
Anu Kumar (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia) | |
12:00 - 12:10 | Coffee Break |
Closing Remarks | (Tribute to Louis J. Guillette Jr.) |
12:10 - 12:40 | Taisen Iguchi (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan) |
John A. McLachlan (Tulane University, USA) |