Program
| November 19 (Mon) | at the Okazaki Conference Center (OCC) |
| 8:45 | Registration |
| Opening Remarks | |
| 09:15 - 09:25 | Masayoshi Kawaguchi (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan) |
| Session 1 | |
| Chair: Kiyoshi Tatematsu | |
| 09:25 - 10:05 |
“Development rooted in emergent properties of regulatory networks” |
| Philip Benfey (Duke University, USA) | |
| 10:05 - 10:30 |
“Plant vascular stem cell fates controlled by a CLE peptide and brassinosteroid” |
| Hiroo Fukuda (The University of Tokyo, Japan) | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| Session 2 | |
| Chair: Shoji Mano | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 |
“Arabidopsis Natural Variation: Epistasis Reveals A New Function For An Old Gene” |
| Maarten Koornneef (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany) | |
| 11:15 - 11:40 |
“Transcriptional repression of seed maturation genes after seed germination in Arabidopsis thaliana” |
| Kenzo Nakamura (Chubu University, Japan) | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | “Dynamics of Peroxisomes in Arabidopsis” |
| Mikio Nishimura (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan) | |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch & Poster Session Poster list (PDF 75KB).pdf |
| Session 3 | |
| Chair: Takuya Suzaki | |
| 13:30 - 14:10 |
“Insights from multiscale analysis of signalling networks in Arabidopsis thaliana” |
| Klaus Palme (The University of Freiburg, Germany) | |
| 14:10 - 14:35 |
“ER-family genes involved in many processes of aerial morphogenesis” |
| Masao Tasaka (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) | |
| 14:35 - 15:00 |
“Pedicel and internodal development in the inflorescence of Arabidopsis thaliana” |
| Yoshibumi Komeda (The University of Tokyo, Japan) | |
| 15:00 - 15:25 | Coffee Break |
| Session 4 | |
| Chair: Yosuke Tamada | |
| 15:25 - 16:05 |
“Molecular Control of Fertilization and Interspecific Crossing Barriers in Arabidopsis thaliana” |
| Ueli Grossniklaus (The University of Zurich, Switzerland) | |
| 16:05 - 16:35 | “Epigenetic reprogramming during sexual reproduction in plants” |
| Frederic Berger (Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore) | |
| 16:35 - 17:00 |
“Polyploid model species of Arabidopsis and Cardamine: recurrent patterns in the evolution of selfing and polyploid speciation” |
| Kentaro Shimizu (The University of Zurich, Switzerland) | |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Coffee Break |
| Session 5 | |
| Chair: Hidefumi Shinohara | |
| 17:20 - 17:45 | “ANGUSTIFOLIA3 governs “leaf” programs in Arabidopsis” |
| Hirokazu Tsukaya (The University of Tokyo, Japan) | |
| 17:45 - 18:10 |
“ASYMMETRIC LEAVES2 (AS2)/AS1 is a developmental stabilizer for the leaf formation in Arabidopsis” |
| Yasunori Machida (Nagoya University, Japan) | |
| 18:10 - 18:30 |
“Primary Transcript Of MIR165A Is Necessary To Determine The miR165 Active Region In Arabidopsis Leaf Primorida” |
| Kiyoshi Tatematsu (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan) | |
| November 20 (Tue) | at OCC |
| Session 6 | |
| Chair: Masaki Ishikawa | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | “Novel pathways in Arabidopsis shoot meristem stem cell maintenance” |
| Thomas Laux (The University of Freiburg, Germany) | |
| 09:40 - 10:05 |
“TAWAWA1, a molecular link between yield and meristem phase transition in rice inflorescence development” |
| Junko Kyozuka (The University of Tokyo, Japan) | |
| 10:05 - 10:30 |
“Shoot Architecture and Leaf Dissection in Tomato Are Regulated by Homologous Gene Modules” |
| Klaus Theres (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany) | |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Coffee Break |
| Session 7 | |
| Chair: Takashi Murata | |
| 10:50 - 11:15 |
“How does cotyledonous phytochrome control hypocotyl elongation with a long time lag?” |
| Akira Nagatani (Kyoto University, Japan) | |
| 11:15 - 11:35 | “Supercomplexes and Super-supercomplex in Photosynthesis” |
| Jun Minagawa (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan) | |
| 11:35 - 12:00 |
“Design of circadian clock: harmonic oscillation as the pacemaker and relaxation oscillation as a rhythm driver installed in the clock protein KaiC” |
| Takao Kondo (Nagoya University, Japan) | |
| 12:00 - 12:10 | Group photo |
| 12:10 - 13:30 | Lunch & Poster Session Poster list (PDF 75KB).pdf |
| Session 8 | |
| Chair: Makoto Hayashi | |
| 13:30 - 14:10 |
“HOW TO MAKE-UP LEAF FACES --The adaxial-abaxial polarity-dependent development of leaves--” |
| Kiyotaka Okada (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan) | |
| 14:10 - 14:50 | “EVOLUTION OF BODY PLANS IN LAND PLANTS” |
| John Bowman (Monash University Clayton campus, Australia) | |
| 14:50 - 15:15 | “Communication, Fate, and Decision Making during Stomatal Development” |
| Keiko Torii (University of Washington, USA) | |
| 15:15 - 15:40 | Coffee Break |
| Session 9 | |
| Chair: Atsushi Hoshino | |
| 15:40 - 16:10 |
“CONTROL OF FLORAL INDUCTION IN RELATED ANNUAL AND PERENNIAL PLANTS” |
| George Coupland (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany) | |
| 16:10 - 16:35 | “Molecular Biology of Florigen” |
| Ko Shimamoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) | |
| 16:35 - 17:00 | “Perfect Ending of Floral Meristems” |
| Toshiro Ito (Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore) | |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Coffee Break |
| Session 10 | |
| Chair: Naoya Takeda | |
| 17:20 - 18:00 | “Plant cytokinesis – a tale of membrane traffic and fusion” |
| Gerd Jürgens (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany) | |
| 18:00 - 18:25 | “Developmental Control of Plant Cell Growth” |
| Keiko Sugimoto (RIKEN Plant Science Center, Japan) | |
| 18:25 - 18:45 |
“Secreted Peptide Signals Required for Maintenance of Root Stem Cell Niche in Arabidopsis” |
| Yoshikatsu Matsubayashi (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan) | |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Dinner & Poster Session Poster list (PDF 75KB).pdf |
| November 21 (Wed) | at OCC |
| Session 11 | |
| Chair: Kenji Yamada | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | “The Development of Cellulosic Biofuels” |
| Chris Somerville (The University of California, Berkeley, USA) | |
| 09:40 - 10:05 | “Develop Plant Systems For The Sustainable Production Of Valuable Chemicals” |
| Rajani Sarojam (Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore) | |
| 10:05 - 10:30 | “Endomembrane systems responsible for plant immunity” |
| Ikuko Hara-Nishimura (Kyoto University, Japan) | |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Coffee Break |
| Session 12 | |
| Chair: Kazuo Tsugane | |
| 10:50 - 11:15 | “Cellular and evolutionary mechanism of morphogenesis in volvocine algae” |
| Ichiro Nishii (Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore) | |
| 11:15 - 11:40 | “Arabis alpina as a Model to Study Life-history Evolution within the Brassicaceae” |
| Maria Albani (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany) | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | “Carnivorous plant genome and the evolution of digestive enzymes and pitcher leaves” |
| Mitsuyasu Hasebe (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan) | |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch |
| Session 13 | |
| Chair: Masanao Sato | |
| 13:30 - 13:50 | “Long-Distance Control of Symbiotic Organ Development” |
| Masayoshi Kawaguchi (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan) | |
| 13:50 - 14:15 |
“Comprehensive genetic analysis of CLV3 downstream pathway, and CLE peptide function in root knot nematode infection” |
| Shinichiro Sawa (Kumamoto University, Japan) | |
| 14:15 - 14:40 | “Network Properties and Structures of Plant Immunity” |
| Kenichi Tsuda (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany) | |
| 14:40 - 15:10 | “Structure and functions of the bacterial root microbiota in Arabidopsis” |
| Paul Schulze-Lefert (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany) | |
| Closing Remarks | |
| 15:10 - 15:20 | Paul Schulze-Lefert (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany) |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Mixer at the entrance hall |