The 4th NIBB-MPIPZ-TLL Symposium

“Arabidopsis and Emerging Model Systems”

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