Meeting of “Biology of Symbiosis” project （putative）
August 21 and 22, 2017 (Monday and Tuesday)
Lecture Hall (Koryuto Hall), Main Office Building, RIKEN Yokohama Campus
Program August 21st
10:30-10:40 Opening remarks by Ken SHIRASU
10:40-11:00 Ken SHIRASU (CSRS, Plant Immunity Research Group)
“TBA Plant Actinomycetes interaction”
11:00-11:20 Paul SCHULZE-LEFERT (Max Planck Institute, Cologne)
“Rhizobial root microbiota membership predisposed convergent evolution of nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with legumes”
11:20-11:40 Makoto HAYASHI (CSRS, Plant Symbiosis Research Team)
“Underground symbiosis between plants and microbes: its significance and molecular evolution”
11:40-11:55 Miki FUJITA (CSRS, Gene Discovery Research Group)
“Development of “RIPPS”, an automated system for evaluating plant environmental stress response”
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:20 Masahira HATTORI (IMS, Laboratory for Microbiome)
“TBA Human microbiome”
13:20-13:40 Hiroshi OHNO (IMS, Laboratory for Intestinal Ecosystem)
“Characteristics of M cells and follicle-associated epithelium”
13:40-14:00 Masayuki AMAGAI (IMS, Skin homeostasis)
“Stratum corneum as niche for skin microbiome”
14:00-14:20 Kenya HONDA (IMS, Gut Homeostasis)
“Modulation of the immune system by the gut microbiota”
14:20-14:40 Break
14:40-15:00 Sidonia FAGARASAN (IMS, Laboratory for Mucosal Immunity)
“Host-gut microbiota mutualism by IgA-glycan”
15:00-15:20 Hideaki NAKAGAWA (IMS, Laboratory for Genome Sequencing Analysis)
“Cancer genome sequencing for pathogen and symbiosis in human cancers”
15:20-15:40 Toru TAKUMI (BSI, Laboratory for Mental Biology)
“The gut-brain axis in autism”
15:40-16:00 Atsushi IRIKI (BSI, Laboratory for Symbolic Cognitive Development)
“Primate model of “Mind-Body Interaction” through the mechanisms of gut-brain axis via microbiome.”
16:00-16:20 Break
16:20-16:40 Hiroyuki OSADA (CSRS, Chemical Biology Research Group)
“Activation of biosynthesis of tenuazonic acid in a plant pathogenic fungus”
16:40-17:00 Katsuyuki SHIROGUCHI (QBiC, Lab for Integrative Omics)
“Toward "The third generation" bacterial microbiota analysis”
17:00-17:15 Hiroyuki AOKI (Center for Advanced Photonics, Ultrahigh Precision Optics Technology Team)
“Agarose Gel Microcapsule: Pico-liter-scale DNA Amplification Microvessel for Single Cell Genomics.”
17:15-17:30 Akiko MINODA (CLST, Epigenome Technology Exploration Unit)
“Studying the effect of different microbiota at the cell type and subpopulations landscape level by single cell RNA-seq”
17:30-17:45 Arnaud GERMOND (QBiC, Laboratory for Comprehensive Bioimaging)
“Raman spectroscopy as a tool for cell-line discrimination and gene expression monitoring”
17:45- get-together with beverage
Program August 22nd
09:30-09:40 Opening remarks by Moriya OHKUMA
09:40-10:00 Chikara FURUSAWA (QBiC, Laboratory for Multiscale Biosystem Dynamics)
“Analysis of phenotypic evolution and symbiosis using microbial laboratory evolution”
10:00-10:20 Shunji TAKAHASHI (CSRS, Natural Product Biosynthesis Unit)
“Unveiling Chemical Signal and Biosynthetic Mechanism of Reveromycin”
10:20-10:40 Ryo NAKABAYASHI (CSRS, Metabolomics Research Group)
“Metabolome analysis in the parasitism between Solanum lycopersicum and Cuscuta campestris”
10:40-11:00 Shigehiro KURAKU (CLST, Phyloinformatics Unit)
“Genome evolution and ecosystem of marine vertebrates”
10:55-11:15 Break
11:15-11:35 Ryuhei NAKAMURA (CSRS, Biofunctional Catalyst Research Team)
“Energy Flow Organized by Benthic Ecosystems”
11:35-11:55 Jun KIKUCHI (CSRS, Environmental Metabolic Analysis Research Team)
“Marine and fishery product studies assisted by metabolic profiling with data science”
11:55-12:10 Shigeharu MORIYA (CSRS, Biomass research platform team)
“RNA-seq approaching to unlock the ecological functions of natural microbiome system”
12:10-13:10 PI Lunch
13:10-13:30 Yuichi HONGO/Hirokazu KUWAHARA (Tokyo Technology Institute, BRC Microbe Division)
“Functional genomics of multiple endo- and ectosymbionts of termite gut protists”
13:30-13:45 Akiko FUJIWARA (CSRS, Chemical Genomics Research Group)
“Elucidation of molecular mechanisms for multiple endosymbiotic systems and development of novel control technologies by the inhibition of endosymbiotic machinery in Bemisia tabaci, the agricultural pest”
13:45-14:00 Seok-Won KIM (IMS, Laboratory for Integrated Bioinformatics)
“TBA”
14:00-14:20 Moriya OHKUMA (BRC, Japan Collection of Microorganisms)
“Single-cell genome analysis of termite gut symbionts”
14:20-14:30 Closing remarks by Hiroshi OHNO