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Detailed Program

Oral presentation:
15 min: 12 min talk + 3 min discussion
20 min: 15 min talk + 5 min discussion
25 min: 20 min talk + 5 min discussion
30 min: 25 min talk + 5 min discussion

	Arrival of the participants

SUNDAY June 21st

9:00 – 9:15	Opening Remark: Nori Satoh
9:15 – 10:15	Plenary Lecture: William R. Jeffery (University of Maryland) "Tunicates: Chordate Models for Evolution of the Neural Crest and Regeneration"
10:15 – 10:45	Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:45	Session 1: Systematics, phylogeny, and ecology Chairs: Thomas G. Stach & Euichi Hirose
30 min	Nori Satoh "An advanced filter-feeder hypothesis for urochordate evolution"
30 min	Carmela Gissi "The mitochondrial gene order of Ascidiacea: extreme variability both within the class and compared to other deuterostomes"
15 min	Shinichi Yokobori "Molecular phylogeny of Urochordata (Tunicata) based on complete mitochondrial genome sequences and 18S rRNA gene sequences"
15 min	Snjezana Rendulic "Chimerism in Botryllus schlosseri"
15 min	Meredith A. Carpenter "Cost/benefit analysis of oozoids: Growth rates, resorption patterns, chimerism and parasitism"
15 min	Sam Dupont "To a tunicate world? Tunicates are positively affected by ocean acidification"
	Total: 120 min
12:45 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Session 2: Allo-recognition and immunity Chairs: Masaru Nonaka & Anthony De Tomaso
30 min	Anthony De Tomaso "Isolation and characterization of uncle fester, a new member of the fester family of allorecognition molecules in Botryllus schlosseri"
15 min	Konstantin Khalturin "Self-/non-self recognition in Ciona intestinalis"
15 min	Loriano Ballarin "Rhamnose-binding lectins in the compound ascidian Botryllus schlosseri as multifunctional immune molecules"
15 min	Naoko Sasaki "Toll-like receptors in Ciona intestinalis"
15 min	Masaru Nonaka "Domain-based evolutionary view of the ascidian complement system"
	Total: 90 min
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:35	Session 3: Oocyte maturation and fertilization Chairs: Hitoshi Sawada & Alex McDougall
25 min	Manabu Yoshida "How does the ascidian egg attract sperm? Releasing mechanisms of the sperm attractant SAAF from the egg"
20 min	Kazuo Inaba "Molecular Signaling for the Activation of Sperm Flagella Motility in Ciona intestinalis"
25 min	Hitoshi Sawada "Self-incompatibility systems in ascidian fertilization"
25 min	François Prodon "Advantages of the two ascidian species, Halocynthia roretzi and Phallusia mammillata, for analyzing oocyte maturation and for 4D-live imaging of asymmetric cell furrowing during early embryogenesis"
	Total: 95 min
17:35 – 19:10	Poster Session A
19:10 – 21:00	Welcome party

MONDAY June 22nd

09:30 – 11:30	Session 4: Embryogenesis Chairs: Lionel Christiaen & Gaku Kumano
15 min	Alexandre Paix "Localization and cortical anchorage of ascidian postplasmic/PEM RNAs in eggs and embryos"
15 min	Gaku Kumano "Patterning of an ascidian embryo along the anterior-posterior axis through spatial regulation of competence and induction ability by PEM"
15 min	Maki Shirae-Kurabayashi "Ci-PEM is distributed in the nuclei in the germline cells and contributes to transcriptional repression during cleavage stages in an ascidian, Ciona intestinalis"
15 min	Lionel Christiaen "Spatio-temporal intersection of Lhx3 and Tbx6 defines the cardiac field through synergistic activation of Mesp"
15 min	Narudo Kawai "Asymmetric cell division controlled by differential activation of the b-catenin/Tcf complex during the ascidian embryogenesis"
15 min	Naohito Takatori "Wnt-dependent asymmetric partitioning of Not mRNA segregates mesoderm and endoderm fates in ascidian embryos"
15 min	Brad Davidson "Cell fate decisions during heart development in Ciona intestinalis"
15 min	Hidetoshi Saiga "Comprehensive functional analysis of Hox genes revealed roles of Hox10 and 12 in the larval development of the ascidian Ciona intestinalis"
	Total: 120 min
11:30 – 13:00	Lunch
13:00 – 14:30	Session 5: Larval development and metamorphosis Chairs: Yasunori Sasakura & Brad Davidson
30 min	Yasunori Sasakura "Transposon-mediated enhancer trap revealed the functions of Hox1 during and after metamorphosis"
15 min	Shota Chiba "An ENU-induced mutant, Zebulon, disrupts formation of both trunk and tail"
30 min	Di Jiang "Tube formation by complex cellular processes in Ciona intestinalis notochord"
15 min	Koji Hotta "FABA2: Three dimensional real-image embryo reconstructions for standardizing developmental stages from hatching larva to juvenile"
	Total: 90 min
14:30 – 15:00	Coffee Break
15:00 – 17:25	Session 6: Gene network and genomics Chairs: Takeshi Kawashima & Daniel Sobral
20 min	Kenneth Hastings "High-throughput sequence analysis of the trans-spliced mRNAs/genes of Ciona intestinalis"
20 min	Yasubumi Sakakibara "Genome-wide detections of non-coding RNAs on Ciona intestinalis genome: from in silico search of snoRNA to full-length sequencing and expression analysis"
15 min	Weiyang Shi "Systematic identification of C. intestinalis microRNAs by high throughput sequencing"
15 min	Kohji Okamura "Characterization and definition of promoter-associated CpG islands in ascidian genomes"
15 min	Lixy Yamada "Global protein profiling of ascidian C. intestinalis: toward the comprehensive understanding at the protein level"
15 min	Kazuhiro Nitta "Large scale determination of transcription factor DNA-binding specificity in Ciona intestinalis"
15 min	Maximilian Haeussler "A cis-regulatory signature for chordate anterior neurectodermal genes"
15 min	Atsushi Kubo "ChIP-chip analysis reveals gene regulatory networks in specification of chordate embryos"
15 min	Clement Lamy "The transcription factor FoxA-a is the anterior determinant of the ascidian ectoderm and represses the posterior programme"
	Total: 145 min
17:25 – 19:00	Poster Session B

TUESDAY June 23rd

	Excursions

WEDNESDAY June 24th

9:00 – 10:00	Plenary Lecture: Hiroki Nishida (Osaka University) "Establishment of embryonic axes and regionalization along the axes: Polarity in organisms and cells"
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00	Session 7: Appendicularians and other tunicates Chairs: Atsuo Nishino & Cristian Cañestro
30 min	Daniel Chourrout "The Oikopleura dioica genome"
20 min	Cristian Cañestro "Comparative expression analysis of Oikopleura dioica Otx, Pax2/5/8 and Hox, and the evolution of the heart, thyroid, pharynx, stomodeum and placodes in chordates"
20 min	Keisuke Nakashima "Cellulosic structures of Oikopleurid appendicularians"
20 min	Yoshimasa Sagane "Cellulose-based extracellular structures in appendicularia Oikopleura dioica"
	Total: 90 min
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 15:30	Session 8: Organogenesis and regeneration Chairs: Kaz Kawamura & Robert Lauzon
30 min	Ayelet Voskoboynik "Isolation of a multipotent adult stem cell niche in the urochordate Botryllus schlosseri"
30 min	Shigeki Fujiwara "Regeneration of the gut requires retinoic acid in the budding ascidian Polyandrocarpa misakiensis"
15 min	Shungo Kano "A dual origin of pituitary-like organs in ascidian: their analogy and differences between the ascidian and vertebrates"
15 min	Stefano Tiozzo "Characterization of vasa and early lineage specification of long-lived germline progenitors in asexual regeneration of the colonial ascidian, Botryllus schlosseri"
15 min	Takeshi Sunanaga "Exploration of origin of germline cells in colonial ascidian, Botryllus primigenus"
15 min	Robert Lauzon "Homing and function of phagocyte populations during cyclic blastogenesis in Botryllus schlosseri"
	Total: 120 min
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 – 18:00	Session 9: Neural development Chairs: Take Kusakabe
20 min	Takehiro G. Kusakabe "The evolutionary origin of cranial sensory organs and pituitary: evidence from photoreceptors, mechanoreceptors, and GnRH systems in the ascidian larva"
20 min	Florian Razy-Krajka "Dopaminergic cells in Ciona intestinalis larva share some features with vertebrate dopaminergic amacrine cells"
20 min	Yukio Ohtsuka "The specification of the trunk epidermal sensory neuron in Halocynthia embryos"
20 min	Wei-Chung Chen "Regulatory mechanisms underlying lens development and evolution"
20 min	Alberto S. Stolfi "Cell-specific reporter gene expression reveals morphology of neuronal subtypes in the visceral ganglion of Ciona intestinalis larvae"
20 min	Robert W. Zeller "microRNA function during neuronal development"
	Total: 120 min
18:00 – 19:30	Poster Session C

THURSDAY June 25th

9:30 – 11:30	Session 10: Round Table: Genome, proteomics, transgenesis, and genetics Chairs: Kazuo Inaba & Jean-Stephane Joly Topics provided by Jean-Stephane Joly, Yutaka Satou, Kazuo Inaba, Lixy Yamada, Delphine Dauga, Toshinori Endo, Koji Hotta & Yasunori Sasakura
11:30 – 13:00	Lunch
13:00 – 14:45	Session 11: Physiology and neural function Chairs: Yasushi Okamura & Ian A. Meinertzhagen
30 min	Kohei Hatta "Optogenetic analysis with NpHR and ChR2 on neural basis to control motor behaviors in ascidian tadpoles, close relatives of vertebrates"
30 min	Honoo Satake "Neuropeptides and Hormone Peptides in Ciona intestinalis"
30 min	Yasushi Okamura "Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in Ciona larval muscle and their physiological roles in shaping the swimming form"
15 min	Kerrianne Ryan "Fine-structure and Cellular Composition of the Larval Brain of Ciona intestinalis"
	Total: 105 min
14:45 – 15:15	Coffee Break
15:15 – 17:00	Session 12: Amphioxus and hemichordates Chairs: Hiroshi Wada & Sebastian Shimeld
30 min	J. K. Sky Yu "BMP and Delta/Notch signaling pathways control the development of amphioxus epidermal sensory neurons"
15 min	Hiroshi Wada "Regeneration of the amphioxus oral cirri and differentiation of the cellular cartilage"
30 min	Thomas Stach "The evolution of chordate characters in deuterostomes – a morphological perspective"
15 min	Tom Humphreys "Anterior Regeneration in the enteropneust hemichordate, P. flava"
15 min	Norio Miyamoto "Development of the nervous system in the acorn worm Balanoglossus simodensis"
	Total: 105 min
17:00 – 17:15	Closing Remark: Patrick Lemaire
17:15 – 18:00	Move to Loisir Hotel Naha
18:00 –	Farewell party (Loisir Hotel Naha)

FRIDAY June 26th

	Departure

Manza Cape: Okinawa Isnald

Last updated: Nov 25, 2009

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