Program

Program at a glance

Monday, December 8
9:00–9:10
Welcome note
9:10–9:50
Lecture 1: General introduction (Nori Satoh)
“An overview of the evolution of complex systems of animals”
9:50–10:00
Break
10:00–10:50
Lecture 2 (Nori Satoh)
“Genomic bases for animal evolution”
10:50–11:10
Break

“Student workshop”
11:10–11:25
WS 1, Nagayasu Nakanishi “Sensory biology of sponge settlement and metamorphosis: Towards defining the baseline for nervous system evolution”
11:25–11:40
WS 2, Daniela Praher “Cnidarian microRNAs frequently regulate their targets by cleavage”
11:40–11:55
WS 3, Pascal Lapébie “Differential responses to Wnt and PCP disruption predict expression and developmental function of conserved and novel genes in a cnidarian”
11:55–12:10
WS 4, Emma M. Gibbin “Susceptibility of reef-corals to ocean acidification and cellular acidosis is influenced by thermal sensitivity”
12:10–12:25
WS 5, Robert Mason “Effects of ocean acidification and temperature on coral development and physiology”
12:25–13:50
Lunch
13:50–14:05
WS 6, Nathan Kenny “The origins of arthropod innovations: Insights from the non-insect arthropods, the cherry shrimp and rusty millipede”
14:05–14:20
WS 7, Anna Schönauer “Characterisation of the gene regulatory network of segmentation in Parasteatoda tepidariorum”
14:20–14:35
WS 8, Rachel Thayer “The genetic architecture of blue structural color in Junonia coenia”
14:35–14:45
Break
14:45–15:00
WS 9, Yi-Cheng Chang “Opposite transcriptional control of the two admp genes regulates dorsoventral patterning in the sea urchin embryo”
15:00–15:15
WS 10, Tzu-Pei Fan “The role of FGF signaling in mesoderm induction in hemichordate Ptychodera flava”
15:15–15:30
WS 11, Alicia Madgwick “Evolutionary plasticity of gene regulatory networks in Ciona intestinalis and Phallusia mammillata”
15:30–15:40
Break
15:40–15:55
WS 12, Marek Romášek “CRISPR/Cas system in the sea lamprey: A tool for understanding ancestral gene functions in vertebrates”
15:55–16:10
WS 13, Qi Zhou “Complex evolutionary trajectories of sex chromosomes across bird taxa”
16:10–16:25
WS 14, Kate Criswell “Vertebral column evolution and development: Homoplasy in the vertebrate centrum”
16:25–16:35
Break
16:35–16:50
WS 15, Daniel Smith “Studying birds evolution and development”
16:50–17:05
WS 16, Sophie Archambeault “Molecular evolution of HoxA gene paralogs and the evolution of Percomorph morphological diversity”
17:05–17:20
WS 17, Sheng-hong Chen “Mdmx buffers against p53 oscillations to affect cell fate decisions”
 
 

 

Tuesday, December 9

 

09:30–10:50
Lecture 3 (Konstantin Khalturin)
“Place of non-bilaterians in the studies of animals evolution and development”
10:50–11:10
Break
11:10–11:50
Short talk 1 (Hiroaki Nakano)
“What can Xenoturbella development tell us about the evolution of marine invertebrate larvae?”
11:50–13:10
Lunch
13:10–14:30
Lecture 4 (Nipam H. Patel)
“Development and evolution of arthropod diversity”
14:30–14:50
Break
14:50–15:30
Discussion (Nipam H. Patel)
15:30–15:50
Break
15:50–16:30
Short talk 2 (Masa-aki Yoshida)
“Molluscan-specific genes at synapse and brain”
16:30–17:10
Short talk 3 (Nori Satoh & Yi-Jyun Luo)
“The Lingula genome and the evolution of lophotrochozoans and biomineralization”
17:10–17:30
Break
17:30–18:10
Lab exhibition (Nipam H. Patel)
 
 

 

Wednesday, December 10

 

09:00–10:20
Lecture 5 (Mike Levine)
“Transcriptional precision in the Drosophila embryo and the evolutionary origins of the vertebrate head in the Ciona tadpole”
10:20–10:40
Break
10:40–11:20
Discussion (Mike Levine)
11:20–11:35
Break
11:35–18:00
Excursion: OIST campus tour & Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium
 
 

 

Thursday, December 11

 

 
Mini workshop “Deuterostome, Basal chordate”
9:00–10:20
Lecture 6 (Yi-Hsien Su)
“Complexity of developmental regulation – Lessons from sea urchins”
10:20–10:40
Break
10:40–12:00
Lecture 7 (Chris Lowe)
“Hemichordates”
12:00–13:30
Lunch
13:30–14:50
Lecture 8 (Jr-Kai Sky Yu)
“Basal chordate amphioxus and the origin of vertebrates”
14:50–15:10
Break
15:10–16:30
Lecture 9 (Nori Satoh)
“Ascidians”
16:30–16:50
Break
16:50–17:30
Short talk 4 (Hidetoshi Saiga)
“Hox genes in ascidians”
 
 

 

Friday, December 12

 

09:30–10:50
Lecture 10 (Robb Krumlauf)
“Coupling Hox genes to head development in chordate evolution: A story in segments”
10:50–11:10
Break
11:10–11:50
Discussion (Robb Krumlauf)
11:50–13:10
Lunch
13:10–14:30
Lecture 11 (Chris Amemiya)
“Genome sequencing and vertebrate innovations: looking for new stuff using comparative genomic approaches”
14:30–14:50
Break
14:50–15:30
Short talk 5 (Naoki Irie)
“Is the hourglass model, unified theory of Evo-Devo?”
15:30–15:50
Break
15:50–17:20
Discussion
18:30–20:30
Farewell reception