Marine Genomics Seminars

[2023]

  • [series 39] 
    Title: Interaction between host Chondrus ocellatus and two endophytes 
    Speaker: Dr. Han-Gil Choi (Wonkwang University, Jeonbuk, Republic of Korea)
    Date: January 18th (Wednesday) 14:00 to 15:00
    Venue : OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room (C016)

 

 

[2018]

  • [series 38] 
    Title: Hidden connection between CNSs and macroscopic phenotypes of eukaryotes 
    Speaker: Dr. Naruya Saitou (National Institute of Genetics)
    Date: July 17th (Tuesday) 16:00 to 17:00
    Venue : OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room (C016)

 

 

  • [series 37, Joint Seminar of Marine genomics Unit and Evolutionary Neurobiology Unit] 
    Title: Evolution of neurons and nervous systems - a cell type perspective 
    Speaker: Dr. Detlev Arendt (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany)
    Date: May 31st (Thursday) 11:00 to 12:00
    Venue : OIST Center Building Level-B Seminar Room (B250)

 

 

  • [series 36] 
    Title: A genome-based study of the habu snake Protobothrops flavoviridis reveals an extensive alternative splicing of mRNA to produce highly divergent venom proteins 
    Speaker: Dr. Tomohisa Ogawa (Tohoku University)
    Date: May 11th (Friday) 15:30 to 16:00
    Venue : OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room (C016)

 

 

  • [series 35] 
    Title: Whole genome sequencing of a Japanese endemic pit viper, habu, Protobothrops flavoviridis reveals accelerated evolution of venom-related genes enriched in microchromosomal regions. 
    Speaker: Dr. Hiroki Shibata (Kyushu University)
    Date: May 11th (Friday) 15:00 to 15:30
    Venue : OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room (C016)

 

 

[2017]

  • [series 34]
    Title: Quantitative variation and evolution of left-right polarity in spiral cleavage. 
    Speaker: Dr. Takahiro Asami (Shinshu University)
    Date: May 16th (Tuesday) 15:00 to 16:00
    Venue : OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room (C015)

 

[2015]

  • [series 33]
    Title: Genus Vigna -the Wild and Sexy-
    Speaker: Dr. Ken Naito (Genetic Resource Center, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences)
    Date: Nov 20 (Friday) 13:00 to 14:00
    Venue : OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room (C016)
     
  • [series 32]
    Title: Enhancer sequence to tissue specificity during development
    Speaker: Dr. Emma Farley (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
    Date: July 24 (Friday) 10:00 to 11:00
    Venue : OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room (C016)
     

[2014]

  • [series 31]
    Title: Corals under stress - A study of the coral immune system
    Speaker: Dr. Jeroen van de Water (James Cook University)
    Date: 13:00 - 14:00 April 13, 2015
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-D Meeting Room (D015), Okinawa, Japan

 

  • [series 30]
    Title: Microbial metagenomics of deepsea brine pools
    Speaker: Dr. Pei-Yuan Qian (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
    Date: 15:00 - 16:00 Aug 25, 2014
    Venue: OIST Center Building (C209), Okinawa, Japan

 

  • [series 29]
    Title: Coral disease across the Indo-Pacific
    Speaker: Dr. Greta Smith Aeby (Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology)
    Date: 16:00 - 17:00 March 13, 2014
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-D Meeting Room (D015), Okinawa, Japan

 

 

  • [series 28]
    Title: Reproductive Strategies Shared by Animals and Plants: Ascidian Self-incompatibility System and Cnidarian Gamete Fusion.
    Speaker: Dr. Hitoshi Sawada (Sugashima Marine Biological Laboratory, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University)
    Date: 11:00 - 12:00 Jan 22, 2014
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room (C015), Okinawa, Japan
     

[2013]

  • [series 27]
    Title: Deciphering basic signaling architectures patterning animal body axes.
    Speaker: Dr. Hiroshi Watanabe (Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), University of Heidelberg)
    Date: 13:00 - 14:00 Dec 10, 2013
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room 1 (C016), Okinawa, Japan
     
  • [series 26]
    Title: Chemistry and Biology of Okinawan Marine natural products.
    Speaker: Dr. Junichi Kobayashi (Hokkaido University, Japan)
    Date: 16:00 – 17:00 Jun 20, 2013
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room 1 (C016), Okinawa, Japan
     
  • [series 25]  (PDF: 154 kb)
    Title: New Approach for chemical -biological characteristics of micro -and sub- scales ecosystem in coral and coral reef.
    Speaker: Dr. Yoshimi Suzuki (Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Japan)
    Date: 16:00 – 17:00 Mar 14, 2013
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room 1 (C016), Okinawa, Japan
     
  • [series 24]
    Title: Toward safe and effective gene- and cell-therapies using human artificial chromosomes and stem cells.
    Speaker: Dr. Narumi Uno (Tottori University, Japan)
    Date: 18:40 – 19:10 Feb 15, 2013
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-D Meeting Room 1 (D015), Okinawa, Japan
     
  • [series 23]
    Title: New vectors for gene delivery: Human and mouse artificial chromosomes.
    Speaker: Dr. Mitsuo Oshimura (Tottori University, Japan)
    Date: 18:10 – 18:40, Feb 15, 2013
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-D Meeting Room 1 (D015), Okinawa, Japan
     

[2012]

  • [series 22]
    Title: Molecular and Endocrine Mechanism of Seasonal Time Measurement in Vertebrates.
    Speaker: Dr. Takashi Yoshimura (Nagoya University, Japan)
    Date: 15:00 – 16:00, Dec 11, 2012
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room 1 (C016), Okinawa, Japan
     
  • [series 21]
    Title: Challenges in analyzing emerging non-model vertebrate genomes
    Speaker: Dr. Shigehiro Kuraku (Riken CDB, Japan)
    Date: 14:00 – 15:00, Jun 12, 2012
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room 1 (C016), Okinawa, Japan
     

[2011]

  • [series 20]
    Title: Genomics and the Origin and Diversification of Animals.
    Speaker: Dr. Daniel Rokhsar (UC Berkeley/ DOE-JGI, USA)
    Date: 15:00 – 16:00, Dec 14, 2011
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room 1 (C016), Okinawa, Japan
     
  • [series 19]
    Title: Retinoic acid and the chordate evolution
    Speaker: Dr. Shigeki Fujiwara (Professor in Kochi University, Japan)
    Date: 13:00 – 14:00, Nov 22, 2011
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room 1 (C016), Okinawa, Japan
     
  • [series 18]
    Title: Gene coexpression analysis to explore real gene network.
    Speaker: Dr. Takeshi Obayashi (Assistant Professor of the Tohoku University, Japan)
    Date: 13:00 - 14:00, Sep 3, 2011
    Venue: OIST Center Build. Level C, SEminar Room 1 (C209), Okinawa, Japan
     
  • [series 17]
    Title: What happened to the genome of vertebrate closest relatives?
    Speaker: Dr. Daniel Chourrout ( Director of the Sars International Centre for Marine Biology, University of Bergen, Norway)
    Date: 13:00-14:00, Aug 10, 2011
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room 1 (C016), Okinawa, Japan
     
  • [series 16]
    Title: Origin and evolution of novel bodyplan – lessons from marine invertebrates: molluscs and hemichordates.
    Speaker: Dr. Hiroshi Wada (University of Tsukuba)
    Date: 13:45-14:30, June 1, 2011
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room 2 (C015), Okinawa, Japan
     
  • [series 15]
    Title: From genes to shells: how molluscs form their exoskeletons?
    Speaker: Dr. Kazuyoshi Endo (University of Tokyo)
    Date: 13:00-13:45, June 1, 2011
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room 2 (C015), Okinawa, Japan
     
  • [series 14]
    Title: The genome of the deposponge Amphimedon queenslandica and the origin of the pan-metazoan toolkit.
    Speaker: Dr. Bernie Degnan (University of Queensland)
    Date: 11:45-, May 20, 2011
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Seminar Room 2 (C210), Okinawa, Japan
     
  • [series 13]
    Title: Ecological regulation of larval settlement: a functional genomics approach using the tropical abalone Haliotis asinina.
    Speaker: Dr. Sandie Degnan
    Date: 11:00-, May 20, 2011
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Seminar Room 2 (C210), Okinawa, Japan
     
  • [series 12]
    Title: Evolution of chloroplasts in dinoflagellates - tertiary endosymbioses and kleptochloroplasts
    Speaker: Dr. Takeo Horiguchi (Department of Natural History Sciences Faculty of Science Hokkaido University)
    Date: 14:00-, Apr 22, 2011
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room 2 (C015), Okinawa, Japan
    Organizer: Dr. Holger Jenke-Kodama (OIST, Japan)

 

  • [series 11]
    Title: Coral Reef Ecological Genomics in the Red Sea
    Speaker: Dr. Christian R. Voolstra (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST))
    Date: 14:00-15:00, Feb 18, 2011
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room 1 (C016), Okinawa, Japan
     
  • [series 10]
    Title: Morphological integratoin of leafy pattern displayed on moth wings
    Speaker: Takao Suzuki (Riken CDB, JAPAN)
    Date: 13:00-14:00, Feb 18, 2011
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room 1 (C016), Okinawa, Japan
     
  • [Marine Genomics Seminar Series Special]
    沖縄県知的クラスターと共同開催
    Date: Jan 29, 2011
    Venue: Okinawa Industry Support Center, Naha
     
  • [series 9]
    Title: Interdependent Genomes: the Aphid and the Bacterial Symbiont
    Speaker: Shuji Shigenobu (NIBB: National Institute for Basic Biology, JAPAN)
    Date: 13:30-14:30, Jan 21, 2011
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room 1 (C016), Okinawa, Japan
     

[2010]

  • [series 8]
    Title: Solar-powered Marine Metazoans---Photosymbiosis: distribution and transmission of photosymbionts
    Speaker: Euichi Hirose (University of Ryukyus, JAPAN)
    Date: 16:00-17:00, Oct 22, 2010
    Venue: OIST Lab1, Okinawa, Japan
     
  • [series 7]
    Title: Larval dispersal between deep-sea hydrothermal vent fields
    Speaker: Dr. Hiromi Watanabe (Institute of Biogeosciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)
    Date: Oct 4, 2010
    Venue: TBA
    Organizer: Dr. Satoshi Mitarai (OIST, Japan)
     
  • [series 6]
    Title: Progress Report: Kumamushi Genome Project
    Speaker: Toshiaki Katayama (University of Tokyo, Human Genome Center)
    Date: 16:00-17:00, Aug 18, 2010
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room 1 (C016), Okinawa, Japan

     
  • [series 5]
    Title: Implication of ocean acidification on the marine ecosystem.
    Speaker: Haruko Kurihara (University of Ryukyus, JAPAN)
    Date: 16:00-17:00, Jul 21, 2010
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room 1 (C016), Okinawa, Japan
     
  • [series 4]
    Title: Toward understanding the stem cell system and the pattern formation involved in spiculous skeleton formation in a freshwater sponge, Ephydatia fluviatilis.
    Speaker: Noriko Funayama (Kyoto University, JAPAN)
    Date: 17:30-18:30, July 9, 2010
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room 1 (C016), Okinawa, Japan
     
  • [series 3]
    Title: Examining undiscovered marine biodiversity: progress report using zoanthids.
    Speaker: James Davis Reimer (University of Ryukyus, JAPAN)
    Date: 16:30-17:30, June 15, 2010
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room 1 (C015), Okinawa, Japan
     
  • [series 2]
    Title: Ascidian Hox genes. (PDF file: 15kb)
    Speaker: Tetsuro Ikuta (Marine Genomics Unit, OIST, JAPAN)
    Date: 16:00-17:00 17:15-18:00, Apr 21, 2010
    Venue: OIST Lab1 Level-C Meeting Room 1 (C016), Okinawa, Japan
     
  • [series 1]
    Title: Deciphering the evolutionary process of the vertebrate origins.(PDF file: 28kb)
    Speaker: Atsuko Sato (Marine Genomics Unit, OIST, JAPAN)
    Date: Mar 23, 2010
    Venue: OIST Lab1 C21, Okinawa, Japan