Speakers

Invited speakers

Japan

Yutaka Satou,
Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University,
Expertise: tunicates, embryogenesis, gene regulatory network, computational analyses
 

Mikiko Tanaka,
Tokyo Institute of technology
Expertise : Evolution of vertebrate limbs studied in sharks
 

Australia

Kate Quigley
The University of Western Australia
Expertise : super corals, translocation, temperature tolerance, assisted gene flow
 

Andrew Chin
James Cook University
Expertise : fisheries, sharks, SE Asia and Pacific
 

France

Hugues Roest Crollius
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Expertise : Genomics specialist in charge of ATLASEA
 

Stéphanie Bertrand
Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer
Expertise: EvoDevo specialist working with amphioxus
 

French Polynesia and New Caledonia

David Lecchini
CRIOBE, French Polynesia
Expertise : Coral reef fish ecology and conservation. Sound
 

Fanny Houlbreque
IRD New Caledonia
Expertise : Physiology of tropical corals
 

Singapore 

Neo Mei Lin.
National University Singapore
Expertise : mariculture of marine invertebrates (giant clam, sea urchin), experimental marine ecology, population genetics, and marine conservation
 

Rebecca Case
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Expertise : marine algal-bacteria interactions at the cellular and ecosystem levels.
 

South Korea

Sung-Jin Hwang
Department of Life Science, Woosuk University
Expertise: Coral Taxonomy, reproduction, conservation
 

Yong-Jin Won
Division of EcoScience, Ewha Womans University
Expertise: Population Genetics and Evolution of wildlife, Evolutionary Biology of deep-sea hydrothermal vent organisms, marine invertebrates
 

Taiwan

Sen-Lin Tang,
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica,
Expertise: microbial ecology, metagenomics and metagenomes-derived bioinformatics and environmental virology
 

Shinya Shikina,
Institute of Marine Environment and Ecology, National Taiwan Ocean University, 
Expertise: reproductive biology of coral species
 

OIST Faculties

Timothy Ravasi.
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Expertise : Effect of climate change on coral reef fish. Genomics
 

Filip Husnik.
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Expertise: Origin of the eukaryotic cell and its symbiotic organelles
 

 

Special Speaker

James Reimer.
University of the Ryukyus

Young Invited speakers

Japan

Sumio Udagawa
Ochanomizu University

Takumi T Shito
Keio University

Australia

Alexia Dubuc
James Cook University
 

Adam Downie
University of Queensland

France

Eric Koch
Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-mer
 

Yuuki SHIKAYA
Institute de la Mer de Villefranche

French Polynesia and New Caledonia

Lana Minier
CRIOBE french Polynesia

Lucie Cartairade
MAREPOLIS

Singapore

Nicholas Yap
National University of Singapore

Sirius Ng
National University of Singapore
 

South Korea

Boongho Cho
Inha University

Jae Gon Park
Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology
 

Taiwan

Stefano Vianello
Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica
 

Arnaud Guerbet
National Taiwan University, Taiwan