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September 30 (day 1)
14:00-14:10
Tomoyoshi Nozaki (National Institute for Infectious Diseases & University of Tsukuba)
Opening remarks
Session 1 (chair: Shigeharu Moriya, RIKEN)
14:10-14:50
Andreas Brune (Max Plank Institute)
Endomicrobia and their free-living relatives: evolution of an intracellular symbiosis
15:20-15:30
Moriya Ohkuma (RIKEN)
CO₂- and N₂-fixing endosymbionts of termite-gut cellulolytic pritists
15:20-15:30
Discussion
15:30-15:50
Coffee break
Session 2 (chair: Yuichi Hongo, Tokyou Institute of Technology)
15:50-16:20
Gaku Tokuda (University of Ryukyus)
Genomic transitions of the intracellular symbiont during evolution of the wood-feeding cockroaches, Cryptocercus spp.
16:20-16:50
Takuro Nakayama (University of Tsukuba)
Genome evolution of nonphotosynthetic cyanobacteria residing in diatom cells
16:50-17:00
Discussion
October 1 (day 2)
Session 3 (chair: Kisaburo Nagamune, NIID)
9:30-10:00
Shiroh Iwanaga (Mie University)
Horizontal gene transfer of a vertebrate vasodilatory hormone into ticks
10:00-10:30
Tomoko Ishino (Ehime University)
Functional analyses of sporozoite rhoptry proteins of Plasmodium berghei during target cell invasion
10:30-10:40
Discussion
10:40-11:00
Coffee break
Session 4 (chair: Makoto Kuroda, NIID)
11:00-11:30
Hiroki Nagai (Osaka University)
Interdomain protein transfer as a critical mechanism for survival of intracellular bacteria
11:30-12:10
Thomas Marlovits (IMB, Austraian Academy of Sciences)
Molecular machines in action: The injectisome
12:10-12:20
Discussion
12:20-14:20
Lunch break
Session 5 (chair: Yoshihisa Hirakawa, University of Tsukuba)
14:20-14:50
Masato Nakai (Osaka University)
Evolution of the chloroplast protein import system
14:50-15:30
Sven B Gould (Heinrich-Heine Universitat Dusseldorf)
Protein import as a beacon of endosymbiotic events
15:30-15:40
Discussion
15:40-16:00
Coffee break
Session 6 (chair: Tomoyoshi Nozaki, NIID & University of Tsukuba)
16:00-16:40
Vladimír Hampl (Charles University in Prague)
Mitochondrion going, going, gone
16:40-15:10
Takeshi Makiuchi (Tokai University)
The highly divergent mitochondrion-related organelle "mitosomes" in Entamoeba histolytica
17:10-17:20
Discussion
17:10-19:00
Poster session
19:00-21:00
Banquet
October 2 (day 3)
Session 7 (chair: Toshinobu Suzaki, Kobe University)
9:30-10:10
Hans-Dieter Görtz (University of Stuttgart)
Ciliates and their symbionts - cells, populations and ecosystems
10:10-10:40
Ryo Hoshina (Nagahama Institute of Bio-science and Technology)
Thinking about the symbiotic state of MARP: the multi-algae retaining protists
10:40-10:50
Discussion
10:50-11:10
Coffee break
Session 8 (chair: Goro Tanifuji, University of Tsukuba)
11:10-11:40
Shinpei Aikawa (Kobe University)
Development of bioprocess using symbiotic algae producing maltose
11:40-12:10
Yuji Inagaki (University of Tsukuba)
Green alga-derived nucleomorphs in dinoflagellate cells
12:10-12:20
Discussion
12:20-12:30
Tomoyoshi Nozaki (NIID & University of Tsukuba)
Closing remarks