ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #30
Prof. Thomas Richards (University of Oxford, UK)
“Insights into mediation between endosymbiotic partners within Paramecium bursaria”
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #29
Prof. Evan Economo (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan)
“Biodiversity science in the era of big data: treasure maps, trap-jaws, and the metaverse”
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #28
Dr. Brian Trevelline (Kent State University, USA)
“Microbiome-mediated phenotypes in wild vertebrates”
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #27
Dr. Tom Bourguignon (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan)
“Evolution of termites and cockroaches with their bacterial symbionts”
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #26
Dr. Harald Gruber-Vodicka (Kiel University, Germany)
“Symbiosis as a driver of placozoan biology?”
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #25
Dr. Michael Baym (Harvard Medical School, USA)
“Acellular pressures on plasmid evolution”
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #24
Prof. Gregg Howe（Michigan State University, USA）
“Hormones from lipids: Control of plant-biotic interactions by jasmonate”
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #23
Dr. Federica Calevro (BF2i lab, INRAE – INSA Lyon, University of Lyon, France)
“Evolutionarily conserved metazoan pathways have evolved new functions in the context of symbiotic interactions”
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #22
Prof. Michele Nishiguchi (University of California Merced, USA)
“Interpreting the road map between ecological and molecular boundaries using a squid-bacterial mutualism”
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #21
Dr. Filip Husnik (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan)
“Organellogenesis: Provide, Divide, and Rule”
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #20
Prof. Colin Dale (The University of Utah, USA)
“Utilizing Sodalis-allied symbionts to probe evolutionary and molecular questions in symbiosis”
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #19
Prof. Ehab Abouheif（McGill University, Canada)
“How ants and bacteria became one”
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #18
Dr. Philipp Engel（University of Lausanne, Switzerland）
“Specialized gut microbiota-host interactions in social bees”
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #17
Dr. Angad Mehta（University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA）
“Directed endosymbiosis for evolutionary studies and synthetic biology”
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #16
Dr. Jillian Petersen (University of Vienna, Austria)
“In symbiosis since the Silurian: Ecology and evolution of host-microbe interactions in marine lucinid clams”
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #15
Dr. Knut Drescher（University of Basel, Switzerland）
"Unicellular and multi-cellular stress responses in bacterial biofilms"
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #14
Dr. Hassan Salem（Max-Planck Institute for Biology, Germany）
"Microbial determinants of folivory in beetles"
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #13
Prof. Nancy Moran（University of Texas at Austin, USA）
"Evolution in Bacterial Gut Symbionts of Social Bees"
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #12
Prof. Christian Kost (University of Osnabrück, Germany)
"On the evolution of mutualistic cooperation within microbial communities"
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #11
Prof. Steve Perlman (University of Victoria, Canada)
"A tale of two symbionts: Hidden players in interactions between Drosophila and their nematode parasites"
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #10
Dr. Mahesh Desai (Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg)
“Leveraging diet to engineer the gut microbiome”
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #09
Prof. Alex Wilson (University of Miami, USA)
“The Host/Symbiont Interface”
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #08
Prof. Thomas Bosch (University of Kiel, Germany)
“Spontaneous body wall contractions shape and stabilize the symbiotic microbiota in Hydra”
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #07
Dr. John Beckmann（Auburn University, USA）
“Mechanisms of reproductive parasitism: How CI operons function, evolve, jump, and die”
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #06
Prof. John McCutcheon (Arizona State Univ., USA)
"The origins and endpoints of cell-in-cell symbioses"
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #05
Prof. Martin Kaltenpoth (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)
"Symbiotic microbes as driving forces of evolutionary innovation in beetles"
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #04
Prof. Kayla King (Univ. Oxford, UK)
"Microbial protection against infection: an evolutionary perspective"
World Microbe Forum Symposium
"Bacterial Interactions and Symbiosis"
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #03
Prof. John Glass (J. Craig Venter Institute, USA)
"Design, construction, and analysis of a synthetic minimal bacterial cell"
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #02
Dr. Mikhail Tikhonov (Washington Univ. St Louis, USA)
"Phenotypic plasticity across timescales: physiology, ecology and evolution"
ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #01
Dr. Chih-Horng Kuo (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
"Evolutionary and Functional Genomics of Symbiotic Bacteria"