The 11th Wolbachia Conference (Orthodox Academy of Crete, Crete, Greece) において、ERATO深津共生進化機構プロジェクト冠シンポジウム “Experimental Evolutionary Approaches to Symbiosis” を開催しました。
ERATO深津共生進化機構プロジェクトの研究成果の国際発信の一環として、ギリシャ・クレタ島で開催され、世界の昆虫共生微生物研究者が集結する第11回国際ボルバキア会議においてERATO冠シンポジウムを実施しました。
ERATO sponsored session “Experimental Evolutionary Approaches to Symbiosis”
(† ERATO invited speakers; * young invited speakers)
[Session I] Chair: Takema Fukatsu
† 14:00-14:20 Takema Fukatsu (AIST/Univ Tokyo/Univ Tsukuba, Japan) “Experimental evolutionary approaches to symbiosis”
† 14:20-14:45 Ryuichi Koga (AIST, Japan) “The things have small beginnings: various single mutations could make Escherichia coli an insect mutualist”
† 14:45-15:10 Chikara Furusawa (RIKEN/Univ Tokyo, Japan) “Exploring the universality of symbiosis: constructive and quantitative approaches to symbiotic evolution”
* 15:10-15:25 Georgia Drew (Univ Oxford, UK) “Experimental coevolution in a defensive symbiosis community”
[Session II] Chair: Takema Fukatsu
† 15:45-16:05 Yuichi Wakamoto (Univ Tokyo, Japan) “Bacterial growth and competition in geometrically structured habitats”
† 16:05-16:30 Shinji Fukuda (Keio Univ/Univ Tsukuba, Japan) “Genetic mutation in Escherichia coli genome during adaptation to the murine intestine is optimized for the host diet”
† 16:30-16:50 Shigeyuki Kakizawa (AIST, Japan) “Whole genome cloning of genome-reduced insect symbionts”
* 16:50-17:05 Inès Pons (Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Germany) “Specificity of an obligate leaf beetle-bacterial symbiosis”
* 17:05-17:20 Julien Martinez (Univ Glasgow, UK) “Parallel evolution in Wolbachia-infected mosquito cell lines”
[Posters]
[1] Ya Yun Wang (AIST, Japan) “Disruption of a tryptophan metabolism gene as evolutionary entry point toward insect-bacterium mutualism”
[2] Minoru Moriyama (AIST, Japan) “Molecular mechanism of vertical transmission in stinkbug”
[3] Tomonari Nozaki (NIBB, Japan) “Polyploidy and insect-bacterium symbiosis: both symbionts and bacteriocytes exhibit extraordinarily high number of genomes per cell”
[4] Tomohito Noda (Univ Tokyo Japan) “Histological survey of bacteriocytes for harboring Blattabacterium endosymbiont among diverse cockroaches”
[5] Yuki Kanai (Univ Tokyo Japan) “Consequences of insertion sequence-mediated genome reduction in endosymbiotic organisms - experimental evolution and theory”
[6]Qian Bao (Univ Tokyo Japan) “Spatiotemporal dynamics of insect symbionts in microfluidic devices”