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MARCO SYMPOSIUM 2009
Challenges for Agro-Environmental Research
in Monsoon Asia

Workshop 5

Perspectives of Metagenomics in Agricultural Research
October 6, Tue, 9:00-17:00


The rapid advancement of today's molecular biological techniques brought a new frontier of science, metagenomics. The new analytical approaches using DNA or RNA extracted directly from the environment enable us to access the genome (metagenome) or its transcripts (metatranscriptome) of all microorganisms inhabiting in the environment. The information obtained from these approches will reveal more precise figure of biodiversity and much more useful functions of microorganisms in the environment than those obtained from previously cultured microorganisms. Especially, soil metagenomics expect to give us such useful information concerning agriculture.

Since 2006 we have studied biodiversity in agricultural field soils and gene expression of microorganisms in soil for a project of Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan. We would like to introduce new approaches of soil metagenomics in our study for agriculture.

In this workshop, the researchers who have made remarkable achievements by the metagenomic or metatranscriptomic approach will be invited from all over the world and future of metagenomics for agricultural research will be discussed.


Conveners  Dr. Seiya Tsushima and Dr. Takeshi Fujii

Oral Session (Invited speakers only)
  1. Towards global understanding of crop-associated microbial communities: Community shifts in soybean-associated microbes by host nodulation genotypes and nitrogen application
    Kiwamu Minamisawa (Tohoku University, Japan)
  2. Multiple approaches to the denitrifying bacterial community in paddysoil - essential players in environmentally-sound rice production
    Keishi Senoo (Tokyo University, Japan)
  3. Structure and activity of bacterial community inhabiting rice roots and the rhizosphere
    Ya-Hai Lu (China Agricultural University, China)
  4. Analysis of biodiversity and biofunction in agricultural field using nucleic acid extracted from soil
    Takeshi Fujii(NIAES, Japan)
  5. Distribution and diversity of phytate-mineralizing bacteria in the microbial world
    Boon Leong Lim (University of Hong Kong, China)
  6. The metagenomics of disease suppressive soils - experiences from the METACONTROL project
    Jan Drik van Elsas (University of Groningen, The Netherlands
  7. Metagenome analysis using a comprehensive microarray, GioChip
    Jizhong Zhou (University of Oklahoma, United States of America)
  8. Functional profiling of the human gut microbiome by metagenomics
    Masahira Hattori(Tokyo University, Japan)
  9. Metagenomic approach on the rhizosphere soil microbiome
    Yusuke Unno, Takuro Shinano(National Agricultural Research Center for Hokkaido Region, Japan)
  10. Introduction of TerraGenome project
    Pascal Simonet(Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France)
  11. Pyrosequencing enumerates and contrasts soil microbial diversity
    Eric Triplett (University of Florida, United States of America)

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