Program

ISEPEP3: Program

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Monday, August 24
9:00 – 10:50	Registration, Uploading of PowerPoint files and Poster setting
10:50 – 11:00	Opening remarks
Plenary lecture Chair: Takashi Okuda
11:00 – 12:00	James S. Clegg: Cryptobiosis – 50 years on.
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch
Session 1: Anhydrobiosis in invertebrates-1. Chair: James S. Clegg
13:00 – 13:40	Keynote address—Alan Tunnacliffe: The role of hydrophilic, unstructured proteins in invertebrate anhydrobiosis.
13:40 – 14:00	Richard Cornette: Molecular bases of anhydrobiosis in the sleeping chironomid Polypedilum vanderplanki.
14:00 – 14:20	Takahiro Kikawada: Regulation of trehalose metabolism underlying rapid accumulation of trehalose in the desiccating larvae of the Sleeping Chironomid, Polypedilum vanderplanki.
14:20 – 14:40	Oleg Gusev: Anhydrobiosis-associated changes in nuclear DNA and their effect on radioresistance in the sleeping chironomid Polypedilum vanderplanki.
14:40 – 15:00*	Taku Okawa: Three-dimensional structure and dynamics of trehalose transporter TRET1 in Polypedilum vanderplanki as revealed by computer simulations.
15:00 – 15:20	Coffee / Tea break
Session 2: Anhydrobiosis in invertebrates-2. Chair: Hans Ramløv
15:20 – 15:40*	Steffen Hengherr: Vitrification and trehalose ? basic principle or speciality in few anhydrobiotes?
15:40 – 16:10*	Elham Schokraie: Proteomic analysis of tardigrades: towards a better understanding of molecular mechanisms by anhydrobiotic organisms.; Comparative proteomic analysis of tardigrades in active versus anhydrobiotic stage using DIGE technology.
16:10 – 16:30	Marcus Frohme: A systems biology approach to understand the molecular base of cryptobiosis in tardigrades.
16:30 – 16:50	Takekazu Kunieda: The tardigrade genome of an anhydrobiotic extremotolerant species, Ramazzottius varieornatus.
18:00 – 20:00	Welcome party at Restaurant ESPOIR in Tsukuba International Congress Center
Tuesday, August 25
Session 3: Osmotic and freezing tolerance in invertebrates-1. Chair: Alan Tunnacliffe
9:00 – 9:40	Keynote address—David A. Wharton: An Antarctic nematode as a model for studying the response of organisms to an extreme environment.
9:40 – 10:00*	Melianie R. Raymond: Further Evidence for the Survival of Intracellular Freezing in Panagrolaimus davidi, an Antarctic Nematode.
10:00 – 10:20*	Farman Ali: Cold Tolerance of Entomopathogenic Nematodes.
10:20 – 10:40	Masakazu Hayashi: A mechanism for freezing survival of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.
10:40 – 11:00	Coffee / Tea break
Session 4: Osmotic and freezing tolerance in invertebrates-2. Chair: Brent J. Sinclair
11:00 – 11:20	David A. Wharton: A New Technique for Studying Osmoregulation in Nematodes.
11:20 – 11:40	Hans Ramløv: A novel beetle antifreeze protein from the cerambycid beetle Rhagium mordax.
11:40 – 12:00	Martin Holmstrup: Recovery of enchytraeid populations after severe drought events.
12:00 – 13:00	Lunch
Special lecture: Chair: Takashi Okuda
13:00 – 13:40	Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki: Transcriptional regulatory network in abiotic stress response in plants.
Session 5: Cold hardiness and cryopreservation of plants. Chair: Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki
13:40 – 14:00	Masaya Ishikawa: Mechanism involved in deep supercooling of the leaves of Trachycarpus fortunei.
14:00 – 14:20	Jiří Zámečník: Study of glass formation in plants and application in cryopreservation.
14:20 – 14:40	Maria G. Novokreshchenova: The Studying of Arabidopsis Transgenic Plants With Overexpression of Cold Resistance Gene ICE2.
14:40 – 15:00	Mahmut S. Tapinar: Isoenzyme Patterns of Barley Genotypes in Relation to Cold Hardiness.
Session 6: Osmotic and freezing stress in insects. Chair: David A. Wharton
15:00 – 15:20	Hiroshi Takahashi: Cold adaptations in Drosophila: Fat crystallization does not cause the fly's instantaneous death, but ice formation does.
15:20 – 15:40	Brent J. Sinclair: Visualisation of freezing processes in insects that do and do not survive freezing.
15:40 – 17:00	Poster session (odd numbers) Coffee and tea will be served.
Wednesday, August 26
Conference excursion
Thursday, August 27
Session 7: Cold hardiness in invertebrates. Chair: Vladimír Koštál
9:00 – 9:20	David Renault: Thermal fluctuations and oxygen consumption: assessing the role of oxidative stress in the development of chill injuries in insects.
9:20 – 9:40	Kazuhiro Tanaka: Adaptive significance of early morning adult eclosion in the onion fly, Delia antique; To avoid high mid-day soil surface temperature?
9:40 – 10:00	Chihiro Katagiri: Tree and Alpine Wetas; their Lipids.
10:00 – 10:20	Hiroko Udaka: Heat and cold tolerance in the terrestrial slug, Lehmannia valentiana: seasonal changes and the effects of photoperiod and temperature.
10:20 – 10:40	Shin G. Goto: Physiological and biochemical mechanisms underlying recovery from chill coma in Drosophila melanogaster.
10:40 – 11:00	Coffee / Tea break
Session 8: Aquaporins & biochemistry of cold tolerance. Chair: Martin Holmstrup
11:00 – 11:20	Masaaki Azuma: Physiology of Aquaporins in lepidopteran caterpillars.
11:20 – 11:40*	Benjamin N. Philip: The role of aquaporins in promoting freeze tolerance in insects.
11:40 – 12:00	Rainer Kiko: Life in cold veins: Antarctic sea-ice meiofauna.
12:00 – 13:40	Lunch
Session 9: Chaperones and HSP Chair: Ralph O. Schill
13:40 – 14:00	Vladimír Koštál: Expression of 70 kDa heat shock proteins in the bug, Pyrrhocoris apterus: What is their role in cold tolerance?
14:00 – 14:20	Maxim Timofeyev: Thermal stress defense in closely related endemic amphipods (Amphipoda, Crustacea) from contrasting environments of Lake Baikal with emphasis on HSPs and antioxidant enzymes.
14:20 – 14:40	Norman Y. S. Woo: Hormonal and metabolic responses to salinity, temperature and pathogenic stress in the seabream Sparus sarba.
Session 10: Ecotoxicology. Chair: Oleg Gusev
14:40 – 15:00*	Rosario Planelló: Effects of the endocrine disruptor benzyl butyl phthalate in Chironomus riparius (Diptera), a model species in aquatic ecotoxicology.
15:00 – 15:20	Martin Holmstrup: Interactions between effects of thermal stress and pollution in soil invertebrates.
15:20 – 15:40	Marina M. Basova: Fish erythrocytes catecholamines as the indicator of pollution.
15:40 – 17:00	Poster session (even numbers) Coffee and tea will be served.
Friday, August 28
Session 11: Diapause & physiology of arthropods. Chair: Hideharu Numata
9:00 – 9:20	Daria M. Martynova: Warmwater copepods in the sub-Arctic: searching for a diapause trigger.
9:20 – 9:40	Yohei Izumi: Triacylglycerols of diapausing and non-diapausing larvae of the rice stem borer, Chilo suppressalis; their fatty acid composition and thermal properties.
9:40 – 10:00	Dorington O. Ogoyi: Biochemical characterization of trypanolysin factor(s) from the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria.
10:00 – 10:20	Dmitry L. Musolin: Too hot to handle? Phenological and life-history responses to simulated climate change of the southern green stink bug Nezara viridula (Heteroptera).
10:20 – 10:40	Sakiko Shiga: Role of ecdysteroids and the pars intercerebralis in reproduction and diapause in the blow fly, Protophormia terraenovae.
10:40 – 11:00	Coffee / Tea break
Session 12: Drought and freezing stress in plants. Chair: Jiří Zámečník
11:00 – 11:20*	Ali Roka: The effects of drought stress on Antioxidant enzymes activities on rapeseed oil.
11:20 – 11:40	Masaya Ishikawa: Characterization of ice nucleating activity associated with woody stems.
11:40 – 13:00	Lunch
13:00 – 14:00	Business session & Closing remarks
18:00 – 20:00	Farewell dinner at Restaurant HANAMASA

If you have any further suggestions for topics please email Takashi Okuda on: isepep3@nias.affrc.go.jp

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