The 3rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics
The 3rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics
The 3rd Annual Meeting will be held at Irago Sea-Park & Spa in Japan on

10-11 December 2016.
Venue: Irago Sea-Park & Spa Hotel (Irago-cho, Tahara-shi, Aichi 441-3624, Japan,
http://www.hmi-resort.jp/irago/en/)

Saturday, 10 December 2016
9:00-11:40

Executive Meeting (& Meeting of The Organizing Committee)

11:40-Starting Registrations (at the lounge on the 1F)

13:00-13:10

Opening Remarks (Junsei Horikawa)

13:10-14:10

Symposium “Recent advances in Bioacoustics” (Chair Hiroshi Riquimaroux)○13:10-13:40 Jim Simmons: Isolating target shape imaging from target ranging in biosonar○13:40-14:10 Darlene Ketten: Of Mice and men, bats and rats: A complex answer to why size does not matter
14:10-14:40

Oral Session (Chair Junsei Horikawa)○14:10-14:25 Yoshimasa Seki: Entrainment to metronomic sounds in vocal learning birds; Studies using key
pecking operant tasks○14:25-14:40 Hiromi Mukai: Male jewel bugs localize female calling vibrations: directional vibration sensing
by chordotonal organs
14:40-15:00

Taking Group Pictures and Break

15:00-16:00

Symposium “Recent advances in Bioacoustics” (Chair Takuma Takanashi)○15:00-15:30 Azusa Kamikouchi: Organization of the auditory neural pathway in fruit flies○15:30-16:00 Hidetoshi Iida: Mechanosensing in plants
16:00-19:00

Poster Session and Exhibitions

19:00-21:00

Banquet at “Le Paradis”

21:00-22:00

Poster Session and Exhibitions

Sunday, 11 December 2016
8:30-10:40

Poster Session at a lobby on the 2F

10:40- 11:00

Break

11:00- 12:00

Symposium “Recent advances in Bioacoustics” (Chair Jim Simmons)○11:00-11:30 Hiroshi Riquimaroux: How echolocating bats can extract information from weak and noisy

returning echoes○11:30-12:00 Rolf Müller: Peripheral dynamics and sensory information encoding in horseshoe bats
12:00-13:00

Lunch Break, removing the poster panels.

13:00-14:20

General Assembly and Award Ceremony

14:20-15:20

Symposium “Recent advances in Bioacoustics” (Chair Yoshimasa Seki and Rolf Müller)○14:20-14:50 Chihiro Mori: Audition-independent vocal development in songbird○14:50-15:20 Chung-Hsin Wu: Environmental manganism damages auditory systems in mice
15:20-15:50

General Discussion (Chair Darlene Ketten)

15:50-16:00

Closing Remarks (Hiroshi Riquimaroux)

The purpose of the Society for Bioacoustics is tocontribute to academia through the advancement anddissemination of research. We also aim to contribute tohuman welfare and social activity through wide
application of knowledge obtained from highly diverse
abilities of different animals.
The Organizing Committee of the 3rd Annual Meeting:Junsei Horikawa (Chair), Shunji Sugimoto (Accountant),
Yoich Oda, Takuma Takanashi, Tatsuhiko Harada, Hiroshi
Riquimaroux, Yoshimasa Seki and Yumiko Watanabe(Secretariat).

The 2nd Annual Meeting (2015) held inFukuoka

Invited Speakers
Darlene Ketten
Jim Simmons(Harvard Medical

Azusa Kamikouchi(Brown University)

School, Woods Hole(NagoyaOceanographicUniversity)

Institution)

HiroshiRiquimarouxHidetoshi Iida

(Shandong(Tokyo GakugeiUniversity,University)

Brown University,Rolf Müller

(Virginia Tech,Shandong
University)

Tokyo MedicalCenter)
Chihiro Mori

(HokkaidoUniversity,
The University ofTokyo)

Chung-Hsin Wu(National TaiwanNormalUniversity)
Irago Sea-Park & Spa★Sponsored by the Organizing Committee of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics.
★Cosponsored by the Research Committee of Auditory Informatics of Toyohashi University ofTechnology, the Tokai Chapter of the Acoustical Society of Japan, and the Research Committee ofBioacoustics, the Acoustical Society of Japan.
★Financially supported by the Toyohashi University of Technology and the Tokai Chapter of theAcoustical Society of Japan.