The 48th annual meeting of Japan Society of Protistology
Oral presentations
Investigation of the condition inducing giant cell formation and the advantage of giant Blepharisma
formed by cannibalism○Yuna Ono1, Mayumi Sugiura2, Terue Harumoto2
1
Dept. Biol. Sci., Grad. Sch. Culture and Humanities, Nara Women’s Univ., 2Research Group of Biol.
Sci., Div. Natural Sci., Nara Women’s Univ.
Reevaluation of classification in Blepharisma hyalinum based on the phylogenetic analysis and the abilityof mating pair formation induced by gamone 2○Mayumi Kobayashi1, Mayumi Sugiura2, Terue Harumoto21Dept. Biol. Sci., Grad. Sch. Humanities and Sci., Nara Women’s Univ., 2Research Group of Biol. Sci.,
Div. Natural Sci., Nara Women’s Univ.
Mating type expression during sexual maturation and gene expression analysis between sexually
immature and mature cells in Blepharisma stoltei○Mayumi Sugiura, Terue HarumotoResearch Group of Biol. Sci., Div. Natural Sci., Nara Women’s Univ.
Kinetoplastid flagellates overlooked by universal primers dominate in the oxygenated hypolimnion ofdeep lakes○Indranil Mukherjee, Yoshikuni Hodoki, Shohei Fujinaga, Yusuke Okazaki, Shin-ichi Nakano
Center for Ecol. Res., Kyoto Univ.
Comparative study of mixotrophic and heterotrophic conditions in Paramecium bursaria○Masashi Hayakawa, Toshinobu Suzaki
Dept. Biol., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kobe Univ.
The space learning in a capillary and its mechanism in Paramecium○Kaito Ohki1, Shigeru Kuroda2, Itsuki Kunita3, Toshiyuki Nakagaki2
1
Grad. Sch. Life Sci., Hokkaido Univ., 2RIES, Hokkaido Univ., 3IRCMS, Kumamoto Univ.
The movement of mucilage related to the gliding diatoms○Nozomi Yamaoka1, Takuya Iwata2, Tohru Yoshihisa1, Seiji Sonobe1
1
Grad. Sch. Life Sci., Univ. Hyogo, 2Dept. Life Sci., Univ. Hyogo
Predation mechanism of a suctorian, Hypophrya sp.
○Go Kobashigawa, Tohru Yoshihisa, Seiji Sonobe
Grad. Sch. Life Sci., Univ. Hyogo
Ultrastructural analysis of microtubule dynamics in Raphidiophrys contractilis without induction of rapid
axopodial contraction under chemical fixation processes.
○Risa Inoue1,3, Kazuyoshi Murata2 ,Noboru Saito3, Motonori Ando1,31Lab. Animal Physiol. and Pharmacol., Grad. Sch. Environ. and Life Sci., Okayama Univ., 2Natl. Inst.
for Physiol. Sci., 3Lab. Cell Physiol., Grad. Sch. Educ., Okayama Univ.

Identification of histone species that were imported into the endonuclear symbiotic bacterium Holospora
from the host nucleus○Ayano Uchida1, Murakami Takashi2, Yuuki Kodama3, Masahiro Fujishima2
1
Course of Biol. Sci. and Biotechnol., Grad. Sch. Life and Environ. Sci., Shimane Univ., 2Grad. Sch.
Sci. Engin., Yamaguchi Univ., 3Dept. Biol. Sci., Fac. Life and Environ. Sci., Shimane Univ.
Identification of IP3 and Ryanodine receptor-like proteins in Toxoplasma gondii○Ryuma Matsubara1,2, Takaya Sakura1, Kisaburo Nagamune1,31
Dept. Parasitol., Natl. Inst. Infect. Dis., 2Grad. Sch. Life and Environ. Sci., Univ. Tsukuba, 3Fac. Lifeand Environ. Sci., Univ. Tsukuba
What is the physiological role of spazmoneme filament in eukaryotic cells ?
○Hiroshi Asai
Research Center of Sci. and Engin., Waseda Univ.
Hyper gene fragmentation found in the mitochondrial genome of Hemistasia phaeocysticola○Akinori Yabuki1，Goro Tanifuji2，Chiho Kusaka1，Kiyotaka Takishita1，Katsunori Fujikura1
1Dept. Marine Biodiversity Res., Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Sci. and Tech.，2Grad. Sch. Life andEnviron. Sci., Univ. Tsukuba
Karyotype of germ nucleus of Tetrahymena and new method of chromosome preparation○Toshiro Sugai, Osamu NumataLife and Environ. Sci., Univ. Tsukuba
A novel formation of intrinsic DNA strand breaks in haploid micronuclei and its relation to chromatin
remodeling in Tetrahymena thermophila○Yasuhiro Fukuda1, Takahiko Akematsu2, Ronald E. Pearlman3, Josef Loidl2, Chika Tada1, YutakaNakai1
1Div. Biol. Resource Sci., Grad. Sch. Agric. Sci., Tohoku Univ., 2Dept. Chromosome Biol., Univ.
Vienna, Austria, 3Dept. Biol., York Univ., Canada
Investigation for the understanding of the mechanism of host organelle recruitment by Toxoplasma gondii
Junpei Fukumoto1,2, Takaya Sakura2, Ryuma Matsubara1,2, Michiru Tahara2, ○Kisabro Nagamune2,31
Dept. Parasitol., Natl. Inst. Infect. Dis., 2Grad. Sch. Life and Environ. Sci., Univ. Tsukuba, 3Fac. Lifeand Environ. Sci., Univ. Tsukuba

Poster presentations
Plastid genome of a new marine photosynthetic Paulinella and phylogenetic analysis of Paulinella strains○Duckhyun Lee1, Myung Gil Park2, Hwan Su Yoon1
1
Dept. Biol. Sci., Sungkyunkwan Univ., Korea, 2Dept. Oceanography, Chonnam Natl. Univ., Korea
Investigation on the Heterokontophyta SI clade using multigene phylogeny○Louis Graf1, Robert A. Andersen2, Hwan Su Yoon1
1
Dept. Biol. Sci., Sungkyunkwan Univ., Korea, 2Friday Harbor Lab., Univ. Washington, USA
Involvement of kinesin-14 in mitosis of ciliate Tetrahymena○Yasuharu Kushida1,2, Masak Takaine1,3, Kentaro Nakano1, Toshiro Sugai1, Krishna Kumar
Vasudevan4, Mayukh Guha4, Yu-yang Jiang4, Jacek Gaertig4, Osamu Numata1

13Grad. Sch. Life and Environ. Sci., Univ. Tsukuba, 2Dept. Cell Physiol., Jikei Univ. Sch. Med.,
Gunma Univ. Initiative for Adv. Res., Gunma Univ., 4Dept. Cell Biol., Univ. Georgia, USA

A deep-branching heterolobosean Pharyngomonas turkanaensis n. sp., isolated from Lake Turkana in
East Africa○Jong Soo Park1, Alastair GB Simpson2
1Dept. Oceanography and Kyungpook Inst. Oceanography, Sch. Earth Syst. Sci., Kyungpook Natl.
Univ., Korea, 2Dept. Biol., Dalhousie Univ. and Canadian Inst. Adv. Res., Program in Integrated
Microbial Diversity, Canada
Cesium accumulation by Paramecium bursaria○Kyoko Nakata, Toshinobu Suzaki
Dept. Biol., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kobe Univ.
Isolation method and axenic cultivation method of Paramecium○Masaki Ishida1, Manabu Hori2
1
Sch. Sci. Educ., Nara Univ. of Educ., 2Div. Environ. Sci. and Engin., Grad. Sch. Sci. and Engin.,
Yamaguchi Univ.
Possible involvement of a glucan binding protein in food capture of a heliozoan Raphidiophrys
contractilis○Mousumi Bhadra, Toshinobu Suzaki
Dept. Biol., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kobe Univ.
Structure and composition of siliceous scales in the centrohelid heliozoan Raphidiophrys contractilis○Akane Chihara, Toshinobu Suzaki
Dept. Biol., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kobe Univ.
Symbiotic protist community structures of two Reticulitermes termites in Japan○Risa Okada, Osamu KitadeColl. Sci., Ibaraki Univ.
Relationship between cell membrane structure and dielectric property in Euglena gracilis○Kaori Takayasu, Toshinobu Suzaki, Lin Chen
Dept. Biol., Kobe Univ.
Waterborne protozoan monitoring in Korea major river and water resources○Pyo Yun Cho1, 2, Seong Kyu Ahn1, Seok Ho Cha1, Tong Soo Kim1
1
Dept. Parasitol. and Tropical Med., Inha Univ. Sch. Med., Korea, 2Protist Resources Res. Team,Nakdonggang Natl. Inst. Biol. Resources, Korea
Free-living heterotrophic flagellates (Protists) from marine sandy sediments of Suma Beach (Osaka Bay),Japan○Won Je Lee
Dept. Urban Environ. Engin., Kyungnam Univ., Korea
Free-living heterotrophic flagellates (Protists) from Garorim Bay, Korea○Won Je Lee
Dept. Urban Environ. Engin., Kyungnam Univ., Korea

Changes in ultrastructure and chemical composition of the cell wall of Chlorella in concomitant withendosymbiosis in Paramecium bursaria○Rina Matsumoto，Chihong Song, Toshinobu Suzaki
Dept Biol., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kobe Univ.
Host digestion of algal endosymbionts induced by high light stress in Paramecium bursaria
Yoshiki Fujimori, Nami Kimura, ○Sosuke Iwai
Fac. Educ., Hirosaki Univ.
Comparative proteomics between perisymbiont and digestive vacuole membrane fractions in Parameciumbursaria
Jun Makimoto, ○Toshinobu Suzaki, Masashi Hayakawa
Dept. Biol., Grad. Sch. Sci., Kobe Univ.
Euduboscquella costata n. sp. (Dinoflagellata, Syndinea), an intracellular parasite of the ciliate
Schmidingerella arcuata: morphology, molecular phylogeny, life cycle, prevalence, and infection
intensity○Jae-Ho Jung1,4, Jung Min Choi1, D. Wayne Coats2,3, Young-Ok Kim1
1Korea Inst. Ocean Sci. and Tech. (KIOST), Korea, 2Smithsonian Environ. Res. Ctr., USA, 3Presentaddress: 318 Bayard Rd, Lothian, Maryland 20711, USA; 4Present address: Dept. Biol., Gangneunge
Wonju Natl. Univ., KoreaTemporal and spatial occurrence of aloricate ciliates parasitized by dinoflagellates in Korean coastal andoffshore waters○Jung Min Choi1, D. Wayne Coats2, Young-Ok Kim1
1Korea Inst. Ocean Sci. and Tech. (KIOST), Korea, 2Smithsonian Environ. Res. Ctr., USA
Subtropical culture conditions supported the best growth by a temperate strain of the marine
endosymbiotic dinoflagellate Symbiodinium voratum○Young Kyung Lee, Daewon Jeong, Wonho Yih, Hyung Seop Kim
Kunsan Natl. Univ., Korea
Genetic diversity of glycoside hydrolase genes in the termite-gut protists
Shingo Yoneyama1, ○Kazuto Watanabe2, Masahiro Yuki2, Toshiya Iida3, Moriya Ohkuma2,3, SatokoNoda1
1Fac. Life and Environ. Sci., Univ. Yamanashi, 2Biomass res. platform team, RIKEN, 3JCM,
Bioresource Ctr., RIKEN
Pathologic survey of the protozoan parasite Perkinsus olseni and other parasites in Manila clam Ruditapes
philippinarum from Korean water during post-spawning period○Kwang-Sik Choi1, Hyun-Sil Kang1, Naoki Itoh2
1Sch. Marine Biomed. Sci. (BK21 PLUS), Jeju Natl. Univ., Korea, 2Lab. Fish Diseases, Grad. Sch.
Agric. Sci. and Life Sci., Univ. Tokyo
DNA detection method of Cryptosporidium parvum, Giardia lamblia, and Entamoeba histolytica inenvironmental samples○Eun-Hee Shin1,2, Kyoung-Ho Pyo1, You-Won Lee1, Ji-Hun Shin11
Dept. Parasitol. and Tropical Med., Seoul Natl. Univ. Coll. Med., Korea, 2Seoul Natl. Univ. Bundang
Hospital, Korea

Testate amoebae of the Imperial Palace, Tokyo○Satoshi Shimano1, Anatoly Bobrov2, Yuri Mazei3
1
Hosei Univ., 2Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory, Moscow, Russia, 3Penza State
University, Penza, Russia___________________________________________________________________
Memorial symposium for the late Dr. Soichi Imai, president of JSP“The Front Line of Parasitic Protistology”
A memorial address for Dr. Soichi Imai
○Osamu Numata
An acting president of the Japan Society of Protistology
In Memoriam: Dr. Soichi Imai, Endocommensal ciliates in the digestive tracts of herbivorous mammals.
○Akira ItoOokusa Animal Clinic
Investigation on gliding motility of Babesia bovis merozoites using bioimaging analysis
Masahito Asada1, ○Shin-ichiro Kawazu2
1
Inst. Tropical Med., Nagasaki Univ., 2Natl. Res. Ctr. for Protozoan Diseases, Obihiro Univ. of Agric.
and Vet. Med.
The highly divergent mitochondrion-related organelle in Entamoeba histolytica○Takashi Makiuchi1, Fumika Mi-ichi2, Herbert J. Santos3,4, Kenichiro Imai5, Yuzuru Tozawa6, Hiroshi
Tachibana1, Tomoyoshi Nozaki3,41
Dept. Infect. Dis., Tokai Univ. Sch. Med., 2Div. Mol. and Cell. Immunosci., Dept. Biomol. Sci., Fac.
Med., Saga Univ., 3Dept. Parasitol., Natl. Inst. Infect. Dis., 4Grad. Sch. Life and Environ. Sci., Univ.
Tsukuba, 5Biotech. Res. Inst. for Drug Discov., Natl. Inst. Adv. Ind. Sci. and Tech., 6Grad. Sch. Sci.
and Engin., Saitama Univ.
Ca2+ signaling in Trypanosoma: Identification and characterization of parasitic protest IP3 receptor○Muneaki Hashimoto1, Nagomi Kurebayashi2, Motomichi Doi3, Masahiro Enomoto4, Jorge Morales1,Hiroko Hirawake1, Koji Furukawa3, Haruki Uemura5, Mitsutaka Yoshida5, Tetsuo Hashimoto6, Takashi
Sakurai2, Yoshihiro Ohmiya3, Toshihiro Mita1, Katsuhiko Mikoshiba4,7, Takeshi Nara1
1
Dept. Mol. and Cell. Parasitol., Juntendo Univ. Sch. Med., 2Dept. Pharmacol., Juntendo Univ. Sch.
Med., 3Biomed. Res. Inst., AIST, 4Lab. for Dev. Neurobiol., RIKEN Brain Sci. Inst., 5Dept. Protozool.,Inst. Tropical Med., Nagasaki Univ., 6Lab. Morphol. and Image Anal., Juntendo Univ. Sch. Med., 7Inst.
Biol. Sci., Univ. Tsukuba, 8Calcium Oscillation Project, Int. Coop. Res. Project and Solution-OrientedRes. for Sci. and Tech., Japan Sci. and Tech. Agency

JSP-KSOP joint meeting 2015
About the Japan Society of Protistology○Osamu Numata
Grad. Sch. Life and Environ. Sci., Univ. Tsukuba
Protistological researches in Korea: progress and perspective○Mann Kyoon ShinDept. Biol. Sci., Univ. Ulsan, Korea
The nuclear pore complex acts as a master switch for nuclear differentiation of ciliate Tetrahymena○Masaaki Iwamoto
Adv. ICT Res. Inst., Natl. Inst. Inform. and Commun. Tech. (NICT)
Replaceable klepto-organelles in the marine mixotrophic ciliate Mesodinium rubrum○Wonho Yih1, Hyung Seop, Kim1, Woongghi Shin2, Jung Rae Rho1, Gumog Myung1, Seung Won
Nam2, Yeong Du Yoo1
1
Kunsan Natl. Univ., Korea, 2Chungnam Natl. Univ., Korea
Celluar shape deformation and locomotion of free-living amoeba, Amoeba proteus○Yukinori Nishigami
Grad. Sch. Sci., Kyoto Univ.
Trichomonas vaginalis: host-parasite interaction○Jae-Sook Ryu
Dept. Environ. Biol. and Med. Parasitol., Hanyang Univ. Coll. Med., Korea

Special lecture by a winner for the Award of the Japan Society of Protistology in the Fieldof Protistological ResearchStudies on the molecular mechanisms of motility in Protists○Seiji Sonobe
Grad. Sch. Life Sci., Univ. Hyogo