Day 1, AM

Symposium 01

Wed., March 13, 9:30–12:30 Room A

Understanding of field plants and development of innovativetechniques toward these plant regulation
Language: Japanese

Organizers: Nobutoshi Yamaguchi (NAIST)
Yoko Mizuta (Nagoya University)
Shigeo Sugano (Ritsumeikan Universtiy)● Chairperson: Shigeo Sugano

09:30 		Opening remarks
Nobutoshi Yamaguchi

09:30

S01-1

Molecular genetic analysis for epigenetic memory and acquired traits
Nobutoshi Yamaguchi1,2 (1NAIST, 2JST PRESTO)

09:55

S01-2

Evolution and diversification of sexual systems in plants: insights from “persimmon”
Takashi Akagi1,2 (1Grad. Sch. Agric., Kyoto Univ., 2JST-PRESTO)

10:20

S01-3

Gene Expression Dynamics Of The Obligate Filamentous Pathogen Blumeria Spp. And Their
Host Plant Under Field Environments
Kentaro Yoshida1,2 (1Grad. Sch. Agric. Sci., Kobe Univ., 2JST, Presto)● Chairperson: Yoko Mizuta

10:45

S01-4

Elucidating biological networks of plant-microbiota superorganism
Yasunori Ichihashi (RIKEN BioResource Research Center)

11:10

S01-5

Precise control of auxin signaling by synthetic approach
Shinya Hagihara1,2 (1CSRS, RIKEN, 2ITbM, Nagoya Univ.)● Chairperson: Nobutoshi Yamaguchi

11:35

S01-6

Development of the core technology that allows quantitative evaluation of solute movement in aliving plant using radioisotopes
Keitaro Tanoi1,2, Ryohei Sugita1, Natsuko I. Kobayashi1 (1Grad. Sch. Agri. Life Sci., UTokyo,
2JST PRESTO)

12:00

S01-7

Genetic modification of plant reproductive cells using pollen tube as a vector and the study ofplant reproduction
Yoko Mizuta1,2, Shiori Nagahara2, Daisuke Kurihara1,2, Tetsuya Higashiyama2,3(1JST PRESTO, 2ITbM, Nagoya Univ., 3Grad. Sch. of Sci., Nagoya Univ.)

12:25

Closing remarks
Yoko Mizuta
Co-sponsored by JST PRESTO Creation of next-generation fundamental
technologies for the control of biological phenomena in field-grown plants

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Symposium 02

Wed., March 13, 9:30–12:30 Room B

The final phase of the photosynthetic electron transport
Language: Japanese

Organizers: Shinji Masuda (Cent. Biol. Res. Inform., Tokyo Inst. Tech.)
Kentaro Ifuku (Grad. Sch. Biostu., Kyoto Univ.)● Chairperson: Shinji Masuda

09:30 		  Shinji Masuda
09:40

S02-1

Photosynthesis Organisms Favor O2 to Suppress ROS Production~Who Understands O2 Worlds?~
Chikahiro Miyake (Fac Agri, Kobe University)

10:05

S02-2

Roles of far-red light in regulation of photosynthesis in fluctuating light in land plants
Masaru Kono, Wataru Yamori, Ichiro Terashima (Sch. Sci. Univ. Tokyo)

10:30

S02-3

Structural basis for the electron transfer mechanism between photosystem I and ferredoxin
Hisako Kubota-Kawai1, Risa Mutoh2, Takahisa Ikegami3, Hideaki Tanaka4, Genji Kurisu4(1Faculty of Sci., Yamagata Univ., 2Faculty of Sci., Fukuoka Univ., 3Faculty of Sci., Yokohama
city Univ., 4IPR. Osaka Univ.)● Chairperson: Kentaro Ifuku

10:55

S02-4

Crosstalk between NADP+ supply system and electron transfer in photosynthesis
Shin-nosuke Hashida1, Maki Kawai-Yamada2 (1Environ. Sci. Res. Lab., CRIEPI, 2Grad. Sch.
Sci. Eng., Saitama Univ.)

11:20

S02-5

Regulation of photosynthetic electron transport via proton motive force
Toshiharu Shikanai, Caijuan Wang (Kyoto University)

11:45

S02-6

The role of cyclic electron flow in C4 photosynthesis
Takako Ogawa, Kana Kobayashi, Yukimi Taniguchi, Yuri Munekage (Grad. Sch. Sci. & Tec.,Univ. Kwansei Gakuin)

12:10

Kentaro Ifuku

Cosponsor: New photosynthesis

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Symposium 03

Wed., March 13, 9:30–12:10

Room N

Understanding the plant survival strategies fromthe perspective of stem cells
Language: English

Organizers: Masaaki Umeda (NAIST)
Hitoshi Sakakibara (Nagoya Univ.)

09:30 		Opening remarks
Masaaki Umeda● Chairperson: Masaaki Umeda

09:35

S03-1

Towards understanding mechanisms controlling indeterminacy of plant stem cells
Junko Kyozuka (Tohoku Univ., Life Sciences)

09:55

S03-2

Mechanisms for the timing of the stem cell production in plants
Shinjiro Yamaguchi1,2 (1Kyoto Univ., Inst. Chem. Res., 2Tohoku Univ., Grad. Sch. Life Sci.)

10:15

S03-3

Role of cytokinins in maintenance and modulation of shoot meristem activity
Hitoshi Sakakibara, Takatoshi Kiba (Grad. Sch. Bioagr. Sci., Nagoya Univ.)
Break

10:35

● Chairperson: Hitoshi Sakakibara

10:50

S03-4

Gene regulatory networks in root nodule symbiosis
Makoto Hayashi1, Kai Battenberg1, Tsuneo Hakoyama1, Atsuko Hirota1, Akihiro Yamazaki1,Shiori Aki2, Masaaki Umeda2, Thomas Kelly3, Nicola Hetherington3, Aki Minoda3 (1RIKEN
CSRS, 2NAIST, 3RIKEN IMS)

11:10

S03-5

Genome maintenance strategies in stem cells
Masaaki Umeda (Grad. Sch. Sci. Tech., NAIST)

11:30

S03-6

Direct roles of MUTE in termination of asymmetric cell division and orchestration of stomata
differentiation
Soon-Ki Han1, Keiko Torii1,2,3 (1ITbM, Nagoya University, 2Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
University of Washington, 3Department of Biology, University of Washington)

11:50

S03-7

Cell division in moss stem cells
Gohta Goshima (Nagoya University)

Cosponsor: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas‘Principles of pluripotent stem cells underlying plant vitality’22

Day 1, PM

Symposium 04

Wed., March 13, 14:00–17:00

Room A

Strategies of mechanical optimization in plants
Language: Japanese

Organizers: Haruko Ueda (Konan University)
Shinichiro Sawa (Kumamoto University)● Chairperson: Shinichiro Sawa

14:00 		Opening remarks

14:05

S04-1

Strategy of Mechanical Optimization During Plant Development by Regulation of Secondary
Cell Wall Formation
Taku Demura, Misato Ohtani (Division of Biological Science, Nara Institute of Science andTechnology)

14:35

S04-2

Explore mechanical optimization strategies of jigsaw puzzle-shaped pavement cells
Takumi Higaki (IROAST, Kumamoto Univ.)

15:00

S04-3

Organ bending and its restoration system for adjusting plant posture
Haruko Ueda, Ikuko Hara-Nishimura (Fac. Sci. Engin., Konan Univ.)
Break

15:25

● Chairperson: Haruko Ueda

15:35

S04-4

Plant mechanosensory transduction as revealed by highly-sensitive biosensors
Masatsugu Toyota (Dept Biochem and Mol Biol, Saitama Univ)

16:00

S04-5

Single cell detection and manipulation by atomic force microscopy and laser ablation
Yoichiroh Hosokawa (Division of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science andTechnology)

16:25

S04-6

Plantphysiology and Structural Engineering
Kenichi Kawaguchi (IIS, the University of Tokyo)

16:55

General discussion

Cosponsor: Plant-Structure Optimization Strategy23

Day 1, PM

Symposium 05

Wed., March 13, 14:00–17:00

Room B

Metabolisms as Survival Strategy in Plants
Language: English

Organizers: Mami Yamazaki (Grad. Sch. Pharm. Sci., Chiba Univ.)
Nobukazu Shitan (Kobe Pharm. Univ.)
Hikaru Seki (Grad. Sch. Engineering, Osaka Univ.)

14:00 		Opening remarks
Mami Yamazaki

14:05

S05-1

Polyphenolic polymorphism found in neo-functionalization related to production of UV lightprotectants
Takayuki Tohge (NAIST)

14:30

S05-2

A heat-inducible lipase remodels chloroplastic glycerolipids in Arabidopsis leaves
Yasuhiro Higashi1, Yozo Okazaki1,2, Kouji Takano1, Fumiyoshi Myouga1, Kazuo Shinozaki1,
Eva Knoch1, Atsushi Fukushima1, Kazuki Saito1,3 (1CSRS, RIKEN, 2Grad. Sch. Bioresources,Mie Univ., 3Grad. Sch. Pharm. Sci., Chiba Univ.)

14:55

S05-3

Importance of chemical information on insect-plant network
Masaaki Kotera (Dep. Eng., Univ. Tokyo)

15:20

S05-4

Investigating biosynthesis and regulation of plant triterpenoids: towards the elucidation of their
biological functions
Hikaru Seki (Grad. Sch. Eng., Osaka Univ)

15:45 		Short break

16:00

S05-5

Transporters of secondary metabolites —Identification, characterization, and possible
application to synthetic biology—
Nobukazu Shitan (Kobe Pharm. Univ.)

16:25

S05-6

Neo-functionalization of enzymes commits to biosynthesis of bioactive alkaloids
Mami Yamazaki (Grad. Sch. Pharm. Sci., Chiba Univ.)

16:50

General discussion

Cosponsor: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas FY2016-2020“Redesigning Biosynthetic Machineries”; Grobal and Prominent Research,“Phytochemical Plant Molecular Sciences”, Chiba University24Day 1, PM

Symposium 06

Wed., March 13, 14:00–16:50 Room F

Plant adaptation strategies via ABA-mediated signaling inchange of environmental conditions
Language: English

Organizers: Toshinori Kinoshita (Nagoya Univ.)
Noriyuki Nishimura (ICS, NARO)
Fuminori Takahashi (RIKEN CSRS)

14:00 		Opening remarksNoriyuki Nishimura● Chairperson: Fuminori Takahashi

14:05

S06-1

New Insights into Drought-Linked Stomatal Movements and Abscisic Acid Signal Transduction
Julian I. Schroeder1, Yohei Takahashi1, Zixing Li1, Felix Hauser1, Po-Kai Hsu1, Shintaro Munemasa2,Rainer Waadt3 (1Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, USA, 2Graduate
School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan, 3Centre for
Organismal Studies, Plant Developmental Biology, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg,Heidelberg, Germany)

14:30

S06-2

Chemical genetics for elucidating stomatal movement
Yusuke Aihara1, Shigeo Toh 2, Yosuke Toda3,4, Gwanchol Sin1, Takahiro Yuki1, Ayato Sato4, Toshinori
Kinoshita1,4 (1Grad.Sch.Sci., Nagoya Univ., 2Grad.Sch.Agr., Meiji Univ., 3PRESTO, JST, 4WPI-ITbM,
Nagoya Univ.)

14:55

S06-3

A regulatory system of seed dormancy and germination regulated by abscisic acid signaling
Noriyuki Nishimura1, Wataru Tsuchiya2, James J. Moresco3, Yuki Hayashi4, Kouji Satoh1, Nahomi
Kaiwa1, Tomoko Irisa1, Toshinori Kinoshita4, Julian I. Schroeder5, John R. Yates, III3, Takashi
Hirayama6, Toshimasa Yamazaki2 (1ICS, NARO, 2AAC, NARO, 3TSRI, 4Grad. Sch. Sci., Nagoya Univ,
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UCSD, 6IPSR, Okayama Univ)

15:20 		Coffee break● Chairperson: Noriyuki Nishimura

15:30

S06-4

Phosphoproteomics of Highly ABA-Induced1 (HAI1) reveals new factors in growth and RNA splicing
regulation during drought stress.
Paul Verslues (Academia Sinica, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology)

15:55

S06-5

Conserved and diversified signaling mechanisms revealed by molecular studies of ABA responses inbryophytes
Daisuke Takezawa1, Kenji Komatsu 2, Izumi Yotsui2, Taishi Umezawa3, Yoichi Sakata2 (1SaitamaUniversity, 2Tokyo University of Agriculture, 3Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)

16:20

S06-6

Long-distance peptide signaling in drought stress responses
Fuminori Takahashi1, Takehiro Suzuki1, Yuriko Osakabe2, Shigeyuki Betsuyaku3, Yuki Kondo4, Naoshi
Dohmae1, Hiroo Fukuda4, Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki4, Kazuo Shinozaki1 (1RIKEN CSRS,
2Tokushima Univ., 3Tsukuba Univ., 4The Univ. of Tokyo)

16:45 		Closing remarks
Fuminori Takahashi

Cosponsor: Plant Memory25

Day 2, AMSymposium 07

Thu., March 14, 9:00–11:40

Room B

Find out the mechanism supporting C4 photosynthesis
Language: English

Organizers: Yuri Munekage (Kwansei Gakuin Univ.)
Tsuyoshi Furumoto (Ryukoku Univ.)

09:00 		Opening remarks
Yuri Munekage● Chairperson: Tsuyoshi Furumoto

9:05

S07-1

Evolutionary Assembly of C4 Leaf Structure
Tammy Sage (Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto)

9:30

S07-2

Organelle positioning in C4 photosynthetic cells
Mitsutaka Taniguchi1, Takao Oi1, Koji Yamane2 (1Grad. Sch. Bioagricul. Sci., Nagoya Univ.,
2Facul. Agricul., Kindai Univ.)

9:55

S07-3

Electron transport and energy production in chloroplasts of NADP-ME type C4 plants
Yuri Munekage, Takako Ogawa, Yukimi Taniguchi (Sch Sci Tech, Kwansei Gakuin Univ.)● Chairperson: Yuri Munekage

10:20

S07-4

Optimum integration of C4 cycle into Calvin-Benson cycle
Tsuyoshi Furumoto (Faculty of Agriculture, Ryukoku University)

10:45

S07-5

The molecular evolution of C4 photosynthesis
Julian Hibberd (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge)

11:10

S07-6

Mechanisms regulating differentiation and positioning of the two chloroplast types in single-cell
C4 species
Sascha Offermann1, Philipp Bohnhorst1, Diana Wimmer1, Inhwan Hwang2 (1Institute ofBotany, Leibniz University Hannover, 2Pohang University of Science and Technology)

11:35

Closing remarks
Tsuyoshi Furumoto

Cosponsor: New photosynthesis

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Day 2, PM

Symposium 08

Thu., March 14, 13:30–16:00

Room AHow to inherit and rewrite cellular memory in plants
Language: English

Organizers: Momoko Ikeuchi (RIKEN CSRS)
Yosuke Tamada (NIBB, SOKENDAI)

13:30 		Opening remarks
Momoko Ikeuchi● Chairperson: Yosuke Tamada

13:35

S08-1

Mechanisms underlying cell fate specification and plasticity
Roger Deal (Emory University, Department of Biology)

14:05

S08-2

Reconfiguring the A. thaliana epigenome by bypassing epigenetic resetting in the germ line
Claude Becker1,2 (1Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, 2Austrian Academy ofSciences)

14:35

S08-3

Balancing act in the control of plant cell reprogramming
Momoko Ikeuchi, Akira Iwase, Keiko Sugimoto (RIKEN CSRS)● Chairperson: Momoko Ikeuchi

15:00

S08-4

de novo Meristem Formation at Single Cell Resolution
Idan Efroni, Gil Naama, Omary Moutasem, Matosevich Rotem, Gedion Beatrice (TheHebrew University)

15:30

S08-5

Role of the histone variant in the regulation of cellular memory
Yosuke Tamada1,2 (1Div. Evol. Biol., Natl. Inst. Basic Biol., 2Sch. Life Sci., SOKENDAI)

15:55

Closing remarks
Yosuke Tamada

Sponsored by Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, Integrative system
of autonomous environmental signal recognition and memorization forplant plasticity

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Day 2, PMSymposium 09

Thu., March 14, 13:30–16:00

Room B

Plant mineral transporters: from function to structure and modelling
Language: English

Organizer: Jian Feng Ma (IPSR, Okayama Univ.)

13:30 		Opening remarks● Chairperson: Jian Feng Ma

13:35

S09-1

Node-based transporters for preferential distribution of mineral elements
Naoki Yamaji, Jian Feng Ma (IPSR, Okayama Univ.)

13:55

S09-2

IRON MAN to the rescue: how plants take up ironLouis Grillet1, Ping Lan1,2, Wenfeng Li1,3, Girish Mokkapati1,4,5, Wolfgang Schmidt1,4(1IPMB, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture,
Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 3Collaborative Innovation
Center of Sustainable Forestry in Southern China of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Forestry
University, China, 4Graduate Institute of Biotechnology, National Chung-Hsing University,Taiwan, 5Molecular Biology and Agricultural Sciences Program, Taiwan International
Graduate Program, Academia Sinica and National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan)

14:20

S09-3

Regulation of nitrogen acquisition under low availability and beyond
Takatoshi Kiba (Grad. Sch. Bioagr., Nagoya Univ.)

14:45

S09-4

Sensing external and internal nitrate by transceptors
Yi-Fang Tsay, Hui-Yu Chen (Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)

15:10

S09-5

Structure of a silicon transporter in plant
Yasunori Saitoh1, Kengo Matsuki1, Shin-Ichiro Yonekura1, Lingli Yang1, Namiki MitaniUeno2, Naoki Yamaji2, Jian-Ren Shen1, Jian Feng Ma2, Michi Suga1 (1Research Insititute forInterdisciplinary Science, Okayama Univ., 2Institute of Plant Science and Resources,Okayama Univ.)

15:35

S09-6

Integrated micro-scale and macro-scale modeling of silicon transportation system in rice
Gen Sakurai1, Naoki Yamaji2, Namiki Mitani-Ueno2, Masayuki Yokozawa3, Keisuke Ono1,Jian Feng Ma2 (1Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO, 2Institute of Plant Scienceand Resources, Okayama University, 3Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University)

16:00

Closing remarks

Cosponsor: Specially Promoted Research“Integrated analysis of mineral transport system in crops”

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