PBM8 Nagoya 2015 - 2nd announcement and call for paper

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Plant Biomechanics and Mechanobiology is an expanding interdisciplinary field, at the interfaceof biology, mechanics, physics and engineering. Over the years, the International Plant
Biomechanics Conference has become the central event of this community, as well as a uniqueplace for interdisciplinary exchanges focused on the amazing features that plants have evolved
to sense, acclimate and adapt to the mechanical challenges to which they have been exposed.
The 8th PBM follows a series of conferences organized every third year since 1994. The first took
place in Montpellier, FR, followed by Reading, UK (1997), Freiburg, DE (2000), East Lansing, MI,US (2003), Stockholm, SE (2006), Cayenne, French Guyana (2009), Clermont-Ferrand, FR (2012).
We hope that this forthcoming conference in Nagoya will bring a similarly stimulating
experience as the ones in the past.
Conference format. The sessions include keynote lectures, invited and contributed papers, andposters introduced by a flash-talk. The official language of the conference is English.
Topics of regular sessions. The usual topics of preceding events will be addressed:
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Biomechanics of tree and wood
Mechano-perception, growth and morphogenesis
Fluid dynamics in plants
Micromechanics of cell wall, cell, and tissue
Scaling of pattern and development in plants
Biomechanics of root and root systems
Mechanics of the plant material and plant surface
Trade-offs and multifunctionality
Plant-animal interactions
Plant motions
Modelling and numerical simulation
Experimental devices and methods.

Special session on “Plant Biomechanics and 500 million history of land plant evolution”.
The greening of the planet Earth over the past 500 million years has involved vast and intricate
patterns of changing phylogenetic and functional diversity. Compared to the original aquatic
environment, plants had to deal with gravity, wind, snow… Biomechanics lies at the heart of thisdiversification, from the colonization of the land and the appearance of stems, roots and leaves
to the complex and diverse growth forms and ecosystems we see today. The first aim of thisspecial session is to discuss recent findings on some of the main biomechanical innovations thathave characterized land plant evolution culminating in today's complexity and biodiversity; thePBM8 Nagoya 2015 - 2nd announcement and call for paper
second objective is to invite both empirical and theoretical discussions on how “biomechanicalinnovations” that have proved such a success for plants, can be used as bioinspiration fortechnical applications and biomimetics research.
A Young scientists forum will be organized to encourage participation of M.S., and Ph.D.
students, postdocs and young staff.
A Post-conference tour to cultural places of technical interest within Nagoya area will be
proposed on 4th December.
Conference chairs
Hiroyushi Yamamoto (Nagoya University, Japan)
Miyo T. Morita (Nagoya University, Japan)
Joseph Gril (CNRS, France)
Scientific advisory board
Bernard Thibaut, Meriem Fournier and Bruno Moulia (FR) – George Jeronimidis (UK) – Thomas
Speck (DE) – Lennart Salmén (SE) – Frank Telewski and Frank Ewers (US)Organizing committee
Ugai Watanabe (Chiba) – Tomoyuki Fujii (Yatsugatake) – Jiro Sakamoto (Kanazawa) – Junji
Sugiyama (Uji) – Keiji Takabe (Kyoto) – Kosei Ando (Nagoya) – Miyuki Matsuo (Nagoya) –Kazuharu Ogawa (Nagoya) – Hitoshi Tatsumi (Nagoya) – Masato Yoshida (Nagoya) – Mitsuhiro
Aida (Nara) – Takashi Hashimoto (Nara) – Hidetoshi Kobayashi (Osaka) – Naomi Nakayama(Edinburgh, UK) – Kazuhiko Nishitani (Sendai) – Hideyuki Takahashi (Sendai) – Hidetoshi Iida(Koganei) – Takahisa Hayashi (Tokyo) – Ryo Funada (Fuchu)
Local organizing committee
Miyuki Matsuo, Masato Yoshida, Kosei Ando, Kazuharu Ogawa and Hitoshi Tatsumi, Marie
Capron (Nagoya University)
CalendarReception of abstracts*:
Acceptance of the papers/posters:
Revised manuscripts:
Early registration deadline:
Late registration deadline:

May 31, 2015
June 20, 2015
September 1, 2015
July 15, 2015
September 30, 2015(*) One or two-pages abstracts should be sent by e-mail to: pbm8@agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp
template: http://www.agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~butsuri/pbm8/submission.html
Fees
Regular participant
400 USD
Late registration
500 USD
Student
200 USD
Student late registration 250 USD
Fees include lunches, coffee breaks, welcome party, conference banquet and conference
proceedings.
Contact
pbm8@agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp

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Conference website
http://www.agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~butsuri/pbm8/
How to get to Nagoya, Japan?
1. From Nagoya International airport (Centrea, NGO):by train, 28~40 min to the city (Kanayama, Nagoya.
2. From Kansai International airport (KIX):
by Kanku-Tokkyu Haruka train, from KIX to Shin-Osaka, 60 min,and Shinkansen, from ShinOsaka to Nagoya, 60 min.
3. From Narita (NRT) or Haneda (HND):
you need to transit airplane to Nagoya (NGO).
Accommodations in Nagoya
Nagoya is the 4th largest city in Japan, having many hotels andguest houses with prices from 6,000 JY (=55 USD) to 20,000 JY.
Recommended accommodations will be uploaded to theconference web site.
The Venue
Nagoya is the third-largest incorporated and the fourth most populous urban area (2.27 millionlive) in Japan. Located on the Pacific coast in central Japan, it is one of Japan's major ports alongwith those of Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Chiba, and Kitakyushu. It is also the center ofJapan's third largest metropolitan domain, known as the Chukyo Metropolitan Region. One
possible etymology for the city's name is the adjective nagoyaka, meaning “peaceful”, with 400
years of history since Nagoya Castle was built.
Nagoya is the center of Greater Nagoya which earned nearly 70 percent of Japan's trade surplus
as of 2003.
Nagoya's main industry is the automotive business, as many Japanese automotive companies arebased out of Nagoya, akin to how many U.S. automakers are based out of Detroit. Toyota's luxury
brand Lexus is headquartered in Nagoya.