Symposium

Symposium 1 (in English)

25th November (Sat.) (the first day of the meeting) 9:30-12:00 Conference Hall

Title of symposium: “Animals and Light: Photo-physiology and Optogenetics”

Organizers: Yoshitaka Fukada (Univ. Tokyo), Akihisa Terakita (Osaka City Univ.)

Speakers

• Daisuke Kojima (Univ. Tokyo)
  "Photoreceptor system regulating light-induced body color changes in larval zebrafish"
• Mitsumasa Koyanagi (Osaka City Univ.)
  "Diversity of non-visual animal opsins and their optogenetic applications"
• Yuki Sudo (Okayama Univ.)
  "Diversity of microbial rhodopsins and their applicability for optogenetics"
• Akihiro Yamanaka (Nagoya Univ.)
  "Optogenetics and pharmacogenetics reveals regulatory mechanism of sleep/wakefulness and memory"
• Akinao Nose (Univ. Tokyo)
  "Optophysiological and connectome analyses of the neural circuits regulating escape behaviors in Drosophila larvae"

Symposium 2 (in Japanese)

26th November (Sun.) (the second day of the meeting) 9:30-12:00 Conference Hall

Title of symposium: Neural mechanism of encoding, decoding and regulating time

Organizers: Hiroyuki Ai (Fukuoka Univ.), Yoshifumi Yamawaki (Kyushu Univ.), Sakiko Shiga (Osaka Univ.)

Speakers

• Tsunehiko Kohashi (Nagoya Univ.)
  "Temporal processing for electric communication in electrosensory system of mormyrid weakly electricfish"
• Takeshi Sakurai (Univ. Tokyo)
  "Molecular and neural mechanisms underlying efficient pheromone source localization in the silkmoth Bombyx mori"
• Yuki Ishikawa (Nagoya Univ.)
  "Neural mechanisms underlying the auditory information processing in the fruit fly"
• Hideki, Nakagawa (Kyushu Inst. Tech.)
  "Timing control and motor planning in collision avoidance behavior of the frog"

Panelist

• Ryohei Kanzaki (RCAST, Univ. Tokyo)