Special Session
The 9th Asia-Pacific Marine Biotechnology Conference
Saturday, July 14, 2012
14S1 Special Session I
- 10:10-11:50
- The Potential of Marine Microbial Diversity in Biofuel Innovation
Room: Main Hall [2F]
Chair: Tomoo Sawabe & Yutaka Nakashimada
- 14S1-1
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- 10:10-10:40
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Lessons From Light-Harvesting Heterotrophic Marine Bacteria For Potential Biofuel Innovation
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Gary J. Vora
Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Naval Research Laboratory, United States of America
- 14S1-2
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- 10:40-11:05
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Understanding of Microbial Diversity Required for Efficient Methane Production from Marine Biomass Resources
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Yutaka Nakashimada, Naomichi Nishio
Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Hiroshima University, Japan
- 14S1-3
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- 11:05-11:30
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Marine Metagenomes as a Source of New Glycoside Hydrolase Genes
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Thiago Bruce Rodrigues, Fabiano L. Thompson
Marine Biology Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 14S1-4
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- 11:30-11:50
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Toward the creating marine microbial cell factory for biofuel production
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Tomoo Sawabe
Lab. of Microbiology, Fac. of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan
14S5 Special Session II
- 13:00-14:40
- New Directions of Marine Biotechnology and Marine Natural Products Chemistry 1
Room: Main Hall [2F]
- 14S5-1
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- 13:00-13:40
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Search for Drug Leads Inhibiting the Ubiquitin-proteasome System from the Natural Sources
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Sachiko Tsukamoto
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Japan
- 14S5-2
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- 13:40-14:20
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Chemoecology Guided Discovery of Drug Leads from South China Sea Marine Invertebrates
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Yue-Wei Guo
Shanghai Institute of Material Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- 14S5-3
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- 14:20-14:40
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A further Search for Bioactive Secondary Metabolites from Marine Dinoflagellates of the Genus Symbiodinium
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Ken-ichi Onodera
Oceanography Section, Science Research Center, Kochi University, IMT-MEXT, Japan
14S9 Special Session III
- 15:00-15:40
- New Directions of Marine Biotechnology and Marine Natural Products Chemistry 2
Room: Main Hall [2F]
- 14S9-1
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- 15:40-16:20
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Exploration and exploitation of Marine Uncultivable Microorganisms
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Haruko Takeyama
Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, Waseda University, Japan
- 14S9-2
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- 16:20-16:40
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Recent Progress on Biosynthesis of Fungal and Bacterial Metabolites
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Hideaki Oikawa
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
- 14S9-3
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- 15:00-16:40
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Searching for Polyketide Biosynthetic Genes in Marine Microalgae
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Dana Ulanova1, Masashi Tsuda2
1Oceanography Section, Science Research Center, Kochi University, IMT-MEXT, Japan; 2Center for Advanced Marine Core Research, Kochi University, Japan
Sunday, July 15, 2012
15S1 Special Session IV
- 10:10-11:50
- Microalgae: sources of useful genes and biofuels
Room: Main Hall [2F]
Chair: Katsunori AIZAWA
- 15S1-1
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- 10:10-10:35
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Engineering of Carbon-Concentrating Mechanism, Genomes and Metabolic Pathways in a Green Alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
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Hideya Fukuzawa, Takashi Yamano, Masataka Kajikawa
Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Japan
- 15S1-2
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- 10:35-11:00
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Euglena gracilis Is A Fascinating Resource For Isolating Useful Genes
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Takahiro Ishikawa1, Masahiro Tamoi2, Kengo Suzuki3, Shigeru Shigeoka2
1Faculty of Life and Environmental Science, Shimane University, Japan; 2Faculty of Agriculture, Kinki University, Japan; 3euglena Co.,Ltd., Japan
- 15S1-3
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- 11:00-11:25
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How Can We Manage the Nitrogen Cost in Algal Biofuel Production?
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Tatsuo Omata1, Makiko Aichi2, Kazutaka Ikeda3
1Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan; 2Department of Biological Chemistry, Chubu University, Japan; 3 Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Japan
- 15S1-4
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- 11:25-11:50
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Nostoc flagelliforme: A Model Cyanophyte in Cultivation Technology at the Era of Global Warming
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Katsunori Aizawa, Shigetoh Miyachi
Institute for Clean Earth, Japan