Special Session

The 9th Asia-Pacific Marine Biotechnology Conference
program

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
  • 10:10-10:40
  • Lessons From Light-Harvesting Heterotrophic Marine Bacteria For Potential Biofuel Innovation
    • Gary J. Vora
      Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Naval Research Laboratory, United States of America
14S1-2
  • 10:40-11:05
  • Understanding of Microbial Diversity Required for Efficient Methane Production from Marine Biomass Resources
    • Yutaka Nakashimada, Naomichi Nishio
      Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Hiroshima University, Japan
14S1-3
  • 11:05-11:30
  • Marine Metagenomes as a Source of New Glycoside Hydrolase Genes
    • Thiago Bruce Rodrigues, Fabiano L. Thompson
      Marine Biology Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
14S1-4
  • 11:30-11:50
  • Toward the creating marine microbial cell factory for biofuel production
    • 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
  • 13:00-13:40
  • Search for Drug Leads Inhibiting the Ubiquitin-proteasome System from the Natural Sources
    • Sachiko Tsukamoto
      Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Japan
14S5-2
  • 13:40-14:20
  • Chemoecology Guided Discovery of Drug Leads from South China Sea Marine Invertebrates
    • Yue-Wei Guo
      Shanghai Institute of Material Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
14S5-3
  • 14:20-14:40
  • A further Search for Bioactive Secondary Metabolites from Marine Dinoflagellates of the Genus Symbiodinium
    • 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
  • 15:40-16:20
  • Exploration and exploitation of Marine Uncultivable Microorganisms
    • Haruko Takeyama
      Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, Waseda University, Japan
14S9-2
  • 16:20-16:40
  • Recent Progress on Biosynthesis of Fungal and Bacterial Metabolites
    • Hideaki Oikawa
      Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
14S9-3
  • 15:00-16:40
  • Searching for Polyketide Biosynthetic Genes in Marine Microalgae
    • 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
  • 10:10-10:35
  • Engineering of Carbon-Concentrating Mechanism, Genomes and Metabolic Pathways in a Green Alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
    • Hideya Fukuzawa, Takashi Yamano, Masataka Kajikawa
      Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Japan
15S1-2
  • 10:35-11:00
  • Euglena gracilis Is A Fascinating Resource For Isolating Useful Genes
    • 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
  • 11:00-11:25
  • How Can We Manage the Nitrogen Cost in Algal Biofuel Production?
    • 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
  • 11:25-11:50
  • Nostoc flagelliforme: A Model Cyanophyte in Cultivation Technology at the Era of Global Warming
    • Katsunori Aizawa, Shigetoh Miyachi
      Institute for Clean Earth, Japan
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