Arrival and check-in
18:00-19:20
Dinner
19:20-19:30
- Welcome speech - President Eiji Hirota of Graduate University for Advanced Studies
- General Information - Andy Clark
19:30-22:30
SUNDAY EVENING - Molecular Evolution of Infectious Disease
Chair: Peg Riley (Yale)
- Mark Achtman (Wurzburg) - Neisseria meningitidis, Helicobacter pylori and Yersinia pestis represent three extremes of bacterial population structure.
- Howard Ochman (University of Arizona) - How Salmonella became a pathogen
- Dan Dykhuizen (SUNY Stony Brook) - How Lyme Borrelia is different from the pathogens most everyone studies
22:30-0:00
Poster preparation
Stand Bar
7:30-9:00
Breakfast
9:00-12:30
MONDAY MORNING - Immunity and Defense Systems
Chair: Naoyuki Takahata (Hayama)
- Jan Klein (Max-Planck) - Evolution of the major histocompatibility complex in adaptively radiating vertebrates
- Peter Parham (Stanford) - NK inhibitory receptor
- Masanori Kasahara (Hayama) - Genome paralogy involving the major histocompatibility complex: implications for the origin of adaptive immunity and genome evolution.
- Dan Hultmark (Stockholm) - Innate immunity and NF-kB
12:30-13:30
Lunch
13:30-18:00
Free time
Preparation of posters and display
18:00-19:30
Dinner
19:30-22:30
MONDAY EVENING - Theory of Molecular Population Genetics
Chair: Simon Tavare
- Richard Hudson (Chicago) - Inferences from molecular sequence data
- Hidenori Tachida (Kyushu Univ.) - Molecular evolution of multigene families.
- Fumio Tajima (Univ. Tokyo) - The amount and pattern of DNA polymorphism under the neutral mutation hypothesis
- Chung-I Wu (Chicago) - Formation of species: a molecular and population genetic perspective
22:30-0:00
Poster session
Stand Bar
7:30-9:00
Breakfast
9:00-12:30
TUESDAY MORNING - Development and Evolution
Chair: Michael Ludwig (Chicago)
- Greg Gibson (NC State) - Genetic variation affecting signal transduction in Drospohila development
- Billie Swalla (Penn State) - Early evolution and development of chordates
- Noriyuki Satoh (Kyoto Univ.) - The Brachyury gene, notochord differences, and evolution of the chordate body plan
- Shintaro Ueda (Tokyo) - Alanine/Glycine/Proline repeats in transcription factors
12:30-13:30
Lunch
13:30-18:00
Kamakura excursion
18:00-19:30
Dinner
19:30-22:30
TUESDAY EVENING - Experimental Evolution
Chair: Robert Dorit (Yale)
- Ichiro Matsumura (Univ. Texas Austin) - Enzymes evolve like antibodies
- John McCaskill (Institute for Molecular Biology - Jena, Germany) - Spatial evolution of genetic coding
- John Yin (University of Wisconsin) - Evolution of Viruses in vitro and in silico
22:30-0:00
Poster session
Stand Bar
7:30-9:00
Breakfast
9:00-12:30
WEDNESDAY MORNING - Genomic Evolution in Higher Organisms
Chair: Wen-Hsiung Li (Chicago)
- Takashi Gojobori (Natl. Inst. Genetics) - Genomic evolution of eukaryotes
- Laura Katz (Smith College) - Genome processing in ciliates
- Masami Hasegawa (Univ. Tokyo) - Verbetrate phylogeny as inferred from whole mitochondrial DNA sequences.
- Chip Aquadro (Cornell) - Slippin' and slidin' through the genomes: what the fly and comparative genomics tells us about the evolutionary dynamics of simple sequence repeats ("microsatellites").
12:30- 13:00
Business Meeting
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-18:00
Free time
18:00-19:30
Dinner
19:30-22:30
WEDNESDAY EVENING - Plant Molecular Evolution
Chair: Michael Clegg (UC Riverside)
- Adam Richman (Univ. Montana) - Gametophytic self-incompatibility
- Claude dePamphilis (Penn State) - Molecular evolutionary biology of photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic plants
- Naohiko Miyashita (Kyoto University) - Molecular population genetics of Arabidopsis
22:30-0:00
Poster session
Stand Bar
7:30-9:00
Breakfast
9:00-12:30
THURSDAY MORNING - Human Molecular Variation
Chair: Henry Harpending (Utah)
- Lynn Jorde (Utah) - Inferences of human population history from human polymorphisms
- Malia Fullerton (Penn State) - Apolipoprotein E Diversity: Genomic Sequence Analysis of a Major Candidate Locus for CHD
- Satoshi Horai (Hayama) - Mitochondrial DNA polymorphism and evolution of Asian populations.
- Magnus Nordborg (Lund University) - Detecting ancient admixture: what can genetic polymorphism data tell us about Neanderthal ancestry?
- Svante Paabo (Max Planck) - DNA sequence variation in humans and their close relatives
12:30-13:30
Lunch
13:30-17:30
Free time
16:00-17:30
Presentation of Japanese Culture (tea)
17:30-19:20
Banquet (with koto-Japanese harp play)
19:30-22:30
THURSDAY EVENING - Adaptive Evolution and Its Molecular Basis
Chair: Masatoshi Nei (Penn State)
- Nancy Moran (Arizona) - Aphid-Buchnera co-evolution
- Naruya Saitou (Natl. Inst. Genetics) - Molecular evolution of ABO blood groups in mammals
- Shozo Yokoyama (Syracuse) - Molecular evolution of color vision in vertebrates
22:30-0:00
Removal of posters
Stand Bar
7:30-9:00
Breakfast
Departure
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