9th International Phycological Congress
 
 
  Program
  Satellite Symposium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
IPC9 Tokyo
   
 

Congress Organizers
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Tokyo 104-0061, Japan


 

Symposium Topics
  Plenary lectures  
 


3 August [Day 2] T. Momotura: FERTILIZATION, ZYGOTE DEVELOPMENT AND CELL DIVISION IN BROWN ALGAE.

4 August [Day 3] C. D. Amsler: MACROALGAL CHEMICAL ECOLOGY: MICROSCOPIC SPORES TO MAGNIFICENT ANTARCTIC FORESTS.

6 August [Day5] N. Kroger: MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF SILICA BIOMINERALIZATION IN DIATOMS.

7 August [Day 6] E. V. Armbrust: COMPARATIVE GENOMICS OF MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON.


 
  Symposium topics  
 

Mini-symposium and Workshop (themes and speakers)

The scientific program has been developed around the topics listed below.

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Session

Theme/Talk

Conveners/Speaker

S-1

Comparative evolutionary genomics

Mark Cock; Shigeyuki Kawano

 

The genomics of unicellular red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae.

Osami Misumi* and Tuneyoshi

 

Endosymbiotic gene transfer and genome evolution in secondary plastid-containing algae: insights from cryptophytes and chlorarachniophytes.

John M. Archibald

 

Evolution of multicellularity in the heterokont lineage: analysis of the Ectocarpus siliculosus genome sequence.

J. Mark Cock*, Delphine Scornet, Akira F. Peters, Lieven Sterck, Pierre Rouzé, Yves van de Peer, Jean Weissenbach, Patrick Wincker and the Ectocarpus Genome Consortium

 

Genome information renewing the concept of Plantae.

Hisayoshi Nozaki

S-2

Phytoplankton dynamics and life cycle

Marina Montresor; Ichiro Imai

 

A massive and simultaneous sex event of two Pseudo-nitzschia species.

Marina Montresor

 

Development of cyanobacterial blooms with special reference to the role of overwintering population.

Shigeo Tsujimura

 

Life cycle strategies of marine diatoms in a temperate embayment.

Akira Ishikawa

 

Climate related environmental conditions regulate bloom formation of Baltic cold-water dinoflagellates through effects on life cycle transformations.

Anke Kremp

S-3

Chemical ecology

Georg Pohnert; Hiroyuki Sekimoto

 

Probing the ecological significance of distance chemical signaling in kelps at the gene expression level.

Cosse A., Thomas F., Goulitquer S., Leblanc C. and Potin* P.

 

Algal morphogenetic inducer thallusin.

Yoshihide Matsuo

 

Wound healing and chemical defense in siphonous green algae.

Georg Pohnert

 

Biologically active molecules involved in Biologically active molecules involved in the sexual reproduction of Closterium peracerosum-strigosum-littorale complex.

Hiroyuki Sekimoto

S-4

Frontiers of algal speciation research

Juliet Brodie ; Mitsunobu Kamiya

 

Beyond Barcoding: Understanding species' reproductive biology.

Giuseppe C. Zuccarello

 

Genetic separation of different entities of Mastocarpus stellatus (Stackhouse) Guiry.

Kjersti Sjøtun*, M. Skage & N.T. Mikkelsen

 

The genetic structure of Undaria species around Japan.

Shinya Uwai*, Nozomi Emura, Teruwo Morita, Akira Kurashima, Hiroshi Kawai

 

Huge diversity of microalgae; how have so many species arisen?

Katherine Evans

S-5

Symbioses

Burkard Büdel; Ken-ichiro Ishida

 

Symbiosis in green algae: origin and diversity of a successful life style.

T Friedl*, T  Pröschold, L A Lewis and M R Letsch

 

Plastid evolution in two photosynthetic Paulinella species.

Hwan Su Yoon*, Adria Reyes-Prieto, Eun Chan Yang, Robert A. Andersen, Ken-ichiro Ishida, Takuro Nakayama, Sung Min Boo and Debashish Bhattacharya

 

Comparative studies of cyanobacterial associations with crop plants.

Mehboob Ahmed*, Lucas J. Stal and Shahida Hasnain

 

A cyanobacterial endosymbiont of a diatom.

E Trap, A Hartmann, C Voß, S Adler* and U Maier

S-6

Algae, Bio-fuel and CO2 sequestration

Ik Kyo Chung; Yoshihiro Shiraiwa

 

Biofuel production by Botryococcus.

Makoto M. Watanabe*, Takako Tanoi, Masanobu Kawachi and Kunimitsu Kaya

 

Hydrocarbons produced by Japanese Botryococcus.

Kunimitsu Kaya

 

Physiological study on the increased lipid production of Botryococcus braunii.

Hee-Mock OH

 

Pathways and regulation for photosynthetic carbon partitioning into lipids in microalgae.

Qiang-Hu and Milton Sommerfeld

 

CO2 removal by microalgae.

Norihide Kurano

S-7

Algae under multiple stress

Catriona Hurd; Kazuo Okuda; Elly Spijkerman

 

Physiological characteristics of co-limiting conditions for P and C in Chlamydomonas.

Elly Spijkerman

 

Optimal cell size for resource uptake in fluids: A new facet of resource competition.

Kohei Yoshiyama

 

The influence of multiple environmental stressors on the genetic stability of macroalgae and plants.

David Burritt

 

The interactive effects of uv radiation and enhanced co2 concentrations on aquatic photoautotrophs.

S Stojkovic*, J Beardall and R Matear

S-8

Biodiversity and ecological function

Rodney M. Forster; Makoto M. Watanabe

 

Functional diversity of macrophytes - are there differences between functional and morphological groups of macrophytes?

Hendrik Schubert

 

Phytoplankton class-specific primary production in the world's oceans: An estimate based on SeaWiFS time series (1998-2007).

Julia Uitz, Hervé Claustre, Bernard Gentili and Dariusz Stramski

 

Environmental diversity of marine eukaryotic microbe.

Fabrice Not, Ramon Massana, and Colomban de Vargas

 

Unexpected high biodiversity of eukaryotic picoplankton of inland waters and its nutritional interaction with grazers.

Lothar Krienitz*, Christina Bock, Wei Luo and Thomas Pröschold

S-9

Algal disease

Alan Critchley; Daiske Honda

 

An oomycete pathogen of a commercially cultivated Porphyra.

Satoshi Sekimoto* and Daisuke Honda

 

Parasite-Host recognition between marine oomycete Olpidiopsis sp. and dacyacean algae (Rhodophyta).

Gwang Hoon Kim*, T A Klochkova and D H Baek

 

Effects of epiphyte infection on the quantity and quality of carrageenan produced by carrageenophytes, Kappaphycus alvarezii (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta).

Charles S. Vairappan

 

Oomycete pathogens of marine brown algae.

Frithjof C. Küpper

S-10

Alien algae and invasive species

Christine Maggs; Hiroshi Kawai

 

Transport vectors of macro- and microalgae.

Frederic Mineur, Christine A. Maggs, Marc Verlaque, Mikihide Demura, Takeaki Hanyuda and Hiroshi Kawai

 

Invasion ecology of Sargassum muticum, the invader par excellence.

Aschwin H. Engelen* and Rui O. Santos

 

Ecological impacts of invaders on tropical reefs.

Jennifer Smith

 

Predicting spread and bloom risk areas of introduced and invasive seaweeds.

Klaas Pauly*, Heroen Verbruggen, Lennert Tyberghein, Frederic Mineur, Christine A. Maggs, Satoshi Shimada and Olivier De Clerck

S-11

Phylogeny - new advances and insights

Heroen Verbruggen; Takeo Horiguchi

 

Phylogenomic reconstruction of the Charophytes: a multigene approach to resolving the phylogeny of plants' closest relatives.

Ruth Evangeline Timme* and Charles F. Delwiche

 

Insights into the diversity and evolution of green algae from biological crust habitats.

Louise A. Lewis* and Paul O. Lewis

 

Phylogenetic trees: more than just branches and nodes.

Kerstin Hoef-Emden

 

Deciphering macroevolutionary patterns in the algae.

Heroen Verbruggen

S-12

Algae and Bioremediation

Kunshan Gao ; Fumie Kasai

 

 Viral impacts on harmful algal blooms - possible tools for aquatic bioremediation.

Keizo Nagasaki*, Yuji Tomaru and Takashi Yoshida

 

Physiological and morphological analysis of Enteromorpha prolifera the main causative species of Yellow Sea green tide.

Guangce Wang

 

Investigation of resource allocation in a diatom  exposed to elevated CO2 and high nutrient concentration by FTIR spectroscopy.

Simona Ratti*, C Olivieri, M J Nasse, C J Hirschmugl, F Vogt and M Giordano

 

Bioremediation and rare metal accumulation by metal concentrating mechanism of marine microalgae.

Hiroya Araie, Koji Iwamoto and Yoshihiro Shiraiwa*

W-1

Biological and environmental education: algae and society

Félix López Figueroa; Satoshi Shimada

 

The dissemination of the diversity of algal species: from the science to the public.

Stefan Kraan* and Michael D. Guiry

 

Algal culture collection and cryopreservation.

Robert A. Andersen

 

Utilization of ecological function and uses of seaweed as a biofuel source and bioremediation agent.

Masahiro Notoya

 

The seaweed from the point of view of the applications (aquaculture, food and cosmetic-pharmacological industry).

Alan T. Critchley

 

Environmental education and sensitizing on the use of algae and the protection of aquatic environments.

Ricardo Haroun Tabraue

W-2

Algae in Education

Nobuyasu Katayama

 

To be appointed

To be appointed