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

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

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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; ³Institute 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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