17:20〜17:55 Yoichi Kamagata (National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology)
Methanogens: from their ecological study to genome analysis
18:00〜19:30 Cocktail Party
Wednesday, Jan 24th in 2001
9:00〜Registration
9:30〜10:05 Grant Burgess (Herriot-Watt University, UK)
Environmental Genomics of B arotolerant Marine Bacteria: Is Barotolerance an Ecologically Meaningful Phenotype ?
10:05〜10:40 Katsuhisa Saeki (Kao Corporation)
A new detergent protease from a novel alkaliphilic Bacillus sp: enzymatic properties and sequence
10:40〜11:15 Akihiko Yamagishi (Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Science)
What we can learn from the study of thermophilic archaea: From the common ancestor to the protoeukaryotic cell
11:15〜11:50 Ken Takai (JAMSTEC)
Subsurface microbiology in Japan: Challenging unseen majority
11:50〜12:25 Shigeru Deguchi (JAMSTEC)
Behavior of Biological Substances in Near-and Supercritical Water
12:25〜12:30 Closing Address
