PROGRAM
Tuesday, Jan 23rd in 2001
09:00〜09:45 Registration
09:45〜09:55 Takuya Hirano (President, JAMSTEC)
Opening Address
09:55〜10:25 Koki Horikoshi (Director-General, Frontier Research Program for Deep-sea Extremophiles, JAMSTEC)
Extremophiles and Genomics in the DEEPSTAR Group of JAMSTEC
10:25〜11:00 Roy H. Doy (University of California Davis, USA)
Biochemical and genetic features of the plant cell wall degrading enzyme complex (cellulosome) from Clostridium cellulovorans
11:00〜11:35 Hideto Takami (JAMSTEC)
Genome analysis of alkaliphilic Bacillus halodurans and its perspective to industrial application
11:35〜12:45 Lunch Break
12:45〜13:20 Dusko S. Ehrlich (Laboratoire de Genetique Microbienne, France)
The complete genome sequence of the lactic acid bacterium Lactococcus lactis.
13:20〜13:55 Mitsuhiro Itaya (Mitsubishi Kasei Institute of Life Sciences)
Bacillus subtilis genome technology: Designing of bacterial genomes by horizontally transferring large-sized DNAs.
13:55〜14:30 Sierd Bron (University of Groningen, The Netherland)
Attempts to improve Bacillus subtilis protein secretion using genomics information
14:30〜15:05 Yutaka Kawarabayashi (National Institute of Technology and Evaluation)
Information extracted from genomes of three hyper-thermophilic archaea
15:05〜15:35 Coffee Break
15:35〜16:10 Shuji Shigenobu (University of Tokyo)
Mutualism as revealed by the genome sequence of Buchnera, an endocellular bacterial symbiont of insects
16:10〜16:45 Jonathan A. Eisen (TIGR, USA)
The complete genome sequence of radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans and the benefits of phylogenomic analysis.
16:45〜17:20 Satoshi Nakamura (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Molecular biology of Triangular disc-shaped extremely halophilic archaeon Haloarcula japonica
