Genome Concept Centennial Symposium
This symposium is financially supported by National Institute of Genetics (NIG International Symposium) and by Yaponesia Genome Project.
Because of new corona virus outbreak in 2020, we decided to postpone this conference.
NEW Dates: February 15-17 (Monday-Wednesday), 2021
[OLD Dates: August 23-25 (Sunday-Tuesday), 2020]
Place: This conference will be held purely online supported by Plaza Verde, Numazu, Japan
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"Genome Concept Centennial Conference" will be held on February 15-17 2021 using zoom.
If you are interested in attending, please send your information (Name, Affiliation institution, Occupation and e-mail address) to GCC administrative office ( gcc2020@nig.ac.jp ) via E-mail.
Admission to this conference is free.
Please download GCCC brochure.
This brochure includes profiles of all speakers.
GCC Keynote speakers (30min talk + 5min discussion)
Dr. GOJOBORI Takashi (Distinguished Professor & Associate Director of Computational Bioscience Research Center, KAUST)
Dr. Dan GRAUR (Moores Professor, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston)
Dr. LI Wen-Hsiung (Distinguished Research Fellow, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei)
Dr. LI Yi-Xue (Director, Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, Shanghai)
Dr. Mark STONEKING (Professor, University of Leipzig, Leipzig)
GCC Invited Speakers (20min talk+ 5 min discussion)
Dr. Hiroshi AKASHI (Professor, Division of Evolutionary Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima)
Dr. Aida ANDRES (Professor, University College London, London)
Dr. SU Bing (Professor, CAS Kunming Institue of Zoology , Kunming)
Dr. CHAW Shu-Miaw (Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taipei)
Dr. Tal DAGAN (Professor, University of Kiel, Kiel)
Dr. FUJIMOTO Akihiro (Professor, University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
Dr. Arndt von HAESELER (Professor, University of Vienna, Vienna)
Dr. HANADA Kousuke (Associate Professor, Kyushu Institute of Technology , Tobata)
Dr. HASEBE Mitsuyasu (Professor, National Institute of Basic Biology, Okazaki)
Dr. IKEO Kazuho (Associate Professor, Laboratory for DNA Data Analysis, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima)
Dr. IMANISHI Tadashi (Professor, Tokai University, Isehara)
Dr. INOUE Ituro (Professor, Division of Human Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima)
Dr. INOUE Jun (Assistant Professor, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa)
Dr. ITOH Takeshi (Advanced Analysis Center Leader, The National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba)
Dr. Timothy A. JINAM (Assistant Professor, Population Genetics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima)
Dr. KANZAWA-KIRIYAMA Hideaki (Associate Curator, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba)
Dr. KIMURA Ryosuke (Associate Professor, University of Ryukyu, Okinawa)
Dr. KINOSHITA Tetsu (Professor, Yokohama City University , Yokohama)
Dr. KITANO Jun (Professor, Division of Ecological Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima)
Dr. Kirill KRYUKOV (Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Population Genetics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima)
Dr. MINETA Katsuhiko (Researcher, KAUST, Jedda)
Dr. NAKAMURA Yasukazu (Professor, Genome Informatics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima)
Dr. OOTA Hiroki (Professor, University of Tokyo, Tokyo)
Dr. OSADA Naoki (Associate Professor, Hokkaido University , Sapporo)
Dr. FU Qiaomei (Professor, CAS Institute of Paleontology and paleoanthropology, Beijing)
Dr. SAITOU Naruya (Professor, Population Genetics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima)
Dr. SASAKI Hiroyuki (Professor, Kyushu University, Fukuoka)
Dr. SATTA Yoko (Professor, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama)
Dr. SHIMIZU Kentaro (Professor, University of Zurich, Zurich)
Dr. SHIMIZU Hiroshi (Researcher, KAUST, Jedda)
Dr. SHINODA Ken-Ichi, (Senior Director in Research, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo/Tsukuba)
Dr. SHINZATO Chuya (Associate Professor, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa)
Dr. Anne STONE (Professor, Arizona State University, Phoenix)
Dr. SUZUKI Hitoshi (Professor, Hokkaido University, Sapporo)
Dr. SUZUKI Rumiko (Project Associate Professor, Population Genetics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima)
Dr. TAKEYAMA Haruko (Professor, Waseda University, Tokyo)
Dr. TAMURA Koichiro (Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo)
Dr. Yun-Xin FU (Professor, University of Texas at Houston, Houston)
Program
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Day 1: Monday, February 15, 2021
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13:00 - 13:10 Opening remarks
Dr. IKEO Kazuho, Chair of GCCC, National Institute of Genetics
Dr. HANAOKA Fumio, Director-General, National Institute of Genetics
13:10 - 15:00 Session 1 (Chair: Dr. SATTA Yoko)
13:10 - 13:45 Keynote talk 1 by Dr. Wen-Hsiung Li, Taipei
Talk title: Evolutionary insights from microbial genomes
13:45 - 14:10 Invited talk 1 by Dr. SU Bing, Kunming
Talk title: Comparative brain 3D genome analysis reveals evolutionary innovations of human corticogenesis
14:10 - 14:35 Invited talk 2 by Dr. FU Qiaomei, Beijing
Talk title: The prehistory of East Asian using insights from ancient DNA
14:35 - 15:00 Invited talk 3 by Dr. CHAW Shu-Miaw, Taipei ==> moved to 18:30-18:55 after session 3
Talk title: Stout camphor tree (Laurel family) genome fills gaps in understanding of flowering plant genome evolution
15:00 - 15:20 Tea break
15:20 - 16:45 Session 2 (Chair: Dr. TAMURA Koichiro)
15:20 - 15:55 Keynote talk 2 by Dr. GOJOBORI Takashi, KAUST
Talk title: Genome evolution in Asian rice domestication
15:55 - 16:20 Invited talk 4 by Dr. SHIMIZU Hiroshi, KAUST
Talk title: Behavior of cnidarian hydra : dominance of foot nervous system in behavioral regulation
16:20 - 16:45 Invited talk 5 by Dr. MINETA Katsuhiko, KAUST
Talk title: Population genomics of indigenous inhabitants of Arabia
16:45 - 17:05 Tea break
17:05 - 18:55 Session 3 (Chair: Dr. SAITOU Naruya)
17:05 - 17:40 Keynote talk 3 by Dr. Mark STONEKING, Leipzig
Talk title: Genes, Culture, and Human Evolution
17:40 - 18:05 Invited talk 6 by Dr. SHINODA Ken-ichi, Tsukuba
Talk title: Contribution of ancient genome analysis to the study of the origin of the Japanese - Looking back on the research history of the past 30 years
18:05 - 18:30 Invited talk 7 by Dr. Arndt von HAESELER, Vienna
Talk title: Lineage size evolution in developing organoids
18:30 - 18:55 Invited talk 3 by Dr. CHAW Shu-Miaw, Taipei (talk time changed)
Talk title: Stout camphor tree (Laurel family) genome fills gaps in understanding of flowering plant genome evolution
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Day 2: Tuesday, February 16, 2021
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9:00 - 10:25 Session 4 (Chair: Dr. IKEO Kazuho)
9:00 - 9:35 Keynote talk 4 by Dr. Dan GRAUR, Houston
Talk title: The Selectionist Pandemic and the Emperor's New Clothes: Examining the Evidence for Soft Selective Sweeps in Humans
9:35 - 10:00 Invited talk 8 by Dr. Anne STONE, Phoenix
Talk title: Mycobacterium leprae genomic variation and evolutionary history in the Pacific
10:00 - 10:25 Invited talk 9 by Dr. Yun-Xin FU, Houston
Talk title: Tetrahymena amitosis strategy: from sex determination to whole genome sequencing
10:25 - 10:45 Tea break
10:45 - 12:10 Session 5 (Chair: Dr. KITANO Jun)
10:45 - 11:20 Keynote talk 5 by Dr. LI Yi-Xue, Shanghai
Talk title: A pharmaco-genomic landscape in human liver cancers
11:20 - 11:45 Invited talk 10 by Dr. KINOSHITA Tetsu, Yokohama
Talk title: Overcoming the species hybridization barrier by ploidy manipulation in the genus Oryza
11:45 - 12:10 Invited talk 11 by Dr. HASEBE Mitsuyasu, Okazaki
Talk title: Evolution of carnivory and movement in plants
12:10 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:45 Session 6 (Chair: Dr. NAKAMURA Yasukazu)
13:30 - 13:55 Invited talk 12 by Dr. SASAKI Hiroyuki, Fukuoka
Talk title: DNA methylation in development and disease
13:55 - 14:20 Invited talk 13 by Dr. INOUE Jun, Kashiwa
Talk title: dbCNS: a new database for conserved non-coding sequences
14:20 - 14:45 Invited talk 14 by Dr. SHINZATO Chuya, Kashiwa
Talk title: Using genomics to reveal novel insights into coral biology
14:45 - 15:05 Tea break
15:05 - 16:45 Session 7 (Chair: Dr. SUZUKI Rumiko)
15:05 - 15:30 Invited talk 15 by Dr. AKASHI Hiroshi, NIG
Talk title: Population genomics of weak evolutionary forces: Base composition evolution in Drosophila
15:30 - 15:55 Invited talk 16 by Dr. NAKAMURA Yasukazu, NIG
Talk title: A chromosome-level assembly of a domestic cat of American Shorthair
15:55 - 16:20 Invited talk 17 by Dr. KITANO Jun, NIG
Talk title: Genetics of adaptive radiation in stickleback and medaka fishes
16:20 - 16:45 Invited talk 18 by Dr. INOUE Ituro, NIG
Talk title: Genomics and cultivation of new virus world
16:45 - 17:05 Tea break
17:05 - 18:45 Session 8 (Chair: Dr. AKASHI Hiroshi)
17:05 - 17:30 Invited talk 19 by Dr. TAMURA Koichiro, Tokyo
Talk title: Genome evolution for cold adaptation in experimental populations of Drosophila albomicans
17:30 - 17:55 Invited talk 20 by Dr. Tal DAGAN, Kiel
Talk title: Plasmids as turtles in an evolutionary race
17:55 - 18:20 Invited talk 21 by Dr. SHIMIZU Kentaro, Zurich
Talk title: Polyploid wheat as the traditional model of genome analysis and the last frontier of genome sequencing
18:20 - 18:45 Invited talk 22 by Dr. Aida ANDRES, London
Talk title: Dissecting genomes to identify local adaptations in humans and other primates
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Day 3: Wednesday, February 17, 2021
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9:00 - 10:40 Session 9 (Chair: Dr. IMANISHI Tadashi)
9:00 - 9:25 Invited talk 23 by Dr. SATTA Yoko, Hayama
Talk title: Population genomics on the origin of lactase persistence in Europe and South Asia
9:25 - 9:50 Invited talk 24 by Dr. IKEO Kazuho, NIG
Talk title: Reconstruction of cell lineage trees by using single-cell RNA sequence data
9:50 - 10:15 Invited talk 25 by Dr. OSADA Naoki, Sapporo
Talk title: Genome-wide genetic diversity of wild house mice across Eurasia
10:15 - 10:40 Invited talk 26 by Dr. KIMURA Ryosuke, Okinawa
Talk title: Pleiotropic effects of the EDAR 370V/A variant on East Asian phenotypes
10:40 - 11:00 Tea break
11:00 - 12:15 Session 10 (Chair: Dr. INOUE Ituro)
11:00 - 11:25 Invited talk 27 by Dr. TAKEYAMA Haruko, Tokyo
Talk title: high-resolution analysis of environmental microbes by massively parallel single-cell genome sequencing
11:25 - 11:50 Invited talk 28 by Dr. FUJIMOTO Akihiro, Tokyo
Talk title: Whole genome sequencing with long-reads reveals complex structure and origin of structural variation in human genetic variations and somatic mutations in cancer
11:50 - 12:15 Invited talk 29 by Dr. OOTA Hiroki, Tokyo
Talk title: Genome of Jomon people and peopling history of East Eurasians
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:45 Session 11 (Chair: Dr. OSADA Naoki)
13:30 - 13:55 Invited talk 30 by Dr. SUZUKI Hitoshi, Sapporo
Talk title: Geographic shift of the house mouse Mus musculus following humans during the past 15,000 years
13:55 - 14:20 Invited talk 31 by Dr. ITOH Takeshi, Tsukuba
Talk title: Genomics of plants: the genome concept made real
14:20 - 14:45 Invited talk 32 by Dr. HANADA Kousuke, Tobata
Talk title: Positive selective sweeps of epigenetic mutations regulating specialized metabolites in plants
14:45 - 15:05 Tea break
15:05 - 16:20 Session 12 (Chair: Dr. FUJIMOTO Akihiro)
15:05 - 15:30 Invited talk 33 by Dr. IMANISHI Tadashi, Isehara
Talk title: Rapid profiling of drug-resistant bacteria using a single-molecule DNA sequencer
15:30 - 15:55 Invited talk 34 by Dr. KANZAWA-KIRIYAMA Hideaki, Tsukuba
Talk title: Genome from the initial to final Jomon: Genetic history throughout the Jomon period
15:55 - 16:20 Invited talk 35 by Dr. Timothy A. JINAM, NIG
Talk title: Population substructure within mainland Japanese suggests multiple waves of migration
16:20 - 16:40 Tea break
16:40 - 17:55 Session 13 (Chair: Dr. Timothy A. JINAM)
16:40 - 17:05 Invited talk 36 by Dr. SUZUKI Rumiko, NIG
Talk title: Genome mapping of F1 hybrid camels
17:05 - 17:30 Invited talk 37 by Dr. Kirill KRYUKOV, NIG
Talk title: GenomeSync: streamlining access to current genome data
17:30 - 17:55 Invited talk 38 by Dr. SAITOU Naruya, NIG
Talk title: AGTC, iDarwin, and Yaponesia Genome Project
17:55 - 18:00 Closing Remarks
Organizing Committee for GCC Symposium
Dr. IKEO Kazuho (DNA Data Analysis Laboratory, NIG), Chair
Dr. SAITOU Naruya (Population Genetics Laboratory, NIG)
Dr. SATTA Yoko (Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
Dr. TAMURA Koichiro (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
IKEO and SAITOU (2020) introduced this GCCC in iDarwin volume 0, pp. 12-18.
GCC administrative office:
National Institute of Genetics
Mishima, 411-8540, Japan
email: gcc2020@nig.ac.jp
phone: +81-55-981-6790
fax: +81-55-981-6789
Updated on February 15 2021