Koh Aoki is a Professor in the Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University (Osaka, Japan). Koh’s lab is applying plant genomics to reveal how information coded in the genome is translated into cellular output. He is also involved in the Tomato National BioResource Project (link). For more information, please see his lab website.
Derek Goto is an Assistant Professor in the Creative Research Institution, Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan). Derek’s lab is focused on understanding how root-knot nematodes reprogram plant cells to initiate a permanent infection site inside the roots of host plants. For more information, please see his lab website.
Chris Helliwell is a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Plant Industry (Canberra, Australia). Chris's group researches epigenetic and small RNAs in plant growth and development and regulation of the growth of cereal grains. For more information, please see his website.
Tetsuya Higashiyama is a Professor in the Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University (Nagoya Japan), and Research Director of the ERATO Higashiyama Live-Holonics Project (link). Tetsuya’s lab and ERATO project is applying new live single-cell analysis to discover the molecular events for intercellular signaling during plant development and reproduction. For more information, please see his lab website.
Mike Jones is Professor of Agricultural Biotechnology and Director of the Western Australian State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre (SABC), Murdoch University (Perth, Australia). Mike’s research group focuses on understanding and controlling plant virus and nematode crop pathogens, including the interface between agricultural crops and native plants. For more information, please visit the SABC website.
Naoya Takeda is an Assistant Professor in Masayoshi Kawaguchi's Lab, Division of Biological Systems, National Institute for Basic Biology (NIBB, Okazaki, Japan). Naoya and Masayoshi's lab are elucidating the signaling pathways that enable plants to establish symbiotic interactions with beneficial microorganisms. For more information, please see the lab website.
Robyn Overall is a Professor in Plant Cell Biology and Head of the School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia). Robyn's lab is investigating how plasmodesmata channels responsible for intercellular transport in plants are regulated, and is elucidating the details of microtubule dynamics in living plant cells. For more information, please see her website.
Iain Searle is an ARC QEII Fellow in the Research School of Biology, Australian National University (Canberra, Australia). Iain's lab is investigating the mechanisms underlying endosperm development in plant seeds. For more information, please see his website.
Ken Shirasu is Director of the Plant Immunity Research Group, RIKEN Plant Science Center (Yokohama, Japan), and is also a Professor in the Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Japan). Ken’s group is focused on understanding the molecular mechanism of immunity in plants. For more information, please see his lab website.
Junpei Takano is an Assistant Professor in the Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan). Junpei’s group is focused on how plants control mineral (boron) uptake through mineral sensing and intracellular trafficking of transporters. For more information, please see his website.
Interdisciplinary Session Speakers:
Francois Feugier is a postdoctoral fellow in the Satake Lab, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan). Francois is applying mathematical modeling to understand how plants regulate nutrient transportation and how changes in hormone transport influences plant venation. For more information, please see the lab website.
Toshiro Ohashi is a Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan). Research in Ohashi’s lab is focused on the biomechanics of animal tissues and cells, and biological microelectromechanical systems (bioMEMS). For more information, please see his lab website.
Yoshikazu Tanaka is an Assistant Professor in the Creative Research Institution, Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan). Yoshikazu's lab is focused on applying structural biology approaches to reveal the mechanism by which pathogenic factors express their function. For more information, please see his lab website.
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