SMBE2011参加記録

SMBE2011に参加しました｡簡単に参加記録を。

初日26日は参加受付とWelcome Receptionのみ。会場の入り口で早速友人と再会。Welcome Receptionでも多くの友人知人と会う。翌日のWorkshopの座長Dr. Makalowskiにも挨拶。昨年GIRIで会って以来｡

2日目27日は自身の発表があるWorkshopに参加｡プログラムは､
Workshop 2: Reverse transcriptase as an evolutionary force

9:30- 9:30 Wojciech Makalowski: Reverse transcriptase - the remarkable evolutionary machine
9:30- 9:50 Brosius: The RNA world we are still living in
9:50-10:10 Makalowska: Retrogenes and the mode of their evolution
10:10-10:30 Long: Phenotypes of retrogenes and evolution of developmental genetic programs
10:30-10:45 Cordaux: Remarkable abundance and evolution of reverse transcriptases in a bacterial endosymbiont (Wolbachia)
10:45-11:00 Pande: Regulatory landscaping of transposable elements during interlaced transcription
11:00-11:15 Takeshita: Comparative genomics of retrogenes in green algae
11:15-11:30 Kojima: Ancient domestication of tyrosine recombinase-encoding crypton family of DNA transposons
11:30-11:45 Sakai: Retrogenes in rice (Oryza sativa L. ssp. japonica) are old, functional and exhibit correlated expression with their source genes
11:45-12:00 Ohshima: Origin of the polyA connection: plant L1 Retrotransposons may have lost the specific recognition of RNA template for reverse transcription in parallel with mammalian L1s

午後は､
Symposium 4: Symbiosis as the source of evolutionary novelties
と
Workshop 8: Virus evolution

3日目28日は、
Symposium 7: New approaches in ancient DNA
Contributed Oral Presentation 6: Animal evolution
Special Symposium: Honoring late Walter M. Fitch
Special Session: History of Molecular Biology and Evolution
合間に京都大学総合博物館の「花の研究史　京都大学の植物標本」を観覧｡久しぶりの夕立を経験｡

4日目29日は、終日みやこめっせでPlenary TalkからWalter Fitch Student Symposium、バンケットまで。

5日目30日は､
Symposium 13: Present and future of the neutral theory

午後からは進化学会のプログラムで、
WS1-0730A Evolution of beetle weapons: For the integrative understanding of morphology, behavior and development
武器甲虫の進化学～形態・行動と発生機構の統合的理解に向けて～
に参加｡その後ポスターを見る。