International Round-table on Coelacanth Evolution
9 – 10 August, 2017
Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History
9 August
Opening
10:00 am
Addresses
Organizeres: Paulo M. Brito and Yoshitaka Yabumoto
Dirhamsyah Director, Research Center for Oceanography, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)
10:30
Yoshitaka Abe (Aquamarine Fukushima)
The Coelacanth as an Aquarist.
11:00
Masa Iwata
Biological survey on the Indonesian coelacanth.
11:30
Gaël Clement
Study on the South African coelacanths: the deep diving input.
Lunch
Visit the exhibition of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History in the afternoon
10 August
10:00 am
Camila Cupello (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
The evolutionary history of the coelacanth lung.
10:30
Tsutomu Miyake
What does the coelacanth tell us about the fin-to-limb transition?
13:30
Yoshitaka Yabumoto, Paulo M. Brito, Masa Iwata and Yoshitaka Abe.
A new coelacanth from Madagascar.
14:00
Christophe Ferrante, Rossana Martini, Heinz Furrer & Lionel Cavin
Coelacanths from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland and the pace of actinistian evolution.
19:30
Cafepedia (a kind of Café Scientifique) at Cream Café in Kokura
(free-for-all)
11 August
10:00 am
Paulo M. Brito
Mawsoniid coelacanth from Brazil.
10:30
Uthumporn Deesri (Mahasarakham University)
A mawsoniid coalacanth (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia) from the Rhaetian (Late Triassic) of the Peygros quarry, Le Thoronet (Var, south-eastern France).
11:00
Lionel Cavin
Mesozoic mawsoniid coelacanths from Switzerland: new finds and palaeogeographic implications
11:30
Gaël Clement
New data on coelacanths... raising new questions.
Discussion
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Lectures for the General Public
9 August
14:00〜15:30
Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History
Yoshitaka Yabumoto
Coelacanths and the Atlantic Ocean
11 August
14:00〜15:30
Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History
Yoshitaka Yabumoto
Coelacanths and the Indian Ocean
13 August
13:30〜16:00
Aquamarine Fukushima in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture
Gaël Clément
On the field mission in South Africa to study the extant coelacanths in their natural environment.
Camila Cupello
The evolutionary history of the coelacanth lung.
Masamitsu Iwata
Behavioral ecology of Indonesian coelacanth
16 August
125th Salon de Odawara at Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History
Learning the Sea from Coelacanths - The Forefront of Coelacanth Research -
Yoshitaka Yabumoto
How long have coelacanths been around?
Camila Cupello
Do coelacanths have lungs?
Paulo M. Brito
Coelacanths in Brazil
Earth Museum Tomo no Kai Blog in Japanese
24 December
13:30〜15:00
Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History
Yoshitaka Yabumoto
Coelacanths tell us the sea history
(This meeting and lectures were partially supported by the Museum of Maritime Science)