Symposium
JSS/JSCPB Joint Symposium
Interactions between Hosts and Symbionts -Both Sides Now-
No organism lives alone. Each organism affects and is affected by other species and natural surroundings. They sometimes maintain symbionts living within them, which may be indispensable to the survival of both the hosts and the symbionts. Although such relationships are sometimes beneficial and sometimes harmful, they are essential to many organisms and ecosystems, and they provide a balance that can only be achieved by working together. This symposium aims not only to cover the current knowledge and the most recent advances of research on biological symbiosis, but also to focus on the dynamics resulting from the presence of a trade-off between the benefits of symbiosis and the costs for maintaining it.
Date: 24th November, 2018
15:50-16:00 Midori SAKURA (Convener, Kobe University)
Introduction and background
16:00-16:25 Takuya SATO (Kobe University)
Parasite-mediated energy flow across forest and stream ecosystems: proximate mechanisms and ecological consequences
16:25-16:50 Masaru K. HOJO (Kwansei Gakuin University)
Conflicts of interest and regulations in the ant-lycaenid butterfly mutualism
16:50-17:15 Susumu OHTSUKA (Hiroshima University)
Symbiosis in marine plankton communities with a special reference to their trophic relationships
17:15-17:40 Shunichi TAKAHASHI (National Institute for Basic Biology)
Symbiotic algae within corals: different lifestyles in inside and outside the host cell
17:40-17:50 Ryoma KAMIKAWA (Convener, Kyoto University)
Summary and future perspectives