Day 1 (5th Oct)
12:30 Registration
13:00 Introduction
13:05 Session 1: Effects of ploidy alterations 1 Chair: Shin-ichiro TAKEBAYASHI
13:05-13:25
Yuki HARA (Yamaguchi University)
Ploidy-dependent cellular property in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos
13:25-13:45
Miho Ohsugi (University of Tokyo)
Balanced DNA-to-Cytoplasm Ratio at the 2-Cell Stage Is Critical for Mouse Preimplantation Development
13:45 Session 2: Ploidy in developmental and reprogramming processes Chair: Ryota UEHARA
13:45-14:05
Huibo YU (University of Tokyo)
Investigation into the mechanism of cell enlargement in succulent leaf of Crassothonna capensis
14:05-14:25
Yuichiro MIYAOKA (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science)
Establishment and Application of Polyploid Human iPS Cells
14:25-14:45
Ichiro HIRATANI (RIKEN)
Unraveling the developmental dynamics of genome architecture through single-cell DNA replication profiling
14:50-15:50 Special lecture 1 Chair: Ryota Uehara
Renata BASTO (Institut Curie, France)
From 2 to 4 and then to 2000: how do cells deal with whole genome duplication?
15:50 - 16:50 Poster session 1
18:00 Reception / Mixer
Day 2 (6th Oct)
9:40 Session 3: Effects of ploidy alterations 2 Chair: Kazuhide ASAKAWA
9:40-10:00
Ryota UEHARA (Hokkaido University)
Cell division control in different ploidy states
10:00-10:20
Hisao MORIYA (Okayama University)
Consequences of overexpression
10:20-11:20 Special lecture 2: Chair: Kazuhide ASAKAWA
Chen-Hui CHEN (Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
EMBO Global Investigator Lecture
Asynthetic fission in the zebrafish epidermis
11:20-12:00 Special lecture 3: Chair: Ichiro HIRATANI
Yoichiro TAMORI (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA)
Polyploidy reprograms epithelial cells for motility and phagocytosis
11:50-13:00 Lunch time / Poster session 2:
13:00 Session 4: Ploidy in evolutionary processes Chair: Yuki HARA
13:00-13:20
Kazuhiro BESSHO (Saitama Medical University)
Macroalgal evolution from the perspective of ploidy-structured populations
13:20-13:40
Yoshihiro OMORI (Hiroshima University)
Domestication and evolution of the allotetraploid teleosts, goldfish and carp, after whole-genome duplication
13:40-14:00
Yuta SHIMAMOTO (National Institute of Genetics)
Spindle multipolarity and mechanical plasticity
14:00 Session 5: Ploidy in pathological processes Chair: Yuki HARA
14:00-14:20
Tomonori MATSUMOTO (Osaka University)
Ploidy alterations and malignant evolution of cancer
14:20-14:40
Shin-ichiro TAKEBAYASHI (Mie University)
Genomic instability caused by the perturbation of epigenomic inheritance
14:40-15:00
Kazuhide ASAKAWA (National Institute of Genetics)
The Relationship Between Motor Neuron Cell Size and Vulnerability to ALS
15:00 Poster prize ceremony
15:05 Concluding remark