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Program

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Dear all participants,
The Salamander Meeting 2024 will be conducted in English, which means all presentations, discussions, and interactions during the event will be in the English language. This ensures clarity and effective communication among all participants, regardless of their native languages.
Lunch boxes will be provided during lunchtime. Please ensure that you consume your meal inside the reception hall.Thank you for your cooperation!
Salamander Meeting 2024 Executive committee

July 31st

11:30 - 12:50

Registration

12:50

Opening remarks

13:00 - 16:30

(14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break)

Session Ⅰ

O-1 ~ O-6

Reciprocal interaction between blastema and stump for functional joint regeneration in amphibians: Generating new ideas for organ regeneration.

Kiyokazu Agata

National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan

Functional assessment of axolotl regeneration

Elly Tanaka

IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology

Comparative Studies Using Pleurodeles waltl

Toshinori Hayashi

Amphibian Research Center/ Graduate school of Integrated Science for Life, Hiroshima Univercity

A new method for recording morphological changes in axolotl limb regeneration

Akira Satoh

Graduate School of Environmental, Life, Natural Science and Technology

A Lens Regeneration Paradigm

Katia Del Rio-Tsonis

Department of Biology Miami University and Center for Visual Sciences at Miami University

Disclosing the role of muscle stem cells during tail regeneration in the axolotl

Ji-Feng Fei

Department of Pathology, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University

16:30 - 18:00

Poster Session Ⅰ

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Even Number

The Secret World of Axolotls: A Glimpse Through the Electron Microscope

◯arife ahsen kaplan, İlknur keskin, Gürkan Öztürk

İstanbul Medipol University

Establishment of an environmental RNA analysis method to detect spawning behavior of salamanders in an experimental model using Pleurodeles waltl (Iberian ribbed newt)

◯Mitsuki Kyakuno

Shimane University

A New Method for Culturing Telencephalic Neurons in Axolotls

◯Safiye Serdengeçti, Sevginur Bostan, Gürkan Öztürk

Istanbul Medipol University, Department of Neuroscience in Research Institute for Health Sciences and Technologies (SABITA)

A scale-invariant patterning as a basis of normal limb morphogenesis in blastemas of various sizes during axolotl limb regeneration

◯Saya Furukawa1, Yoshihiro Morishita2, and Akira Satoh1

1Graduate School of Environmental, Life, Nature Science and Technology, Okayama University, 2Laboratory for Developmental Morphogeometry, RIKEN Center for Biosystems, Dynamics Research

Estimating suitable breeding habitat for the Setouchi salamander (Hynobius setouchi) based on environmental DNA surveys

◯Nana Matsumoto1, Masayuki K. Sakata2, Toshifumi Minamoto3

1Faculty of Global Human Science, Kobe University, Japan; 2Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University; 3Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University

Investigating the method for forming dermal collagen structures

◯Ayaka Ohashi, Akira Satoh

Graduate School of Environmental, Life, Natural Science, and Technology, Okayama University

Newt Hox13 regulates elongation of hindlimb buds through activation of Tbx4 and Fgf10

◯Sayo Tozawa, Haruka Matsubara, Fumina Minamitani, Yukio Satoh, Gembu Abe, Toshinori Hayashi, Takashi Takeuchi

Grad. Sch. Med. Sci., Tottori Univ.

How was the breeding ecology of Japanese newts (Cynops) acquired?

◯Okubo Ami

Yamawaki Senior High School.

Improvement of heat-induced expression by modifying heat shock promoter in Pleurodeles waltl

◯Eriko Enomoto1,2, Haruka Matsubara3, Takashi Takeuchi3, Yasuhiro Kamei4, Toshinori Hayashi1,2

1Graduate School of integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, 2Amphibian research center, Hiroshima university, 3Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, 4National Institute for Basic Biology

Phenotype-genotype relationships in Xenopus sox9 crispants provide insights into campomelic dysplasia, Pierre Robin sequence, and vertebrate jaw evolution.

Nusrat Hossain1,2,3, ◯Takao Suzuki1, Takeshi Igawa1,2, Makoto Suzuki1,2, Ichiro Tazawa1,2, Yuta Nakao1,2, Toshinori Hayashi1,2, Nanoka Suzuki1, and Hajime Ogino1,2

1Amphi. Res. Cen., Hiroshima Univ. 2Grad. Sch. of Int. Sci. for Life, Hiroshima Univ. 3Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, North South Univ. 　

Chromosomal localization of transcription factor during mitosis were conserved between mammalian and amphibians.

◯Shinichi Hayashi1, Ryohei Seki-Omura1, Yuki Sato1, Soichi Oe1, Taro Koike1, Yosuke Nakano1, Hikaru Iwashita1, Takeshi Ito2, Yoshiki Yasukochi2, Koichiro Higasa2, Masaaki Kitada1

1Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anatomy, Kansai Medical University, 2Department of Genome Analysis, Institute of Biomedical Science, Kansai Medical University,

OLIG family genes in urodele amphibians

◯Yuki Sato, Hayashi Shinichi, Ryohei Seki-Omura, Souichi Oe, Taro Koike, Yosuke Nakano, Hikaru Iwashita, Yukie Hirahara, Masaaki Kitada

Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Kansai Medical University

Odd Number

Comparative Analysis of Dorsal Root Ganglion Neuron Ultrastructure in A. mexicanum and M. musculus

◯Bilir Şükriye, Sezer Ayşe Server, Şimşek Şevval, Öztürk Gürkan

Research Institute for Health Sciences and Technologies (SABITA), Istanbul Medipol University

Establishing Toronto's first transgenic axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) facilty

◯Tabitha Mirza

Zhulyn Lab - Sick Kids RI

Regenerational differences of dorsal root ganglion neurons for Axolotl and Mouse

◯Ayşe Server SEZER and Gürkan ÖZTÜRK

Istanbul Medipol University, Regenerative and Restorative Medicine Research Center

Potential limb-like organizer in external gills development

◯Zuzana Klacikova, Vladimir Soukup

Faculty of Science, Charles university in Prague, the Czech republic

Why do egg sacs have color variation from clear to white in Japanese black salamander?

◯Shona Yasuda, Ryota Morii, Hiroshi Ikeda

Hirosaki University, Iwate University, The University of Tokyo

A latitudinal pattern of a reproductive trait of males caused by the bias in operational sex ratio toward males in Hynobius nigrescens

◯Ryota Morii, Shona Yasuda, Hiroshi Ikeda

Iwate University, Hirosaki University, The University of Tokyo

The dorsoventral interaction is required for axolotl limb regeneration via the induction of Shh expression

◯Sakiya Yamamoto, Mayuko Hamada, and Akira Satoh

Okayama university, Graduate School of Environmental, Life, Natural Science and Technology

Investigation of the mechanism for long-term maintenance of undifferentiated germ cells in testicular regeneration

◯Mai Takehara1,2, Mitsuki Kyakuno2,3, Mizuki Honda1,4, Kazuko Okamoto1,2, Ichiro Tazawa1,2, Yukio Sato5, Takashi Takeuchi5, Nobuaki Furuno1,2, Yasuyuki Ohkawa6, Shinya Oki4,7, Takuya Imamura1 and Toshinori Hayashi1,2

1Grad. Sch. of Integrated Science for Life, Hiroshima Univ. 2Amphibian Research Center, Hiroshima Univ. 3Fac. of Life and Environmental Sci, Shimane Univ. 4Dept. of Drug Discovery Medicine, Grad. Sch. of Medicine, Kyoto Univ. 5Sch. of Life Sci., Fac. of Med., Tottori Univ. 6Div. of Transcriptomics, Medical Institute of Bioregulation, Kyushu Univ. 7Institute of Resource Development and Analysis, Kumamoto Univ

Development of the optimal Tet-On system in Xenopus tadpoles

◯Mana Yoshida1,2, Shiori Kawasaki1,3, Yusuke Sakaguchi1,2, Nanoka Suzuki1, Makoto Suzuki1-3, Hajime Ogino1-3

1Amphi. Res. Cen., Hiroshima Univ. 2Grad. Sch. of Integ. Sci. for Life., Hiroshima Univ. 3Dept. of Biol. Sci., Grad. Sch. of Sci., Hiroshima Univ.

Mechanisms of evolutionary acquisition of the bilateral eyes in vertebrates

◯Kazuhito Kinemori, Yusuke Sakaguchi, Tomoatsu Takano, Takeshi Igawa, Makoto Suzuki, Nanoka Suzuki and Hajime Ogino

Amphibian Research Center, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University

Newts in Vertebrate Pancreas Development and Evolution

◯Ryosuke Morozumi1,3, Mitsuki Kyakuno1,3, Hitoshi Uemasu2, Nanoka Suzuki1,3, Yasuhiro Kamei4, Ichiro Tazawa1,3, Nobuaki Furuno1,3, Noriyuki Nanba2, Hajime Ogino1,3, Toshinori Hayashi1,3

1Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, 2Faculty of Medicine School of Medicine, Tottori University, 3Amphibian Research Center, Hiroshima University, 4National Institute for Basic Biology

Isolation and characterization of neural stem cells from the central nervous system of Pleurodeles waltl

◯Ryohei Seki-Omura1, Shinichi Hayashi1, Souichi Oe1, Yuki Sato1, Taro Koike1, Yousuke Nakano1, Hikaru Iwashita1, Yukie Hirahara2, Masaaki Kitada1

1Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Kansai Medical University, 2Faculty of Nursing, Kansai Medical University

Telocytes: The Unseen Heroes for cellular microenvironment communication system in testicular development of Nile Monitor Lizard (Varanus niloticus)

◯Mahmoud Mohamed Abdelhamid Ahmed Awad1, Dalia Mohamedien2

1Department of Histology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University-Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University 2Amphibian Research Center, Hiroshima University

August 1st

9:30 - 12:15

(10:50 - 11:05 Coffee break)

Session Ⅱ

O-7 ~ O-12

Landscape and conservation genetics of amphibians in Ryukyu Archipelago, with special reference to Crocodile newt, Echinotriton andersoni

Takeshi Igawa

Amphibian Research center, Hiroshima University

Multiple origins and depths of interspecific hybridization between native Japanese and introduced Chinese species of giant salamanders

Ikuo Miura

Amphibian Research Center, Hiroshima University

Trends in the habitat of Japanese giant salamanders in Tottori Prefecture using literature surveys.

Hikari Sakamoto

Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University

Interaction between the hind limb bud and sacral rib during formation of the sacroiliac joint in the newt Pleurodeles waltl

Ichiro Tazawa

Hiroshima University Amphibian Research Center and Program of Basic Biology, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University

Endocrine evolution and the diversification of salamanders

Ronald Bonett

Department of Biological Science, University of Tulsa

Developmental and Ecological Convergences between Japanese and North American Salamander Embryos

Ryan Kerney

Gettysburg College, University of Kentucky, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Bigelow Marine Labs

12:15 - 13:15

Lunch Break with Luncheon Seminar

13:15 -16:30

(14:45 - 15:10 Coffee break)

Session Ⅲ

O-13 ~ O-18

Resources for exploring regeneration and ageing in salamanders

Maximina Yun

1Technische Universität Dresden, CRTD/Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden; Dresden, Germany.2Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life, Technische Universität Dresden Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Cellular and molecular features of dedifferentiation during newt limb regeneration

András Simon

Karolinska Institute

The effect of thyroid hormone induced metamorphosis on axolotl skin and its negative role in limb regeneration.

Prayag Murawala

MDI Biological Laboratory, Bar Harbor, USA & Department of nephrology and hypertension, Hannover Medical School

The National BioResource Project (NBRP) and the use of Xenopus tropicalis for disease modeling

Hajime Ogino

Amphibian Research Center, Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University

Infrared laser-evoked gene operator; a technology of single cell gene expression in vivo

Yasuhiro KAMEI

National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan

Attempts at cell culture methods in Iberian ribbed newts

Kazuko Okamoto

Amphibian Research Center, Hiroshima University.

16:30 - 18:00

Poster Session Ⅱ

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18:30 -

Dinner and Gathering

August 2nd

9:30 - 11:50

(10:50 - 11:10 Coffee break)

Session Ⅳ

O-19 ~ O-23

The roles of newt Hox13 genes in the tail

Takashi Takeuchi

Tottori University

Newt tendon regeneration: similarity and difference with mouse

Eijiro Maeda

Nagoya University

Expression pattern of mesoderm-related genes during gastrulation in Pleurodeles waltl

Akimasa Fukui

Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University

Learn from lesser animals - approaches for understanding higher regenerative capacity of amphibians

Masaaki Kitada

Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Kansai Medical University

Molly Fish Spinal Cord: Structural Features and Regenerative Prospect

Dalia Mohamedien

Hiroshima University Amphibian Research Center, Department of Histology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University

12:00 - 13:00

Mixer's Lunch

12:30 -

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