Preface

Since the first NIBB International Practical Course (IPC) was held in 2007, it has been held every two years for graduate students, postdocs and young PIs using small fish models such as zebrafish and medaka.(http://www.nibb.ac.jp/en/interchange/ipc/course/2018/09/10th.html).
We already have about 100 Alumni from IPC. In 2012, with the cooperation of Dr. Winkler of National University of Singapore (NUS), it was held overseas as “The NUS / TLL / NIBB joint practical workshop on Genetics, Genomics and Imaging in Medaka & Zebrafish”. In October 2020, the 2020 Academia Sinica / NIBB Joint International Practical Workshop was planned to be held in Taipei, Taiwan as the second IPC overseas, but this workshop was postponed to 2022 due to COVID-19.
The NIBB-Academia Sinica International Webinar of Aquatic Model Organisms for Basic Biology to Human Disease Models will be held this time by the National Institute for Basic Biology and Academia Sinica as an attempt for new international collaboration under the new coronavirus pandemic. At this Webinar, we will invite talented researchers from both Academia Sinica and NIBB as well as three researchers from past IPC participants/instructors to give a lecture along with two plenary speakers, Dr Tu of Chinese Academy of Science and Dr. Winkler of NUS. At this International Webinar, we will give lectures on a wider range of research fields, including not only fish but also Xenopus, sea urchins and coral.

Kiyoshi Naruse
Ai Shinomiya
Yasuhiro Kamei

Program

Opening remarks 10:00-10:05

NIBB speakers
10:05-10:30
Yusuke Sakai
Division of Morphogenesis, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan (Present address: Department of Biology and Geosciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan)
"How coral larvae sense and respond to light stimuli? : Investigations of opsins and light-response behavior in the reef-building coral, Acropora tenuis"

10:30-10:55
Ken-ichi T. Suzuki
Center for the Development of New Model Organisms, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
"Involvement of thyroid hormone receptors in the transition from larval-to adult-type organs in Xenopus metamorphosis"

10:55-11:20
Yukiko Kimura
Division of Behavioral Neurobiology, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan
"Functional analysis of spinal V1 neurons in zebrafish larvae"

Plenary speaker
11:20-12:00
Qiang Tu
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
"The multi-omics landscape of the medaka genome"

Lunch break 12:00-13:00

Academia Sinica speakers
13:00-13:25
Yi-Hsien Su
Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
"Evolutionary origins of chordates: Insights from developmental mechanisms of sea urchins and hemichordates"

13:25-13:50
Chen-Hui Chen
Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
"In toto monitoring of cell behaviors in developing zebrafish"

13:50-14:15
Yung-Che Tseng
Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
"Physiological responses of tolerant organisms in an acidic ocean: convergent traits in medaka and squid"

Plenary speaker
14:15-14:55
Christoph Winkler
Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore
"Osteoblasts control osteoclast recruitment and activation in a medaka osteoporosis model"

Break 14:55-15:10

NIBB IPC Alumni speakers
15:10-15:40
Sachiko Tsuda
Division of Life Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan
"Optical interrogation of neural population dynamics in the zebrafish cerebellum"

15:40-16:10
Asano Ishikawa
Ecological Genetics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
"Genetic molecular mechanisms underlying life-history evolution in sticklebacks"

16:10-16:40
Shun Maekawa
International Degree Program of Ornamental Fish Technology and Aquatic Animal Health, International College, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan.
"Diversity of innate immune response against bacterial pathogens in fish"

Closing remarks 16:40-16:45