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Speakers Include
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Speaker
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Research interests
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Prof. Ernst Wimmer
Dept. of Developmental Biology
Institute of Zoology, Anthropology and
Developmental Biology University of Gttingen, Germany
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- Developmental biology of diverse animal body plans
- Identification of plasticity in early developmental processes
- Genetic control based on the sterile-insect technique (SIT)
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Prof. Christian Schloetterer
Institut fur Tierzucht und Genetik,
Veterinarmedizinische Universitat, A-1210 Vienna, Austria.
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- Microsatellite evolution
- rDNA evolution
- Identification of local selective sweeps
- Conservation Genetics
- Functional Genomics
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Prof. Frantisek Marec
Department of Genetics
Institute of Entomology
Academy of Sciences of the Czech
Republic
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- Lepidoptera genetics
- Molecular cytogenetics
- Synaptonemal comlex
- Telomeres
- Sex chromosomes
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Prof. Marian Goldsmith
Department of Biological Sciences,
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881-0816
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- Molecular linkage maps for the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori
- Mapping genes for resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis
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Prof. Pierre Couble
The Center for Molecular and Cellular
Genetics
Villeurbanne, France
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- Chromatin assembly at early development in Drosophila
- Transcriptome analysis of silk gland cells in the silkworm B. mori
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Prof. Toru Shimada
Department of Agricultural and
Environmental Biology
The University of Tokyo
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- Genome analysis
- Evolution and phylogeny
- Gene expression depending on the metamorphosis and diapause
- Viruses
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Prof. Toshiki Tamura
National
Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
Owashi
1-2, Tsukuba
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- Silkworm genetics
- Transgenesis
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Prof. G. Saccone
Department
of Biological Sciences
Genetics and Molecular Biology Section
University of Naples
Naples Italy
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- Sex determination in Ceratitis capitata and Aedes aegypti
- Transgenic sexing strains for sterile insect technique
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Prof. Teruyuki Niimi
Lab
of Sericulture and Entomoresources
Nagoya
University
Nagoya
464-8601
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- Molecular Mechanisms of Insect Diapause
- Molecular Mechanisms of Insect Development and Metamorphosis
- Molecular Mechanism of Baculovirus Infection
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Prof. Ken Sahara
Division
of Applied Bioscience
Hokkaido
University
Sapporo
060-8589
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- Molecular biology of the insect
viruses including baculovirus, parvovirus and picornavirus
- Molecular biology of the insecticidal proteins of bacteria
- Molecular genetics of the silkworm and insect biotechnology
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Prof. Rene Feyereisen
Unit
Mixte de Recherche "Rponses des Organismes aux Stress de
l'Environnement"
400 Route des Chappes - BP 167 - 06 903
Sophia-Antipolis
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Prof. Luke Alphey
Department of Zoology
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
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- Pest population control by genetic methods
- Regulation of signal transduction in Drosophila by protein phosphatases
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Prof. S.R. Palli
Department
of Entomology
S-225 Agricultural Science Center North
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40546-0091
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- Functional genomics and proteomics
- Developmental and hormonal regulation of gene expression
- Gene switches
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Prof.Steven M. Reppert
Chair,
Department of Neurobiology
Umass
Medical School
Worcester MA
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- Circadian rhythms
- Cellular and molecular biology of circadian clocks from insects and mammals
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Dr. Susumu Katsuma
Laboratory of Insect Genetics and
Bioscience
Department of Agricultural and
Environmental Biology
University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
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- Functional analysis of baculovirus genes
- Analysis of transcriptional network in baculovirus-infected cells
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Prof. S C Lakhotia
Cytogenetics
Laboratory
Department
of Zoology
Banaras
Hindu University
Varanasi
221 005
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- Regulation and functions of the noncoding hsrw gene of Drosophila
- Regulation and functions of hsp70 and hsp60 families of genes in Drosophila in stress and normal development
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Prof. Kazuei Mita
National
Institute of Agrobiological Sciences
Owashi
1-2, Tsukuba
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- Genome analysis of silkworm
- Physical mapping
- Silkworm sex chromosomes
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Prof.David Heckel
Max
Plank Institute of Chemical Ecology
Jena,
Germany
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- Genetics & genomics of Lepidoptera
- Resistance to insecticides
- Butterfly wing color patterns
- Plant-Insect Interactions
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Prof. R. Gadagkar
Centre for
Ecological Sciences
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore - 560
012, India
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- Behavioural ecology
- The origin and evolution of cooperation in social insects, such as ants, bees and wasps
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Prof. K.P. Gopinathan
Honorary
Professor
Indian
Institute of Science
Bangalore - 560
012, India
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- Regulation of expression of silk fibroin and the fibroin related genes
- DNA replication in silk glands of Bombyx
mori
- Silkworm as a model system in developmental biology
- Transgenesis in silkworms
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Dr. Rakesh Mishra
Centre
for Cellular and Molecular Biology
Hyderabad,
500 007 India
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- Chromatin and nuclear architecture
- Homeotic gene complexes: the evo-devo of A-P body axis
- Comparative genomics of non-coding DNA
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Dr.
L.S. Shashidhara
Drosophila Genetics & Developmental Biology Group
Centre
for Cellular and Molecular Biology
Hyderabad,
India
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- Identifying the molecular and morphogenic events downstream to homeotic genesis
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Dr. SE Hasnain
Laboratory
of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Centre
for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics
Hyderabad
500 076 India
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- Molecular Epidemiology of TB
- Baculovirus p35 gene expression and cell death
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Dr. J Nagaraju
Laboratory
of Molecular Genetics
Centre
for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics
Hyderabad
500 076 India
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- Bombyx sex determination and transgenesis
- Genetic linkage maps and comparative genomics
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