The 14th Naito Conference

Bioactive Natural Products and Their Modes of Action [III]: Insect Bioactive Molecules and Their Modes of Action

Period	2001/10/16 (Tue.) - 2001/10/19 (Fri.)
Venue	Shonan Village Center（ Kanagawa-pref.）
Participants	Lectures：25 Posters：59

Akinori Suzuki	Akita Prefectural University
Hiroshi Kataoka	The University of Tokyo
Toru Shimada	The University of Tokyo
Shogo Matumoto	RIKEN
Yasuo Chinzai	Mie University
Ritsuo Nishida	Kyoto University

Neuropeptide hormones and their receptors

[Hiroshi Kataoka]

Department of Integrated Biosciences, The Univesrity of Tokyo, Japan
Common mechanisms for endocrine regulation of ecdysis

[Dusan Zitnan]

Institute of Zoology, SLovak Academy of Scineces, Slovakia
Hormonal regulation of fluid homeostasis in insects

[David A. Schooley]

Department of Biochemistry, University of Nevada, USA
Dual role for 20-hydroxyecdysone in the programmed cell death of silk gland

[Sho Sakurai]

Department of Biology, Kanazawa University, Japan
Ecdysteroid control of wing morphogenesis in insects

[Haruhiko Fujisawa]

Department of Integrated Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Sex-linked period genes in the silkmoth, Antheraea pernyi

[Anthony L. Gotter]

Department of Neurobiology, Univesrity of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
Development and evolution of Drosophilia melanin patterns

[John R. True]

Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Wisconsin, USA
Molecular mechanisms of diapause induction and termination in the silkworm

[Toshinobu Yaginuma]

Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan
Analysis of the molecular basis of the honeybee social behavior

[Takeo Kubo]

Department of Biological Sciences, Granduate School of Sciences, The Unversity of Tokyo, Japan
Genomic basis of Lepidoptera-specific biological functions

[Toru Shimada]

Department of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Chemoreception mediatting host-plant recognition in phytophagous insects

[Erich Stadlar]

Eidg. Fouschungsanstalt, Switzerland
Molecular physiology in the taste reception of the blowfly, Phormia regina

[Mamiko Ozaki]

Department of Applied Biology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
Chemical ecological interface of host selection in butterflies

[Ritsuo Nishida]

Laboratory of Chemical Ecology, Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Japan
Molecular and biochemical bases for the tolerance of specialised insects towards cardiac glycosides and alkaloids

[Michael Wink]

Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Plant defense and counteraction of insects

[Kotaro Konno]

National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan

Molecular mechanisms underlying sex pheromone production in the silkmoth, Bombyx mori

[Shogo Matsumoto]

The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Japan
Regulation of pheromone production in female moths

[Russell A. Jurenka]

Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, USA
Pheromonal signals perception in insects

[Walter S. Leal]

Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, USA
Molecular mechanisms of pheromone reception in insect antennae

[Jorg Strotmann]

Institute of physiology, University Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Germany
Neural basis of odor-source searching behavior in insect microbrain systems evaluated with a mobile robot

[Ryohei Kanzaki]

Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Immune defense in Drosophilia: The Thor and Dorothy Genes

[Deborah A. Kimbrell]

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis, USA
Molecular cloning of novel REL protein from silkworm, Bombyx mori and their differntial effects on the activation of antibacterial peptide genes

[Minoru yamakawa]

National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan
Hemolin, an insect immune protein crucial in embryonic development

[Ingrid Faye]

Department of Genetics, Stockholm University, Sweden
Bioactive substances in the salivary glands of blood sucking insects and ticks

[Yasuo Chinzei]

Department of Medical Zoology, School of Medicine Mie University, Japan
Feature mass spectrometric approach for structural characterization of bioactive substances of arthropod

[Hideo Naoki]

Suntory Institute for Bioorganiz Research, Japan