2002 Japanese Worm Meeting

August 6, 2002 (Tuesday)
11:00-12:33
development I

Is IP₃ Receptor or Ryanodine Receptor Involved in a Transient Increase of Cytosolic Ca²⁺ Concentration during Fertilization of C. elegans Oocyte?

Daisuke Kanematsu, Yasuji Sakube, Ritsu Kuroda, Hiroaki Kagawa, Hideyo Kuroda

RAB-5, the C.elegans homologue of the small GTPase RAB5, regulates distributions of polarity proteins and nuclear morphology in early embryos.

Yuki Sugiyama, Asuka Nishimura, and Shigeo Ohno

A search for a novel partner of atypical protein kinase C, a polarity protein required for the establishment of cell polarity.

Asuka Nishimura,Yuki Sugiyama,and Shigeo Ohno

Embryogenesis of the nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus

Koichi Hasegawa, Kazuyoshi Futai, Satsuki Miwa and Johji Miwa

Two homologs of a cohesin subunit Scc1/Rad21 play distinct functions in the development of C. elegans

Yoshiko Mito, Asako Sugimoto, Masayuki Yamamoto

Two hybrid analysis for TBX-9 interacting proteins

Yoshiki Andachi

A mutation in ltp-2 gene causes a cold-sensitive larval arrest

Yuka Suzuki, Takao Inoue, Junken Aoki, Hiroyuki Arai

13:48-15:21
sensory system

EAT-16/RGS regulates thermotaxis in olfactory neurons and the frequency of reversal movement in command interneurons

Masatoshi Okumura, Kotaro Kimura, Ikue Mori

More on thermotaxis-defective mutants: dgk-1 affects thermotaxis but not other amphid-related sensory behaviors

Akane Ohta, Masatoshi Okumura, Yoshifumi Okochi, Kotaro Kimura, Ikue Mori

TTX-4 nPKC-epsilon is required for diverged signalings in different sensory neurons

Yoshifumi Okochi, Kotaro Kimura, Ikue Mori

CaM kinase II UNC-43 positively regulates neuronal activity of AFD thermosensory neurons

Atsushi Kuhara and Ikue Mori

Synthetic Dauer-constitutive Phenotype: a Paradigm of Genetic Interaction

Isao Katsura, Takeshi Ishihara, Norio Suzuki, Kohji Miyahara, Kiyotaka Ohkura and Tomoko Yabe

Pathways from sensory neurons to motor neurons determined by McCulloch-Pitts algorithm.

Kiyoshi Kawamura, Ken-ichi Oshio, Satoru Morita, Yuko Osana and Kotaro Oka

Stochastic method to predict synaptic signs in a partial neural network of C. elegans

Yuishi Iwasaki and Sohei Gomi

15:41-16:37
genome

Analysis of a cross-reacting protein to anti-ryanodine-receptor antibody of Caenorhabditis elegans

Takuji Yoshimura, Tomoyo Hamada, Hiroaki Kagawa

Enrichment of tissue-specific transcripts in Caenorhabditis elegans by the targeted pull-down of poly(A) tails

Hirofumi Kunitomo and Yuichi Iino

Genome-wide RNAi screen for genes required for embryonic morphogenesis and postembryonic development

Rika Maruyama, Naoko Sakumoto, Nobuko Uodome, Yumi Iida, Yuji Kohara, Asako Sugimoto

Molecular analysis of the repetitive palindrome sequence bs258 in the Caenorhabditis elegans genome

Yasuo Takashima, Tetsuya Bando, Hiromi Terami and Hiroaki Kagawa

August 7, 2002 (Wednesday)
9:00-10:33
neuronal modulation

The hab-1 gene, essential for normal habituation behavior, encodes one of mitochondrial complex I subunits

Toshihiro Sassa, Kiyoshi Kunoh, Kiyoshi Kita, Ayanori Yamakawa, Keiichiro Kitamura, Ryuji Hosono

The Ras-MAPK signal transduction pathway is important for olfactory plasticity

Takaaki Hirotsu and Yuichi Iino

Isolation and Analysis of Mutants Defective in Olfactory Learning Behavior in C.elegans

Ichiro Torayama, Takeshi Ishihara, Isao Katsura

The insulin-like signaling pathway participates in learning in salt chemotaxis

Masahiro Tomioka, Hirofumi Kunitomo and Yuichi Iino

Behavioral analysis and cloning of novel mutants defective in neural modulation: temperature avoidance behavior induced by starvation

Akiko Mohri, Mizuho Koike, Kotaro Kimura, Ikue Mori

Isolation and analysis of novel mutants that cannot associate cultivation temperature memory with feeding state

Eiji Kodama, Takafumi Mizuno, Akiko Mohri, Kotaro Kimura, Ikue Mori

Searching for a protein interacting with HEN-1, which regulates sensory integration and learning in Caenorhabditis elegans

Takeshi Ishihara, Keiko Gengyo-Ando, Shohei Mitani, Yuichi Iino, Akiko Mohri Ikue Mori and Isao Katsura

10:53-12:18
stress and aging

The role of a DAF-16 transcription factor to oxidative stress in C.elegans .

Masaki Kondo, Sumino Yanase, Takamasa Ishii and Naoaki Ishii

Adaptive responses to oxidative damage in three mutants of Caenorhabditis elegans (age-1, mev-1 and daf-16) that affect life span

Sumino Yanase, Kayo Yasuda, and Naoaki Ishii

Effects of the gene disruption of two Mn-SOD isoforms on oxidative stress sensitivity, dauer formation and life span in Caenorhabditis elegans

Yoko Honda and Shuji Honda

C. elegans p38 MAPK cascade mediates arsenical stress response

Hideki Inoue, Miho Tanaka-Hino, Makoto Fukuda, Eisuke Nishida, Naoki Hisamoto and Kunihiro Matsumoto

Attempt to create taupathy in C. elegans

Ding Zhen, Gengyo-Ando Keiko, Mitani Shohei, Ihara Yasuo

Transgenic C. elegans overexpressing human alpha-synuclein as a model of human synucleinopathies

Akihiko Koyama, Tomoki Kuwahara, Keiko Gengyo-Ando, Shohei Mitani, and Takeshi Iwatsubo

Circadian behavioral rhythm in C. elegans.

Tetsu Saigusa, Motohide Yamamoto, Yoshishige Kimura, Akihiro Tanakadate, Masatoshi Hagiwara, Naoaki Ishii, Kenji Hasegawa

13:33-14:59
development II

Essential role of Arp2/3 complex in cell migration during ventral enclosure in C. elegans.

Mariko Sawa, Shiro Suetsugu, Asako Sugimoto, Hiroaki Miki, Masayuki Yamamoto, and Tadaomi Takenawa

paf-2 RNAi induces abnormal hypodermal organization during elongation process in C. elegans

Takao Inoue, Yuka Suzuki, Junken Aoki, Asako Sugimoto, Masayuki Yamamoto, Masafumi Tsujimoto, Hiroyuki Arai

Roles of C. elegans Rac proteins in the epidermal morphogenesis

Akira Nukazuka, Liu Zhicen, Mie Chikuma, Rie Kurokawa, Takashi Fujii, Hajime Fujisawa and Shin Takagi

psa-3, ceh-20, and nob-1 regulate asymmetric cell division.

Yukinobu Arata, Hiroko Kouike, Hideyuki Okano, Hitoshi Sawa

The transcriptional Mediator complex functions in Wnt, Notch and Ras signaling pathways and may integrate the pathways during the vulval development

Akinori Yoda, Hiroko Kouike, Hideyuki Okano and Hitoshi Sawa

Homeotic proteins, MAB-18 and CEH-14 bidirectionally regulate dauer specific collagen and spermatheca specific protein in Caenorhabditis elegans

Tetsuya Bando and Hiroaki Kagawa

15:19-16:30
muscle

Sarcomere assembly in C. elegans muscle

Donald G. Moerman, Kenneth Norman, Shaun Cordes, Teresa Rogalksi and Hiroshi Qadota

A protein interaction matrix for an integrin adhesion complex within C. elegans muscle

Hiroshi Qadota and Donald G. Moerman

Tissue and stage specific expression controls of the Caenorhabditis elegans muscle genes

Hiroaki Kagawa, Akwasi Anyanful, Hiromi Terami and Yasuji Sakube

Mutant analysis of the body wall Troponin C of Caenorhabditis elegans

Tomohide Takaya, Hiromi Terami, Tetsuya Bando and Hiroaki Kagawa,

Interaction between ryanodine receptor and ERM-1, ezrin/radixin/moesin homolog in Caenorhabditis elegans

Yasuji Sakube, Tomoyo Hamada, Hiroaki Kagawa

16:30-18:00
Discussion Time for Poster Presentations

August 8, 2002 (Thursday)
9:00-10:37
nervous system

Behavioral responses to ethanol are mediated by a BK potassium channel in C. elegans

Jon Pierce-Shimomura, Andrew Davies, Hongkyun Kim, Tod R. Thiele, Antonello Bonci, Steve McIntire

Visualization of Synaptic Protein Dynamics in C. elegans.

Hidehito KUROYANAGI and Shigeo OKABE

A JNK/UNC-16 signaling complex regulates synaptic vesicle localization through a conventional kinesin in C. elegans

Rie Sakamoto, Masato Kawasaki, Dana Thyra Byrd, Yishi Jin, Naoki Hisamoto, Kunihiro Matsumoto

Functional analysis of C. elegans filamin that interacts with UNC-33

Emiko Kuramata, Ken-ichi Ogura, Shohei Mitani, Keiko Gengyo-Ando and Yoshio Goshima

Identification of UNC-33 interacting molecules by the yeast two-hybrid system

Daisuke Tsuboi, Takao H. Hikita, Mutsuki Amano, Hiroshi Qadota, Kozo Kaibuchi

LET-92, a catalytic subunit of protein phophatase 2A is required for axon guidance of C. elegans

Ken-ichi Ogura, and Yoshio Goshima,

Isolation and analysis of mutants defective in AFD thermosensory neuron development

Hiroyuki Sasakura, Hitoshi Inada, Atsushi Kuhara and Ikue Mori

11:07-11:40
development III

Molecular analysis of mig-22 required for directional migration of distal tip cells

Norio Suzuki and Kiyoji Nishiwaki

MRG-1, a mortality factor-related protein, is required maternally for primordial germ cells to initiate mitotic proliferation in C. elegans

Teruaki Takasaki, Masaki Fujita, Noboru Nakajima, Taizo Kawano, Yoshiro Shimura and Hiroshi Sakamoto

Systematic RNAi Analysis of Genes Expressed in Primordial Germ Cells, Z2 and Z3

Ichiro Kawasaki , Junko Kajiwara, and Yuji Kohara

11:40-12:10
General Meeting

13:25-14:31
signal transduction

Regulation of transcriptional activity of CREB in neurons of C. elegans

Yoshishige Kimura, Ethan E. Corcoran, Koh Eto, Keiko Gengyo-Ando, Masa-aki Muramatsu, Ryoji Kobayashi, Jonathan H. Freedman, Shohei Mitani, Anthony R. Means, Hiroshi Tokumitsu and Masatoshi Hagiwara

Identification of src family kinases and csk in C. elegans

Takashi Hirose and Masato Okada

WRM-1 and SGG-1 interactors isolated from two-hybrid screening

S.Urushiyama, N. Hisamoto, M.Yamada, K. Shirakabe, B. Bowerman, J. Tsuji, H. Shibuya and K. Matsumoto

The biological functions of protein phosphatase 1 (CePP1) in mitosis and behaviors

Toshihiro Sassa, Keiko Gengyo-Ando, Shohei Mitani, Hiroyuki Fujimoto, Ryuji Hosono

TIF-1, a E3 ubiquitin ligase, regulates dauer formation in C. elegans

Y. Kobayashi, S. Urushiyama, M. Yamada and H. Shibuya

Analysis of synthetic dauer constitutive mutants

Tomoko Yabe, Norio Suzuki, Takeshi Ishihara, Isao Katsura

Poster Session

AAA family proteins related to human genetic diseases in C. elegans

Kunitoshi Yamanaka, Tomoko Yamada-Inagawa, Yoshiko Okubo and Teru Ogura

Analysis of the C. elegans Sec1/Munc-18 family Involved in Membrane Trafficking

Keiko Gengyo-Ando, Etsuko Machiyama, Sachiko Noguchi and Shohei Mitani

Studies on biosynthesis of heparan sulfate and their binding proteins.

Jun-ichi Aikawa, Sara Nishioka, Kyoko Kojima-Aikawa and Masafumi Tsujimoto

A Computer Simulation of the Nervous System of C. elegans

Kazumi Sakata, Taro Ogurusu, Tokumitsu Wakabayashi, Katsunori Hoshi, Ryuzo Shingai

Stochastic method to predict synaptic signs in a partial neural network of C. elegans

Yuishi Iwasaki and Sohei Gomi

Revision of synaptic connectivity database

Ken-ichi Oshio, Satoru Morita, Yuko Osana, Yuishi Iwasaki, Sohei Gomi, Kazumi Omata, Eizo Akiyama, Kotaro Oka

Analysis of putative phosphorylation sites by TTX-4 nPKC-epsilon

Makoto Suzaki, Kotaro Kimura, Yoshifumi Okochi, Ikue Mori

Isolation of novel thermotaxis-defective mutants: Toward understanding thermotaxis specific signaling pathways, learning and memory

TANIZAWA Yoshinori, KUHARA Atsushi, INADA Hitoshi, KODAMA Eiji, MIZUNO Takafumi, MORI Ikue

Analysis of novel thermotaxis-defective mutants: nj34, nj35, nj41 and nj42

Akiko Miyara, Yoshifumi Okochi, Masatoshi Okumura, Ikue Mori

Behaviour analysis of aho mutants

Takafumi MIZUNO, Eiji KODAMA, Akiko MOHRI, Ikue MORI

Identification and Comparison of C. briggsae and C. remanei homologs of C. elegans daz-1

Muneyoshi Otori, Takeshi Karashima, Masayuki Yamamoto

Caenorhabditis elegans CeRBX1 is essential for diverse functions in mitotic chromosomal condensation and segregation, histone H3 phosphorylation, cell proliferation and meiosis

Yohei Sasagawa, Takeshi Urano, Yuji Kohara, Hideyuki Takahashi and Atsushi Higashitani

Characterization of C. elegans chromosomal deficiency mutants which cause abnormal patterns of programmed cell death during embryogenesis.

Miwa Furuya, Muneyoshi Otori, Masayuki Yamamoto and Asako Sugimoto

Cell Lineage Analysis using Automatic Cell Lineage?Extraction System

Shuichi Onami, Shugo Hamahashi, Shinichi Shibata, Yoshiko Kitamura and Eriko Masuda

TSP-15, a tetraspanin protein is required for the maintenance of epidermal integrity in C. elegans

Hiroki Moribe, John Yochem, Toyoshi Fujimoto, Hiromi Yamada, Yo Tabuse, and Eisuke Mekada

Environmental stresses affect the daf-21 (hsp90) mRNA level in Caenorhabditis elegans

Tadao Inoue, Youji Fukunaga, Johji Miwa, and Yasunori Yamaguchi

mig-29 encodes a SEC34 vesicle trafficking protein required for cell migration in C. elegans.

Yukihiko Kubota, Norio Suzuki and Kiyoji Nishiwaki

PLX-1 plays an essential role in Vulva Precursor Cell positioning

Zhicen Liu, Rie Kurokawa, Takashi Fujii, Yuji Kohara, Hajime Fujisawa, Shin Takagi

Serine Proteases of Family S9 are Involved in Gonadal Migration

Sawako Yoshina, Hideshi Inoue, and Kenji Takahashi

Immune defense of worms: ASABF-type antimicrobial peptide is a key to reveal phylogenetic relationship of immunity in lower invertebrates?

Hong Zhang and Yusuke Kato

Immune defense of worms: ASABF-epsilon and zeta, and ASABF-6Cys-alpha, novel members of ASABF-type antimicrobial peptides in Ascaris suum

Satoshi Ueno, Ajitha Pillai, Takao Igarashi, and Yusuke Kato

Cloning and characterization of O-fucosyltransferase in C. elegans

Kazunori Kondo, Shinya Watanabe and Shoko Nishihara

Survey of components of JNK/p38 MAP kinase cascades in C. elegans

Naoki Hisamoto, Kenji Nishide and Kunihiro Matsumoto

Identification of novel genes that regulate asymmetric cell division in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Masahiro Uchida, Hisako Takeshita, Hideyuki Okano, and Hitoshi Sawa.

Molecular and phenotypic characterization of two novel mutants defective in asymmetric cell division in C. elegans.

Kumiko Oishi, Hisako Takeshita, Hideyuki Okano, and Hitoshi Sawa

Analyses of two novel genes that regulate asymmetric cell division in C. elegans

Masaki Fujita, Hisako Takeshita, H Robert Horvitz and Hitoshi Sawa

Development of neuronal RNAi system

Takao H. Hikita, Daisuke Tsuboi, Mutsuki Amano, Hiroshi Qadota, and Kozo Kaibuchi