Open symposium: Plants and Flowers that Crossed the Sea
.................................................................................................... Jul 29 (Thu) ... 13:00 to 17:00

13:30-13:35 Opening
Masato Miyachi (Director, National Museum of Japanese History)

13:35-14:00 OS-1: The exibition "Plants and flowers that crossed the sea" and vegetation history in Japan
Sei-ichiro Tsuji (The University of Tokyo)

14:00-14:30 OS-2: A short review of Japanese horticulture: its remarks and history
Hideaki Ohba (The University of Tokyo)

14:30-14:40 Break

14:40-15:10 OS-3:Pedigree of melon (Cucumis melo L.) in ancient Japan
Noriyuki Fujishita (Osaka Prefectural University)

15:10-15:40 OS-4:Genus Camellia in East Asia
Naotoshi Hakoda (Keisen University)

15:40-16:00 Discussion
16:00-17:00 Gallery talk "Plants and flowers that crossed the Sea"
Special exhibition room

Early angiosperm and their developmental stages in Northeast China
Ge Sun (Jilin University, China)

Molecular mechanisms of vegetative and reproductive organ evolution in land plants
Mitsuyasu Hasebe (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan)

Contrasting patterns of evolution of plants in oceanic islands
Tod Stuessy (University of Vienna, Austria)

Symposium 1: Phylogeography: Molecular Approaches to Biogeography
    Organizer: Tadashi Kajita, Hiroaki Setoguchi
.................................................................................................... Jul 30 (Fri) 15:00 to 18:00

1) Qiu-Yun, Xiang (North Carolina State Univ., USA)
Integrating phylogeny, fossil, and molecular dating in disjunct biogeography - determining migration route and time and unraveling post-isolation evolution

2) Phylogeography of Fatsia (Araliaceae) based on nucleotide diversity of trnD-trnT intergenic spacer and nuclear ribosomal ITS region
Tzen-Yuh, Chiang (Cheng-Kung Univ., Taiwan)

3) Phylogeography of Japan: alpine plants and widely distributed plants in Japan
Noriyuki Fujii (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Japan)

4) Molecular population genetics and phylogeography of Japanese conifers
Yoshihiko Tsumura (Forest Research Institute, Japan)

5) DNA polymorphism in structured populations
Fumio Tajima (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Symposium 2: Asian Plant Diversity and Floristic Research
    Organizer: Jin Murata, Hiroyuki Akiyama
.................................................................................................... Jul 31 (Sat) 9:00 to 12:00

1) Recent progress in the floristic research in Korea:
Chong-Wook Park (Seoul National University, Korea)

2) Recent progress in the floristic research in China:
Jinshuang Ma (Brooklyn Botanical Garden, USA)

3) Field research for Myanmar flora:
Nobuyuki Tanaka (Makino Botanical Garden, Japan)

4) Moss flora of Saba:
Monica Suleiman (Saba University, Malaysia)

5) Pollination diversity in Asian tropics:
Shoko Sakai (Kyoto Univ., Japan)

6) Tertiary evolution of the East Asian megathermal flora in relation to tectonics and global climate change:
Bob Morley

Symposium 3: Molecular Phylogeny of Asian Plants
   Organizer: Minoru N. Tamura, Hisayoshi Nozaki
.................................................................................................... Jul 31 (Sat) 13:30 to 17:00

0) Introduction to Symposium 3, "Molecular phylogeny of Asian plants" (provisional title):
Minoru N. Tamura (Osaka City Univ., Japan)

1) Origin and evolution of "plants"as deduced from genome information:
Hisayoshi Nozaki (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

2) Cryptic species of the red alga Plocamium inferred from the molecular phylogeny and physiological properties:
Mitsunobu Kamiya (Kobe Univ., Japan)

3) Key innovations in the evolution of green land plants:
Klaus Kubitzki (Uni. Hamburg, Deutschland)

4) Molecular phylogeny of the Pteridophytes (provisional title):
Masahiro Kato (The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

5) Molecular phylogeny of conifers and family diversification: review and perspective:
Shu-Miaw Chaw (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

6) Molecular phylogeny of the angiosperms (provisional title)
Hiroshi Tobe (Kyoto Univ., Japan)

Symposium 4: Informatics in Plant Systematics
    Organizer: Motomi Ito, Hidetoshi Nagamasu
.................................................................................................... Aug 1 (Sun) 9:00 to 12:00

1) SEABCIN (South East Asia Botanical Collections Information Network):
Saw Leng Guan (FRIM, Malaysia)

2) Indonesia biodiversity information system:
Roemantyo (LIPI, Indonesia)

3) Integration of local flora information:
Motomi Ito (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)

4) Taxon name and taxon concept:
Nozomi 'James' Ytow (Tsukuba Univ., Japan)

0) Introduction to Symposium 5, "The Changing Species Concepts in Plant Kingdom":
Noriaki Murakami (Kyoto Univ., Japan)

1) The changing species concepts of mosses:
Benito C. Tan (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore) and Brent D. Mishler (Univ. California, Berkeley, USA)

2) Genetic diversity in apogamous fern species of Dryopteris erythrosora group (Dryopteridaceae)
Hiroshi Ishikawa (Chiba Univ., Japan)

3) Hybrid speciation of a high mountain pine Pinus densata:
Xiao-Ru Wang (Inst. of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

4) Seasonal and ecological factors as isolation mechanisms between species of the genus Heloniopsis (Monocotyledonae: Melanthiaceae):
Sizuka Fuse (Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, Japan)

5) Facultative agamospermy and introgressive hybridization in Taraxacum (dandelions) species complex:
Ki-Joong Kim (Korea Univ., Korea)

6) Selection and speciation: exploring the origins of wild sunflowers:
Briana Gross and Loren Rieseberg (Indiana Univ., USA)