Dear Members
Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (B) Sex Chromosome Cycle: Mechanism for Avoiding the Extinction of Sex Based on Sex Chromosome Turnover ( https://xyzw-cycle.com/ ) will hold a public results symposium as follows. Please feel free to join us.
I look forward to working with you.
Masafumi Nozawa
Date and time: February 20, 2025, 12:50 PM – 6:00 PM
Location: Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, VERITAS, 5th Floor Conference Room, and online via Zoom
Free admission
Please register from the registration site below. The Zoom URL for the online stream will be sent to the registered email address of those who have registered.
https://forms.gle/MiKs6oNRHwrLUG3Z9
[Program]
12:50-13:00 ~Opening Remarks~ Masafumi Nozawa (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Part 1 (Chair: Masafumi Nozawa)
13:00-13:30 Special Lecture 1: "Loss and Maintenance of the Y Chromosome in Japanese Endemic Spiny Rats" Mari Kuroiwa (Hokkaido University)
13:30-14:00 Special Lecture 2: "Clinical Significance of Acquired Sex Chromosome Loss" Soichi Sano (National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center)
14:00-14:10 Break
Part 2 (Chair: Yukako Katsura)
14:10-14:50 "The actual state of the sex-determining region in the Western clawed frog (Xenopus tropicalis) with mixed ZW/XY systems" Takeshi Igawa (Hiroshima University)
14:50-15:30 "Narrowing down functional regions of sex chromosomes via chromosome fragmentation" Takuya Abe (Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University)
15:30-15:40 Break
Part 3 (Chair: Takeshi Igawa)
15:40-16:20 "Signs of avoiding the loss of sex found in plant heteromorphic sex chromosomes" Yusuke Kazama (Fukui Prefectural University)
16:20-17:00 "Toward elucidating the mechanism of XY/ZW sex chromosome turnover in the wrinkled frog (Glandirana rugosa)" Yukako Katsura (Kyoto University)
17:00-17:10 Break
Part 4 (Chair: Yusuke Kazama)
17:10-17:50 "Loss of the Y chromosome in the evolution of Drosophila auraria and its impact" Masafumi Nozawa (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
17:50-17:55 ~Comments~ Yukihiro Matsunaga, MD, PhD (The University of Tokyo), Minoru Tanaka, MD, PhD (Nagoya University)
17:55-18:00 ~Closing Remarks~ Masafumi Nozawa (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
