No.174 Seminar ： Reproductive manipulator
- Dr. Toshiyuki Harumoto (Hakubi 10th batch) from Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University.
- 2019/11/12 4:30pm
- Conference Room 1&2,The first basement floor, Research Administration Building(Hakubi Center building)
- English
- Closed (only staff of Kyoto University)
Summary
About half of all insects living on earth are estimated to have some symbiotic microorganisms within their bodies. These symbionts are not just living inside host insects for their stable transmission to the offspring. They establish unique relations with their hosts to provide versatile functions, for example, improvement in fitness/fecundity, and protection against their natural enemies. Meanwhile, some symbionts manipulate host reproduction in a selfish manner to propagate their infection efficiently in the host population. I have been focusing on a bacterial symbiont Spiroplasma, whose infection in Drosophila causes “male killing” where male progeny is selectively killed during development. In this seminar, I would like to summarize current understanding concerning reproductive manipulation induced by the symbiont, and also would like to illustrate sophisticated molecular machinery underlying the weirdness of nature.
Opening talk
“Memory in Chicago”
- Speaker：Dr. Gen Ohtsuki (Hakubi 6th batch) from Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
- Date：November 12th, 2019 (Tuesday), 16:30-16:50
- Venue:Conference Room 1&2,The first basement floor, Research Administration Building(Hakubi Center building)
- Presentation Language:English or Japanese
- Format of the seminar:Closed (only staff of Kyoto University)
Summary
The cerebellum is now regarded as a unit for the higher-order cognition as well as the motor performance and learning. In fact, the inflammation in cerebellum was related to phenotypes in mental illnesses. Recently, I have had an opportunity to present in the Society for Neuroscience meeting (Neuroscience 2019, Chicago, US). I was also, somehow, invited to the Press Conference (Glia-Microglia session) and gave them a talk at that time. In this opening talk in Hakubi-seminar, I will introduce my recent independent studies and how to obtain the international jobs following to the term of Hakubi, in my case.