S29
Front Edge of Neuroethology and Comparative Physiology in Asia
Organizers:
Etsuro Ito (Kagawa Sch. of Pharmaceutical Sci., Tokushima Bunri Univ., Japan)
How-Jing Lee (Entomology Dept., National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan)
Recent development in Asian countries has allowed a rapid increase in both the number and the sophistication of studies by neuroethologists and comparative physiologists in this region. However, development of scientific exchanges has been slow or even hindered by the lack of an Asian ‘hub’: Asian scientists often get to know each other and communicate via indirect and coincidental links to laboratories in the U.S. or Europe. The goal of this symposium is to encourage these people to meet, get to know each other and build up direct collaborative networks. Selected talks by distinguished scientists will highlight how we can best collaborate to stimulate further development of neuroethology and comparative physiology in Asia.
Speakers:
1) How-Jing Lee (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan)
Regulation of circadian locomotion of the German cockroach
2) Long Zhang (China Agricultural Univ., China)
Cellular and molecular mechanisms on olfaction of locust (Insecta, Orthoptera: Locusta migratoria)
3) Ryota Matsuo (Tokushima Bunri Univ., Japan)
DNA endoreplication in the brain neurons during body growth of an adult slug
4) Ishwar S. Parhar (Monash Univ. Sunway Campus, Malaysia)
Comparative neuroendocrine mechanisms in the control of reproduction
5) Yuichi Takeuchi (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
Lateral difference in hunting behavior in the scale-eating cichlid fish, Perissodus microlepis in Lake Tanganyika