Scientific Program
11 June 2008 (Wed)
10:00-10:10 |
Opening address |
Tomoya Akimichi (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan) |
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10:10-10:30 |
Introductory remarks |
Zen'ichiro Kawabata (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan) |
10:30-11:10 |
Global alteration of freshwaters and influences on human and environmental well-being |
*Robert J. Naiman (University of Washington, USA) and David Dudgeon (University of Hong Kong, China) |
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11:10-11:50 |
Linkages between isolated wetland ecology and disease ecology in the southern U.S. |
*Katherine Kirkman, Lora Smith, Steve Golladay and Steve Opsahl (Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center, USA) |
13:00-14:00 |
Poster Presentations |
14:00-14:40 |
The outbreak of carp disease caused by CyHV-3 as a model for new viral emerging diseases |
*Moshe Kotler, Maya Ilouze, Maya Davidovich and Arnon Dishon (Hebrew University, Israel) |
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14:40-15:20 |
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Masatomi Matsuoka (Asahi Fishermen’s Union of Shiga Prefecture, Japan) |
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16:00-16:40 |
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*Zen'ichiro Kawabata, Toshifumi Minamoto, Mie N. Honjo, Kimiko Uchii, Hiroki Yamanaka, Arata A. Suzuki, Yukihiro Kohmatsu (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan) and RIHN Environmental Disease Project co-researchers |
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16:40-17:20 |
Summary |
Robert J. Naiman and Zen'ichiro Kawabata |
18:00- Welcome Party
12 June 2008 (Thu)
Session 2: Emerging diseases in degraded envrironment
Chair persons: Yukihiro Kohmatsu and Tomoaki Ichijo9:00-9:40 |
Environmental disease-environmental alteration and infectious disease- |
Nobuyasu Yamaguchi and *Masao Nasu (Osaka University, Japan) |
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9:40-10:20 |
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*Kazuhiko Moji (Research Institute for Humanitu and Nature, Japan), Eiko Kaneda (University of Tokyo, Japan) and Shusuke Nakazawa (Nagasaki University Institute of Tropical Medicine, Japan) |
10:50-11:30 |
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Koichi Otsuki (Kyoto Sangyo University and Tottori University, Japan) |
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11:30-12:10 |
The stress immunocompetency axis and the global decline of amphibians |
Joseph M. Kiesecker (The Nature Conservancy, USA) |
13:10-13:50 |
Spatial and temporal drivers of West Nile virus outbreaks in North America |
Shannon L. LaDeau (Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, USA) |
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13:50-14:30 |
Summary |
Masao Nasu and Joseph M. Kiesecker |
15:00-15:40 |
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*Kiyohito Okumiya, Ryota Sakamoto, Yasuyuki Kosaka, Masayuki Ishine (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan), Taizo Wada and Kozo Matsubayashi (Kyoto University, Japan) |
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15:40-16:20 |
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Paul W. Ewald (University of Louisville, USA) |
16:20-17:00 |
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David J. Rapport (EcoHealth Consulting and University of Western Ontario, Canada) |
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17:00-17:40 |
Summary |
Kazuhiko Moji and Zen'ichiro Kawabata |
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17:40-18:00 |
Closing remarks |
Zen'ichiro Kawabata |