Environmental Change, Pathogens and Human Linkages

[ Outline of workshop ]
The purpose The purpose of the workshop is to discuss intensively and exchange information concerning the linkage of environmental alteration by humans, pathogens and human. It is also hoped that the workshop will both encourage international cooperation in these topics and stimulate all of our researches.
The major topics 1. Environmental alteration by humans
2. Ecology of pathogens and their hosts
3. Infection process and ecosystem effects
4. Economics and culture
5. Health
Venue Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Kyoto, Japan
Date June 11 and 12, 2008 (science program), 13 and 14 (discussion
for further collaborative research and excursion)
Language English
Attendance fee Free
Organizer Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, RIHN Environmental Diseases Project
Supporter freshwater BIODIVERSITY / DIVERSITAS
 


[ Science program ]
■June 11th , 2008 (Wed.)
   
[ Session 1 ] Koi Herpes Virus-Carp-Humans linkage
  Chair persons: Kimiko Uchii and Hiroki Yamanaka
     
10:00-10:30   Opening address
    Narifumi Tachimoto, RIHN, Japan
10:30-10:50   Introductory remarks
    Zen'ichiro Kawabata, RIHN, Japan
10:50-11:30   Contemporary and predicted alterations of freshwater environments
    Robert Naiman, University of Washington, USA
11:30-12:10   Linkages between isolated wetland ecology and disease ecology in the southern U.S
    Katherine Kirkman, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research, USA
     
12:10-13:10   Lunch Break
     
13:10-13:50   The outbreak of carp disease caused by CyHV-3 as a model for new viral emerging diseases
    Moshe Kotler, Hebrew University, Israel (Ecology of KHV)
13:50-14:30   Impacts on economics and culture
    Masatomi Matsuoka, Asahi Fishermen’s Union of Shiga Prefecture, Japan
     
14:30-15:00   Coffee break
     
15:00-15:40   KHV-Carp-Humans linkage
    Zen'ichiro Kawabata, et al., RIHN, Japan (Case study in Lake Biwa, Japan)
15:40-16:20   USA perspectives on KHV Past and Present: An examination of KHV outbreaks, research, and regulatory efforts in context with human/animal bond
16:20-17:00   Summary
    Robert Naiman (in contact), Zen’ichiro Kawabata (RIHN)
     
18:00   Welcome Party
     
     
■June 12th , 2008 (Thu.)
[ Session 2 ] Emerging diseases in degraded envrironment
  Chair persons:Yukihiro Kohmatsu and Tomoaki Ichijo
     
9:00-9:40   Legionella bacterium
    Masao Nasu, Osaka University, Japan
9:40-10:20   Malaria in Tropical Monsoon Asia
    Kazuhiko Moji, RIHN, Japan
     
10:20-10:50   Coffee break
     
10:50-11:30   Epizootiology of Avian Influenza
    Kouichi Otsuki, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
11:30-12:10   The Stress Immunocompetency Axis and the Global Decline of Amphibians
    Joseph Kiesecker, The Nature Conservancy, USA
     
12:10-13:10   Lunch Break
     
13:10-13:50   Spatial and temporal drivers of West Nile virus outbreaks in North America
    Shannon LaDeau, Smothsonian Migratory Bird Center, USA
13:50-14:30   Summary
    Masao Nasu (in contact), Joseph Kiesecker (in contact)
     
14:30-15:00   Coffee break
     
     
[ Session 3 ]   Coexistence with humans
    Chair persons: Kazuaki Matsui and Mie Honjo
     
15:00-15:40   Disease in Highland Civilization
    Kiyoto Okumiya, RIHN, Japan
15:40-17:20   The evolutionary control of virulence and antibiotic resistance
    Paul Ewald, University of Louisville (Benign coexistence with pathogens)
17:20-18:00   Ecosystem health, global health and sustainability
    David Rapport, University of Guelph, Canada
18:00-18:40   Summary
    Kazuhiko Moji, Zen’ichiro Kawabata
     
18:40-19:00   Closing remarks
    Zen’ichiro Kawabata
     

【Address for correspondence】
Naomi Kodama
(Research Associate)
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN)
457-4 Motoyama, Kamigamo, Kita-ku, Kyoto, 603-8047 JAPAN
(project's page)

研究プロジェクト「民族/国家の交錯と生業変化を軸とした環境史の解明―中央ユーラシア半乾燥域の変遷」のコアメンバーとして研究に従事されます。