International Symposium on Human Adaptation to Environment and Whole-body Coordination

Program

Saturday, Mar. 14

10:00~12:00
1. Human adaptability to modern society in Asian countries

(Chairperson: Tetsuo Katsuura)

Gwanseob Shin (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)

Sungphil Kim (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)

Wang-Chin Tsai (Fo-Guang University, Republic of China)

Kadek Heri Sanjaya (Chiba University, Japan)

13:30~15:30

2. Adaptation to hot environment

(Chairpersons: Yutaka Tochihara, Narihiko Kondo, and Yoshimitsu Inoue)

Titis Wijayanto (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia)

Jason Kai Wei Lee (Defence Medical & Environmental Research Institute, Singapore)

Tatsuro Amano (Kobe University, Japan)

Bun Tsuji (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan)

16:00~18:00

3. Adaptation to cold environment

(Chairpersons: Takafumi Maeda and Wouter D.van Marken Lichtenbelt)

Wouter D.van Marken Lichtenbelt (Maastricht University, Netherlands)

Takeshi Yoneshiro (Hokkaido University, Japan)

Hitoshi Wakabayashi (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan)

Takafumi Maeda (Hokkaido University, Japan)

Sunday, Mar. 15

10:00~12:00

4. Genetic variation and human phenotype

(Chairpersons: Takayuki Nishimura and Susumu Kudo)

Chew Fook Tim (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Yee-How Say (UTAR, Malaysia)

Choongwon Jeong (Chicago University, USA)

Kazuhiro Nakayama (Jichi Medical University, Japan)

13:30~15:00

5. Poster presentations

15:30~17:30

6. Diversity of the way of human adaptation to environment

(Chairperson: Akira Yasukouchi)

Michael Hermanussen (Aschauhof, Germany)

Daniel Brown (University of Hawaii, USA)

18:00~20:00

Banquet

Monday, Mar. 16

9:30~12:00

7. Circadian rhythm and adaptation to light environment

(Chairpersons: Shigekazu Higuchi and Takeshi Morita)

George Brainard (Thomas Jefferson University, USA)

Véronique Daneault (Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, Canada)

Tetsuo Katsuura (Chiba University, Japan)

Sei-ichi Tsujimura (Kagoshima University, Japan)

Shingo Kitamura (National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Japan)

Shigekazu Higuchi (Kyushu University, Japan)

13:30~15:30

8. Integrative approach to blood pressure control

(Chairpersons: Keita Ishibashi and Yoshiyuki Fukuba)

J. Andrew Taylor (Harvard Medical School, USA)

Masashi Ichinose (Meiji University, Japan)

Hidehiko Komine (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)

Keita Ishibashi (Chiba University, Japan)

16:00~18:00

9. Human evolution of exercise tolerance and its mechanistic link

(Chairpersons: Shunsaku Koga and David C. Poole)

David C. Poole (Kansas State University, USA)

Anni Vanhatalo (University of Exeter, UK)

Shunsaku Koga (Kobe Design University, Japan)