15th Int'l Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME15)
 

 

Keynote Speakers

Confirmed Keynote Speakers for ISME15 are:

Takema Fukatsu, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

Professor Takema Fukatsu is Prime Senior Researcher and Group Leader of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, and also Professor of the University of Tokyo and the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He has been serving as associate editor for J Exp Zool A, and editorial board member for such journals as Proc R Soc B, J Insect Physiol, Zool Sci etc. In 2013, he was elected to the Fellow of American Academy of Microbiology.

He has been studying on diverse insect-microbe endosymbiotic associations using multi-disciplinary approaches including molecular biology, genetics, genomics, physiology, ecology and evolutionary biology. His scientific interest is extremely broad, encompassing diverse sophisticated biological interactions associated with such phenomena as symbiosis, mutualism, parasitism, reproductive manipulation, morphological manipulation, insect sociality, etc.

His amazing discoveries include symbiont-mediated insecticide resistance, symbiont that alters insect’s body color, symbiont that broadens insect’s food plant range, symbiont-mediated pest evolution, vitamin B-provisioning Wolbachia endosymbiont, Wolbachia-insect horizontal gene transfers, and many others, which have been published as over 170 papers in scientific journals including Science, Cell, PNAS, PLoS Biol,Curr Biol, etc.

His research activities are always aiming at integrating natural history into modern biology: fascinating biological phenomena in the kingdom of biodiversity should be re-interpreted in the light of modern biological science.

 

Ruth Ley, Cornell University, USA

Ruth E. Ley, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Microbiology at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. She was trained in ecology and natural history at the University of California Berkeley (B.A.) and in ecosystem science and soil microbial ecology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she worked with Dr. Steve Schmidt (Ph.D.). Her post doctoral research was first with Dr. Norman Pace, working on highly diverse hypersaline microbial mats.

She then transitioned to working with Dr. Jeffrey Gordon on the microbial ecology of obesity at Washington University School of Medicine. She is an author on 4 of the 10 most highly cited papers on the human microbiome.

Her interdisciplinary group at Cornell works on the human microbiome at different scales of analysis, including large-scale genetic studies in human to discover novel pathways of interaction between host and microbiome, and mechanistic studies of those interactions using germfree mice as a tool to assemble and interrogate specific microbiotas.

Dr. Ley’s awards have included the Hartwell Investigator Award, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award, a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship, and an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

 
 
○ 주관기관 : 한국미생물학회
 
○ 행사장소 : 서울, COEX 
 
○ 행사기간 : 2014-08-24 ~ 2014-08-29