| 9:30 Opening address |
Kaoru Honjo (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization)
Machi Dilworth (National Science Foundation, USA) |
| 9:40 Keynote Lecture |
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| Scientific issues associated with the development
of biofuels |
| Chris Somerville (Carnegie Institution, USA) |
| 10:30 Session 1 Plant Metabolomics |
| L1 Integration of transcript and metabolite data on plant metabolic pathway maps |
| Daisuke Shibata (Kazusa DNA Research Institute) |
| L2 Profile of chloroplast gene expression and metabolic engineering
of chloroplast |
| ken-Ichi Tomizawa (Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth) |
| 11:30 Lunch |
12:30 L3 Integrating Functional and Structural Genomics for Metabolic Engineering
in the
Flavonoid Pathway |
| Richard A. Dixon (Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, USA) |
| 13:00 L4 Innovation in commercial crop development: the role of metabolomics |
| Richard Trethewey (Metanomics GmbH & Co, Germany) |
| L5 Metabolomics-based functional genomics highway in plants |
| Kazuki Saito (Chiba University /RIKEN Plant Science Center) |
| 14:00 Session 2 Production of Industrial Materials by Plants |
L6 Natural rubber from plants: Interspecific comparisons and metabolic
engineering
strategies |
| Colleen McMahan (USDA, USA) |
L7 Manipulating carotenoid biosynthesis during tomato fruit ripening; effects
on colour and
nutritional content |
| Paul D. Fraser (London University, UK) |
| 15:00 Coffee Break |
| 15:20 Session 3 METI, NEDO-Project |
| S1 The search for key genes that regulate amino acid metabolisms |
| Daisuke Igarashi (Ajinomoto Co.) |
S2 Discovery of genes involved in glycyrrhizin biosynthesis from Glycyrrhiza
uralensis using
expressed sequence
tags (ESTs) |
| Hiroshi Sudo（Tokiwa Phytochemical Co.） |
| S3 For developping flax plants that produce astaxanthin |
| Norihiko Misawa（Marine Biotechnology Institute） |
| S4 Production of hyaluronic acid in tobacco plants and BY-2 cells |
| Shigeo Shibatani（Toyobo Co.) |
| S5 Expression profiling of the Eucalyptus cell wall biosynthesis genes |
| Takashi Hibino（Oji Paper Co.） |
| S6 For commercialization of transgenic Eucalyptus |
| Hiroyasu Ebinuma（Nippon Paper Industries CO. ,LTD.） |
| S7 Improvement in rubber tree using genetic engineering |
| Setsuo Akiyama（Bridgestone Co.） |
| S8 Production of trans-polyisoprenoid by Eucommia (Hardy rubber tree) |
| Yoshihisa Nakazawa（Hitachi Zosen Co.） |
| 16:40 Discussion |
| 17:00 L8 Closed-plant-factory-system for plant made pharmaceuticals |
| Kouki Matsuo（National Institute of advanced Industrial Science and Technology） |
| 17:30 Closing Remark |
| Atsuhiko Shinmyo （Nara Institute of Science and Technology) |
| 18:00 Closing |
