招待・招聘講演者

ERシンポジウム招聘講演者 Invited speakers for ER symposium

Richard D. Bardgett

Ecology at The University of Manchester

Lecture scheduled: Symposia S01 (19th March 9:00-12:00, Room-A)

Richard graduated from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1987 with a degree in Soil and Land Resource Science, and then moved to Lancaster University, where he gained his PhD in 1991. He then held posts at the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research and Manchester University, before returning to Lancaster University, where he established and led the Soil and Ecosystem Ecology Group. Richard recently returned to The University of Manchester, where he is Professor of Ecology. His main research interest is the study of plant-soil interactions and their impact on nutrient cycling and plant community dynamics in natural and managed ecosystems. His research takes him to many parts of the world, from the tropics to the poles, but most of his current research is focused on mountain grasslands. Richard has published many papers on this topic, and is recognized as a Highly Cited Scientist in the area of Environment/Ecology (2014). He has also written two highly acclaimed books, namely ‘The Biology of Soil” which won the 2006 Marsh Ecology Book of the Year Award, and the recently (2010) published ‘Aboveground-Belowground Linkages’. Richard is Editor of Journal of Ecology, the oldest ecological journal in the world, and a member of the Editorial Boards of Ecology Letters and Ecosystems. He is a Visiting Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Chair of BBSRC’s Committee E, and member of the Board of Directors of Rothamsted and the Netherlands Institute of Ecology Scientific Advisory Board. He is currently Vice President of the British Ecological Society, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2006 and a Fellow of the Society of Biology in 2011.

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Nicole M. van Dam

Group head and professor in Molecular Interaction Ecology, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, / Institute of Ecology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena and professor in Molecular Interaction Ecology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Lecture scheduled: Symposia S01 (19th March 9:00-12:00, Room-A)

Nicole’s aim is to unravel the molecular and chemical mechanisms governing interactions between plants and their biotic and abiotic environment. These mechanisms are studied using an integrated ecogenomic approach in which metabolomics and transcriptomics analyses are combined with manipulative experiments to assess plant and herbivore performance. The ultimate goal is to understand the role of plant-based mechanisms in the establishment of aboveground and belowground biodiversity in natural communities.
The research in Molecular Interaction Ecology at iDiv centers on two themes. The first theme focusses on the interactive effects of stress responses in plants. Stress responses induced by biotic or abiotic stresses greatly affect the plant’s metabolome and hence food webs associated with plants. Despite our extensive knowledge of the molecular regulation of single stress responses, little is known about how responses to simultaneously occurring biotic and abiotic stresses are regulated and how this may affect plant fitness in natural environments. In the context of iDiv, this theme will be expanded towards other natural plant species used in biodiversity experiments (e.g. the Jena Experiment). The second theme mainly focuses on unravelling the chemical and molecular ecology of belowground interactions. The soil is still a ‘black box’ when it comes to the role of plant secondary metabolites and herbivore-induced defense responses. However, exudates and volatiles produced by plant roots are important drivers of plant community assembly as well as of soil food web composition. A novel toolbox will be developed for studying the role of plant chemistry in the soil in mesocosms as well as in the field.

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Patrik Nosil

The University of Sheffield

Lecture scheduled: Symposia S02 (19th March 9:00-12:00, Room-B)

Patrik Nosil博士は、北米カリフォルニアにおけるナナフシの生態的種分化で知られる進化生態学者。若手でありながら2012年に生態的種分化に関する著書‘Ecological Speciation’を出版した種分化分野の旗手であり、The Society for the Study of Evolutionが選定するThe Theodosius Dobzhansky Prizeの2008年受賞者でもある。現在は英国のシェフィールド大学においてERCフェローとRoyal Societyフェローを兼任しており、複数の動物と植物を材料として、適応によって起きる種分化初期でのゲノム動態を研究している。前述のナナフシの平行種分化における詳細なゲノム動態の研究 (Victor et al., 2014. Science)は、種分化ゲノミクスに関する博士の研究チームの最近の成果をまとめたものである。

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Xiyong Hou

Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Specialty: Monitoring and modeling of land use change and shoreline change

Lecture scheduled: Symposia S08 (21st March 9:00-12:00, Room-A)

Dr. Xiyong Hou is a geographer with broad interests in monitoring and modeling of coastal zone, such as coastal LUCC (land use and land cover change), mainland shoreline change, climate change in coastal area, coastal vulnerability assessment and integrated coastal zone management. His current research focuses on using remote sensing, GIS and spatial modeling techniques to understand the spatial-temporal dynamics of coastal LUCC and mainland shoreline change and their impacts on coastal envirment and ecosystem. He received his Ph. D. in Cartography and Geographic Information System in 2005 at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), CAS. And he finished his postdoctoral researches in Ecology in 2007 at the Synthesis Research Center of Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN).

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