Notification and Application Form IABHU International Symposium - Frontiers in Amphibian Biology: Endangered Species Conservation and Genome Editing The Institute for Amphibian Biology, Hiroshima University (IABHU) will host the international symposium “Frontiers in Amphibian Biology: Endangered Species Conservation and Genome Editing” (details below). We expect a large number of participants. 1. Date March 27 (Thu) and 28 (Fri), 2014 2. Venue Building E, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima Campus Address 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan (Directions available at http://www.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/index.html) 3. Schedule March 27 March 28 Lectures by invited speakers and institute members Poster presentations Social gathering (pre-registration required) Lectures by invited speakers and institute members Poster presentations Backyard tour of the Institute (pre-registration required) 4. Protocol for poster presentations, social gathering, and backyard tour Pre-registration is not required to attend the symposium (attendees may sign in at the symposium desk). However, pre-registration is necessary for those who wish to make a poster presentation, attend the social gathering, or join the backyard tour. We offer a travel award for young poster presentation applicants. Applicants who wish to be considered for a travel award must indicate so on the application form. Application: Those wishing to make a poster presentation, attend the social gathering, or join the backyard tour should complete and return the application form (Word file) by email. The registration deadline is February 20, 2014. Application submission: Please submit your completed application form (plese see bellow) to amphsymp@hiroshima-u.ac.jp. Multiple applications per email are not allowed; please send one email per applicant. The subject line must be “Application for IABHU symposium <APPLICANT’S NAME>” and the file name of Application Form must be “App_<APPLICANT’S NAME>”. Please delete these instructional pages and the example Abstract Form (last page) from the document, and send only the Application Form and Abstract Form when applying. To apply to make a poster presentation, please put the title and name(s) of the author(s) (for multiple authors, please place an asterisk to the left of author who will be presenting) and the abstract of the presentation in the Abstract Form. Please use Times 12 point font and single line spacing. Abbreviated names are acceptable for affiliations. Please note the maximum word counts indicated on the Abstract Form. Please see the example Abstract Form for guidance. Poster presentation topics: There are no restrictions on the content of the poster presentations, as long as the work pertains to amphibian biology. Poster size: Maximum poster size is 80 cm (width) × 160 cm (height). Travel awards: We offer a travel award for young poster presentation applicants aged 40 years or under. Abstracts from the applicants will be screened by the committee members, and about 20 applicants will be selected to receive travel awards. The award winners’ names will be listed on the symposium webpage. The maximum award per applicant is 30,000 yen for presenters coming from within Japan and 100,000 yen for presenters coming from overseas. Travel awards will be paid in cash (in Japanese yen) at the symposium desk (we do not support bank or mail transfers). 5. Meeting fee Participation (including backyard tour) Free Social gathering 5,000 yen (Please pay at symposium check-in) 6. Accommodation: Please note that the symposium organizers do not take any responsibility for providing accommodation or local transportation for participants. For accommodation, please check Hotels.com site http://www.hotels.com/. The following two hotels have convenient access to the symposium venue: Toyoko Inn Higashi-hiroshima Saijo Ekimae http://www.toyoko-inn.com/e_hotel/00160/index.html Saijo Hakuwa Hotel http://web.travel.rakuten.co.jp/portal/my/info_page_e.Eng?f_no=108769 7. Contact address and correspondence The Office of IABHU International Meeting, c/o Masayuki Sumida Institute for Amphibian Biology Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan E-mail: amphsymp@hiroshima-u.ac.jp *Program and further information are available on the symposium website: http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/amphibia/FronAmphBiol/ *Printed programs will be distributed at the symposium check-in desk. Application Form NAME: MAILING ADDRESS: TELEPHONE: EMAIL: 1. PRESENTATION Are you applying for a travel award? Are you 40 years of age or under? Are you from Japan or overseas? □ Presenting poster □ Not presenting □ Yes □ Yes □ Japan □ No □ No □ Overseas 2. SOCIAL GATHERING □ Attending □ Not attending 3. BACKYARD TOUR □ Attending □ Not attending *Please complete and return the Application Form and Abstract Form to amphsymp@hiroshima-u.ac.jp Abstract Form Title (maximum 40 words) Authors’ names (maximum 40 words) Authors’ affiliations (maximum 50 words) Abstract (maximum 500 words) Abstract form (Example) From Antarctica or Asia? New colonization scenario for Australian-New Guinean narrow mouth toads suggested from the findings on a mysterious genus Gastrophrynoides Kurabayashi1, Masafumi Matsui2, Daicus M. Belabut3,4, Hoi-Sen Yong3, Norhayati Ahmad4, Ahmad Sudin5, Mitsuru Kuramoto6, Amir Hamidy2, and Masayuki Sumida1 1 Inst. for Amphibian Biol., Hiroshima Univ., Japan; 2Grad. Sch. of Human and Environ. Stud., Kyoto Univ., Japan; 3Inst. of Biol. Sci., Univ. of Malaya, Malaysia; 4LESTARI, Univ. Kebangsaan, Malaysia; 5Facul. of Sci. and Tech., Univ. Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia; 6Munakata, Fukuoka, Japan ○Atsushi Microhylidae is a geographically widespread family of anurans. Although several extensive molecular analyses have attempted to elucidate their subfamilial relationships, and correlate these with Mesozoic and Cenozoic continental drifts, consensus has not been reached. Further, generic level relationships have not been well investigated in some microhylid subfamilies, and therefore subfamilial affiliations of some genera are still unclear. To re-examine the subfamilial relationship of microhylids, to elucidate the phylogenetic positions of two mysterious Asian genera, Gastrophrynoides and Phrynella, and to better understand the trans-continental distributions of microhylid taxa, we performed molecular phylogenetic and dating analyses using the largest molecular dataset (7164 nucleotide sites and ~ 52 microhylids) applied to these taxa to date. We newly sequenced six nuclear genes and two mitochondrial (mt) genes (approximately 8 kbp) from 22 microhylid frogs from eight subfamilies. The maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses resulted in the following phylogenetic information. (1) The recent view of the sister relationship of Microhylidae and Afrobatrachia is disputable. (2) The subfamilial relationship of microhylids suggested so far could be narrowed down to three alternatives. (3) Generic relationships of microhylines were largely elucidated, excluding the positions of Chaperina, Micryletta, and Kaloula. (4) Although two previous studies estimated different divergence ages for microhylid subfamilies, our estimated ages were similar to the older one. Remarkably, our results clearly showed that one of two problematic Asian genera, Phrynella, was nested in the clade of the Asian subfamily Microhylinae. By contrast, Gastrophrynoides occupied the most basal position of the Australian-New Guinean subfamily Asterophryinae. The estimated divergence of Gastrophrynoides from other asterophryine was unexpectedly around 50 million years ago. Although a colonization scenario via Antarctica to the Australian-New Guinean landmass has been suggested for Asterophryinae, our finding suggested a novel colonization route via Indo-Eurasia.