Important dates

22 Aug. 2008:
Deadline for early online registration and submission of the abstract.
31 Aug. 2008:
Deadline for online hotel reservation.
14 Sept. 2008:
Deadline for online registration. Final announcement.
28 Sept. - 3 Oct. 2008:
International Symposium on Snowball earth and emergence of metazoan.

last update at July, 18, 2008

International symposium of
"From Genome to Snowball Earth, MetazoanEvolution and Habitable Planets:Multidisciplinary Relations"

Odaiba, Tokyo, Japan, 28 September - 3 October, 2008


This is the fourth announcement of the International symposium of "From Genome to Snowball Earth, MetazoanEvolution and Habitable Planets:Multidisciplinary Relations". This symposium will be held together with the 4th International Symposium on Isotopomers (ISI 2008) and outreach programs hosted by the COE21 "How to build habitable planets?".

Visit a registration and accommodation site in JTB Co. from the following links.
[English site] [Japanese site]
The schedule is as follows;
28th, Sept.:
Registration and Icebreaker
Symposium: Research Perspective of COE21 "How to Build Habitable Planets?" (Multidisciplinary Researches on Habitable Planet) is also held during daytime at the same venue.
29th Sept. to 3rd, Oct.:
International symposium of "From Genome to Snowball Earth, MetazoanEvolution and Habitable Planets:Multidisciplinary Relations"
4th, Oct.:
Registration and icebreaker for ISI2008
Outreach program (2) is also held during daytime.
5th to 8th, Oct., 2008:
4th International Symposium on Isotopomers (ISI 2008)

Fourth circular of the International symposium of "From Genome to Snowball Earth, MetazoanEvolution and Habitable Planets:Multidisciplinary Relations" is available from the following link.
Download the 4th circular

A tentative program of the symposium "From Genome to Snowball Earth" is available in the following link:
Program

The details of the COE program are available in the 21st Century COE program URL:
http://coe21.geo.titech.ac.jp/ENG/index.html

The venue will be National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Kagaku Miraikan in Japanese). This is located at Odaiba area, the Tokyo water front, and the information is found at URL;
http://www.miraikan.jst.go.jp/index_e.html

The details of the ISI 2008 will be also updated in the URL;
http://nylab.chemenv.titech.ac.jp/isi-e.html

Optional tours will be available in the URL, and please contact it individually:
http://www.jtbgmt.com/sunrisetour/index.aspx

Scope and Topics:

The purpose of the Symposium is to look into the latest scientific achievements in investigations of the mechanism and cause of Snowball Earth, decoding of surface environmental change during/after the Snowball Earth and the role on the biological evolution. Especially, multidisciplinary research including genome science, astronomy and meteorology as well as geology and geochemistry gives new sight of the Snowball Earth and the role on the emergence of metazoan. The Symposium will call for papers from a wide range of research on history of the earth, including solid earth and surface environment, and galactic system, biological evolution and meteorology, as follows:
Phylogenic Evolution; Genome vs paleontology (Day 2, Sep. 29)
Genome and macro-level biology, Paleontology, Role of mass extinction
Surface environmental Change (Day 3, Sep. 30)
Chemostratigraphy,Geochemical environmental change in late Neoproterozoic,Geochemical environmental change through the time
Role of solid Earth and modeling (Day 4, Oct. 1)
Role of solid Earth: Mantle convection and thermal history through time,ole of solid Earth: geomagnetism and continental growth
Modeling of snowball Earth (Day 5, Oct. 2)
Model of Snowball Earth,Role of galactic cosmic ray on terrestrial climate and Snowball Earth
Habitable planets in the Universe (Day 6, Oct. 3)
Habitable planets in the Universe. What shall we do the next?

Organization

Scientific Contents of the Symposium:
Shigenori Maruyama
Doctor of Science and Professor of Geology
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Tokyo Institute of Technology
(I2-9) 2-12-1 O-okayama Meguro-ku Tokyo, 152-8551, JAPAN
Phone +81-3-5734-2618 (office), Fax +81-3-5734-3538
E-mail: snowball@geo.titech.ac.jp http://www.geo.titech.ac.jp/lab/hirose/maruyamalab/maruyamalab.e.html
http://coe21.geo.titech.ac.jp/ENG/index.html

Secretariat of the Symposium:@
Tsuyoshi Komiya
Ph.D and Associate professor of Geology
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Tokyo Institute of Technology
(I2-9) 2-12-1 O-okayama Meguro-ku Tokyo, 152-8551, JAPAN
Phone +81-3-5734-2618 (office), Fax +81-3-5734-3538
E-mail: snowball@geo.titech.ac.jp, tkomiya@geo.titech.ac.jp

Mariko Pickens
Secretary to COE21
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Tokyo Institute of Technology
(I2-21) 2-12-1 O-okayama Meguro-ku Tokyo, 152-8551, JAPAN
Phone +81-3-5734-2618 (office), Fax +81-3-5734-3538
E-mail: snowball@geo.titech.ac.jp

If you have any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact either Dr. Shigenori Maruyama, Dr. Tsuyoshi Komiya or Ms. Mariko Pickens.

Local Organizing Committee

Dr. Yukio Isozaki, Tokyo University
Dr. Tsuyoshi Komiya, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr. Soichi Omori, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr. Yuichiro Ueno, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr. Manabu Nishizawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr. Shinji Yamamoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr. Masahiro Ichiki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Dr. Motoko Igisu, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan