Symposium on 'Planarian -Regeneration and Beyond-

From September 7th to 9th, 2023, the 94th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan was held at the Koshirakawa Campus of Yamagata University.

In collaboration with Professor Yoshihiko Umesono of the University of Hyogo, we organized a symposium titled 'Planaria -Regeneration and Beyond-'.

Planarian ― Regeneration and Beyond ― Organizer： Takeshi Inoue (Tottori University) Yoshihiko Umesono (University of Hyogo) S9-1 Homeostatic control of Wnt/ß-catenin signaling pathway in adult planarians Yoshihiko Umesono (University of Hyogo) S9-2 Sex-inducing substances in planarians:Past, present, and beyond Kazuya Kobayashi (Hiirosaki University) S9-3 Dance of planarians:Probabilistic control in environmental responses via spontaneous movements. Takeshi Inoue (Tottori University) S9-4 Diversity of parasitic platyhelminthes Mizuki Sasaki (Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine) S9-5 A mechanism of the land/fresh-water invasion by“pioneering”euryhaline planarians - Platytocin and Beyond - Tatsuya Sakamoto Mayuko Hamada, Shunsuke Mori，Hirotaka Sakamoto (Ushimado Marine Institute)