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人類の最大の敵である「蚊」の生物学に焦点を当てたシンポジウムです。
第一部は日本語、第二部は英語で開催します。
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２０２０年　２月２８日（金）

15:00 – 15:10     Welcome

第一部    【日本語で開催】[Japanese]

15:10 – 16:10     嘉糠洋陸 博士 (Prof Hirotaka Kanuka)
         ‘病原体媒介蚊の生物学’

16:15 – 16:45     三宅 崇 博士
         ‘魚から吸血する蚊   　カニアナヤブ蚊の生態と吸血源’

第二部    【英語で開催】[English]

16:50 – 17:50     Dr Matthew Su
         ‘The role of acoustic communication in Aedes courtship’

17:50 – 18:00     Concluding remarks

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Mosquitoes act as vectors of diseases which cause hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. Current control methods are proving increasingly inadequate in the face of increased insecticidal resistance and adaptative mosquito behaviours. Novel control methodologies are thus required, which necessitates an improved understanding of basic mosquito biology. This is particularly true for the two most important mosquito behaviors from a human perspective; host seeking and mating. Whilst these behaviors are of course highly distinct, underlying both is the mosquito’s circadian clock. Mosquitoes are exquisitely circadian animals and show a strong rhythmicity in their biting and copulating propensities. This symposium will focus on the latest scientific advances in our knowledge of the mosquito circadian clock, and how genetic manipulations to the core clock machinery can impact mosquito behavior.