The 45th U.S.-Japan Joint Conference on Parasitic Diseases U.S.-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program was held in January 10-11, 2011.

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Place：

National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
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Date：

January 10-11, 2011

*Satellite Symposium
Place：National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan
Date：January 12, 2011
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Organizer：

Tomo NOZAKI

Director

Department of Parasitology National Institute of Infectious Diseases

Deadline for application　(Presenter)

November 30, 2010

Deadline for application　(without presentation)

December 24, 2010

Deadline for registration (Abstract)

December 20, 2010

Abstract：

Please submit your abstract by December 20 (Monday) to nagamune@nih.go.jp by e mail.
Abstract must be written in English, using Times font, on a single A4 page, and saved as pdf file.

Example：

Novel mechanism of mitochondrial (mitosomal) transport in the anaerobic enteric protozoon Entamoeba histolytica

Takashi MAKIUCHI1, Fumika MI-ICHI1, 2, and Tomo NOZAKI1, 3

1 Department of Parasitology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan
2 Division of Molecular and Cellular Immunoscience, Department of Biomolecular Sciences, Saga University, Japan
3 Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Mitochondrion-related organelles, mitosomes and hydrogenosomes, are found in a phylogenetically broad range of organisms. Their components and functions are highly diverse. We have previously shown that mitosomes of the anaerobic/microaerophilic intestinal protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica have uniquely evolved and compartmentalize a sulfate activation pathway, which is unprecedented. Although this major mitosome-confined metabolic pathway of E. histolytica mitosomes has been demonstrated (1), their physiological role and transport mechanism remain unknown. In this study, we examined the phenotypes caused by suppression of genes described hereinbefore, and showed that
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Reference:
1. Mi-ichi et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 106, 21731–21736, 2009.