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May 17 (Wednesday)
Registration – Reception Desk
08:20 – 08:50	Registration
Opening Ceremony – Auditorium
09:00 – 09:10	Welcome Remarks
09:10 – 09:20	Group Photo Session
Plenary Lecture I
09:30 – 10:10	PL 01. Chi-Hing Chris Cheng (Univ. of Illinois, USA) Can Antarctic notothenioid fishes re-adapt to a warmer world – Lessons from a three-species comparison
Session I Genomic and physiological studies of microorganisms living in extremes environments
10:20 – 10:40	S1 01. Maria Michela Corsaro (Univ. of Naples Federico II, Italy) Extracellular polysaccharides: A strategy to thrive in cold habitats
10:40 – 11:00	S1 02. Corien Bakermans (Pennsylvania State Univ., USA) Comparative genomic analyses of bacteria from permafrost
11:00 – 11:20	S1 03. Sung-Keun Rhee (ChungBuk Nat’l Univ., Korea) Genomic and transcriptomic analysis for revealing carbon-cycling in a western Antarctic polynya
11:20 – 11:40	S1 04. Yung Mi Lee (KOPRI, Korea) Microbial community and Genomic insight to predominant Candidatus Atribacteria JS1 lineage in marine sediments of the Ross Sea, Antarctica
11:40 – 12:00	S1 05. Wonki Min (Kyungil Univ., Korea) A human CCT5 gene mutation causing distal neuropathy impairs hexadecamer assembly in an archaeal model
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch, Poster Session & Korean Early Career Scientists Gathering
Session II Adaptation of photosynthetic organisms to freezing environment
13:40 – 14:00	S2 01. Leon A. Bravo (Univ. de La Frontera, Chile) Impact of in situ warming on Antarctic vascular plants
14:00 – 14:20	S2 02. Hyoungseok Lee (KOPRI, Korea) Molecular effects of environmental changes on Antarctic plants transcriptome
14:20 – 14:40	S2 03. Byeong-ha Lee (Sogang Univ., Korea) Functional implications of Antarctic genetic resources for plant stress tolerance
14:40 – 15:00	S2 04. Jungeun Lee (KOPRI, Korea) Green under snow: Adaptive genetic characteristics of plant species living in the polar regions
15:00 – 15:20	S2 05. Rachael Morgan-Kiss (Miami Univ., USA) The Antarctic lake alga Chlamydomonas sp. UWO241 possesses a remodeled photosynthetic apparatus and high rates of alternative electron transport
15:20 – 15:50	Coffee Break & Poster Session
Session III Genomic and physiological adaptation in polar animals
16:00 – 16:20	S3 01. John H. Postlethwait (Univ. of Oregon, USA) 'Wrecks of Ancient Life’: Insights from an icefish
16:20 – 16:40	S3 02. H. William Detrich (Northeastern Univ., USA) Broad taxonomic phylogenomics of sub- and high-Antarctic notothenioid fishes
16:40 – 17:00	S3 03. Laura Ghigliotti (Institute of Marine Sciences, Italy) Chromosomal re-shaping and adaptation in polar fish
17:00 – 17:20	S3 04. Jin-Hyoung Kim (KOPRI, Korea) Molecular effects of acute salinity change on Antarctic cod
17:20 – 17:40	S3 05. Hyun Park (KOPRI, Korea) Genome-wide analysis of Antarctic fish – Presents and Next

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5     THE 23rd INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON POLAR SCIENCES