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details of Workshop

details of Workshop

2024.10.01

Schedule

March 9, 2025 (Sunday) - Matsudo Campus

TimeContents
10:00 - 11:30 Tour of research facilities (Prof. Goto's laboratory) of plant factory with artificial light
(Invited speakers only)
12:00 - 13:00 Registration
13:00 - 13:05 Opening address by Arata Momohara
(Dean, Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University)
13:15 - 14:40 Session I: Plants and Foods for Manned Space Exploration
Elison Blancaflor (NASA):
 "A Green Revolution for Space: harnessing plants for multiplanetary living"
・Hayato Ohkuma (JAXA):
 "Status of JAXA's research and development for the realization of a lunar farm"
・Mizuki Komasa (Space Foodsphere), Yuta Kikuchi (JAXA/Space Foodsphere):
 "Stardust Program: Strategies to create advanced resource-recycling food supply systems to support long-term lunar stays"
15:00 - 16:25 Session II: Centers of Plant Research for Space in Australia and Japan
・Matthew Gilliham (The University of Adelaide):
 "P4S: re-designing plant, food and bioresource production for Space and Earth"
・Hideyuki Takahashi (Chiba University):
 "Research Center for Space Agriculture and Horticulture at Chiba University: its backgrounds and goals"
・Mitsumasa Hanaoka (Chiba University):
 "Towards the establishment of plants and crops suitable for the space environments"
16:30 - 18:00 Poster Presentations

March 10, 2025 (Monday) - Matsudo Campus

TimeContents
9:00 - 11:20 Session IV: Environmental Control for Plant Production in Space
・Eiji Goto (Chiba University):
 "Environmental control for plant production in space"
・Raymond M. Wheeler (NASA):
 "NASA's contributions to controlled environment agriculture"
・Kyunghwang Kim (DLR):
 "The EDEN Initiative at the German Aerospace Center (DLR): achievements, vision, and progress through innovation and collaboration"
・Eri Hayashi (JPFA):
 "Current state and challenges of plant factories in Japan"
13:00 - 14:35 Session V: Resource Recycling for Closed Ecosystem
・Akimasa Nakano, Daisuke Aoki, Takaaki Wajima (Chiba University):
 "Development of zero-emission technology for closed ecosystem"
・Christophe Lasseur (ESA):
 "Circular Life Support Systems in Europe: main achievements and remaining challenges"
・Yoshiaki Kitaya (Osaka Metropolitan University):
 "Resource-recycling food production in space"
15:00 - 16:15 Session VI: Japanese Plant Research in ISS Kibo Module
・Akira Higashibata (JAXA):
 "Introducing of JAXA spaceflight experiments with plants"
・Tomomichi Fujita (Hokkaido University):
 "Space Moss: Environmental response and utilization of mosses in space"
・Jun Hidema (Chiba University):
 "Plant UV-B: Study on plant responses against the stresses of microgravity and high ultraviolet ray in space"
16:20 - 17:30 Summing up and discussion for future collaboration

March 11, 2025 (Tuesday) - Kashiwanoha Campus

TimeContents
10:00 - 12:00 Tour of facilities at Kashiwanoha Campus of Chiba University/JPFA (Invited speakers only)
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