Conference Schedule
The ISMSI 2025 final program will be available in April 2025. Please refer to the following simple schedule for your reference.
April 26, 2025
10:30 - 17:00, Onsite Sign-in
14:30 - 16:00, Visit to the
Makino Herbarium of
Tokyo Metropolitan University (Minami-Osawa Campus)
Participants are supposed to sign in at the conference venue and collect all the conference materials at the registration counter on this day.
April 27, 2025
09:00 - 17:00, Registration
09:00 - 09:10, Opening Ceremony
09:10 - 09:55, Keynote #1
09:55 - 10:30, Morning Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15, Keynote #2
11:15 - 12:00, Keynote #3
12:00 - 13:30, Conference Lunch
13:30 - 15:00, Parallel Sessions
15:00 - 15:30, Afternoon Coffee Break
15:30 - 18:00, Parallel Sessions
18:30 - 21:00, Conference Dinner
April 28, 2025
09:00 - 12:00, Virtual Parallel Sessions
12:00 - 14:00, Break Time
14:00 - 17:00, Virtual Parallel Sessions
In the afternoon of April 26
Visit to the Makino Herbarium of Tokyo Metropolitan University (Minami-Osawa Campus)
The Makino Herbarium was founded in
1958 with the approximately 400,000 plant specimens kept by
the late Dr. Tomitaro Makino (1862-1957), the father of
Japanese botany. He described as many as 2,500 new plant
species in Japan, and thus his collection contains many "type
specimens", which formed the basis of his original description
of new species of wild Japanese plants.
The Makino
Herbarium also houses many specimens obtained from foreign
herbaria through the exchange of duplicate specimens from the
collection, as well as those collected later from the
Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, the Himalaya region, China, South
America and other areas. At present, the Makino Herbarium
possesses about 500,000 plant specimens. It is managed by the
staff of the laboratory of Systematic Botany, Department of
Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science. The staff at
the Makino Herbarium investigate modern plant taxonomy,
phylogeny and biogeography using modern equipment such as DNA
sequencers and electron microscopes in addition to classical
taxonomical methods.