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Announcement and call for papers of the 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics, which is held on 20–22 November 2019 at Tsukuba Center for Institutes, is now uploaded. You can download the “Call-for-Papers” from here, as well as view the overview page in the items about Annual Meetings in this website. 
The deadline of pre-registration and submission of the abstract for oral and poster presentations is October 10. We are looking forward to your attending and presenting at the coming meeting!

Announcement of the 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics, which is held on 20–22 November 2019 at Tsukuba Center for Institutes, is now uploaded. You can view the overview page in the items about Annual Meetings in this website. 
The deadline of pre-registration and submission of the abstract for oral and poster presentations is August 1. We are looking forward to your attending and presenting at the coming meeting!

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Announcement and call for papers of the 5th Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics, which is held on 8–9 December 2018 at Kumamoto University School of Medicine, is now uploaded. You can download the information  from here, as well as view the overview page in  the items about Annual Meetings in this website< http://bacoust.org/?page_id=1172>. 
The deadline of pre-registration and submission of the abstract for oral and poster presentations is October 10. We are looking forward to your attending and presenting at the coming meeting!

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Program of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics

Saturday, 9 December 2017   
9:30                Starting Registrations (at the Building E-3 3F)
10:30 – 10:40   Opening Remarks (Takuji Koike) at Room 306
10:40 – 11:40   Oral Session 1: Brain science research (Chair Takuji Koike)
10:40 – 11:10       Shigeru Tanaka: Species differences in the functional architecture of primary visual cortex between cats and rodents
11:10 – 11:40        Hirokazu Takahashi: Neural correlates of perceptual organization in the auditory cortex
11:40 – 13:00   Lunch
13:00 – 14:00   Oral Session 2: Hearing loss and mechanism of hearing (Chair Tatsuhiko Harada)
13:00 – 13:30       Fei Zhao: Music exposure and subclinical hearing loss
13:30 – 14:00       Sinyoung Lee: Simulation of electrical changes in the inner hair cells derived from the basilar membrane vibration
14:00 – 14:30   Taking Group Pictures and Break
14:30 – 15:30   Poster short presentation (3 min talk)
P1     Masanobu Miyashita: Neural mechanisms of auditory continuity illusion
P2     Shiro Nakata: Distinct projections from the primary and anterior auditory fields to motor and associative regions of the mouse neocortex
P3     Kenta Mito: Simulation of two-tone suppression using human cochlear model considering activity of outer hair cells
P4     Ryo Ebine: Measurement system for mobility of auditory ossicles using ear pick
P5     Kota Kuroda: Examination of a method for risk detection in endoscopic sinus surgery
P6     Miho Sato: Measurement of fetal heart rate variance for fetal hearing screening
P7     Takahiro Suzuki: Simultaneous vibration measurement of hyoid muscle activity and swallowing sound
P8     Toshiaki Negishi: An optical and thermal image fusion approach using estimated homography matrix for noncontact vital-sign measurements and its application to infectious disease screening system
P9     Yui K Matsumoto: The relationship between ultrasonic songs and testis weight in male mice
P10   Takuma Takanashi: Vibration sensitivity in longicorn beetles and its potential for pest management
P11    Tetsutaro Hiraguchi: Footsteps as the initial signal to induce cricket behaviors
P12   Yuta Yoshimura: Development of a new method for behavioral control of an agricultural insect pest by vibration
P13   Ryoichi Iwase: Where are the sperm whales? — Study on the sound source localization with a single hydrophone on deep seafloor in Sagami Bay
P14   Ikuo Matsuo: Automatic detection and localization of Croaker’s fish calls using beamforming
P15   Yoshimasa Seki: Individual difference and vocal learning of contact-call-like sounds in juvenile cockatiels
P16   Akari Furutani: Java sparrows modify trill rates under affiliative and agnostic interactions
P17   Sachio Umemoto: Neural correlate of vocal activity in juvenile Java sparrows recorded in the basal ganglia
P18   Zhiqiang Ma: Strong frequency specific suppression on the basilar membrane suited for echolocation in bats
15:30 – 17:45   Poster session
18:00 – 20:00   Banquet

Sunday, 10 December 2017    
9:00 – 10:00     Oral Session 3: Medical application (animal models) (Chair Hirokazu Takahashi)
9:00 – 9:30           Sho Kurihara: Establishment of a noise-induced hearing loss model in non-human primates to accelerate translational research
9:30 – 10:00         Tomohiko Yoshida: Optimizing call count observation test for the study of social isolation due to the deafness using a noise-induced hearing loss model of common marmoset
10:00 – 10:15   Break
10:15 – 11:45   Oral Session 4: Bioacoustics in insects and fishes (Chair Takuma Takanashi)
10:15 – 10:45       Ryo Nakano: Artificial ultrasonic pulses repelling moth pests
10:45 – 11:15       Seiji Tanaka: Why do locust eggs hatch early if Mozart is played?
11:15 – 11:45        Raquel Vasconcelos: Steroid regulation of auditory sensitivity in fish: insights from zebrafish
11:45 – 12:15   General Assembly
12:15 – 14:15   Lunch: Walk to Jindaiji Temple (http://www.jindaiji.or.jp/language/english.pdf) or Chofu City Walk
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14:15 – 14:30   Award Ceremony
14:30 – 15:30   Oral Session 5: Bioacoustics in bats (Chair Ikuo Matsuo)
14:30 – 15:00       Rolf M‎üller: Some thoughts on the role of Doppler shifts in bat biosonar
15:00 – 15:30       Hiroshi Riquimaroux: Active mechanical noise cancellation system on the basilar membrane for echolocation in bats
15:30 – 16:00   General Discussion (Hiroshi Riquimaroux)
16:00 – 16:15   Closing Remarks (Hiroshi Riquimaroux)
16:15 – 17:15   Executive Meeting

The due date has been passed, but the program of the 4th annual meeting will be announced in a few days. The notification to each of the members who submitted papers is also delayed in accordance with this.

The deadline of abstract submission to the 4^th annual meeting of the Society for Bioacoustics is the coming Friday, Oct 13. We are looking forward to have your submission. There are some corrections in the call for papers and the registration form, so please check and use the final versions, which can be downloaded from below (Please click !).

Announcement and Call for Papers

Pre-registration Sheet (Presenter)

Pre-registration Sheet (Non- presenter)