National Institute for Basic Biology
| Organizers | Yoshiaki Suzuki |
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| Venue | National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki , 444-8585, Japan |
| Date | Mar. 17-19, 1987 |
| Program | |
| Welcome Address: Tokindo S. Okada (Director General, Nat. Inst. for Basic Biol.) | |
| Introduction: Yoshiaki Suzuki (Nat. Inst. for Basic Biol.) | |
| 1. | A glimpse of the molecular mechanism underlying pole cell formation in Drosophila embryos. |
| Masukichi Okada and Satoru Kobayashi (Univ. of Tsukuba) | |
| 2. | Morphological study of oogenesis and the effect on development of egg size difference in Pelmatohydra robusta. |
| Koichi Noda and Chieko Kanai (Tokyo Metropolitan Inst. of Gerontology) | |
| 3. | Primordial germ cells - their origin and migration. |
| Janet Heasman (St. George's Hospital Medical School) | |
| 4. | Direct evidence for the presence of germ cell determinant in Xenopus. |
| Kohji Ikenishi (Osaka City Univ.) | |
| 5. | The morphology of germinal dense bodies (nuages) in germ-line cells of the teleost, Oryzias latipes. |
| Satoshi Hamaguchi (Niigata Univ.) | |
| 6. | Cortical alveoli formation: A paradigm for the developmental biology of oocyte growth. |
| Kelly Selman (Univ. of Florida) | |
| 7. | Hepatic formation of a novel glycoprotein, a major constituent of oocyte chorion of the teleost, Oryzias latipes. |
| Tatsuo Hamazaki, Yoshitaka Nagahama, Ichiro Iuchi and Kenjiro Yamagami (Sophia Univ. & Nat. Inst. for Basic Biol.) | |
| 8. | Cellular and molecular mechanisms of oocyte growth in nonmammalian vertebrates. |
| Robin A. Wallace (Whitney Lab., Univ. of Florida) | |
| 9. | Vitellogenin-specific nonhistone chromatin protein in the liver of egg-laying hens. |
| Tatsuo Nakayama, Naoya Akizuki and Yoshiko Setoguchi (Miyazaki Medical College) | |
| 10. | Acquisition of the vitellogenin synthesizing ability during development of Xenopus laevis: A change of the hepatocyte population at and after metamorphosis. |
| Akira Kawahara, Sawako Kohara and Minoru Amano (Hiroshima Univ.) | |
| 11. | In vitro meiosis and early, mid-spermiogenesis in culture of dissociated primary spermatocytes from amphibians. |
| Shin-ichi Abe (Kumamoto Univ.) | |
| 12. | The hormone control of theca cytodifferentiation. |
| Gregory F. Erickson (Univ. of California, San Diego) | |
| 13. | Functional differentiation of endocrine cells in the murine ovary. |
| Michio Takahashi (Univ. of Tokyo) | |
| 14. | Formation of 5α-and 5β-steroids in immature gonads; roles of prolactin. |
| Keishi Matsumoto (Osaka Univ. Medieal School) | |
| 15. | Steroidogenesis by avian ovarian cells during follicular maturation. |
| Makoto Mori (Shizuoka Univ.) | |
| 16. | Gonadotropin regulation of steroidogenesis in the amago salmon ovarian follicle: two-cell type models. |
| Akira Kanamori and Yoshitaka Nagahama (Nat. Inst. for Basic Biol.) | |
| 17. | Biosynthesis of meiosis-inducing substance in starfish follicle cells. |
| Masatoshi Mita (Teikyo Univ. School of Medicine) | |
| 18. | Characterization of 1-methyladenine binding in starfish oocyte cortices. |
| Michiyasu Yoshikuni, Katsutoshi Ishikawa and Yoshitaka Nagahama (Nat. Inst. for Basic Biol. & Shizuoka Univ.) | |
| 19. | Induction of oocyte maturation by chymotrypsin inhibitor (TPCK) in Rana pipiens. |
| Katsutoshi Ishikawa and Allen W. Schuetz (Shizuoka Univ. & Johns Hopkins Univ.) | |
| 20. | Oocyte maturation in starfish: Microtubule structures and chromosome behavior during germinal vesicle breakdown to first polar body formation. |
| Natsumi Hosoya, Hiroko Shirai and Hideo Mohri (Univ. of Tokyo & Nat. Inst. for Basic Biol.) | |
| 21. | Regulatory functions of cyclic AMP in mouse oocyte maturation. |
| Richard M. Schultz (Univ. of Pennsylvania) | |
| 22. | Factors regulating the maturation and degeneration of oocytes in mammals. |
| Eimei Sato (Kyoto Univ.) | |
| 23. | Regulation of meiotic metaphase by a cytoplasmic maturation-promoting factor during mouse oocyte maturation. |
| Naohiro Hashimoto and Takeo Kishimoto (Developmental and Reproductive Biology Center & Nat. Inst. for Basic Biol.) | |
| 24. | Oocyte maturation of a common Chinese toad (Bufo bufo gargarizans). |
| Jiake Tso (Shanghai Inst. of Cell Biol.) | |
| 25. | Germinal vesicle-dependent cytoplasmic activities that emerge during oocyte maturation in anuran amphibians. |
| Keita Ohsumi and Chiaki Katagiri (Hokkaido Univ.) | |
| 26. | Ca- and cyclic nucleotide-independent protein kinase appearing during meiotic maturation of starfish oocytes. |
| Kiyoshi Sano (Akkeshi Marine Biological Station, Hokkaido Univ.) | |
| 27. | Maturation-promoting factor: Production by oncogenic H-ras protein and action on oocyte-follicle junctions. |
| Takeo Kishimoto (Nat. Inst. for Basic Biol.) | |
| Closing Address: Yoshitaka Nagahama (Nat. Inst. for Basic Biol.) | |
