National Institute for Basic Biology
| Organizers | Goro Eguchi |
|---|---|
| Venue | National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki , 444-8585, Japan |
| Date | Mar. 23-25, 1994 |
| Program | |
| March 23 (Wednesday) | |
| 9:00 | Welcome Address: Ikuo Takeuchi, Director General, NIBB |
| Opening Remarks: Goro Eguchi, Professor, NIBB | |
| Session 1. Chairperson: Dr. Kiyokazu Agata | |
| 9:15 | Cellular and molecular basis of lens regeneration |
| Garo Eguchi, | |
| Department of Developmental Biology, NIBB, Okazaki | |
| Transdifferentiation of dissociated pigment epithelial cells from newt retina into neurons: expression of ionic channels | |
| T.Saito and H.Sakai, | |
| University of Tsukuba, Institute of Biological Science, Tsukuba, ibaraki | |
| 10:25-10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45 | Multifunctional proteins and the evolution of cellular plasticity: Limitations and requirements for regeneration and transdifferentiation in the vertebrate eye |
| Ruth Clayton, | |
| I.C.A.P.B., University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh | |
| Session 2. Chairperson: Dr. Hans R.Bode | |
| The role of retinoic acid in morphallactic development of budding tunicates | |
| K.Kawamura, | |
| Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kochi University, Kochi | |
| 12:10-13:40 | Lunch |
| 13:40 | In vitro transdifferentiation of striated muscle of jellyfish |
| B.Aerne, S.Ono and V.Schmid, | |
| Institute of Zoology, University of Basel, Basel | |
| Cell-ECM interactions in transdifferentiation of jellyfish | |
| Susanne Reber-Muller, Shin-ichi Ono and Volker Schmid, | |
| Institute of Zoology, University of Basel, Basel | |
| 14:50-15:10 | Coffee break |
| Session 3. Chairperson: Dr. Tsutomu Sugiyama | |
| 15:10 | Molecular and cellular analyses of plananan regeneration |
| K.Agata, Y.Umesono, S.Yagi, F.Skai, H.Orii and K.Watanabe, | |
| Laboratory of Regeneration Biology, Department of Life Science, Faculty of Science, Himeji Institute of Technology, Akou, Hyogo | |
| Homeobox genes in planarian Dugesia japonica | |
| H.Orii, K.Agata and K.Watanabe, | |
| Laboratory of Regeneration Biology, Department of Life Science, Faculty of Science, Himeji Institute of Technology, Akou, Hyogo | |
| Homeobox genes in the planarian Dugesia (G) tigrina: Structure and expression | |
| E.Salo, J.Garcia-Fermandez, A.M.Munoz-Marmol, J.R.Bayascas-Ramirez, A. Casali and J.Baguna, | |
| Department de Genetica, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona | |
| Session 4. Chairperson: Dr. Volker Schmid | |
| 16:50 | HOM/HOX genes in hydra regeneration |
| M.A.Shenk, L.Gee, R.E.Steele and H.R.Bode, | |
| Developmental Biology Center, University of California at Irvine | |
| Molecular mechanisms of hydra regeneration | |
| I. Cell adhesion molecules | |
| Yasuyuki Kishimoto, Masayuki Hatta, Engelbert Hobmayer* and Tsutomu Sugiyama, | |
| National Institute of Genetics, Mishima (*presently Zoological Institute, Frankurt University) | |
| 18:20-20:00 | Reception |
| March 24 (Thursday) | |
| Session 5. Chairperson: Dr. Emilio Salo | |
| 9:00 | Molecular mechanisms of hydra regeneration. |
| II. An exhaustive screening of peptide signal molecules | |
| T.Fujisawa1, T.Sugiyama1, M.Hatta1, H.Shimizu1, O.Koizumi2, Y.Muneoka3, T.Takahashi3, M. deHaro4, T.Bosch4 and C.David4, | |
| 1National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, 2Fukuoka Women's University, 3Hiroshima University and 4Zoological Institute, University of Munich | |
| Regeneration of hydra from dissociated cell aggregates | |
| Yasuji Sawada, | |
| Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Sendai | |
| 10:20-10:40 | Coffee break |
| Session 6. Chairperson: Dr. Ruth Clayton | |
| 10:40 | Quantitative evaluation of tissue-specific cell adhesion at the level of a single cell pair using a laser cell manipulator |
| M.Sato-Maeda, M.Uchida and H.Tashiro, | |
| Photodynamics Research Center, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) | |
| Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) regulates differentiation pathway of mesenchymal progenitor cells into osteoblasts, chondrocytes and muscle cells | |
| Akira Yamaguchi, Takenobu Katagiri, Tatsuo Suda and Shusaku Yoshiki, | |
| Department of Oral Pathology and Biochemistry, School of Dentistry, Showa University, Tokyo | |
| Organotropic roles of HGF in tissue regeneration as mitogen, motogen, and morphogen | |
| Kunio Matsumoto and Toshikazu Nakamura, | |
| Biomedical Research Center, Osaka University Medical School, Suita | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
| Session 7. Chairperson: Dr. Jeremy, P.Brockes | |
| 14:00 | Various aspects of dedifferentiation in the regenerating urodele limbs with or without retinoic acid treatment |
| Won-Sun Kim, | |
| Department of Biology, Sogang University, Seoul | |
| Limb bud cells and blastema cells of Xenopus laevis in culture | |
| Hiroyuki Ide, Kazuhiko Takamatsu and Kazuko Koshiba, | |
| Biological Institute, Tohoku University, Sendai | |
| Molecular mechanism of limb blastema formation in axolotl | |
| K. Koshiba1, H. Yamamoto1, A. Kuroiwa2, K. Tamura1 and H. Ide1, | |
| 1Biological Institute, Tohoku University, Sendai, 2Department of Molecular Biology, Nagoya University, Nagoya | |
| 15:50-16:10 | Coffee break |
| Session B. Chairperson: Dr. Won-Sun Kim | |
| 16:10 | Cellullar and molecular aspects of amphibian limb regeneration |
| Panagiolis A.Tsonis, | |
| Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Biology, University of Dayton, Dayton | |
| Induction of homeotic transformation in anurans by vitamin A | |
| P. Mohanty-Hejimadi and P. Mahapatra, | |
| Department of Zoology, Utkal University, Orissa | |
| 18:00-20:00 | Buffet |
| March 25 (Friday) | |
| Session 9. Chairperson: Dr. Panagiotis, A.Tsonis | |
| 9:00 | Genes controlling amphibian limb regeneration |
| H.-G. Simon1, S. Oppenheimer1, C. Nelson2, D.Goff2, C. Tabin2 | |
| 1Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Princeton, 2Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston | |
| Origin and positional identity of the urodele limb regeneration blastema | |
| J.P.Brockes, | |
| Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, London | |
| 10:20-10:40 | Coffee break |
| Session 10. Char person: Dr. Hans-Georg Simon | |
| 10:40 | Functional and cellular approaches to the study of mammalian muscle regeneration |
| Bruce M.Carlson, | |
| Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The University of Michigan, Michigan | |
| The duchenne muscular dystrophy gene: a giant gene with multiple products | |
| D.Yaffe, U.Nudel, S.Bar, E.Barnea, D.Greenberg, D.Lederfein, F.Marquez, A.Makover, P.Pizzo, D.Rapaport, and D.Zuk, | |
| Department of Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot | |
| Genetic control of myogenesis: The role of myogenic BHLH proteins in myogenesis | |
| Y.Nabeshima, K.Hanaoka, M.Hayasaka, E.Esumi, K.Arahata, I.Nonaka and Y.Nabeshima, | |
| National Institute of Neuroscience, Tokyo | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | General Discussion Chairperson: Dr. Ryuji Kodama |
| 15:00 | Closing Remarks: Goro Eguchi |
