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The 46th NIBB Conference "Genetics and Epigenetics : The First 100 Years"

Organizers Shigeru Iida
Venue Okazaki Conference Center, Okazaki, Japan
Date Mar. 6-9, 2001

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Program
Program  
6 March(Tuesday), 2001
12:00- Registration
13:00-13:20 Opening Address
   
Session 1:  Genetics and Epigenetics in Fungi
  Chair: A.J.S KLAR and Y. OHYA
13:20-13:50 S01: Yasuji OSHIMA (Kansai Univ., Japan)
  Homothallism, Mating-Type Switching, and the Controlling Element Model in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
13:50-14:20 S02: Amar J.S. KLAR (Natl. Cancer Inst., USA)
  Mechanism of Imprinting  for mat1 Switching.
14:20-14:50 S03: Yoshikazu OHYA (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
  A Yeast Selfish DNA: Its Origin and Survival.
14:50-15:20 S04: Eric U. SELKER (Univ. of Oregon, USA)
  Control and Function of DNA Methylation in Neurospora.
15:20-15:50 S05: Reed B. WICKNER (Natl. Inst. of Health, USA)
  Yeast Prions as Epigenetic Elements: Chromosomal Genes Affecting Prion Generation, Propagation and Curing.
15:50-16:20 Coffee Break
   
Session 2:  Biodiversity and Evolution
  Chair: M.T. CLEGG and T. GOJOBORI
16:20-16:50 S06: Werner ARBER (Univ. of Basel, Switzerland)
  Impact of Genetic and Non-Genetic Elements on Molecular Evolution.
16:50-17:20 S07: Michael T. CLEGG (Univ. of California, Riverside, USA)
  Dynamics of Mobile Element Activity in Chalcone Synthase Loci in the Common Morning Glory (Ipomoea purpurea).
17:20-17:50 SO8: Takashi GOJOBORI (Natl. Inst. of Genet., Japan)
  Organismic Evolution from the Viewpoint of Gene Expression Profiles.
17:50-18:20 S09: Masahiro YANO (Natl. Inst. of Agrobiological Resources, Japan)
  Naturally Occurring Variations as a New Resource for Functional Genomics in Rice.
18:30-21:30 Welcome Reception
   
7 March (Wednesday), 2001
Session 3:  Silencing and Repression I
  Chair: R. KETTING and N. KURATA
8:30- 9:00 S10: Rene KETTING (Netherlands Cancer Inst., The Netherlands)
  RNA Interference and Transposon Silencing in C.elegans.
9:00- 9:30 S11: David BAULCOMBE (John Innes Centre, UK)
  Epigenetics of RNA Silencing in Plants.
9:30-10:00 S12: Steven HENIKOFF (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res. Cent./HHMI, USA)
  Evolution and Dynamics of Centromeric Histones.
10:00-10:30 S13: Nori KURATA (Natl. Inst. of Genet., Japan)
  Nuclear and Chromosome Organization in Rice - Functional and Genomic Approaches to Find Out Organizing Principles.
10:30-12:30 Poster Session (Odd Number)
12:30-14:00 Lunch Time
14:00-15:00 Free Discussion for Poster Session
   
Session 4: S_ilencing and Repression II
  Chair: V.L. CHANDLER and K. SHIMAMOTO
15:00-15:30 S14:Vincenzo PIRROTTA (Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland)
  Polycomb Complexes and the Maintenance of Determined States of Gene Expression.
15:30-16:00 S15: Toru HIGASHINAKAGA WA (Waseda Univ., Japan)
  Mechanisms of Cellular Memory: Functional Analysis of Mouse and Zebrafish Polycomb-Group Genes.
16:00-16:30 Sl6: Vicki L. CHANDLER (Univ. of Arizona, USA)
  Mutations that Prevent Paramutation in Maize also Affect Other Types of Epigenetic Silencing.
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-17:30 Sl7: Ortrun MITTELSTEN SCHEID (Friedrich Miescher Inst., Switzerland)
  The Genetics of Epigenetic Gene Silencing in Plants.
17:30-18:00 S18: Ko SHIMAMOTO (Nara Inst. of Sci. & Tech., Japan)
  Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing in Rice.
18:00-18:30 S19: Marjori A. MATZKE (Austrian Acad. Sci., Inst. of Mol. Biol., Austria)
  RNA-Directed Methylation of Promoter Sequences.
   
8 March (Thursday), 2001
Session 5: Pigmentation, Epigenetics and Transposable Elements
  Chair: J. MOL and A. KOGA
8:30- 9:00 S20: Joseph MOL (Vrije Univ., The Netherlands)
  Regulation and Manipulation of Flower Color Genes in Petunia hybrida.
9:00- 9:30 S21: Shigeru IIDA (Natl. Inst. for Basic Biol., Japan)
  Genetics and Epigenetics in Flower Pigmentation and Transposable Elements.
9:30-10:00 S22: Akihiko KOGA (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
  Recent Invasion of the Medaka Fish Genome by a Terminal-Inverted-Repeat Transposable Element.
10:00-10:30 S23: Hirohiko HIROCHIKA (Natl. Inst. of Agrobiological Resources, Japan)
  Regulation of Plant Retrotransposons and their Use for Functional Genomics.
10:30-12:30 Poster Session (Even Number)
12:30-14:00 Lunch Time
14:00-15:00 Free Discussion for Poster Session
   
Session 6: Transposable Elements and Plant Genome
  Chair: R. MARTIENSSEN and T. KAKUTANI
15:00-15:30 S24: Tetsuji KAKUTANI (Natl. Inst. of Genet., Japan)
  Mobilization of a Novel Endogenous Arabidopsis Transposon by a Host Gene Mutation Affecting Epigenetic States.
15:30-16:00 S25: Robert MARTIENSSEN (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA)
  Epigenetics and the Plant Genome.
   
Session 7: DNA Methylation
  Chair: R. MARTIENSSEN and T. KAKUTANI 
16:00-16:30 S26: Eric J. RICHARDS (Washington Univ, USA)
  DNA Methylation, Chromatin and Epigenetic Variation.
16:30-17:00 S27: Kunio SHIOTA (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
  Methylome of Rat Brain Analyzed by Genome Wide Scanning of Methylation Status of CpG Islands.
17:00-17:30 S28: En LI (Massachusetts General Hospital, USA)
  Functional Studies of Mammalian DNA Methyltransferases.
18:30-21:30 Banquet
   
9 March (Friday), 2001
Session 8: Imprinting
  Chair: K. SHIOTA and R.L. FISCHER
8:30- 9:00 S29: Andras PALDI (INSERM, France)
  Single Cell Analysis of Transcription at the Imprinted Mouse Igf2-Hl9 Locus..
9:00- 9:30 S30: Wolf REIK (Babraham Institute, UK)
  Mechanisms and Consequences of Genomic Imprinting.
9:30-10:00 S31: Tomohiro KONO (Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan)
  Epigenetics in Germ Cells and Development.
10:00-10:30 S32: Robert L. FISCHER (Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA)
  Imprinting of the MEDEA Polycomb Gene during Plant Reproduction.
10:30-11:00 S33: Emma WHITELAW (Univ. of Sydney, Australia)
  Epigenetic Inheritance in Mammals.
11:00-11:20 Closing Remarks

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