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The 48th NIBB Conference "Molecular Mechanisms of Sex Differentiation"

Organizers Ken-ichirou Morohashi
Venue Okazaki Conference Center, Okazaki, Japan
Date Oct. 18-20, 2002
Poster The 48th NIBB Conference

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Program
Program  
Friday,  October  18th
8:00 ~ 8:50 REGISTRATION
8:50 ~ 9:00 WELCOME ADDRESS: Motoya Katsuki, Director of NIBB
   
Session 1 Chair: P. Koopman
9:00 ~ 9:30 1.  David Zarkower: DM domain proteins and sexual dimorphism.
9:30 ~ 10:00 2.  Yoshitaka Nagahama: Molecular mechanisms of sex determination and gonadal sex differentiation in fish.
10:00 ~ 10:30 3.  Manfred Schartl: Evolution of Sex Determination Genes in Fish.
10:30 ~ 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
   
Session 2 Chair: K. Shimada
11:00 ~ 11:15 4.  Mariko Kondo: A duplicated copy of DMRT1 in the sex determining region of the Y chromosome of the medaka, Oryzias latipes.
11:15 ~ 11:30 5.  Sok-Keng Tong: The expression of CYP19A during zebrafish gonad differentiation.
11:30 ~ 12:00 6.  Masahisa Nakamura: The expression of SOX9, SF-1/Ad4BP, DAX-1, DMRT1 and P450AROMATASE in Amphibian gonads.
12:00 ~ 12:30 7.  Craig Smith: Candidate Chicken Sex-Determining Genes.
12:30 ~ 13:30 LUNCH (at dining room)
   
Session 3 Chair: R. Behringer
13:30 ~ 13:45 8.  lchirou Yamamoto: Gene expression in chicken embryonic gonads.
13:45 ~ 14:00 9.   Hidefumi Yoshioka: Signaling and transcriptional control of gonadal organogenesis in chick embryos.
14:00 ~ 14:30 10.  Peter Koopman: Molecular genetics of ovarian development :Leaping into the unknown.
14:30 ~ 15:00 11.  Francis Poulat: Function and regulation of SRY and SOX9 proteins during mammalian sex determination.
15:00 ~ 15:30 13.  Colin Bishop: A major locus on mouse chromosome 18 controls XX sex reversal in ods mice.
15:30 ~ 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
   
Session 4 Chair: R. Lovell-Badge
16:00 ~ 16:30 14.  Richard Behringer: Requirement of BMPR-IA/ALK3 in mullerian ductregression.
16:30 ~ 17:00 15.  Blanche Capel: Cell Signaling pathways in Testis Development.III
17:00 ~ 17:30
16.  Kenneth Albrecht: SRY expression level and protein isoform differences play a role in abnormal testis development inC57BL/6J mice carrying certain SRY alleles.
19:00 ~ 21:00 RECEPTIONAT OKAZAKI NEW GRAND HOTEL
   
Saturday,  October  19th
Session 5 Chair: Y. Nagahama
9:00 ~ 9:30 17.  Ken-ichirou Morohashi: Molecular mechanisms underlying gonad differentiation.
9:30 ~ 10:00 18.  Keith Parker: Tissue-specific knockouts of steroidogenic factor.
10:00 ~ 10:30 26.  Colin Clyne: Regulation of estrogen production by the nuclear receptor LRH-1.
10:30 ~ 11:00 COFFEE  BREAK
   
Session 6 Chair: B. Capel
11:00 ~ 11:30 20.  Amanda Swain: The role ofwnt4 in gonad development.
11:30 ~ 12:00 21.  Anne McLaren: Germ cell- somatic cell interactions during sex determination.
12:00 ~ 12:30 22.  Norio Nakatsuji: Differentiation of OOCYTES and spermatogonia from mouse primordial germ cells.
12:30 ~ 13:30 LUNCH (at dining room)
   
Session 7 Chair: L. Jameson
13:30 ~ 13:45 23.  Miwako Yamamoto: Identification of genes encoding secreted or cell-surface proteins preferentially expressed in male genital ridges of mice.
13:45 ~ 14:00 24.  Kozo Nagai: Molecular evolution of SRY and SOX.
14:00 ~ 14:30 25.  Bon-chu Chung: Function of steroid hormones in sex differentiation.
14:30 ~ 15:00 27.  Kenneth Korach: Molecular developmental phenotypes in estrogen receptor knock-out mice.
15:00 ~ 15:30 COFFEE BREAK
   
Session 8 Chair : B-C. Chung
15:30 ~ 15:45 28.  Tsutomu Ogata:Micropenis and the 5α-reductase-2(SRD5A2)gene: Mutation and V89L polymorphism analysis in 81 Japanese patients.
15:45 ~ 16:15 29.  Kenji Fujieda: Molecular pathogenesis oflipoid adrenal hyperplasia and adrenal hypoplasia congenita
16:15 ~ 16:45 30.  Gen Yamamda: External genitalia formation; Molecular basis for an 'attractive' morphogenesis.
   
Sunday, October 20th
Session 9 Chair: K. Korach
9:00 ~ 9:30 31.  Eric Vilain: Genetics of sexual development.
9:30 ~ 10:00 32.  Larry Jameson: Unusual Clinical Phenotypes Caused by SF-1 and DAX-1 Mutations.
10:00 ~ 10:30 33.  Shigeaki Katoh: Lesson from Androgen receptor knockout mouse.
10:30 ~ 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
   
Session 10 Chair: K. MOROHASID
11:00 ~ 11:30 34.  Vincent Harley: How does SRY determine sex?
11:30 ~ 12:00 35.  Andreas Schedl: The role of Wtl and Sox9 during sex determination.
12:00 ~ 12:30 36.  Robin Lovell-Badge: How does SRY act in mammalian sex determination?
12:30 ~ 12:40 CLOSING REMARKS: Keith Parker
12:40 ~ 14:00 CLOSING LUNCH (at dining room)

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