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