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March 22 (Wednesday) |
9:00 |
Welcome Address: Ikuo Takeuchi, Director General. NIBB |
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Opening Remark: Goro Eguchi. Professor, NIBB |
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Session I.Chairperson: Dr. Takashi Muramatsu |
9:15 |
Long Term Culture of Avian Embryonic Cells and Establishment of Their Cell-Lines |
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T. Kuwana1.4, S. Takahashi2, A. Nakanishi3 and K. Hashimoto3 |
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1Pathology Section, National Institute for Minamata Disease, Kumamoto, Japan, 2Animal Center, National Institute of Pollution, Tsukuba, Japan, 3Laboratory of Developmental Biology, Meiji Institute of Health Science, Odawara, Japan, 4"Inheritance and Variation", PRESTO, JRDC |
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Commitment to Mesoderm in the Rabbit Embryo |
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J.-E. Fléchon, P. Dvorak, P. Adenot, E. Thompson and J. P. Renard |
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Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire et Moleculaire, INRA, France |
10:25-10:45 |
Coffee break |
10:45 |
Identification, Characterization and in vitro Maintenance of Putative Pluripotential Chicken Embryonic Stem Cells |
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B. Pain1, M. Cochran2, M. E. Clark2, M. Sakurai3, J. Samaruut1 and R. J. Etches2 |
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1Laboratoire de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, INRA, France, 2Department of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Guelph, Canada, 3National Institute of Animal Health, Tsukuba, Japan |
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Session 2.Chairpersons: Drs. Masukichi Okada and Shin-ichi Abe |
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Initiation and Stimulation of Newt Spermatogenesis by Mammalian FSH in vitro |
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S. Abe, |
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Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan |
12:10-13:40 |
Lunch |
13:40 |
Establishment of Meiotic Mammalian Germ Cell Lines and Their Use to Study Spermatogenesis in vitro |
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M.-C. Hofmann, D. Abramian, H. Weissig, L. Richardson and J. L. Millán, |
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La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation, California, USA |
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Developmental and Molecular Analysis of Spermatogenesis: spermatidless, a Drosophila Gene Required for Spermatocytes to Turn into Spermatids |
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K. Endo1. T. Akiyama2, S. Kobayashi1 and M. Okada1 |
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1University of Tsukuba, lbaraki, Japan, 2Azabu University, Tokyo, Japan |
14:50-15:10 |
Coffee break |
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Session 3.Chairperson: Dr. Kazuo Watanabe |
15:10 |
Regulation of Differentiation Pathway of Skeletal Mesenchymal Cells by Bone Morphogenetic Protein |
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A. Yamaguchi, |
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Department of Oral Pathology, Showa University, Tokyo, Japan |
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Dissecting Discrete Transitional Steps in the Osteoblast Lineage |
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J.E. Aubin1, F. Liu1, L. Malaval1, A. Gupta1, H. Jama1, N. Hozumi2 and J. Sandhu2 |
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1Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, and 2Department of Immunology and Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada |
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Roles for Strama Cell in Bood Cell Differentiation |
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N. Yanai, R. Okuyama, M. Koguma and M. Obinata, |
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Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan |
17:10-20:00 |
Reception |
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March 23 (Thursday) |
Session 4.Chairperson: Dr. John R. Coleman |
9:00 |
Three-Dimensional Growth and Differentiation of Mouse Neural Precursor Cells |
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Y. Tomooka, |
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Department of Biological Science and Technology, Science University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan |
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Cell-Autonomous, Early Determined, Heritable, and Position-Specific Target Preference of Cell Lines Generated from Embryonic Quail Retina |
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G. E. Pollerberg, B. J. Eickholt, C. Kuschel M. Zenke and U. Schwarz, |
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Department of Biochemistry, Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology, Tuebingen, Germany |
10:10-10:25 |
Coffee break |
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Session 5.Chairperson: Dr. Thomas Reh |
10:25 |
Morphogenic and Organogenic Functions of HGF through Epithelial-Mesenchymal Interactions |
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K. Matsumoto, S. Aoki, K. Takahashi and T. Nakamura. |
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Division of Biochemistry, Biomedical Research Center, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan |
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Role of Midkine, a Heparin Binding Growth/Differentiation Factor in Morphogenesis and Tissue Repair |
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T. Muramatsu, |
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Department of Biochemistry, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan |
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BMP Plays as a Regulator of Cell Differentiation in Early Amphibian Embryogenesis |
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N. Ueno and A Suzuki, |
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Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan |
12:10-13:40 |
Lunch |
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Session 6.Chairperson: Dr. Sambasiva M. Rao |
13:40 |
Transdifferentiation of Pigmented Epithelial Cells in the Eye: from Lens Regeneration in the Newt to the in vitro Culture System |
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R. Kodama and G. Eguchi, |
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Department of Developmental Biology, NIBB, Okazaki, Japan |
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Changes in Cell Phenotype during Retinal Regeneration |
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T. Reh, C. Pittack and J. Schmiesing, |
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Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI48201, USA |
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Differentiation Events during Limb Regeneration and Development |
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P. A. Tsonis and K. D. Rio-Tsonis, |
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Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Biology, University of Dayton, Dayton, USA |
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Session 7.Chairperson: Dr. Goro Eguchi |
15:25 |
Pancreatic Hepatocytes in Rat; a Paradigm to Study the Mechanism of Transdifferentiation |
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M. S. Rao and J. K. Reddy, |
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Department of Pathology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
16:00-16:15 |
Coffee break |
16:15 |
Stepwise "Transdifferentiation" from Epidermal to Mesenchymal Phenotype by MyoDl |
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P. Boukamp, |
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German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany |
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Session 8.Chairperson: Dr. Hans Bode |
16:50 |
Protease as a Transdifferentiation Factor of the Budding Tunicate, Polyandrocarpa misakiensis |
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K. Kawamura, |
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Department of Biology, Kochi University, Kochi, Japan |
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A Molecular Approach to the In Vitro Transdifferentiation System of Steriated Muscle of Jellyfish |
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L. M. Masuda-Nakagawa, B. Aerne, T.-L. Pan, J. Spring and V. Schmid, |
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Zoological Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland |
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Transdifferentiation in Germ Stem Cell Lines in Hydra |
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C. Nishimiya-Fujisawa, T. Fujisawa and T. Sugiyama, |
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National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan |
18:35-20:30 |
Buffet |
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March 24 (Friday) |
Session 9.Chairperson: Dr. Hidefumi Orii |
9:00 |
Expression of Rox Gene during Urodele Eye Development and Lens Regeneration |
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K. D. Rio-Tsonis, G. H. Washabaugh and P. A. Tsonis, |
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Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Biology, University of Dayton, Dayton, USA |
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Planarian Homeboxes: Present and Future |
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J. Garcia-Fernàndez, A. M. Muñoz-Mármol, J. R, Bayascas-Ramírez, A. Casali, E. Castillo, J. Tauler, J. Baguñà and E. Saló, |
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Department de Genètica, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain |
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The CNASH Gene of Hydra: Evolutionary Conservation of the Structure and Function of the chaete-scute Genes |
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A. Grens, E. Mason, J. L. Marsh and H. Bode, |
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Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, USA |
10:50-11:05 |
Coffee break |
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Session 10. Chairperson: Dr. José Luis Millán |
11:05 |
Probing the Functional Organization of the Nucleus in Relation to Tissue-Specific Gene Expression |
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J. R. Coleman1, P. Moen2, M. Gerdes2, C. Johnson2, Y. Xing2, J. McNeil2 and J.B. Lawrence2, |
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1Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island and 2Department of Cell Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Massachusetts, USA |
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Molecular Mechanism of Cellular Senescence and Immortalization-Function of a Transcriptional Repressor Orpheus as a "Molecular Counter" |
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S. Imai, S. Nishibayashi, T. Fujino, T. Manabe, T. Mitsuhashi and T. Takano, |
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Department of Microbiology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan |
12:20 |
Closing Remarks: Goro Eguchi |