International Symposium Celebrating Dr. David S. Hogness, Recipient of the 23rd International Prize for Biology

第23回国際生物学賞 デビッド・S・ホグネス博士 受賞記念シンポジウム

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November 21 (Wednesday)

8:15-8:45 Registration

9:00 Opening addresses

Hiroshi Matsumoto (Vice-President, Kyoto University)

Eisuke Nishida (Dean of Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University)

9:15-11:35 Session 1: Vertebrate Models
Chair: Toshihiko Shiroishi and Philip Beachy

Toshihiko Shiroishi (National Institute of Genetics)
Functional Genomics of Complex Traits Based on Mouse Inter-Subspecific Differences

Lilianna Solnica-Krezel (Vanderbilt University)
Genetic Regulation of Gastrulation Movements in Zebrafish

Shinichi Morishita (University of Tokyo)
Vertebrate Genome Evolution Examined by Comparing the Human and Fish Genomes

Philip Beachy (Stanford University)
Hedgehog Signaling in Development and Disease


13:00-14:45 Session 2: Emerging Model Organisms
Chair: Noriyuki Satoh and Alejandro Sáchez Alvarado

Alejandro Sáchez Alvarado (University of Utah School of Medicine)
Molecular Genetics of a Non-Genetic Organism: Regeneration and the Planarian Schmidtea Mediterranea

Thomas W. Holstein (Heidelberger Institut für Zoologie)
The Cnidarian Organizer: The Ancient Metazoan Signaling Center?

Noriyuki Satoh (Kyoto University) and Yasunori Sasakura (Tsukuba University)
Ciona intestinalis: An Emerging Model for Developmental Genetics

14:45-15:00 Break

15:00-15:35
Hideko Urushihara (Tsukuba University)
Genome and Transcriptome Analyses of the Social Amoebae

15:35-16:10 Session 3: Plants
Chair: Kiyotaka Okada and Steve Jacobsen

Xing-Wang Deng(Yale University)
The Light Control of Plant Development: A Role of Proteolysis and COP Protein Complexes

16:10-17:10 Poster presentation (drinks will be served)
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November 22 (Thursday)

9:30-11:15 Session 3: Plants

Steve Jacobsen(University of California, Los Angeles)
Genetics and Genomics of DNA Methylation in Arabidopsis

Kiyotaka Okada (National Institute for Basic Biology)
Axis-Dependent Development of Plant Lateral Organs

Makoto Matsuoka (Nagoya University)
QTL Controlling Rice Grain Number and QTL Pyramiding for Molecular Breeding

11:15-11:30 Photo

12:50-14:25 Session 4: Drosophila
Chair: Tadashi Uemura and Yasushi Hiromi

Howard D. Lipshitz (University of Toronto)
Post-Transcriptional Regulation during Early Drosophila Development

Elizabeth R. Gavis (Princeton University)
Localized RNAs, Localized Translation, and Developmental Asymmetry

Michael Bender (University of Georgia)
Hormonal Control of Developmental Progression in Drosophila

Kevin White (University of Chicago)
Drosophila Genomics: Systems Level Studies of Development and Disease

14:25-14:45 Break

14:45-15:40
Michelle Arbeitman (University of Southern California)
The Sex Hierarchy and the Ecdysone Hierarchy Regulate Drosophila Male Courtship Behaviors

Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas (Harvard University)
Notch Signalling and the Control of Metazoan Cell Fates

15:40-15:50
Kenneth C. Burtis (University of California, Davis)
A Personal Perspective on the Career of David S. Hogness

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