The 1990 Laureates / Advanced Technology Category / Biotechnologies (Molecular Genetics, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Cancer Research, Application of Biological Function, etc.)

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Sydney Brenner

U.K. / January 13, 1927
Molecular Biologist; Director, MRC Molecular Genetics Unit

Workshop

Forum: "Genetic Information"

Chairperson:
Syozo Osawa
Member, the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Advanced Technology; Professor, School of Science, Nagoya University
Yosiro Shimura
Professor, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University

13:00
Greetings
Kazuo Inamori
President, The Inamori Foundation
 
Opening Remarks
Yoshiro Shimura
Chairman, the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Advanced Technology;
Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University
13:20 
Introduction of the Laureate and Lecturers
Syozo Osawa
13:30 
Lecture
Sydney Brenner
Laureate in Advanced Technology
"Gene Evolution"
14:30 
Lecture
Syozo Ozawa
"Evolutionary Changes in the Generic Code"
15:10 
Intermission
 
15:20 
Lecture
Yoshiro Shimura
"Generic Control of Sec Determination in Drosophila"
16:00 
Lecture
Hironori Ishizaki
Professor, School of Science, Nagoya University
"Prothoracicotropic Hormone, an Insect Brain Peptide that Controls Development"
16:40 
Lecture
Kiyotaka Okada
Associate Professor, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki National Research Institutes
"Organ Development in Higher Plants"
17:20
Closing Remarks
Yoshiro Shimura
17:25
Closing
 

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