Forum: "From Genes to Cellular Functions and Body Plan"
Coordinators/Moderators:
Nobutaka Hirokawa
Member, the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Basis Sciences; Professor, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo
Masatoshi Takeichi
Member, the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Basis Sciences; Professor, Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University
13:10 |
Opening |
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Greetings |
Toyomi Inamori
Managing Director, The Inamori Foundation |
13:15 |
Introduction of Laureate |
Kumao Toyoshima
Chairman, the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Basis Sciences;
President, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases |
13:20 |
Commemorative Lecture |
Mario Renato Capecchi
Laureate in Basis Sciences;
"The Role of Hox Genes in Specifying Our Body Plan" |
14:20 |
Lecture |
Tadamitsu Kishimoto
Member, the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Basis Sciences;
Dean, Medical School, Osaka University
"Cytokine Signal Transduction; Lessons from knockout mice" |
15:00 |
Intermission |
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15:20 |
Lecture |
Nobutaka Hirokawa
"Molecular Mechanisms of Organelle Transport; Molecular Cell Biology of Motor Proteins, KIFs" |
16:00 |
Lecture |
Shigetada Nakamishi
Member, the Kyoto Prize Committee in Basis Sciences;
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University
"Role of Glutamate Receptors in Brain Function" |
16:40 |
Lecture |
Masatoshi Takeichi
"Control of Tissue Construction by Cell - Cell Adhesion Molecules" |
17:20 |
Closing |
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Workshop Program and Abstract(PDF)
