The 2000 Laureates / Basic Sciences Category / Life Sciences (Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Neurobiology)

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Walter Jakob Gehring

Switzerland / March 20, 1939
Developmental Biologist; Professor, University of Basel

Workshop

Symposium: Challenge to Evolutionary Development Biology: Exploring of Life through Molecules

Coordinator & Moderator:
Shin-Ichi Nishikawa, Chairman of the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee; Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University

13:10
Opening
Shin-Ichi Nishikawa
 
Greeting
Toyomi Inamori
Managing Director, the Inamori Foundation
 
Introduction of Laureate
Masatoshi Takeichi
Member of the Kyoto Prize Committee; Professor, Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University
 
Laureate Lecture
Walter Jakob Gehring Laureate
Master Control Genes in Eye Development and Evolution
 
Intermission
 
 
Lecture
Shinichi Aizawa, Professor, Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics, Kumamoto University
Developmental Patterning in Vertebrate Head
 
Question - and - Answer
 
 
Lecture
Yoshiki Sasai, Professor, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University
Inversion of the Dorsal-Ventral Axis and the Origin of the Central Nervous
 
Question - and - Answer
 
 
Lecture
Yoshinori Shichida, Professor, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
Functional Diversity of the Photoreceptive Proteins in Vision
 
Question - and - Answer
 
 
Lecture
Mitsuyasu Hasebe, Professor, National Institute for Basic Biology and PRESTO
Origin and Evolution of Floral Homeotic Genes
 
Question - and - Answer
 
17:25
Closing
Shin-Ichi Nishikawa

Workshop Program and Abstract(PDF)