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Lecture Seminars, etc.
All seminars are open to the public, and include monthly lecture seminars presented by outstanding scientists, both from Japan and abroad, talking about what scientific research should be.
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Introduction of Invited Speakers in 2002 Fiscal Year
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Dr. Shinichi Nishikawa (Professor, Dept. Molecular Genetics Graduate School of Medicine Kyoto University)
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Stem cell niche |
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Dr. Ryoichiro Kageyama (Professor, Laboratory of Growth Regulation Department of Cell Biology Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University)
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Regulation of neuronal and glial differentiation from neural stem cell |
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Dr. Tetsufumi Ueda (Professor, Professor of Pharmacology Mental Health Research Institute,
The University of Michigan)
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Modulation of glutamate release via regulation of vesicular storage |
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Tasuku Honjo, M.D., Ph.D. (Professor, Professor of
Dept. of Medical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Kyoto)
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"Scenarios and Ad-libs of Life Dramas" |
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Professor. Toshio Hirano (Professor, Department of Molecular
Oncology Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University)
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Title: |
Signal transduction through cytokine receptor gp130 and its involvement in autoimmune diseasa |
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Dr. Shuh Narumiya (Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine)
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Title: |
"Prostanoid-mediated body defense mechanisms and outcome
of their breakdown" |
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Dr. Yoichi Taya (Chief, Radiobilogy Division, National Cancer Center Research Institute)
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"Regulation of p53 and Rb functions by phosphorylation" |
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Professor. Harvey F. Lodish (Professor, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology )
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(1) Signaling by the errythropoietin receptor
(2) Small scale science in the age of genomics and proteomics -the role of the individual reseacher- |
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Dr. Dennis McGinty (Professor, UCLA, Psychology Department Associate Adjunct Professor)
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Hypothalamic Neural Mechanisms of Sleep Control |
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Professor. David S. Bredt (Professor, Department of
Physiology, University of California at San Francisco)
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"Synaptic plasticity regulated by stargazin and PSD-95" |
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Professor. Susan Amara (Professor, Vollum Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Oregon Health & Sciences University)
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"Excitatory amino acid transporters : New insights into structure,
function and regulation" |
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Dr. Kenneth Blum (Deputy Editor [Neuron] Cell Press)
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Title: |
Insights of an Editor : Answers to FAQs |
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Prof. Hiroshi Takeshima (Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
TOHOKU University Graduate school of Medicine)
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"Ca2+ signaling and intracellular Ca2+ store in cardiac muscle
cell" |
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Dr. Shigeru Yanagi (Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine)
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Title: |
Semaphorin Signaling during Neural Development |
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Dr. Robert W. McCarley (Professor and Head, Harvard Dept. of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Laboratory, Deputy Chief of Staff for Mental Health, VA Boston Healthcare System Brockton VAMC)
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"Adenosine and sleep" |
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Dr. Tomohiro Kurosaki (Professor, Depatment of Molecular Gentics Institute for Liver Research Kansai Medical University)
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Regulation of B-cell Signal transduction by Adaptor Proteins |
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Dr. Ron R. Kopito (Professor, Department of Biological
Sciences, Stanford University)
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"The ubiquitin proteasome system and neurodegenerative disease" |
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Prof. Hiroyuki Nawa (Professor, Department of Molecular Neurobiology Brain Research Institute, Niigata University)
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"Interaction between brain cytokines and psychiatric diseases" |
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Dr. Yasunori Hayashi (Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, Picower Center for Learning and Memory, RIKEN-MIT Neuroscience Research Center)
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"Activity dependent delivery of postsynaptic proteins into
synapse as a mechanism of synaptic plasticity" |
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Dr. Kunitada Simotohno (Professor, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University Department of Viral Oncology, Laboratory of Human Tumor Viruses)
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"Regulation of cell growth by Hepatitis C Viral proteins" |
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Dr. Ze'ev Ronai (Professor, Ruttenberg Cancer Center
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York)
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"RNF-5-a RING finger protein which regulates cell motility
via targeting paxillin ubiquitination" |
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Dr. Naoyuki Taniguchi, M.D. & Ph.D. (Professor and Chairman,
Department of Biochemistry, Osaka University Medical School / Graduate School
of Medicine)
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Glycosyltransferase genes and functional giycomics |
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Dr. Jean Davoust (GENETHON Director of Research at CNRS Group Leader in Immunology)
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Cell biology aspects of dendritic cell and Langerhans cell maturation |
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Bruce Mayer (Associate Professor, Genetics & Developmental Biology,
University of Connecticut Health Center)
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Profiling and manipulating the tyrosine phosphorylation state of the cell |
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Anindya Dutta (Associate Professor, Department of Pathology,
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School)
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Title: |
p21 and geminin : lessons from two inhibitors of the cell-cycle |
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Prof. Toshiya Manabe (Professor, Division of Neuronal Network, Department of Medical Sciences, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo)
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"Synaptic plasticity and higher brain functions" |
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Dr. Allan Bradley (Director, The Sanger Center Cambridge, UK)
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Contemporary approaches to extracting function from the mouse genome |
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Dr. Tsuneo Fujita (Professor emeritus, Niigata University)
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Title: |
Sensor cells in the gut |
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Dr. Mitsuhiro Yanagida (Professor, Department of Gene Mechanisms Graduate School of Biostudies Kyoto University)
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Title: |
Mechanism of Chromosome Segregation -from yeast to human- |
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Dr. Keiji Tanaka (Vice-Director, The Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science)
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Title: |
Ubiquitin and proteasome |
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Prof. Akira Mizoguchi (Department of Neural Regeneration and Cell Communication, Faculty of Medicine, Mie University)
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Title: |
"Synaptic Junctions as Exocytonic and Cell-Cell Adhesion
Machinery" |
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Professor. Shigeo Okabe (Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
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Title: |
"Molecular Dynamics of Hippocampal Excitatory Synapses" |
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Professor. Masayasu Nomura (Professor, Biological Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California, USA)
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"Recollection of early developments in Molecular Biology" |
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