VI. ABSTRACTS OF DIARY FOR 1997


Biological Symposium
488th-Jan. 29 Anaerobic and Nirate Control of Respitory Pathway Gene Expression in Escherichia coli (Robert P.Gunsalus)
489th-Feb. 17 Correct kinetic measurement by surface plasmon resonance:principle and limitation of Biacore (Peter Schuck)
490th-Feb. 21 "Dissecting Hydra Development Using Molecular Biology" (Robert E.Steele)
491st-Feb. 24 Molecular Changes in the Eye Lens during Aging and in Cataract (D.Balasbramanian)
492nd-Mar. 18 "Organization and function of MHC class Ib genes" (Kirsten Fischer Lindahl)
493rd-Mar. 24 "Molecular mechanisms of axon guidance and cell migrations inan invertebrate spinal cord- the nematode C.elegans" (Joseph G.Culotti)
494th-Apr. 4 "Drosophila Wing Morphogenesis" (Antonio Garcia- Bellido)
495th-Apr. 9 "Cell/Extracellular Matrix Interactions in Hydra vulgaris"
496th-Apr. 10 Genetic Control of Morphogenesis and Evolution of the Eye (Walter J.Gehring)
497th-Mar. 21 The structure and function of bovine mitochondrial F1-ATPase;An example of rotational catalysis (Andrew G.W.Leslie)
498th-June 2 Role of General and Gene-Specific Co-activators in Transcription Regulation (Robert G.Regulation)
499th-June 27 "Molecular Insight into Origin and Composition of Microbial Communities" (James M.Tiedje)
500th-July 9 The Role of Apoptosis in the Pathogenesis of Sacral Agenesis (Alisa S W Shum)
501st-June 22 Chlorophyll and Bacteriochlorophyll:Theory and Experiment in Unison (Ian Gould)
502nd-Aug. 11 "Mammalian Molecular Phylogeny:Everything you know is wrong" (Dan Graur)
503rd-Sep. 12 Coupling of Local DNA Topolpgy to tyrR Promoter Activity (Andrew Travers)
504th-Oct. 8 Molecular mechanisms involved in specific recongnition of pathogens in plants (Fumiaki Katagiri)
505th-Oct. 15 Molecular mechanisms of synaptic initiation:how postsynaptic cells talk back to presynaptic cells (Akira Chiba)
506th-Nov. 4 "Maternal Factors That Guide Early Development Of The Germline In C.elegans." (Susan Strome, Ichiro Kawasaki)
507th-Nov. 5 "Translation termination in higher eukaryotes:news and views" (Lev Kisselev)
508th-Nov. 12 "Germ Line Establishiment in Drosophila melanogaster" (Paul Lasko)
509th-Nov. 19 Beyond Genomes:Emerging Role of Mass Spectrometry in Proteome Studies (Hiroyuki Matsumoto)
510th-Nov. 21 "Role of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs) in Forebrain and Eye Development" (Yasuhide Furuta)
511st-Nov. 27 Neurohormone Cascades:A Mechanism for Controlling Behavioral Sequences in Insects (James W.Truman)
512nd-Nov. 27 Orchestration of Insect Molting and Metamorphosis:Hor monal Regulation and Molecular Switches (Lynn M. Riddiford)
513rd-Dec. 3 "The Myosin VIIA Deafness Gene-Genetic and Functional Analysis in Mouse and Human" (Steve D.M.Brown)
514th-Dec. 8 "Electrostatic Properties of Biological Macromolecules" (Barry Honig)
515th-Dec. 9 "Structure-based design" (Tom Blundell)
516th-Dec. 10 "Biological Database Searching and Statistical Significance" (Michael S.Waterman)
517th-Dec. 15 Transcriptional Behavior of Neutrophil White BloodCells (Sherman M.Weissman)
Mishima Geneticists'Club
501st-Jan. 8 Characterization of the ADA transcriptional co-activator complex (Junjiro Horiuchi)
502nd-Jan. 16 New methods for molecular manipulation of DNA (Masao Washizu)
503rd-Feb. 12 Genetic variavbility and Cell Tropism of HIV (Nobuaki Shimizu)
505th-Apr. 16 Characterization of RuvB like mammalian TIP49 protein whichi has a DNA dependent ATPase/helicase activity (Takaaki Tamura)
506th-May 14 Cascades of transeviptional control factors producing variabilities of mammalian neuroral cells (Tetsuichiro Saito)
507th-May 21 Molecular Evolution of Rotaviruses -Toward New Paradigms- (Osamu Nakagome)
508th-June 6 Small teleost species as valuable genetic resource (Hiroshi Hori)
509th-June 10 Bioinformatics : analyses of Escherichia coli and Sccharomyces cerevisiae complete genomes (Katsumi Isono)
510th-June 11 DNA replication mechinery and mechanism of Sphase checkpoint (Hiroyuki Araki)
511st-June 12 Cellular function of AAA protease FtsH in Escherichia coli (Hikaru Ogura)
512nd-June 13 Coupling of gene expression and morphogenesis-Bacterial flagella serve as a transcriptional regulator (Kazuhiko Kutsukake)
513rd-June 17 Transcriptional regulation of the yeast rRNA gene-Molecular genetic approach (Yasuhiro Nogi)
514th-June 18 Molecular genetics of clock genes in cyanobacteria (Masahiro Ishimura)
515th-June 23 Role of MAT1 in phosphorylation of Oct-1 transcription factor by CDK activating kinase (Susumu Inamoto)
516th-July 4 Centromere-specific nucleosome structure in human (Kinya Yota)
517th-Aug. 18 Interspecific chromosome transfer as a useful too for the study of speciation in Drosophila (Kyoichi Sawamura)
518th-Oct. 27 Role of SUMO/UBC9 modifier system in nuclear transport and cell cycle control (Sumihito Saito)
519th-Nov. 13 Cloning of the genes essential for morphogenesis of Zebrafish using the retro virus-mediated insertional mutagenesis (Koichi Kawakami)
520th-Nov. 19 Promoter-transcription activation protein interaction in vivo : Roles of cooperative DNA binding and activation-domain function (Masashi Tanaka)
521st-Nov. 13 Hepatitis virus and liver cancer
522nd-Nov. 27 Postembryonic Development of the Drosophila Brain Circuit (Kei Ito)
523rd-Dec. 22 Induction gene-trapping : Identification of genes active down stream of BDNF (Mika Karasawa)
524th-Dec. 22 Glial cells missing, gene for the regulation of differenciation between neuron and glia in Drosophila (Toshihiko Hosoya)