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)