The 1996 Kyoto Prize Workshops

From Genes to Cellular Functions and Body Plan

Mario Renato Capecchi

/　　Molecular Geneticist

Basic Sciences

Life Sciences and Medicine（Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Systems Biology, etc.）

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1996

11 /12 Tue

13:10 - 17:20

Place： Kyoto International Conference Center

Address：Takaragaike, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-0001 Japan

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Program

13:10

Opening
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

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

Laureates

Mario Renato Capecchi

Molecular Geneticist

A molecular geneticist who developed the “gene targeting” technique, which is widely used around the world today. With his success in breeding mice in which targeted genes were inactivated, referred to as “knock-out” mice, Dr. Capecchi established a new avenue for researching how genes work. His method of research has benefited immensely such branches of life sciences as biology, medicine and agriculture.

＊This field then was Field of Life Sciences (Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Neurobiology).

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date: Tuesday, November 12, 1996
place: Kyoto International Conference Center
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