The 2000 Kyoto Prize Workshops

Challenge to Evolutionary Development Biology: Exploring of Life through Molecules

Walter Jakob Gehring

/　　Developmental Biologist

Basic Sciences

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

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2000

11 /12 Sun

13:10 - 17:25

Place： Kyoto International Conference Center

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

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Program

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

Laureates

Walter Jakob Gehring

Developmental Biologist

Through his research into the developmental process of Drosophila, Professor Gehring discovered the homeobox and its conserved developmental mechanisms, which represented a groundbreaking contribution to the basic understanding of the morphogenesis of organisms. He is a developmental biologist who has made significant contributions to recent advances in biology.

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

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date: Sunday, November 12, 2000
place: Kyoto International Conference Center
Coordinator & Moderator: Shin-Ichi Nishikawa, Chairman of the Kyoto Prize Screening Committee; Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University

Organized: Inamori Foundation
Supported: Kyoto Prefectural Government, Kyoto City Government, NHK
With the cooperation: The Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists, The Molecular Biology of Japan