U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar: Molecular Biology of Marine Invertebrate Development/April,1991/Honolulu, Hawaii

该奖项为8名美国人的参与提供支持 科学家们在美日联合举办的“分子生物学”研讨会上 海洋无脊椎动物的发展”。在过去的15年里， 主要是通过分子生物学领域的进步， 我们在基本认识方面取得了相当大的进展， 涉及发展的重大问题。研究 海洋无脊椎动物胚胎在 通过提供一个很好的模型来分析这一进展， 发展的根本问题。 例如，精子-卵子 一般的相互作用，特别是受精， 一直是海洋无脊椎动物研究 一路另一个非常重要的领域是基因如何 主持着复杂的形态发生过程， 海洋胚胎的可获得性使它们成为一个特别重要的 这是研究这一过程的有利材料。发展- 海洋无脊椎动物的生物学传统上一直是 美国和日本的活跃研究领域， 本世纪之初，因此， 为研究人员提供了一个很好的论坛， 比较结果并讨论未来的研究， 这方面 研讨会将于1991年4月3日至6日在Kewalo举行 夏威夷大学海洋实验室，檀香山， 夏威夷。 共同组织者是弗雷德H威尔特教授， 加州大学分子细胞生物学组， 伯克利分校，和教授Hiraku Shimada，动物学系， 日本广岛大学。 拟讨论的具体议题 在研讨会上将集中在细胞与细胞的相互作用 包括（1）细胞与环境相互作用的生物学; (2)形态发生的分子生物学;（3）特异性 基因表达。 研讨会特别及时，因为 这两个国家之间关于这一主题的最后一次研讨会是 十年前举行，取得了巨大的进展， 从那时起。 预计正在进行的合作 项目和科学家交流将因此而发生 这次研讨会。

This award provides support for the participation of eight US scientists in a joint US-Japan seminar on "Molecular Biology of Marine Invertebrate Development". In the last 15 years, primarily through advances in the field of molecular biology, considerable progress has been made in our basic understanding of the major issues involved in development. The study of marine invertebrate embryos has played an important role in this progress by providing a good model for analyzing the fundamental problems of development. For example, sperm-egg interactions in general and fertilization in particular have always been areas where marine invertebrate research has lead the way. Another area of immense importance is how genes preside over the complex process of morphogenesis, and the accessibility of marine embryos makes them a particularly favorable material for the study of this process. Development- al biology of marine invertebrates has been a traditionally active field of research in both the US and Japan since the beginning of this century and this seminar should therefore provide an excellent forum for researchers in the two countries to compare results and discuss future research in this area. The seminar is to be held on April 3-6 1991 at the Kewalo Marine Laboratory of the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii. The co-organizers are Professor Fred H Wilt, Molecular cell biology unit, University of California, Berkeley, and Professor Hiraku Shimada, Department of Zoology, Hiroshima University, Japan. Specific topics to be discussed at the seminar will concentrate on cell-cell interactions including (1) the biology of cell-environmental interactions; (2) the molecular biology of morphogenesis; and (3) specific gene expression. The seminar is especially timely as the last seminar in this topic, between these two countries, was held ten years ago and enormous advances have been achieved since that time. It is expected that ongoing collaborative projects and exchanges of scientists will occur as a result of this seminar.