The 13rd Naito Conference

Molecular Biological Approaches for Intractable Diseases [II]

Period	2000/11/08 (Wed.) - 2000/11/11 (Sat.)
Venue	Shonan Village Center（ Kanagawa-pref.）
Participants	Lectures：25 Posters：48

Structural Biology of Prion Proteins

[Kurt Wuthrich]

Institute for Moleculabiology and Biophysics, ETH, Switzerland

Helper Requirements for Breaking CD8 T Cell Tolerance to Pancreatic Islet Antigens

[William R. Heath]

Immunology Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Peripheral Tolerance in CD8 T CElls

[Brigitta Stockinger]

Division of Molecular Immunology, National Institute for Medical Research, UK
Peripheral Tolerance to a Systemic Nuclear Autoantigen is Accomplished Through Deletion and Agergy of CD4+ T Cells by Dendritic Cells Which Present Endogeneous Nuclear Proteins

[Kazuhiko Yamamoto]

Department of Allegy and Rheumatology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Dissection of Systemic Autoimmunnity Using TCR Transgenic Mice

[Joseph E. Craft]

Section of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Mechanism of Autoantibody Production

[Tsuneyo Mimori]

Department of Internal medicine, School of Mediine, Keio University, Japan

Engineering Autoimmunity

[Diane Mathis]

Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, USA
The CD44 Adhesion Pathway in Immunity and Autoimmunity

[Mark H. Siegelman]

Lab. Molecular Pathology, Dep. Pathology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
CD40-CD154 Interactions Control Cell-mediated Immunity

[Randolph J. Noelle]

Department of Microbiology, Dartmouth Medical School, USA
Proteoglycans and their Immunomodulatory Roles - Binding to Adhesion Molecules and Chemokines

[Masayuki Miyasaka]

Department of Bioregulation, Biomedical Research Center, Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Role of β1 Integrin Molecule in Cell Adhesion and Inflammation

[Chikao Morimoto]

Department of Clinical Immunology and AIDS Research Center, Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Hypernuclear Acetylation in Atherosclerotic Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

[Toshihiro Nakajima]

Institute of Applied Biochemistry, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Transcriptional Control by Nuclear Steroid Hormone Receptors

[Shigeaki Kato]

Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan
The Role of Protein Kinase C Activatin and Diabetic Vascular Complications

[George L. King]

Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, USA
Pathogenic Role of IL-6 and the Therapeutic Application of IL-6 Blockade to Immune-Inflammatory Diseases

[Kazuyuki Yoshizaki]

School of Health and Sport Sciences, Osaka University, Japan
Inhibition of TNFα Markedly Improves Rheumatoid Arthritis: What Does It Teach Us?

[Marc Feldmann]

Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, UK

Mapping the Susceptibility Genes for Human SLE

[Timothy W. Behrens]

Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota, USA
Genetic Linkages with Lupus in Americans of African and European Ancestry

[John B. Harley]

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, University of Oklahoma, USA
A Search for the Susceptibility Genes to Rheumatic Diseases through the Candidate Gene Approach

[Naoyuki Tsuchiya]

Department of Human Genetics, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Studies on the Disease Susceptibiligy Genes of Rheumatoid Arthritis

[Shunichi Shiozawa]

Department of Medicine and Molecular Genetics, Kobe University, Japan
Genetic Basis of RA-like Autoimmunie Arthritis in the SKG Strain of Mice

[Shimon Sakaguchi]

Department of Experimental Pathology, Kyoto University, Japan

Matrix Metalloproteinases and Related Metalloproteinases in Cartilage Destructin of Rheumatic Diseases

[Yasunori Okada]

Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Keio University, Japan
Mucosal Tolerance for the Treatment of Neurologic and Other Diseases

[Howard L. Weiner]

Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
Molecular Mechanism of Oral Tolerance

[Shuichi Kaminogawa]

Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Polyglutamine Diseases and Transcription Factors

[Hitoshi Okazawa]

Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Pathogenic Role and Molecular Structure of Proteins with an Expanded Polyglutamine Tract

[Erich E. Wanker]

Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany