International Symposium on

“Molecular Mechanisms of Sex Determination and Differentiation”

at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan

September 21, 2006

Shimane University, Matsue, Japan


13:00 Opening Remarks: Ken-ichirou Morohashi (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan)


Session 1

Recent Progress in the Study of Molecular Mechanisms of Sex Determination and

Differentiation in the Gonad

Organizers: Ken-ichiro Morohashi (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan)

Masahisa Nakamura (Waseda University, Japan)

Speakers:

13:05 Yoshitaka Nagahama (National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan)

    Two major factors, DMY and estrogen, regulating sex determination and differentiation in fish

13:40 Hidefumi Yoshioka (Hyogo University of Teacher Education, Hyogo, Japan)

    Mechanism for Asymmetric Gonad Development in Birds

14:15 Peter Koopman (The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)

    Risky business: The fragile switches controlling somatic and germ cell sex in mammals

14:50 Blanche Capel (Duke University, Durham, NC, USA)

    The battle of the sexes: patterning the gonad


Session 2

Recent Progress in the Study of Molecular Mechanisms of Sex Differentiation in

the Brain


Organizers: Kazuyoshi Tsutsui (Hiroshima University, Japan)

Yasuo Sakuma (Nippon Medical School, Japan)

Speakers:

15:40 David P Crews (University of Texas, USA)

    Temperature-dependent sex determination: from molecular genetics to brain and behavior

    differentiation

16:15 Margaret M. McCarthy (University of Maryland, USA)

    Cellular mechanisms of estradiol-mediated masculinization of the brain

16:50 Yukihiko Sugimoto (Kyoto University, Japan)

    Prostaglandin E receptors involved in developmental masculinization of sex behavior

17:25 Arthur P. Arnold (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)

    Are XX and XY brain cells intrinsically different?

18:00 Kazushige Touhara (University of Tokyo, Japan)

    Identification of a male-specific peptide released in mouse tears


18:35 Closing Remarks: Yoshitaka Nagahama (National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan)


Hosted by the Zoological Society of Japan and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on

Priority Area “Molecular Mechanisms of Sex Differentiation” from the Ministry of Education,

Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (Tokyo, Japan)


特定領域研究「性分化機構の解明」・日本動物学会 共催国際シンポジウム「性決定と性分化の分子メカニズム」