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报告题目：Clearing mitosis and the role of condensin

报告人：Professor Mitsuhiro Yanagida

CREST JST, Kyoto University

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

Graduate University

时间： 2011年12月1日 (星期四) 上午10：00

地点：逸夫教学楼110教室

主持人： 尹玉新教授

                                                         报告人简介：

Dr. Mitsuhiro Yanagida is a world leader in studies of the cell cycle and chromosome structure and is probably the most influential person in the community of biomedical science in Japan .  Dr. Yanagida had his undergraduate and graduate education both in University of Tokyo .  He got his doctoral degree in 1970.  From 1967 to 1970, he was a research assistant in University of Geneva, Institute of Molecular Biology .   From 1970 to 1971, he was a research associate in the International Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, Naples, Italy and in University of Maryland School of Medicine.  He was an associate professor in the Department of Biophysics, Kyoto University from 1971 to 1977, and has been a full professor in Kyoto University since 1977.   Dr. Yanagida’s research focuses on the mechanism of mitosis.  The scientific discoveries from his laboratory have significantly advanced our understanding of the general mechanism of cell growth cycle, particularly the process of mitosis.  He has published nearly two hundreds of research papers with more than 20 papers published in Cell, Nature and Science and the other papers published in EMBO, Genes Dev etc.  Based on his significant scientific contributions, he has been awarded with numerous honors, including Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2000), Asahi award (2000), Uehara award (2001), Medal with Purple Ribbon (2002), The Japan Academy Prize, the Imperial Prize (2003), the Persons of Cultural Merit (2004), and the Order of Culture (2011).  He currently serves as a member of editorial boards for journals of Cell, EMBO, MBC, Current Biology, BioEssay, Genes to Cells, Journal of Cell Sci., Yeast etc.  On Nov. 30, Dr. Yanagida will give a seminar titled 'Clearing mitosis and the role of condensin'.