Program

Saturday, Nov. 18:
9:15 Opening/welcoming remarks: Doug Engel

Regulation of GATA Factor Expression (Stuart Orkin, Chair)
9:25 Doug Engel, Northwestern U (30') Regulation of Gata2 and Gata3
10:00 Cecelia Trainor, NIH (30') The actions and interactions of GATA zinc fingers
10:35 coffee
10:55 Masayuki Yamamoto, U. Tsukuba (30') Regulation and domain function analyses of GATA-1 and GATA-2
11:30 Makoto Kobayashi, U Tsukuba (15') Gene regulation of zebrafish Gata1
11:50 Alison Brewer, King's College (15') The role and regulation of GATA6 in cardiac development
12:10 Satoru Takahashi, U Tsukuba (15') Rescue of AML1-deficient embryos from mid-gestation death by the transgenic expression of AML1 under Gata1 gene regulatory influence
12:30-2:00 lunch

GATA factors in Hematopoiesis I (Masayuki Yamamoto, Chair)
2:00 Stuart Orkin, Harvard Med (30') Modulation and roles of GATA factors
2:35 Naoko Minegishi, U Tsukuba (15') GATA-2 regulation of hematopoietic cell development
2:55 Minetaro Ogawa, Kyoto U (15') Manipulation of hematopoietic cell development in an ES cell culture system
3:15 Beverly Errede, U North Carolina (30') Ash1, a daughter cell specific GATA factor, regulates the transition to pseudohyphal-form growth in S. cervisiae

3:50 coffee
4:10 Tariq Enver, Inst Cancer Research (30') Lineage programming and re-programming by transcription factor gata-1
4:45 Itaru Matsumura, Osaka U (15') Effects of GATA-1 and GATA-2 on cytokine signaling
5:05 Atsushi Kumatori, Nagasaki U (15') Role of GATAs in the expression of human gp91phox gene
5:25 Toru Nakano, Osaka U (30') Mutual inhibition between GATA and Myb
6:00 Dinner
7:30 Poster Session

Sunday, Nov. 19:

GATA Factors in Endoderm/Early Mesoderm Development (Eric Olson, Chair)
9:00 Roger Patient, U Nottingham (30') GATA factors and the formation of endoderm and non-axial mesoderm
9:35 Alar Karis, U Tartu (15') The transcription factor GATA-3 is required for the identity and guidance of the Wolffian duct
9:55 Ken Zaret, Fox Chase Cancer Inst (30') Chromatin-based mechanism for GATA-4 in potentiating liver development from the endoderm
10:30 coffee
10:50 James D. McGhee, U Calgary (30') The Roles of C. elegans GATA Factors in the Differentiation of the Embryonic Intestine and Hypodermis.
11:25 Ge-Hong Sun-Wada. Osaka (15') Upstream regions directing heart-specific expression of the GATA6 gene during mouse early development
11:45 Joel Rothman, UC Santa Barbara (30') GATA factors regulate germ layer specification and differentiation in C. elegans
12:30-2:00 lunch

GATA Factors in Nervous System Development (Doug Engel, Chair)
2:00 Jacqueline van der Wees, Erasmus U (30') GATA-1, -3 and -6: blood, ears and lungs
2:35 Bernd Fritzsch, Creighton U (15') Transcription factor GATA-3 alters pathway selection of olivocochlear neurons and affects morphogenesis of the ear
2:55 Kim-Chew Lim, Northwestern U (30') Regulation of central and peripheral nervous system development by GATA-2 and GATA-3
3:30 coffee

GATA factors in Hematopoiesis II (Tariq Enver, Chair)
3:50 Tetsuya Yamagata, U Tokyo (30') Dominant-negative GATA-3 affects T cell survival and homing to secondary lymphoid organs
4:25 Naoko Arai, DNAX (30') GATA-3 controls helper T-cell differentiation as the master regulatory factor
5:00 Shigehiko Imagawa, U Tsukuba (15') Erythropoietin gene regulation by GATA
5:20 Sjaak Philipsen, Erasmus U (30') REDS, a signal regulating erythroid differentiation in the erythroblastic island
6:00 Banquet (all conference participants)
7:30 Poster Session continued

Monday, Nov. 20:

GATA Factors in Heart Development (Roger Patient, Chair)
9:00 Robert Schulz, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center (30') The GATA factor pannier and heart development in Drosophila
9:35 Masatomo Maeda, U Osaka (15') Isolation of the mutant cells which do not degrade GATA-6 protein
9:55 Eric Olson, UT Southwestern (30') Cofactors and signals that regulate the functions of cardiac GATA factors
10:30 coffee
10:50 Issei Komuro, U Chiba (15') Synergistic actions by GATA-4 and Csx/Nkx2.5 on cardiac development
11:10 Mona Nemer, ICRM (30') GATA-5 is required for in vitro endocardial differentiation
11:45 Roger Patient- summary
11:55 Masayuki Yamamoto- Closing Remarks
12:00-2:00 lunch

2:00: Leave for Narita airport, or
Pottery and Shrine at KASAMA
Tokyo Akihabara