SECOND U.S.-JAPAN COOPERATIVE CANCER RESEARCH PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM
Speaker Abstracts
Table Contents: March 8, 2001
I. Genetic Instability and Cancer
Special Lecture
Genetic instability and carcinogenesis
M. Sekiguchi
The role of telomeres and telomerase in cell cycle checkpoint responses
J. Shay
Xeroderma pigmentosum variant: gene and protein
F Hanaoka
Genetic instability and the BRCA genes
M. Moynahan
Functions of NBSI for genetic stability after irradiation
K. Komatsu
Chromatin silencing and tumorigenesis by polycomb group genes
M. Kanno
Phosphorylation of Ser46 regulates Apoptosis-inducing Ability of p53
Y. Taya
Chromosomes in Cancer Cells
T. Ried
Chromatin assembly in RUNX-related cancer
Y. Ito
Chromosomal instability in oral cancer cells
S. Gollin
Molecular mechanisms of chromosome maintenance
F Ishikawa
Mutator phenotype and cancer
L. Loeb
Special Lecture
Normal Human Mammary Epithelial Cells Spontaneously Emerge from Senescence and Acquire Genomic Instability
T. Tlsty
Table Contents: March 9, 2001
II. Factors Associated with Sensitivity to Cancer-related Infection
Factors influencing H. pylori-induced gastritis and cancer risk
M. Asaka
H. Pylori and cancer: Why some and not others
J. Parsonnet
Dietary factors affecting H. Pylori-associated gastritis in Mongolian gerbils
K. Wakabayashi
Cytokine gene polymorphisms in gastric cancer and AIDS-related malignancy
C. Rabkin
A single nucleotide polymorphism identified in the MXA gene promoter (G/T at nt-88) affects expression of downstream reporter gene in vitro and correlates with responsiveness of hepatitis C patients to interferon in vivo
S. Mishiro
The role of the Epstein-Barr virus in the development of nasopharyngeal carcmoma
N. Raab-Traub
Special Lecture
The Human Genes that Limit AIDS
C. Winkler