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♦About the Meeting

    Tokyo Area Worm Meeting is held on a Saturday every two months, at the University of Tokyo. There are a Journal Club presentation and a Research Progress Report, each of 1 hour long, and refreshments as well. Meeting schedules are announced on this page and through the Japanese C. elegans Community mailing list.
    Anyone who is interested in C. elegans research is welcome to join us!

♦Contact

Hidehito Kuroyanagi (kuroyana.end@tmd.ac.jp)
School of Biomedical Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Takeshi Karashima (tawm-admin@umin.ac.jp)
Depertment of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo

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♦Upcoming Meeting

Date: Saturday 10 November 2007, 14:00-16:00

Place: Faculty of Science Bldg.3 Rm416, on the University of Tokyo campus

Journal Club:
Hiroaki SAKANE (Department of Functional Genomics, Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
"Glia Promote Local Synaptogenesis Through UNC-6 (Netrin) Signaling in C. elegans."
Daniel A. Colon-Ramos, Milica A. Margeta, Kang Shen
Science 5 October 2007: Vol. 318. no. 5847, pp. 103 - 106.

Research Progress Report:
Takahiro KANAMORI (Dept. Health Chemistry, Grad. Schl. Pharm. Sci., Univ. Tokyo)
"Regulation of terminal asymmetric divisions of C. elegans epidermis by phospholipase A1 and retrograde traffic"

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♦MAP

University of Tokyo, Faculty of Science Building 7
(Molecular Genetics Research Laboratory, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033)

University of Tokyo, Faculty of Science Building 3
(Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yayoi 2-11-16, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032)