DEVELOPMENTAL REMODELING The 2nd Symposium 2004

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Steven Henikoff
Renato Paro
Paul Martin
Donald D. Brown
Susan V. Bryant
Teruhiko Wakayama
Jun-ichi Nakayama
Barry M. Gumbiner
Naoto Ueno
Jeremy Brockes
Koji Tamura
Nobuaki Kikyo
Tetsuji Kakutani
Richard G. Fehon
James W. Truman
Elly M. Tanaka
Cheng-Ming Chuong
Teruhiko Wakayama  
Teruhiko Wakayama received his B. Sc. and M. Sc. from Ibaraki University, and was awarded a Ph. D. in reproductive biology from the University of Tokyo, Department of Veterinary Anatomy in 1996, where he studied fertilization in the Japanese field vole. His finding that the first and second polar bodies were sufficient substitutes for the oocyte nucleus led to a technique enabling the generation of four embryos from a single oocyte. He received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science in 1996 and spent the next two years at the Yanagimachi lab in the University of Hawaii Medical School, where he succeeded in producing the world's first cloned mouse in 1998. He was appointed to an assistant professorship at the University of Hawaii the same year, before moving to Rockefeller University as a research assistant professor in 1999, where he developed a technique for deriving ES cells from somatic cells by nuclear transfer. He spent a year as a researcher at Advanced Cell Technology before returning to Japan to take his current position at the RIKEN CDB. Teruhiko Wakayama
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