The Union of Transgenics (IUT)

1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TRANSGENIC ANIMALS

Venue: Nov. 18-23, 1996, Central Garden Hotel, Beijing, P.R. China

Sponsors:

Chinese Association on TransGenic Animals (prep.), CAS

The Committee on Genetic Experimentation (France) (A Scientific Committee of the ICSU)

National Institute of Immunology (India)

The Chinese Association of Medicinal Biotechnology,CAMS

China High-Tech Industrialization Association, CAST

Host:

China International Conference Center for Sciences and Technology (CICCST), CAST

Advisors Committee:

Shin Aizawa (Japan), Horst Bluethmann(Switzerland), H.de Boer (Netherlands), Alain Bucheton (France), Langyin Chen (China), Pak H. Chen (USA), Tomas T. Chen (USA), Zhu Chen (China), HongCun (China), Shulin Dong (China), Miao Du (China), Rob Etches(Canada), Biqing Fan (China), Wenhe Feng (China), Roy Forster(USA), Jan S. Gavora (Canada), Ann M. Verrinder Gibbins (Canada), Ren Guo (China), Manxian Hong (China), Boliang Li (China), Qingrong Liu (USA), Xinyuan Liu (China), Chenghao Luo (China), Cheng Ma (China), J. McDonald (USA), Martin Matzuk(USA), Motoyakatsuki (Japan), J.Nagai (Canada), Naroditsky (Russia), Zhongzhen Peng (China), Carl A. Pinkert (USA), Jiawu Quan (China), Lord Soulsby (UK), Xiang-hui Tang (China), Deyao Wang (China), Rick Woychik (USA), Xianglin Wu (China), Qingge Xie (China), Rigan Xu (China), Shaofu Xu (China), Jinglun Xue (China), Shepu Xue (China), Kaitai Yao (China), Xinsheng Ye(China), Muquan Yin (China), Zhen Yin (China), Yitao Zeng (China), Zhaoying Zhang (China).

Scientific Committee:

Luji Shi (Chairperson, China), G.Bernardi (Vice-Chair, France), Yongfu Chen (Vice-Chair, China), Guoxiang Cheng (Vice-Chair, China), Seyed E. Hasnain (Vice-Chair, India), Zuoyan Zhu (Vice-Chair, China).
Members: S.T.H.Chan (HK, China), Boaz Moav (Israel), Hongwu Chan (China), Xigu Chen (China), Georgii P. Georgiev (Russia), Xiechao He(China), Shuigen Hong (China), Yiping Hu (China), Ning Lei (China), Jian Li (China), Kui Li (China), Qifu Li (China), Wenxin Li (China), Depei Liu (China), Weiquan Liu (China), George Kollias (Greece), Andras Nagy (Canada), Liming Qiu (China), Wolf Reik (UK), K. Simkiss (UK), Da-heng Wang (China), Qingxin Wei (China), Zhiqiang Xiao (China), Xiaoxian Xue (China), Xiangzhong Yang (USA), Tao Xia (China), Quanyi Zhang (China), Rongjia Zhou (China), Zhongjun Zhou (Sewden).

Organizing Committee

Birong Lee (Chair, China), Bangzhe J. Zeng (Benjoe Tseng) (Vice-Chair, China), Jianrong Wang (Vice-Chair, China), Zonglian Zhang (Vice-Chair, China).
Members: Erjia Chen, Yubao Chen, Liming He, Yihong Hu, Limin Jin, Zhijie Li, Yuliang Liu, Jianping Ren, Wenjie Tan, Lianqin Wang, Jiewei Wei, Lingbo Wei, Guilin Wu, Fang Ye, Jingyuan Yu, Xiaozhu Yue, Jiqing Zeng, Shu Zhang, Weiying Zhang, Wenhu, Zhang, Peifen Zhu, Yawei Zhou, Binhua Zhou.

Conference Secretariat

Bangzhe J. Zeng (Secretary-General, China), Yawei Zhou (Vice-Secretary-General, China).

Scientific Program:

The fundamentals and applications of transgenic animals:

1). Gene regulation in development by transgenic animals; 2). Transgenic animals for bioreactor ; 3). Genetic improvement of animals by transgenics; 4). Transgenic animal model as disease and gene therapy; 5). Transgenic applications in immunology and ethology; 6). Donor of organ transplantation by transgenic animals; 7). Heredity and methods of transgenic animals; 8). Safety, ethics and other aspects of transgenic animals.

Plenary Lecture:

Y. Chen, (U.S.A. Stanford University), Genetic and Transgenic Studies of agouti patterning in Mice.
Y. Fujiwara (Japan, YS New Tech Institute), Position -Independent and High Level Expression of Human Alpha-Lactalbumin in the milk of transgenic Rats Carrying a 210KB YAC DNA.
H.W. Kuipers (U.K., University of Cambridge), Fluorescence in situ Hybridisation to Analyse Transgenic Pigs.
Peter Lonai (Israel, the Weizmann Institute of Science), FGFR Is Required for Embryonic Polarity During Early Mammalian Embryogenesis.
J. Matsuda (Japan, National Institute of Health), Beta-Galactosidase Knockout Mouse: A Disease Model of Gm1-Gangliosidosis.
B. Moav (Israel,Tel Aviv University), Inheritance and Growth Rates in GH Gene Transgenic Carp.
J. Nagai (Canada, Centre for Food and Animal Research), Growth and Fitness of Mice with Rat Growth Hormone Transgene.
A. Nagy (Canada, University of Toronto), Using Embryonic Stem Cells to Create Genome Alterations in Mouse and Analyze Mutant Phenotypes.
M. Rossini (Italy, University of Rome), Human MCP and DAF Double Transgenic Mice Are Completely Protected From Human Completement Attack in an Vivo Model.
K. Simkiss (U.K., the University of Reading), Crucial and Novel Stragies for Avian Transgenesis.

Founding Members of the IUT (WABSE) Council:

Ann M. V. Gibbins (Hon. Chair, Canada), B. R. Lee (China), B. J. Zeng (Tseng) (Secretary-General, China).
Alexander Awgulewitsch (USA), Herman de Boer (Netherlands), Alain Bucheton (France), Thomas D. Bunch (USA), Chan STH (Hong Kong, China), Kathy Cheah (Kong Kong, China), Zhoufeng Chen (USA), Brad A. Didion (USA), Alexander N. Ermilov (Russian), Xiang Gao (USA), Georgii Georgiev (Russia), Seyed E. Hasnain (India), Zoltan Ivics (USA), Tony James (Hong Kong, China), Virginie Joulin (France), George Kollias (Greek), Leonid Korochkin (Russian), Eugene Lukanidin (Denmark), Martin M. Matzuk (USA),Dmitry V. Mukha (Russia), Jiro Nagai (Canada), Boris Naroditskii (Russia), Jan Parker-Thornburg (USA), Carl A. Pinkert (USA), Ramiro Ramirez-Solis (USA), Ken Simkiss (UK), Alexander Sirotkin (Slovakia), George Stamatoyannopoulos (USA), J. R. Wang (China), Ken-ichi Yamamura (Japan, Kumamoto), Yinqing Yang (USA), Qinzhang Zhu (Canada)

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