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The Novartis Foundation in collaboration with the Novartis Foundation (Japan) for the Promotion of Science

Symposium on Rhodopsins and phototransduction, held in Kyoto International Conference Hall, Kyoto, Japan, 26–28 October 1998

 This symposium is held in commemoration of the late Professor George Wald  

Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald  George Wald memorial talk
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James K. Bowmaker  The ecology of visual pigments
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General discussion I  Vertebrate ancient (VA) opsin: a new vertebrate photopigment family

Fumio Tokunaga, Osamu Hisatomi, Takunori Satoh et al Evolution of visual pigments and related molecules
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Gebhard F. X. Schertler  Structure of rhodopsin
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Richard A. Mathies Photons, femtoseconds and dipolar interactions: a molecular picture of the primary events in vision
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General discussion II

Willem J. DeGrip, Frank DeLange, Corné H.W. Klaassen et al Photoactivation of rhodopsin: interplay between protein and chromophore
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Steven W. Lin and Thomas P. Sakmar Colour tuning mechanism of visual pigments
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Yoshinori Shichida and Hiroo Imai  Amino acid residues controlling properties and functions of rod and cone visual pigments
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Klaus Peter Hofmann  Signalling states of photoactivated rhodopsin
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General discussion III

 Krzysztof Palczewski, Christophe L. M. J. Verlinde and Françoise Haeseleer  Molecular mechanism of visual transduction
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Satoru Kawamura  Calcium-dependent regulation of rhodopsin phosphorylation
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Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Esther S. Kahn and Naoka Komori The emerging role of mass spectrometry in molecular biosciences: studies of protein phosphorylation in fly eyes as an example
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Robert S. Molday, René Warren, Chris Loewen and Laurie Molday  Cyclic GMP-gated channel and peripherin/rds–rom-1 complex of rod cells
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Daisuke Kojima and Yoshitaka Fukada Non-visual photoreception by a variety of vertebrate opsins
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