SUNDAY, JULY 26, 5-6 PM - Reception (followed by Dinner) |
SUNDAY, JULY 26, 7:30 PM - Molecular Mechanisms of Behavior |
Discussion Leader: RICHARD AXEL, Columbia Medical School
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- Richard Axel, Columbia Medical School
- Cori Bargmann, University of California, San Francisco
"Social behavior in C. elegans: genetic analysis of natural behavioral variation"
- Bill Schafer, University of California, San Diego
"Control of Behavioral States by Serotonin in C. elegans"
- Kelsey Martin, Columbia Medical School
"Cell-wide and synapse-specific forms of long-lasting synaptic plasticity"
- Graeme Davis, University of California, Berkeley
"Homeostatic Regulation of Synaptic Function: A Genetic Analysis of SynapticDevelopment and Plasticity"
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MONDAY, JULY 27, 9:00 AM - The Cell Cycle and its Regulation |
Discussion Leader: ANDREW MURRAY,
UCSF |
- Andrew Murray, University of California, San Francisco
- Richard Losick, Harvard University
"Asymmetric division and cell fate"
- Orna Cohen-Fix, Carnegie Institute of Washington
"Progression through mitosis: taking one step at a time"
- Fred Chang, Columbia Medical School
"Placing the site of cell division in fission yeast"
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MONDAY, JULY 27, 7:30 PM - Motors and Protein Machines |
Discussion Leader: JEFF GELLES, Brandeis
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- Jeff Gelles, Brandeis University
"Illuminating transcription: viewing single RNA polymerase molecules in action by light microscopy"
- John Staley, University of California, San Francisco
"A helicase driven switch during 5' splice site recognition"
- Robert Fletterick, University of California, San Francisco
"The harmony of kinesin's motility"
- Kevin Wilson, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Mapping the position of elongation factor EF-G in the ribosome during tRNA translocation"
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TUESDAY, JULY 28, 9:00 AM - Chromatin, Transcription, and Recombination |
Discussion Leader: BARBARA SOLLNER-WEBB,
Johns Hopkins University
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- Barbara Sollner-Webb, Johns Hopkins University
"Specific sub-cellular localization of transcriptional control elements for each class of polymerase"
- David Price, University of Iowa
"Control of the Elongation Phase of Transcription by RNA Polymerase II"
- Rob Singer, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
"Intracellular Transport and Localization of RNA"
- Ruth Lehmann, New York University
"Mechanisms of translational regulation"
- Shelley Berger, Wistar Institute
"Functional Analysis of SAGA, an Adaptor/Histone Acetylation Complex in Yeast"
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TUESDAY, JULY 28, 4-6 PM - Poster Session |
TUESDAY, JULY 28, 7:30 PM - Regulation of Protein Synthesis, Folding and Function |
Discussion Leader: JONATHAN WEISSMAN,
UCSF |
- Jonathan Weissman, University of California, San Francisco
"Principles of amyloid formation and propagation: lessons from a yeast prion"
- Victor Ambros, Dartmouth College
"Developmental timing mechanisms in C. elegans"
- Sean Burgess, Harvard University
"Pairing, unpairing and repairing of homologous chromosomes during the cell cycle in yeast"
- Andrew Fire, Carnegie Institute of Washington
"Co-suppression and genetic interference by double-stranded RNA"
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 9:00 AM - Regulation and Initiation of DNA Replication |
Discussion Leader: BIK TYE, Cornell University
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- Bik Tye, Cornell University
"The Interactions of MCM Proteins at Replication Origins"
- John Diffley, ICRF Clare Hall Laboratories
"Regulation of origin firing during S phase in budding yeast"
- John Newport, University of California, San Diego
"Regulation of Origin activation during S-phase of the Cell Cycle"
- Dave Gilbert, Syracuse University
"Specifying replication initiation sites in mammalian chromosomes"
- Joyce Hamlin, University of Virginia School of Medicine
"Effects of chromosomal context on the activity of a mammalian chromosomal origin of replication"
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 7:30 PM - Biological Patterns, Clocks and Aging |
Discussion Leader: LEONARD GUARENTE, MIT
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- Leonard Guarente, MIT
"Molecular Analysis of Aging"
- Javier Apfeld, University of California, San Francisco
"A signalling Pathway that Regulates the Lifespan of C. elegans"
- Nadia Rosenthal, Massachusetts General Hospital
"Therapeutic strategies for muscle aging"
- John Chant, Harvard University
"Orienting and assembling axes of cellular asymmetry"
- Katherine Lemon, MIT
"Positional control of DNA replication in B. subtilis"
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THURSDAY, JULY 30, 9:00 AM - Creative Genomics and the Future |
Discussion Leader: PAT BROWN, Stanford University
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- Pat Brown, Stanford University
"Watching the genome come alive"
- Joe DeRisi, Stanford University
"Whole Genome Expression Analysis"
- Bruce Bowerman, University of Oregon
"Cell Polarity and Cell Fate in the Early C. elegans Embryo"
- Sherman Weissman, Yale University
"Neutrophil gene expression during differentiation and activation"
- Roger Brent, The Molecular Sciences Institute
"Approaches to gene and pathway function"
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THURSDAY, JULY 30, 7:30 PM - Pathogens, Opportunists and Strange Creatures |
Discussion Leader: GRAHAM WALKER, MIT
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- Graham Walker, MIT
"Getting Inside: Rhizobium Functions Needed For Nodule Invasion"
- Julie Theriot, Stanford University
"Bacterial Pathogens Meet the Eukaryotic Cytoskeleton"
- Jorge Galan, Stony Brook
"Type III Secretion and Modulation of Host Cell Responses by Salmonella typhimurium"
- Lory Rahme, Massachusetts General Hospital
"Common Themes of Regulation in Bacterial Pathogenesis in Plants and Animals"
- Ned Ruby, University of Hawaii
"Regulation of Colonization of the Squid Light Organ By Luminous Bacteria"
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