| Session 1. (Sunday p.m.) |
Topic: Oxygen Gradients |
Discussion Leader: Harry MacWilliams (Munich)
- Yasuji Sawada (Tohoku University) - "Optical measurements of oxygen gradients in the rapid patterning of confined cells of Dictyostelium"
- Yasuo Maeda (Tohoku University) - "Involvement of mitochondrial components in polar axis formation and differentiation of Dictyostelium".
- Stephen Land (Dundee University) - "Oxygen gradients and oxygen-regulated signal transduction"
| Session 2. (Monday a.m.) |
Topic: Developmental Waves |
Discussion Leader: Claudio Stern (Columbia)
- Lionel Jaffe (Marine Biological Lab) - "Calcium waves"
- Cornelis J. Weijer (University of Dundee) - "The signals controlling cell movement during the multicellular stages of Dictyostelium development."
- Richard Gordon (University of Manitoba) - "The wave that makes the brain".
- Ulrike Heberlein (UCSF) - "Initiation and progression of differentiation in the Drosophila retina"
| Session 3. (Monday p.m.) |
Topic: Calcium Gradients |
Discussion Leader: Peter Hepler (U. Mass. , Amherst)
- Ken Robinson (Purdue) - "The roles of cytoplasmic calcium gradients in the establishment and maintenance of polarity".
- Peter Hepler - "Ion fluxes and gradients in tip-growing plant cells".
- Robbert Creton (MBL) - "Calcium patterns in Drosophila and zebrafish embryos".
| Session 4. (Tuesday a.m.) |
Topic: Cell Tip Growth |
Discussion Leader: Kenneth Robinson (Purdue)
- I. Brent Heath (York University, Ontario) - "Cytoskeletal and Ca2+ regulation of hyphal tip growth and initiation".
- Nicholas Spitzer (University of California, San Diego) - "Growth cone calcium transients regulate neurite extension and pathfinding in vivo".
- Daniel Suter (Yale) - "Neuronal growth cone steering mediated by Ig CAM-cytoskeletal coupling".
- Simon Gilroy (Penn State) - "Calcium, pH and the cytoskeleton: controlling tip growth in root hairs".
| Session 5. (Tuesday p.m.) |
Topic: Symmetry Breaking & Polar Transport 1 |
Discussion Leader: Lionel Jaffe
- Christian Sardet (Villefranche) - "Cortical and cytoplasmic reorganizations in the ascidian egg at fertilization and their consequences for development".
- Bob Goldstein (Berkeley) - "Generating asymmetries in cells of the C. elegans embryo".
- Gloria Muday (Wake Forest) - "Actin association of a plant hormone transport protein may control the polarity of transport."
| Session 6. (Wednesday a.m.) |
Topic: SBPT 2 |
Discussion Leader: Lawrence Etkin (Houston)
- Kenneth Kemphues (Cornell, Ithaca) - "Establishing polarity in the early C. elegans embryo".
- Ruth Lehmann (Skirball Institute, New York University) - "Germ cell migration in Drosophila".
- Lawrence Etkin (Houston) - "Patterning and lineage specification in the amphibian embryo".
- Carolyn Larabell (Lawrence Berkeley Lab) - "Cytoskeletal dynamics and
dorsoventral axis specification in Xenopus eggs."
| Session 7. (Wednesday p.m.) |
Topic: SBPT 3 |
Discussion Leader: Carl Hashimoto (Yale)
- Irith Ginzburg (Weizmann Institute, Rehovoth) - "Control of tau-map expression during neuronal differentiation"
- Carl Hashimoto (Yale) - "Induction of embryonic polarity by proteases"
- Bill Theurkauf (Stony Brook) - "In vivo analysis of cytoplasmic
transport during Drosophila oogenesis: Insights into embryonic axis specification".
| Session 8. (Thursday a.m.) |
Topic: Endogenous Electrical Controls |
Discussion Leader:
Peter Smith (Marine Biological Lab)
- Neil Gow (University of Aberdeen) - "Electrochemical regulation of fungal growth and plant-fungus interactions".
- Michael Levin (Harvard) - "On the possible role of endogenous electric fields in setting up left-right asymmetry".
- Richard Nuccitelli (University of California, Davis) - "Galvanotaxis of human keratinocytes: The earliest wound-healing signal".
- Richard Borgens (Purdue) - "Electrical fields in development and repair of the CNS"
| Session 9. (Thursday p.m.) |
Topic: Endogenous Mechanical Controls |
Discussion Leader: Ray Keller (Charlottesville)
- Christopher Chen (Ingber Lab, Harvard) - "Engineering cell shape to regulate growth, apoptosis, and differentiation".
- Lev Beloussov (Moscow State University) - "Endogenous mechanical controls of embryonic development".
- Daniel Cosgrove (Penn State) - "Regulation of plant cell enlargement".
- Jacques Dumais (Stanford) - "A mechanism for the initiation of plant lateral organs based on continuum mechanics".
