• Dan Rader - University of Pennsylvania: Role of endothelial lipase in HDL metabolism
• Gary Lewis - University of Toronto: Mechanisms of HDL-C lowering in hypertriglyceridemia
• Xian-cheng Jiang - Columbia University: Role of PLTP in HDL metabolism
• Mary Sorci-Thomas - Wake Forest School of Medicine: Effects of apoA-I mutations on HDL metabolism

Meeting Photo-Session Monday August 1; 8:45 AM

• Michael Phillips - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Functional domains of exchangeable apolipoproteins
• Robert Ryan - University of Alberta: Lipid binding-induced helix repositioning in exhangeable apolipoproteins
• Karl Weisgraber - UC San Francisco: Apo E; new insights from structure
• Sissel Lund-Katz - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Effects of lipid interaction on the LDL receptor-binding domain of apoE
• Steve Blacklow - Harvard University: Structure-function relationships in the LDL receptor
• Ana Jonas - University of Illinois: What we have learned about the structure of apoA-I from point mutations and spectroscopy.
• Sean Davidson - University of Cincinatti: The orientation of apoA-I helices in reconstituted HDL

• Lars Berglund - Columbia University: Regulation of lipoprotein (a) metabolism
• Laura Woollett - University of Cincinatti: The impact of maternal cholesterol on fetal development
• Harshini deSilva - UNC at Charlotte North Carolina: Regulation of lipid transport in the developing fetus

• Ben Bowen - Novartis: The discovery of cardiovascular disease genes in Utah pedigrees
• Tim Aitman - Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College, London: Genetics of the metabolic syndrome
• Steve Sturley - Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York: Dislipidemia genes in yeast and humans
• Gerd Schmitz - University of Regensburg: ABCA1, an ATP luxury gene at the interlink of gucose, fatty acid, and HDL cholesterol metabolism

• Tim Osborne - UC Irvine : Differential Regulation of Gene Expression by the Cholesterol Sensing SREBPs.
• Jay Horton - UT Southwestern: SREBP expression in diabetes and lipodystrophy
• Christopher Glass - UC San Diego: Nuclear receptors and macrophage activation

• Ed Fisher - Mount Sinai School of Medicine: Molecular Regulation of apoB metabolism in cell free systems
• Janet Sparks - University of Rochester: Targeted PI 3-kinase activation and apoB metabolism in rat hepatoctyes
• Joseph Dixon - Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center: Studies of intracellular apoB transport using 3-D immunocytochemistry and apoB-GFP chimeric proteins.
• Mahmood Hussain - SUNY Health Science Center: Assembly of apoB48-containing lipoproteins in intestinal cells.

• Robert Farese - UC San Francisco: Neutral lipid synthesis: Functional analyses of ACAT and DGAT genes
• David Mangelsdorf - UT Southwestern: Intracellular lipid mediators of gene expression
• Edward Rubin - OCTN2: a gene involved in hepatic triglyceride production identified by gene discovery technology

• Nada Abumrad - State University of New York Stony Brook: CD36-null and CD36 overexpressing mice: linking glucose and fatty acid metabolism
• Gokhan Hotamisligil - Harvard University: Biological functions of adipocyte/macrophage fatty acid binding proteins
• Gerald Shulman - Yale University: Fatty acids and insulin resistance: mice with liver and muscle LPL overexpression
• Katherine Cianflone - McGill University: Acylation Stimulating Protein
• Jean Schaeffer - Washington University: A novel mouse model of lipotoxic cardiomyopathy
• Maria Febbraio - Cornell University: Cardiomyopathy in the CD36 null mouse

• Daniel Steinberg - UC San Diego: Many roads, but not all, lead to atheroma.