- Welcome Dr. John H. Law, University of Arizona, GRC Trustee
- Keynote address: William H. Telfer, University of Pennsylvania
Development of an ovarian follicle and some underlying transformations
in membrane physiology
Session 2. OOCYTE COVERINGS |
Discussion Leader - Kostas Iatrou, University of Calgary
- Kostas Iatrou, University of Calgary
Control of egg shell formation in lepidopteran insects
- Gail L. Waring, Marquette University
Extracellular processing and trafficking of eggshell proteins during assembly of the eggshell in Drosophila
- Jurrien Dean, National Institutes of Health
The molecular biology of the zona pellucida: mutations and fertility
- Gary Wessel, Brown University
The biology of cortical granules
Discussion leader - Allan Spradling, Carnegie Institute
- Allan Spradling, Carnegie Institute
Regulation of pre-meiotic germ cell division in Drosophila and mouse ovaries
- Erika Matunis, Rockefeller University
Somatic control over proliferation within the male germline stem cell lineage
- Margaret T. Fuller, Stanford University
Survival, proliferation and differentiation in the male germ line
- Dennis M. McKearin, University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center
A role for organelle vesicle fusion and fusome biogenesis in cystoblast differentiation in Drosophila
Session 4. THE CYTOSKELETON |
Discussion Leader - Lynn Manseau, University of Arizona
- Lynn Cooley, Yale University School of Medicine
Molecular components of Drosophila ovarian ring canals
- Lynn Manseau, University of Arizona
Interactions between the actin and microtubule cytoskeletons of the
Drosophila egg chamber
- Carolyn A. Larabell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Microtubule-mediated transport of select molecules establishes the dorsal- ventral axis of the Xenopus egg
- Willie J. Swanson, UCSD, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Concerted evolution in the egg receptor for the rapidly evolving abalone sperm protein lysin
Discussion Leader - Alexander S. Raikhel, Michigan State University
- Wolfgang J. Schneider, University of Vienna
Multifunctional LDL receptor family members mediate chicken oocyte
growth
- Alexander Raikhel, Michigan State University
Insect vitellogenin/yolk protein receptors, a novel group of the LDL
receptor family
- Soren K. Moestrup, University of Aarhus
Endocytosis-mediating giant receptors in the yolk sac and placenta of mammals
- Kathleen R. Foltz, University of California-Santa Barbara
Echinoderm receptors for sperm
Discussion Leaders - Gary J. LaFleur Jr., Brown University and Leonard
Banaszak, University of Minnesota Medical School
- James T. Bradley, Auburn University
Biologically Interesting Epitopes in Insect Vitellogenin
- Gary LaFleur, Brown University
The derivation of non crystalline yolk proteins from liver-derived
precursors in the teleost, Fundulus heteroclitus
- Thomas Blumenthal, University of Colorado
Evolution and regulation of vitellogenins in Caenorhabditis elegans
- Louis J. Guillette Jr., University of Florida
The effects of endocrine-disrupting contaminants on vitellogenins and reproductive biology.
Session 7. RNA LOCALIZATION AND TRANSLATIONAL CONTROL |
Discussion Leader - Paul F. Lasko, McGill University, Montreal
- Paul F. Lasko, McGill University
Vas is required to activate translation of numerous oocyte mRNAs
- Elizabeth R. Gavis, Princeton University
Localization and localization-dependent translation of Drosophila nanos RNA
- Beat Suter, McGill University
The role of Bic-D in Drosophila oocyte determination and patterning
- Laurence D. Etkin, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Establishment of polarity and the germ cell lineage during oogenesis in Xenopus.
Discussion Leader - Hannele Ruohola-Baker, University of Washington, Seattle
- David Stein, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Dorsal-ventral polarity generation in the Drosophila egg and embryo
- Celeste A. Berg, University of Washington
The role of ras-pathway in dorsal-ventral patterning
- Hannele Ruohola-Baker, University of Washington, Seattle
Follicle cell-oocyte signaling in establishment of polarity
- R. L. Gardner, University of Oxford
Mammalian oocytes and early pattern formation
Session 9. Discussion Leader's Choice |
- Presentations by Selected Authors of Posters
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