Sunday, June 7
Evening |
Welcome and Keynote Lecture |
JIM SPUDICH
Stanford University |
Myosin: Single molecule analysis and cytokinesis |
Monday, June 8
Morning |
MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF CYTOSKELETAL MOLECULES AND MOTOR COMPLEXES |
EVA NOGALES
University of California, Berkeley |
Structure of the tubulin dimer, the protofilament, and the
microtubule: building the polymer |
ECKHARD MANDELKOW
Max-Planck-Institute, Germany |
The structure of rat brain kinesin and interactions with microtubules |
RON VALE (CHAIR)
University of California, San Francisco |
Structure-functional analysis of the kinesin motor |
STEVE ALMO
Albert Einstein University |
Structure of actin regulatory proteins |
MARY PORTER
University of Minnesota |
Organization, assembly and targeting of dynein motors in Chlamydomonas flagella
|
| Evening |
MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY AND ORGANIZATION |
TIM STEARNS (CHAIR)
Stanford University |
Structure and function of the gamma-tubulin ring complex |
RYOKO KURIYAMA
University of Minnesota |
Characterization of a structural component of the pericentriolar
material in the mammalian centrosome |
VLADIMIR RODIONOV
University of Wisconsin |
Centrosomal control of microtubule dynamics
|
DUANE COMPTON
Dartmouth Medical School |
Organization of mitotic spindle poles |
TONY HYMAN
European Molecular Biology Laboratory |
Microtubule end-binding proteins and their role in microtubule dynamics |
Tuesday, June 9
Morning |
MOTORS AND TRANSPORT |
TRINA SCHROER (CHAIR)
Johns Hopkins University |
New insights into dynactin structure and function |
DON CLEVELAND
University of California, San Diego |
Cargoes and their motors in mitosis
|
VIKI ALLAN
University of Manchester, United Kingdom |
Cell cycle regulation of membrane movement |
THOMAS KREIS
University of Geneva, Switzerland |
CLIPs regulating membrane traffic and microtubule dynamics |
JOEL ROSENBAUM
Yale University |
Chlamydomonas kinesin II-dependent intraflagellar transport(IFT): IFT particles contain proteins required for ciliary assembly in C. elegans
sensory neurons |
LARRY GOLDSTEIN
University of California, San Diego |
Genetic analysis of neuronal transport in the fly and mouse |
| Evening |
REGULATION OF ACTIN ASSEMBLY AND ORGANIZATION |
VELIA FOWLER (CHAIR)
Scripps Research Institute |
Determining actin filament length in vivo: rulers and caps or dynamic stability |
TOM POLLARD
Salk Institute |
Regulation actin filament dynamics by monomer binding
proteins and the Arp2/3 complex |
MARIE-FRANCE CARLIER
Laboratoire d'Enzymologie et Biochimie Structural, CNRS, France |
Regulation of actin filament turnover by ADF/cofilin and
profilin |
JURGEN WEHLAND
University of Braunschweig, Germany |
Listeria monocytogenes, a model system for understanding actin dynamics |
TONY BRETSCHER
Cornell University |
Regulation of cortical structure by the ezrin and EBP50
protein families |
Wednesday, June 10
Morning |
CELL LOCOMOTION |
TIM MITCHISON (CHAIR)
Harvard Medical School |
Actin polymerization based motility |
VIC SMALL
Institute of Molecular Biology, Austrian Academy Sciences, Austria |
The regulation of contact formation during cell motility |
RICK HORWITZ
University of Illinois |
Some steps in cell migration |
JULIET LEE
University of North Carolina |
Keratocyte motility and stretch activated Ca channels |
PAUL MARTIN
University College London, United Kingdom |
Mechanisms of embryonic wound healing
|
| Evening |
CELL DIVISION |
ANDY HOYT (CHAIR)
Johns Hopkins University |
Mitotic motors in S. cerevisiae |
REBECCA HEALD
University of California, Berkeley |
Spindle assembly around chromatin beads in Xenopus egg extracts: The role of different microtubule-based motor proteins in establishing spindle bipolarity |
ALAN GROSSMAN
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Chromosome dynamics in Bacillus subtilis
|
ANDREW MURRAY
University of California, San Francisco |
Leaving mitosis |
GUNTHER GERISCH
Max-Planck-Institute, Germany |
What specifies a cleavage furrow? |
Thursday, June 11
Morning |
SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION AND CYTOSKELETAL FUNCTION |
ALAN HALL (CHAIR)
University College London |
Rho GTPases and the actin cytoskeleton |
SHUH NARUMIYA
Kyoto University, Japan |
Rho effectors and organization of the cytoskeleton |
CYNTHIA KENYON
University of California, San Francisco |
A genetic analysis of neuroblast motility in C. elegans |
PICO CARONI
Friedrich Miescher Institute, Switzerland |
Regulation of cofilin function by LIM-kinase |
RONG LI
Harvard Medical School |
Regulation of cytokinetic ring assembly in budding yeast
|
| Evening |
CYTOSKELETON, POSITIONAL INFORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT |
LYNN COOLEY (CHAIR)
Yale University |
Actin dynamics during Drosophila oogenesis |
RAFFI AROIAN
University of California, San Diego |
An actin binding protein important for embryonic polarity,
cell identity, and membrane integrity |
CHRIS DOE
University Illinois |
The role of sanpodo, a tropomodulin homologue, in Notch-mediated asymmetric cell division |
DAVID DRUBIN
University of Califonria, Berkeley |
Regulation of the actin cytoskeleton during yeast cell
polarity development |
