| I. Motile Mechanisms |
- Joel Rosenbaum (Chair) (Yale University)
"Chlamydomonas kinesin and cytoplasmic dynein-dependent intraflagellar transport (IFT). IFT is essential for the assembly and maintenance of all eukaryotic motile cilia and non-motile sensory cilia"
- Liza Pon (Columbia University Med. School)
"Actin mediated mitochondrial movement and inheritance in budding yeast"
- Teruo Shimmen (Hireji Institute, Japan)
"Calcium regulation of actin-myosin system in lily pollen tube"
- A. Reddy (Colorado State)
"Calcium/calmodulin regulation of a novel kinesin-like calmodulin-binding protein in plants"
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| II. Real time analysis of cytoskeletal dynamics |
- Peter Hepler (Chair) (Univ. Massachusetts)
"Introduction"
- Luis Vidali (Univ. Massachusetts)
"In vivo evidence that profilin acts as an actin sequestering protein in pollen tubes"
- David Pellman (Harvard medical School)
"Microtubule dynamics and spindle positioning in yeast"
- Da-Qiao Ding (KARC, Kobe, Japan)
"Microtubule dynamics in S. pombe"
- Ann Cleary (Australian National University, Canberra)
"Asymmetrical cell divisions: the role of the cytoskeleton and cell wall in the spatial control of cytokinesis"
- Kerry Bloom (Univ. North Carolina)
"Real time analysis of protein and mRNA dynamics in live cells: rush hour in the bud"
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| III. Cell-cell interactions |
- Mark Rose (Chair) (Princeton University)
"Cell and nuclear fusion during yeast mating"
- Matthias Peter (ISREC, Switzerland)
"Yeast mating projection orientation"
- Biao Ding (Oklahoma St. Univ.)
"The cytoskeleton and cell-to-cell transport through plasmodesmata"
- Kathryn Ayscough (University of Dundee)
"A role for actin in signaling and pheromone receptor clustering during Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
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| IV. Strategies for Cell Division and Determination of Division Planes |
- Kathy Gould (Chair) (Vanderbilt University)
"Factors controlling cytokinesis in fission yeast"
- Laurie Smith (U.C. San Diego)
"Genetic studies on the spatial regulation of cell division during maize leaf development"
- Sylvia Sanders (MIT)
"Bud site selection in yeast"
- Steve Harris (Univ. Conn)
"SepA: a formin required for septation and hyphal morphogenesis in Aspergillus nidulans"
- Gerd Juergens (Univ. Tuebingen)
"Cytokinesis in plants"
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| V. Tip Growth/Polarity and Morphogenesis |
- John Pringle (Chair) (Univ. North Carolina)
"Cell polarity and cell division in budding yeast"
- Greg May (Baylor College of Medicine)
"Class I myosin and fungal morphogenesis"
- Patrick Hussey (Royal Holloway Univ. London)
"The role of actin-depolymerizing factor in pollen and root hair development"
- Daryl Kropf (Univ. Utah)
"Polarity and cell division in early plant development"
- Ken Sawin (ICRF, London)
"Microtubule regulation of cell polarity in fission yeast"
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| VI. Microtubules and Chromosome Segregation |
- Zac Cande (Chair) (U.C. Berkeley)
"Meiosis in higher plants"
- Iain Hagan (U. Manchester, UK)
"Spindle formation and cell cycle regulation in fission yeast"
- Clive Lloyd (John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK)
"MAPs and the cortical microtubule array"
- Frank Luca (Univ. Colorado, Boulder)
"Yeast Mob1p functions at the spindle pole body and the budneck during the completion of mitosis"
- Ron Morris (UMDNJ, New Jersey)
"Nuclear migration in Aspergillus nidulans"
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| VII. Mechanisms of Actin Cytoskeleton Regulation |
- Danny Lew (Chair) (Duke University)
"Yeast morphogenesis checkpoint"
- Chris Staiger (Purdue University)
"Maize pollen profilins: complex regulators of actin organization and signal transduction"
- M. Kandasamy (University of Georgia)
"Molecular mechanisms behind the evolution of the ancient plant actin gene family"
- Doug Kellogg (University of Calif., Santa Cruz)
"Control of polar bud growth by a mitosis-specific signaling pathway"
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