Discussion leader: Carol Gross (UC, San Francisco, CA, USA)

• Dominique Missiakas (CNRS, Marseilles, France):
  Protein folding in the periplasm
• Jon Beckwith (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA):
  Thioredoxin can efficiently promote disulfide bond formation when exported to the periplasm
• Jean-Michel Betton (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France):
  Misfolding of the maltose-binding protein in the periplasm of Escherichia coli
• Satish Raina (University of Geneva, Switzerland):
  A novel heat shock gene in Escherichia coli, ppiD, which encodes a peptidyl-prolyl isomerase and is required for the folding of outer membrane proteins
• Hajime Tokuda (University of Tokyo, Japan):
  Sorting and the outer membrane localization of lipoproteins

Discussion leader : William Wickner (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA):

• Tom Rapoport (Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA):
  Posttranslational protein transport across the ER membrane
• Don Oliver (Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA):
  Role of membrane dynamics of SecA ATPase in bacterial protein translocation
• Koreaki Ito (University of Kyoto, Japan):
  Specific interaction between SecY and SecA during translocation of presecretory proteins
• Matti Sarvas (National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland):
  Ecs, an ABC transporter of Bacillis subtilis; a dual signal transduction function in coordinated expression of secreted proteins and regulation of their secretion
• Harris Bernstein (NIH, Bethesda, USA):
  The SRP targeting pathway in E. coli.
• Tracy Palmer (John Innes Center, Norwich, UK):
  A Sec-independent protein translocase for the export of redox proteins in Escherichia coli

Discussion leader: Michael Manson (Texas A&M, College Station, TX, USA)

• Beth Lazazzera (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA)
  Cell-cell signaling in B. subtilis
• Gary Dunny (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA)
  Intracellular and extracellular regulation of pheromone-inducible surface proteins in enterococci
• Thomas J. Silhavy (Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, USA)
  Parallel pathways perceive periplasmic problems
• Carey Waldurger (Columbia University, New York, USA)
  Subdomain structure of the bacterial PhoQ histidine kinase
• Orna Amster-Choder (Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel)
  Stimulus-induced conformational change in the sensor of the bgl system: alteration between S-P and S-S bonds

Discussion leader: Joachim Holtje (University of Tübingen, Germany)

• Christine Jacobs (Stanford University, CA, USA)
  Peptidoglycan metabolism and ß-lactamase induction: two systems intimately linked
• Girbe Buist (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
  The N-acetylmuraminidase of Lactococcus lactis binds to the cell wall by means of repeated motifs located in the C-terminal domain
• Clifton Barry (Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, USA):
  Biosynthesis and function of mycolic acids in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: novel drug targets?
• Mamadou Daffe (CNRS, Toulouse, France):
  Structure and possible functions of the outermost capsular constituents of Mycobacterium tuberculosisand other mycobacteria
• Chris Raetz (Duke University, Durham, NC, USA):
  Assembly and secretion of lipopolysaccharide.
• Chris Whitfield (University of Guelph, Canada):
  Two distinct translocation pathways for ß-chain lipooligosaccharide variation in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Discussion leader: Don Engelman (Yale Univ. New Haven, CT, USA)

• Jurg Rosenbusch (University of Basel, Switzerland)
  Structure determination of membrane proteins: bacteriorhodopsin
• Phil Klebba (University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA)
  Mechanisms of ligand transport through gated porins
• Hagan Bayley (Texas A & M, College Station, TX, USA)
  Membrane insertion and structure of staphylococcal alpha toxin
• George Robillard (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
  5-Å projected structure of the transmembrane domain of the enzyme II mannitol transporter by cryoelectron crystallography

Discussion leader: Ian R. Booth (Univ. Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland)

• Milton Saier (Univ. Calif. San Diego, CA, USA)
  Molecular archeological studies leading to the classification of transport systems in bacteria, archaea, and eukarya
• Beth Traxler (Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
  Maltose transport in E. coli
• Volkmar Braun (University of Tübingen, Germany)
  Insertion of a periplasmic binding protein into an integral cytoplasmic membrane transport protein
• Bert Poolman (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
  Detergent-mediated reconstitution of membrane proteins
• Paul Blount (Univ. of Texas, Dallas, TX, USA)
  Mechanosensitive channels in bacteria, from genes to physiology
• Hiroshi Nikaido (University of California, CA, USA)
  AcrA of E. coli is a highly asymmetric protein capable of spanning the periplasm

Discussion leader: Joe Lutkenhaus (University of Kansas, KS, USA)

• Piet de Boer (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH,USA):
  Positioning of the division septum in E.coli.
• Andrew Wright (Tufts University, Boston, MA,USA):
  Chromosome and low copy plasmid segregation in E. coli: Visual evidence for distinct mechanisms
• Jim Gober (University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA):
  Chromosome Partitioning and the Regulation of Cell Division in Caulobacter
• Alan Grossman (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA)
  Chromosome dynamics in B. subtilis

Discussion leader: Tony Pugsley (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France):

• Cécile Wandersman (Institut Pasteur, Paris):
  Hemophore HasA secretion by an ATP binding cassette exporter: a new type of hemophore dependent heme acquisition system in Gram negative bacteria.
• Vassilis Koronakis (Cambridge University, UK)
  Type I export of hemolysis toxin: dynamic interactions of the outer membrane porin-like TolC with the energized inner membrane complex
• Dan Wall (Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA):
  Tgl Contact Stimulation and Type IV pili in Myxococcus xanthus.
• David Thanassi (Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA)
  Role of PapC usher in pilus biogenesis across the outer membrane
• Olaf Schneewind (University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA):
  A new look at the type III protein secretion system in Yersinia
• Shi-Ichi Aizawa (Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan):
  Flagellar assembly

Discussion leader: Howie Shuman (Columbia University, New York, USA)

• Ulla Bonas (CNRS, France & Institute of Genetics & Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany)
  Protein communication between the plant pathogen Xanthomonas and its host
• Kristen Le Vier (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA)
  Analysis of the Rhizobium meliloti BacA protein: implications for host-microbe interactions
• Tina Guina (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
  A PhoP-activated gene is essential for antimicrobial peptide resistance and lipid A modification
• Ralph Isberg (Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA)
  Targetting the Legionella pneumophila within phagocytic cells
• Vincent Fischetti (Rockefeller Univ. New York, NY, USA)
  Signal transduction in human pharyngeal cells induced by group A streptococci