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Sunday Evening 6/6 7:30 pm
- Corey Goodman, UC Berkeley - Genetic Analysis of Neural Development in Drosophila
| Making Neural Connections |
Monday Morning 6/7 9:00 - 12:30
Session Chair: Paul Forscher
- John Flanagan, Harvard Medical School - Retinal Axon Topographic Mapping, Ephrins and Eph receptors
- Catherine Dulac, Harvard U. - Olfactory receptors and axon topographic mapping
- Coffee Break (30 mins.)
- Vance Lemmon, Case Western Reserve U. - Role of L1 phosphorylation and recycling in growth cone motility
- Paul Forscher, Yale U. - Growth Cone Steering
Poster Session 4:30 - 6:00
Monday Evening 6/7 7:30 - 9:45
Session Chair: Urs Rutishauser
- Masatoshi Takeichi, Kyoto U., Japan - Cadherins and Neural Morphogenesis and Connectivity
- David Colman, Mt. Sinai Medical School, New York - Cadherins and Synapses
- Urs Rutishauser, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, New York - Neural adhesion and plasticity
| Structure, Mechanisms, and Regulation of Adhesive Contacts |
Tuesday Morning 6/8 9:00 - 12:30
Session Chair: Pamela Cowin
- Elaine Fuchs, U. Chicago - Epidermal Cell Interactions
- Pamela Cowin, NYU Medical School - Structure and function of desmosomal proteins
- Coffee Break (30 mins.)
- Elisabetta Dejana, Istituto di Ricerche Farm. Mario Negri, Milano - Regulation of adhesion in endothelial cells
- Keith Burridge, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Regulation of focal adhesions/actin-integrin interactions
Poster Session 4:30 - 6:00
Tuesday Evening 6/8 7:30 - 9:30
Session Chair: Martin Hemler
- Martin Hemler, Harvard Medical School - Integrin function
- Mark Ginsberg, Scripps Res. Inst. - Regulation of integrin adhesion
- Short talks selected from abstracts
- Georg Mellitzer, National Institute of Medical Research, Mill Hill, London - Restriction of cell intermingling and communication by Eph receptors and ephrins
- Lorene Lanier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Role of Mena in neuralation and commisure formation
| Adhesion/Matrix Associated Signaling and Cancer |
Wednesday Morning 6/9 9:00 - 12:30
Session Chair: Mary Beckerle
- Filippo Giancotti, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, New York - Integrin-mediated signaling events
- Mary C. Beckerle, U. of Utah - LIM domain proteins and signaling at focal adhesions
- Coffee Break (30 mins.)
- Bruce Bowerman, U. Oregon, Eugene - Wnt signaling in C. elegans development
- Mark Peifer, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Wingless signaling and adhesive junctions in Drosophila
Poster Session 4:30 - 6:00
Wednesday Evening 6/9 7:30 - 9:45
Session Chair: Zena Werb
- Walter Birchmeier, Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin - Signal Transduction by beta-Catenin
- Zena Werb, UC San Francisco - Matrix Proteases in Cancer and development
- Barry Gumbiner, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, New York - Cadherin-mediated adhesion, signaling and cancer
Thursday Morning 6/10 9:00 - 12:30
Session Chair: Fiona Watt
- Stuart Kim, Stanford Medical School - Genetic analysis of epithelial polarity
- James Nelson, Stanford - Cues for cellular asymmetry in polarized epithelia
- Coffee Break (30 mins.)
- Jeffrey I. Gordon, Wash. U. School of Med. - Cadherins, catenins, and APC in intestinal homeostasis
- Fiona Watt, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London - Adhesion regulation in epidermal development
Poster Session 4:30 - 6:00
| Talks Chosen from Abstracts and/or Late Breaking Topics |
Thursday Evening 6/10 7:30 - 9:30
Session Chair: Dave Colman
- Short talks selected from abstracts
- Masayuki Ozawa, Kagoshima University, Japan - p120ctn binds to the membrane-proximal region of the E-cadherin cytoplasmic domain and is involved in modulation of adhesion activity
- Bill Weis, Stanford U. - Structure of the dimerization and b-catenin binding region of a-catenin
- Olivier Pertz, Biocenter of the University Basel - Molecular details of cadherin homoassociation
- Deborah Leckband, U. of Illinois - Direct force measurements of multiple adhesive interactions between cadherin ectodomains
- 9:30 - Election of new Chairperson
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