| Sunday, 6/10 |
| 2:00 - 11:00pm | Arrival & Registration |
| 6:00pm | Dinner |
| 7:30pm | Keynote |
| 7:30pm | Keynote Speaker: Fuchs, Elaine
Cell Adhesion, Polarity and Proliferation in Skin |
| Monday, 6/11 |
| 7:30 - 8:30am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 12:30am | Perspectives on Cell Adhesion |
| Session Chair: Colman, David R. |
| Grunwald, Gerald B.
A Century of Cell Adhesion: From the Blastomere to the Clinic |
| Holstein, Thomas
Cell adhesion and the evolution of metazoan signaling centers |
| Hynes, Richard O.
What can genomic data tell us about cell adhesion?
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| Hardin, Jeff
Epithelial sheet sealing in C. elegans requires dynamic deposition of junctional proteins |
| 12:30 - 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 4:00 - 6:00 | Poster Session & Welcome Reception |
| 6:00pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 | Cell Contact in Immune and Neural Systems |
| Session Chair: Goda, Yukiko |
| Dustin, Michael L.
The immunological synapse coordinates cell adhesion and antigen receptor signaling |
| Redies, Christoph
Cadherin-based adhesive specificity in CNS development |
| Goda, Yukiko
Activity-dependent changes in synaptic actin dynamics in cultured hippocampal neurons |
| Tuesday, 6/12 |
| 7:30 - 8:30am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 12:30 | Fusigenic Systems |
| Session Chair: Krauss, Robert |
| Abmayr, Susan
Cell adhesion molecules and cell surface events that regulate myoblast fusion in Drosophila |
| McCoy, John
Syncytin, a captured retroviral protein involved in cell fusion events in the human placenta |
| Primakoff, Paul
Sperm-egg fusion during fertilization |
| Krauss, Robert
New Roles for Ig Superfamily Members in Myognesis |
| 12:30 - 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 4:30 - 6:00 | Poster Session |
| 6:00pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 | The Tight Junction |
| Session Chair: Citi, Sandra |
| Balda, Maria S.
Tight junctions in the regulation of gene expression and cell growth |
| Stevenson, Bruce R.
ZO-3: A molecular link between the tight junction, adherens junction and actin cytoskeleton |
| Anderson, James M.
Claudins Form Ion-selective Channels in the Tight Junction |
| Citi, Sandra
Molecular interactions and functions of cingulin at the tight junction |
| Wednesday 6/13 |
| 7:30 - 8:30am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 12:30 | The Neural Environment |
| Session Chair: Brophy, Peter J. |
| Chiba, Akira
Myopodia, gliopodia, and neuro(filo)podia: cytomorphological dynamics in intercellular communication |
| Weinstein, David E.
The Regulation of Astrocyte and Astrocytoma Proliferation |
| ffrench-Constant, Charles
Integrin signalling during myelination |
| Brophy, Peter J.
Stabilizing the Interactions between Axons and Glia |
| 12:30 - 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 4:30 - 6:00 | Poster Session |
| 6:00pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 | Signalling and Structure |
| Session Chair: Weiss, William I. |
| Kemler, Rolf
E-cadherin and ß-catenin conditional gene inactivation in early mouse development and in organogenesis |
| He, Xi
Understanding Wnt/beta-catenin and Wnt/planar cell polarity pathways in vertebrate development |
| McEwen, Donald
Cross-talk between the Wnt and JNK signaling pathways |
| Muller, Eliane
A dual role for plakoglobin during epidermal differentiation: insights from the autoimmune disease pemphigus vulgaris |
| Weiss, William I.
Biochemical and structural analysis of beta-catenin in cell junctions and in Wnt signaling |
| Thursday 6/14 |
| 7:30 - 8:30am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 12:30 | Stability and Signalling |
| Session Chair: Wheelock, Margaret J. |
| Knox, Andrea
The Rap1 GTPase maintains even adherens junction distribution |
| Green, Kathleen J.
Desmosome Assembly and Dynamics |
| Cowin, Pamela
The role of Beta catenin in mammary development and pathology |
| Wheelock, Margaret J.
A role for N-cadherin in epithelial cell motility |
| 12:30 - 1:30pm | Lunch |
| 4:30 - 6:00 | Poster Session |
| 6:00pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 9:30 | Chairman's Choice |
| Session Chair: Cowin, Pamela |
| Ranscht, Barbara
Formation of axoglial junctions in myelinated nerve |
| Van Roy, Frans
The two-handed E-box binding zinc finger protein SIP1 downregulates E-cadherin and induces invasion |
| Reynolds, Al
p120 and contact inhibition |
| McCrea, Pierre
Catenins in Xenopus embryogenesis and kidney tubulogenesis |
