Session 1: (Sunday evening)

Extracellular Matrix - Cell Interactions

• Klaus von der Mark - Introduction
• Taina Pihlajaniemi - "Type XIII Collagen in Focal Adhesions and Myotendinal Junctions"
• Chunlin Yang - "Apoptosis of Chondrocytes in Transgenic Mice Lacking Type II Collagen"
• Richard Assoian - "The Extracellular Matrix as Cell Cycle Control Element"
• Lisa Fessler - "Three Functions of Extracellular Matrix Development"

Welcoming Reception - 9:30

Session 2: (Monday morning)

Molecular Biology of Skeletal Development

• Sherrill Adams - Introduction
• Maurizio Pacifici - "Retinoids and Retinoic Acid Receptor gamma regulate Chondrocyte"
• Olena Jacenko - "Skeleto-Hematopoietic Defects in Mice with altered Type X Collagen"
• Attila Aszodi - "Abnormal Cartilage Matrix and Impaired Vertebral Column Development in Col2-Null Mice"
• Tomoatsu Kimura - "Modular Arrangement of Different cis-Acting Elements that Govern Tissue- and Site-Specific Expression of the alpha2(XI) Collagen Gene During Cartilage development"
• Gerard Karsenty - "Transcriptional Control of Osteoblast Differentiation"
• Bjorn Olsen - "Cleidocranial Dysplasia - A Key to Understanding Bone Development"

Session 3: (Monday evening)

Regulation of Matrix Gene Expression I

• Linda Sandell - "Regulation and Function of CD-RAP/MIA, a New Cartilage Growth Regulatory Protein"
• Mary Goldring - "Cytokine and Growth Factor Mediated Regulation of Collagen Expression"
• David Kingsley - "BMPs and the Genetic Control of Skeletal Development"
• Harvey Lodish - "Signal Transduction by the TGF-beta Receptors"

Session 4: (Tuesday morning)

Regulation of Matrix Gene Expression II

• Mon-Li Chu - Introduction
• David Rowe - "Aspects of COL1A1 Regulation Pertinent to Somatic Gene Therapy of Bone"
• Sherrill Adams - "The Chick Type III Collagen Gene Contains Two Cell Type-Specific Promoters that are separated by over 20 Kb of DNA Containing 23 Exons"
• Mon-Li Chu - "Regulation of Collagen Types VI and XVI Expression"
• Veronique Lefebvre - "SOX9 is a Potent Activator of the Chondrocyte-Specific Enhancer of the Pro-alpha-I(II) Collagen Gene"
• Kathy Cheah - "SOX9 Directly Regulates the Type II Collagen Gene"
• Yoshi Yamada - "Regulation of Cartilage Gene Expression"
• Giorgio Bressan - "Analysis of the Promoter Region Responsible for Tissue-Specific Regulation of the alpha1(VI) Gene in Articular Cartilage and Intervertebral Disks""

Session 5: (Tuesday evening)

Regulation of Matrix Structure and Function

• Michel van der Rest - "Modularity in ECM Proteins"
• Richard Mayne - "Role of Collagen Fibrils in the Structure and Pathology of the Vitreous"
• Nick Morris - "Structure and Expression of Isoforms of the N-terminal Domain of a1(XI) Collagen"
• Florence Ruggiero - "Structure and Function of Collagen V Studied by Recombinant Approaches"
• Keith Alvares - "Interactions between the Carboxyl Propeptide alpha Chains of Tyle 1 Collagen"
• Barbara Smith - "The Role of the Pro-alpha2 C-Propeptide in Type 1 Collagen Assembly"

Session 6: (Wednesday morning)

Collagen Structure and Molecular Assembly

• Mike Grant - Introduction
• Kazuhiro Nagata - "The Role of Colagen-Specific Molecular Chaperone, HSP47"
• Neil Bulleid - "Role of Protein Disulphide Isomerase in Procollagen Assembly"
• Daniel Greenspan - "Regulation of the Function of BMP-1 and Related Proteins"
• Billy Hudson - "Specificity in the Assembly of the NC1 Domain of Type IV Collagen"
• Shireen Lamande - "Assembly of Type VI Collagen"
• David Birk - "Regulated Assembly of Type I/V Collagen Fibrils"

Session 7: (Wednesday evening)

Molecular Assembly of the Extracellular Matrix

• Tom Linsenmayer - "Transglutaminases in Cartilage Hypertrophy"
• Dick Heinegard - "Extracellular Matrix Proteins Interacting with Collagens"
• Cay Kielty - "Fibrillin Microfibril Assembly and Organization"
• Karl Kadler - "Collagen Fibril Assembly in Normal and Decorin Deficient Tendon and Skin"
• Efrat Kessler - "BMP/C-Proteinase"
• Qian Chen - "Cartilage Matrix Protein Network Formation Requires Midas, An Adhesion Site Present Universally in Matrix Proteins and Integrins"

Session 8: (Thursday morning)

Molecular Pathology of the Extracellular Matrix

• Francesco Ramirez - "Mouse Models for Elastic Fiber Assembly"
• Leena Bruckner-Tuderman - "Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Blistering Skin Disorders"
• Peter Byers - "Translation of Genotype to Phenotype in Mutations of Fibrillar Collagens"
• Karl Tryggvason - "Laminin Function"
• Kerry Maddox - "The Molecular Consequences of a COMP Mutation in Pseudoachondroplasia"
• Alain Colige - "The Procollagen I Amino-Peptidase: Structure of the enzyme and Mutations Causing Dermatosparaxis in Cattle and Ehlers-Danlos Type VIIC in Humans"
• Paul Bornstein - "Mice with Targeted Disruption of the Thrombospondin 2 Gene (Thbs2) Display Abnormal Collagen Fibrils and Defects in Skin, Tendon, Bone and Other Connective Tissues"

Session 9: (Thurday evening)

Business Meeting and Awards

• Lisa Fessler (Nick Morris, presenter)
• Nick Kefalides (Joel Rosenbloom, presenter)
• Beverly Peterkofsky (George Martin, presenter)

Reception and Dancing