The 2007 meeting will be the 15th biennial Gordon Research Conference on Elastin and Elastic Fibers. In 1995, the conference name changed from Elastin to Elastin and Elastic Fibers not only to include the microfibril and microfibril-associated proteins but to reflect the actual structure that is assembled from these proteins. Over the years to follow, the breadth of the field has grown even more and now includes many additional molecules that influence the regulation, assembly and function of elastic fibers such as emilin-1, the fibulins, several proteoglycans, latent TGF-beta binding proteins and lysyl oxidases. The 2007 Conference will cover many aspects of elastic fiber biology and related diseases and will encourage presentations and discussions of the most recent data and diverse perspectives in the field. Session titles, discussion leaders and accepted speakers are listed below. New to the 2007 Conference are Poster Highlights in the morning sessions. These will consist of three short presentations of 5 minutes each meant to showcase some of the exceptional posters that will be presented in the poster sessions. Speakers for the poster hightlights will be choosen from the submitted abstracts. In 2007, the Elastin and Elastic Fibers Gordon Research Conference will be held on the campus of the University of New England on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean near Biddeford, Maine. This is a new venue for our conference.