Sunday, July 27, 7:30 pm.
Session I The Mechanism of Sperm Activation
- Greg Kopf, Discussion Leader and Speaker, University of Pennsylvania - "Transmembrane signaling events regulating mammalian sperm function"
- Alberto Darszon,Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico - "Ion channels and sperm physiology"
- Carlo Foresta, University of Padova, Italy - "Role of P2-purinergic receptors in human sperm activation"
- Stan Meizel, University of California, Davis - "Sperm amino acid neurotransmitter receptor/chloride channels and the mammalian acrosome reaction"
Monday, July 28, 9 am
Session II Penetration of Egg Surface Coats and Sperm-egg Binding
- Vic Vacquier, University of California, San Diego, Discussion Leader and Speaker - "The species-specific dissolution of the egg envelope by abalone sperm lysin"
- Charlie Glabe , University of California, Irvine - "A novel species-specific component of the sea urchin egg envelope"
- Bill Lennarz , SUNY, Stony Brook - "Sperm-egg binding in the sea urchin and the frog"
- Barry Shur, Emory University - "Sperm null for surface ß1,4-galactosyltransferase are unable to bind ZP3 and undergo an acrosome reaction"
The first Poster Session will be held Monday afternoon between 4 and 6 pm.
Monday, July 28: 7:30 pm
Session III Initiation of Egg Activation
- Steve Stricker, University of New Mexico, Discussion Leader and Speaker - "Intracellular injections of a soluble sperm factor trigger calcium oscillations and meiotic maturation in unfertilized oocytes of a marine worm"
- Karl Swann, University College, London - "Mechanisms of Ca2+ oscillations in fertilizing mammalian eggs."
- Fang-zhen Sun, Beijing University - "Mechanisms of calcium signaling initiation in unfertilized mouse eggs after injection of a cytosolic sperm factor"
- Herman Wolosker, Johns Hopkins University - "New insights on the sperm factor, oscillin"
- Claudio Sette, University of Rome Tor Vergata - "Parthenogenetic activation of mouse eggs by microinjection of a truncated c-kit and its possible"
Tuesday, July 29, 9 am
Session IV Egg Activation Pathways
- Sheldon Shen, Iowa State University, Discussion Leader and Speaker - "The requirement for IP3 production to generate the calcium response during fertilization in the sea urchin egg"
- David Carroll, UC Santa Barbara - "The role of phospholipase C during fertilization of starfish eggs"
- Brigitte Ciapa, University of Nice - "Activation of polyphosphoinositide metabolism at fertilization: Role of PLC gamma and PI3 kinase".
- Antony Galione, Oxford University, UK - "cGMP involvement in sea urchin egg activation"
- Pat Camacho, University of Virginia - "Luminal modulation of IP3-mediated Ca2+ release by Calreticulin and Ca2+ ATPases".
Tuesday, July 29, 8 pm
Keynote Lecture
- Ruth Shalgi, Tel-Aviv University, Discussion Leader
- Ryuzo Yanagimachi, University of Hawaii - "My research in reproductive biology"
Wednesday, July 30, 9 am
Session V Membrane Fusion Mechanisms
- Paul Primakoff, University of California, Davis, Discussion Leader and Speaker - "Membrane Fusion Between Gametes"
- John Moore, Aaron Diamond Aids Research Center - "Viral fusion: mechanisms and co-factors"
- Mark Rose, Princeton University - "Steps along the path to cell and nuclear fusion in yeast"
- Thomas Südhof, University of Texas - "Proteins controlling vesicle secretion"
The Second Poster Session will be held Wednesday afternoon
Wednesday, July 30, 7:30 pm
Session VI Cell cycle and early development
- Michael Whitaker, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Discussion Leader and Speaker - "Calcium, calmodulin and cell cycle transitions in oocytes and embryos"
- Hiroyuki Kawahara, Tokyo Metropolitan Inst. Med. Sci. - "The proteasome and embryonic cell cycle"
- Alex McDougall, University of Newcastle upon Tyne - "Calcium signalling during meiotic metaphase at fertilization in ascidian eggs"
- Bernard Maro, Jacques Monod Institut, CNRS - "Control and role of MAP kinase cascade during oocyte maturation and preimplantation development of the mouse embryo"
Thursday, July 31, 9:00 a.m.
Session VII: Current Topics and Contributed Papers
- Laurinda A. Jaffe, Univ. of Connecticut - Discussion leader
- Masaru Okabe, Osaka University - "Green sperm and its usage in the research of reproductive biology"
- Andrew Singson, Emory University - "A sperm transmembrane protein that contains EGF-like repeats mediates molecular recognition between gametes"
- Jake Mayfield, University of Chicago - "Testing mating compatibility in Arabidopsis defines genes important for fertility"
- Nedra Wilson, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - "Isolation and characterization of a cell fusion organelle: the fertilization tubule of chlamydomonas mt+ gametes"
- Carmen Williams, University of Pennsylvania - "Signal transduction mechanisms during mouse egg activation: Is there a role for heterotrimetric G proteins?"
- James A. Foster, University of Pennsylvania - "The guinea pig sperm protein AM67: Re-examining the role of the acrosomal matrix in fertilization"
Thursday, July 31, 2 pm
Session VIII. Sperm-egg membrane binding and fusion
- Diana Myles, University of California, Davis - Discussion Leader:
- Hideyo Kuroda, Toyama University, Japan - "Coincidence of sperm-egg fusion with fertilization potential onset in sea urchin eggs"
- Christian Dumas, Ecole Normale Sueprieure de Lyon - "Fertilization in flowering plants"
- Janice Evans , University of Pennsylvania - "Fertilin as a cell adhesion molecule"
- Fraser Shilling, University of California, Davis - "An active role for disintegrins in frog fertilization"
Thursday, July 31, 7:30 pm
- Business meeting to elect Chair for 2001.
- 8:30 pm Closing Party
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