| Session 1. |
Sperm-zona pellucida interactions |
- Barry Shur (Emory University) - Session Chair
- Daniel Hardy (Texas Tech University Health Science Center) - Function of the Sperm Protein Zonadhesin in Fertilization
- Jurrien Dean (NIH) - Molecular Genetics of the Zona Pellucida: Targeted Mutagenesis and Fertility
- Tadashi Baba (University of Tsukuba) - Role of Sperm Serine Proteases in Fertilization
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| Session 2. |
Sperm capacitation and the acrosome reaction |
- Harvey Florman (University of Massachusetts Medical School) - Session Chair
- Jochen Buck (Cornell University) - Cytosolic adenylyl cyclase in testis
- U. Benjamin Kaupp (Forschungszentrum Juelich Institute) - Ion Channels As Targets for cAMP- and cGMP-Signaling Pathways in Sperm
- Harvey Florman (University of Massachusetts Medical School) - Ion channel regulation of acrosome reactions
- George Gerton (University of Pennsylvania) - Acrosome Dynamics
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| Session 3. |
Genetic approaches to fertilization |
- Patricia Olds-Clarke (Temple University) - Session Chair
- Stephen King (University of Connecticut) - The Biochemistry and Genetics of Flagellar Dynein Light Chains
- Deborah O'Brien (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) - Angiotensin-converting Enzyme and Male Fertility
- Daphne Preuss (University of Chicago) - Choosing a Mate: Cell Adhesion During Arabidopsis Pollination
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| Session 4. |
Molecules of sperm-egg plasma membrane binding and fusion |
- Steve L'Hernault (Emory University) - Session Chair
- Andrew Singson (Emory University) - Genetics of Gamete Recognition and Fertilization
- Scott Coonrod (University of Virginia) - GPI-anchored Oolemmal Proteins
- Nicole Sampson (State University of New York, Stony Brook) - Peptide Inhibitors of Fertilization: Identification of a Target Receptor
- Michellee Chen (University of Virginia) - Integrin mediated sperm-egg binding during murine fertilization
- Brent Miller (University of California, Davis) - Normal Fertilization with Eggs lacking the Integrin α6ß1
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| Session 5. |
Keynote Address |
- Introduction: Greg Kopf (University of Pennsylvania)
- Vic Vacquier (University of California San Diego and Scripps Institute of Oceanography) - The evolution of fertilization proteins in invertebrates
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| Session 6. |
Talks chosen from posters and/or late breaking topics |
- Richard Nuccitelli (University of California, Davis) - Discussion Leader
- David Miller (University of Illinois) - Cell surface b-1,4 galactosyltransferase activates G protein-dependent exocytotic signaling. (X Shi, S Amindari, K Paruchuru, B Skalla, BD Shur, and DJ Miller)
- Ken Kitajima (Nagoya University) - Morphological and biochemical changes of isolated chicken egg-envelope during sperm penetration: Degradation of the 97kDa ZP1-like glycoprotein is involved in sperm-driven hole formation on the egg-envelope (Y Takeuchi, R Cho, K Nishimura, T Kato, N Aoki, K Kitajima and T Matsuda)
- Jean-Emmanuel Faure (CNRS, Lyon, France) - A calcium influx is set during in vitro fertilization in flowering plants (AF Antoine, J-E Faure, S Cordeiro, C Dumas, M Rougier and JA Feijo)
- Others selected from poster sessions
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| Session 7. |
Sperm-derived components of egg activation and embryo development |
- Richard Schultz (University of Pennsylvania) - Session Chair
- Barbara Wakimoto (University of Washington) - Genetic Dissection of Sperm Supplied Factors Essential for Embryogenesis in Drosophila
- Anthony Perry (Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK) - The Contribution of Sub-membrane Sperm Components to Full Oocyte Activation in Mammals
- Workshop on sperm diffusible factors that initiate development
- John Parrington (University College London) - Evidence that the sperm factor which induces Ca2+ oscillations in mouse eggs is a phospholipase (J. Parrington, KT Jones, M. Katan and K. Swann)
- Yasuhiro Iwao (Yamaguchi University, Japan ) - Activation of Xenopus eggs by proteases: possible involvement of a sperm protease in fertilization (Iwao, Mizote, Okamoto, and Kuroiwa)
- Raphael Fissore (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) - Evidence that a Sperm Factor stimulates the Phosphoinositide Pathway.T (H. Jellerette, H Wu, J Smyth, C He, S Black and R Fissore)
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| Session 8. |
Cell cycle events during egg maturation and after fertilization |
- Merrill Hille (University of Washington) - Session Chair.
- Merrill Hille (University of Washington) - Signal cascades for the activation of protein synthesis and cell cycles during meiosis.
- Pat Hunt (Case Western Reserve University) - The Control of Female Meiosis and the Factors that Influence Chromosome Segregation
- James Maller (University of Colorado Health Science Center) - Early Embryonic Cell Cycles in Xenopus laevis
- John Newport (University of California, San Diego) - Regulation of DNA Replication During Early Embryonic Development
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| Session 9. |
Early events of egg activation |
- Laurinda A. Jaffe (University of Conn. Health Center) - Session Chair
- Kathy Foltz (University of California, Santa Barbara) - The Role of Src Family Tyrosine Kinases in Echinoderm Egg Activation
- Linda Runft (University of Connecticut Health Center) -- Signalling Pathway Leading to Ca2+ Release in Ascidian Eggs During Fertilization and in Response to Sperm Lysate
- Ken-ichi Sato (Kobe University) - The Role of a Src-related Tyrosine Kinase in Sperm-induced Activation of Xenopus eggs
- Terry Orr-Weaver (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) - Pan gu: a New Protein Kinase That Controls S Phase at the Onset of Drosophila Development
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