| Session 1: | Gametic competence |
Discussion leader: Daphne Preuss (Univ. of Chicago)
- Mariana Wolfner (Cornell University, NY)
Triggering ovulation, egg activation and the initiation of development in Drosophila
- Daphne Preuss (University of Chicago)
Genetic analysis of pollen competence in Arabidopsis
- David Green (University of Otega, New Zealand)
Identifying egg signaling pathways from large Expressed Sequence Tag (EST) data sets
| Session 2: | Spatial organization of sperm signal transduction |
Discussion leader: Richard Cardullo (Univ. California, Riverside)
- Alex Travis (University of Pennsylvania, PA)
Organization of membrane rafts and expression and localization of caveolin-1 in mammalian spermatozoa
- Lonny Levin (Weill Medical College, NY)
Spatial organization of cAMP signaling
- Gary Hunnicutt (Population Council)
Cell surface dynamics of fertilin (poster talk)
- William Snell (Southwestern Medical Center, TX)
Signal transduction, gamete activation, and cell fusion in Chlamydomonas
- Alberto Darzon (Universidad Nacional Autoonoma de Mexico)
Spontaneous and speract-induced fluctuations in intracellular calcium in single sea urchin sperm (poster talk)
| Session 3: | Sperm-egg coat interactions |
Discussion leader: Jurrien Dean (National Institutes of Health, MD)
- Motonori Hoshi (Keio University, Japan)
The Jelly Coat of Starfish Eggs as the Physiological Signal for Triggering the Acrosome Reaction
- June Nasarallah (Cornell University, NY)
Cell-cell Signaling in the Self-incompatibility Response of Crucifers
- WIlliam Hanna (Johns Hopkins University)
Lewis X glycans stimulate mouse sperm to undergo the acrosome reaction in a carbohydrate structure-dependent manner (poster talk)
- Tracy Rankin (NIH)
Human ZP2 and ZP3 restore fertility in null mice but do not support human sperm binding (poster talk)
| Session 4: | Sperm-egg membrane interactions |
Discussion leader: Janice Evans (Johns Hopkins University, MD)
- Anne Ulrich (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat, Jena, Germany)
Structural aspects of protein-lipid interactions in gamete fusion
- Guo-Zhang Zhu (University of California - Davis)
Structure/function analysis of CD-9 (poster talk)
- Max Heiman (Univ. of California-San Francisco)
Yeast mating as a model for cell fusion
- David Greenstein (Vanderbilt University, TN)
Control of Meiotic Maturation and Ovulation in C. elegans: Sex, Worms, and Videotape
| Session 5: | Keynote address |
Introduction: Greg Kopf (University of Pennsylvania, PA)
- David Garbers (Southwestern Medical Center/HHMI, TX)
Who would have thought that non-hypothesis research could be so powerful?
| Session 6: | Egg activation I
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Discussion leader: William Kinsey (University of Kansas School of Medicine)
- James Ferrell (Stanford University, CA)
JNK activation and function in Xenopus oocytes and embryos
- Laurinda Jaffe (University of Connecticut Health Science Center)
Src family kinases and egg activation at fertilization
- William Kinsey (University of Kansas School of Medicine)
PTPase activation of fyn kinase at fertilization
- Alex McDougall (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom)
| Session 7: | Egg activation II
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Discussion leader: Michael Whitaker (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
- Shunichi Miyazaki (Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine)
Physiological characterization of mammalian sperm factor
- David Epel (Stanford University, CA)
Nitric oxide and egg activation
- Antony Galione (Oxford University, United Kingdom)
Nitric oxide, cGMP and pyridine nucleotides-based calcium signaling at fertilization in sea urchin eggs
| Session 8: | Secretory events during fertilization |
Discussion leader: Tom Ducibella (Tufts Univ. School of Medicine)
- Katheryn Mengerink (University of California, San Diego)
The suREJ proteins: key components of the sea urchin acrosome reaction
- Claudia Tomes (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo)
Mechanism of acrosomal exocytosis
- Paul Blank (National Institutes of Health, MD)
Calcium-triggered exocytosis: a kinetic synthesis
- Steve Vogel (Medical College of Georgia, GA)
Getting back what you've put in: Exocytosis - Endocytosis Coupling
| Session 9: | Translational control during embryogenesis |
Discussion leader: Joel Richter (University of Massachusetts Medical Center, MA)
- Joyce Tay (University of Massachusetts Medical Center, MA)
CPEB control of mammalian oogenesis
- Mary Lou King (University of Miami School of Medicine, FL)
Regulated expression of localized maternal RNAs in Xenopus
- William Theurkauf (University of Massachusetts Medical Center, MA)
A novel microtubule-dependent mRNA localization pathway generates anterior-posterior asymmetry in the Drosophila oocyte
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