Discussion Leader: Steve Wasserman, Univ. of Texas, Southwestern Medical School

• Stephanie Sherman, Emory University
  "Non-disjunction in humans: a tale of twenty-ones"
• David Page, Whitehead Institute and MIT
  "Human infertility, germ cell development, and the Y chromosome"
• Gareth Jones, University of Birmingham, UK
  "Hunting meiotic genes in Arabidopsis"
• Amin Ghabrial, Princeton University
  "Identification of a class of genes required for patterning and meiosis during Drosophila oogenesis"
• Christopher Makaroff, Miami University (10 min.)
  ""Characterization of Arabipodis mutants exhibiting defects in meiosis

Discussion Leader: R. Scott Hawley, University of California, Davis

• Bruce Nicklas, Duke University
  "Errors in mitosis and meiosis and how to avoid them"
• Ann Rose, University of British Columbia (10 min.)
  "Conservation of spindle assembly checkpoint function in C. elegans"
• Beth Rockmill, Yale University (10 min.)
  "Yeast genes involved in meiotic homolog pairing"
• Tim Schedl, Washington University
  "Control of meiotic prophase progression and gametogenesis in C. elegans"
• Steve Wasserman, Univ. of Texas, Southwestern Medical School
  "Meiotic regulation in Drosophila males"
• Bernard Maro, Institut Jacques Monod, Université Paris VII
  "Control of meiotic spindle formation in mouse oocytes"
• David Stuart, The Scripps Research Institute
  "B-type cyclins are required for entry into premeiotic S-phase and activation of a meiotic S-phase checkpoint"

Discussion Leader: Tim Schedl, Washington University

• George Vande Woude, National Cancer Institute - Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center
  "Morphogenesis of the first meiotic spindle in oocytes of Xenopus laevis"
• Patricia Hunt, Case Western Reserve
  Chromosomal control of meiotic spindle formation in murine oocytes
• R. Scott Hawley, Univ. of California, Davis
  "Mechanisms of meiotic spindle formation and achiasmate segregation in Drosophila females"
• Paul Straight, Univ. of Colorado (10 min.) "Regulation of spindle pole body duplication during meiosis in yeast"
• Maurizio Gatti, University of Rome, Italy
  "Genetic and molecular analysis of meiotic cytokinesis of Drosophila melanogaster males"

Discussion Leader: Tom Petes, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Harry Scherthan, University of Heidelberg, Germany
  "Three-dimensional aspects of chromosome behavior during homology search"
• Zac Cande, University of California, Berkeley
  "Meiotic prophase chromosome behavior in maize"
• Yasushi Hiraoka, Kansai Advanced Research Center, Kobe, Japan
  "The role of telomere clustering in homologous chromosome pairing in fission yeast"
• Michael Dresser, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
  "Ndj1p involvement in early meiotic recombination"
• Ed Louis, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford (10 min.)
  "Telomere recombination in meiosis: sequestering and non-random choice of partners"
• Robin Allshire, MRC Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh, Scotland
  "Fission yeast centromere and telomeres"

Discussion Leader: Anne Villeneuve, Stanford University

• G. Shirleen Roeder, Yale University
  "Function and assembly of the yeast synaptonemal complex and coordination with meiotic nuclear division"
• Nancy Kleckner, Harvard University
  "Chromosome pairing, DNA replication and Spo11"
• Alastair Goldman, NIH (10 min.)
  "Allelic recombination and telomeres both play a role in the process of meiotic chromosome pairing"
• Dawn Thompson, University of Oregon (10 min.)
  "Genetic control of recombination partner preference in yeast meiosis"
• Terry Ashley, Yale University School of Medicine
  "Mammalian meiotic synapsis and recombination: the same or separate phenomenon"
• Peter Moens, York University, Toronto, Canada
  "Focus on foci"

Discussion Leader: G. Shirleen Roeder, Yale University

• Doug Koshland, Carnegie Institution of Washington
  "Genetically challenged meiosis; or in other words, mitosis"
• Barbara Meyer, University of California, Berkeley
  "Connections between meiosis, mitosis and dosage compensation in C. elegans"
• Terry Orr-Weaver, Whitehead Institute and MIT
  "The centromere protein MEI-S332 maintains cohesion in meiosis and mitosis"
• Wayne Wahls, Vanderbilt University
  "A pathway of chromatid cohesion and centromere proximal recombination required for meiotic chromosome segregation in fission yeast"
• Jose Suja, University of Madrid, Spain
  "Implication of phosphorylated proteins in sister chromatid cohesion during meiotic divisions"
• Majorie Maguire, University of Texas
  "Sister chromatid cohesiveness in maize"

Discussion Leader: James Haber, Brandeis University

• James Wang, Harvard University
  "DNA topoisomerases: an update"
• Anne Villeneuve, Stanford University School of Medicine
  "Differential reliance on conserved recombination pathways"
• Kim McKim, Rutgers University (10 min.)
  "The initiation of meiotic recombination in Drosophila melanogasterrequires a homolog of the spo11 gene"
• Alain Nicolas, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, France
  "Control of double-strand break formation on the chromosome III and minisatellite rearrangement in the yeast S. cerevisiae"
• Tom Petes, University of North Carolina
  "Meiotic recombination hotspots and coldspots in S. cerevisiae"
• Gerry Smith, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
  "Control of meiotic recombination in S. pombe"

Discussion Leader: Alain Nicolas, Institute Curie, France

• Steve West, ICRF, UK
  "DNA interactions catalyzed by the human Rad51 and Rad52 proteins"
• Doug Bishop, University of Chicago
  "Assembly of recombination complexes"
• Tomoko Ogawa, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
  "Roles of mre11 protein in yeast recombination"
• Jim Haber, Brandeis University
  "Mechanisms of double-strand break repair in mitosis and meiosis"
• Takashi Morita, Osaka University (15 min.)
  "Mouse Dmc1 gene is required for homologous synapsis of chromosomes in meiosis"
• Christa Heyting, Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
  "Localization of Rad50 and Mre11 proteins within spermatocytes of the mouse"

Discussion Leader: Michael Lichten, National Institutes of Health

• Masayuki Yamamoto, University of Tokyo, Japan
  "RNA-assisted nuclear transport of the meiotic regulator in fission yeast"
• Aaron Mitchell, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Univ
  "Unique and overlapping functions of yeast glycogen synthase kinase-3 homologs in meiotic transcriptional regulation"
• Rochelle Esposito, University of Chicago
  "Regulation of meiosis-specific gene expression"
• Yona Kassir, Technicon, Haifa, Israel (10 min.)
  ""The RAS/cAPK pathway transmits a glucose signal that inhibits the transcription of IME1, the major transcriptional activator of meiosis in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• Joanne Engebrecht, SUNY - Stony Brook (10 min.)
  "Events during meiotic DNA replication influences homologous chromosome interactions"
• Nancy Hollingsworth, SUNY - Stony Brook
  "Phosphorylation regulates interaction between two key axial element components during meiosis in yeast"
• Shelley Chu, University of California - San Francisco
  "Transcriptional activation of B-type cyclins and spore formation genes at the prophase to metaphase I transcription by Ndt80"