| June 18, Evening | Regulation of meiosis and gametogenesis |
Discussion leader: Terry Orr-Weaver
- Rochelle Esposito, University of Chicago - Regulation of meiotic gene expression and chromosome segregation
- Masayuki Yamamoto, Tokyo University - Regulation of nuclear localization of the meiotic regulator Mei2p in fission yeast
- Jose Ayte, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - A new fission yeast cyclin, rem1, is essential for normal meiotic progression
- Helen White-Cooper, Oxford University - Coordinate control of cell cycle progression and spermatid differentiation during Drosophila spermatogenesis
- Tim Schedl, Washington University - Control of meiotic development in C. elegans
| June 19, Morning | DNA replication and initiation of meiotic recombination |
Discussion leader: Nancy Kleckner
- Susan Forsburg, Salk Institute - Meiotic DNA replication does not require mitotic replication initiation proteins
- Alain Nicolas, Institut Curie, Paris - Initiation of meiotic recombination in S. cerevisiae
- Michael Lichten, National Cancer Institute - Impact of chromosome structure on initiation of meiotic recombination
- Thomas Petes, University of North Carolina - Alpha and beta meiotic recombination hotspots in yeast
- Mimi Zolan, Indiana University - Replication-dependent requirement for Spo11 and Rad50 in chromosome synapsis
- Gerald R. Smith, Fred Hitchinson Cancer Research Center - Meiotic recombination remote from prominent DNA breaks in S. pombe
| June 19, Evening | Chromosome movement and association |
Discussion leader: Denise Zickler
- Yasushi Hiraoka, Kansai Advanced Research Center, Japan - Dynamics of centromeres and telomeres in fission yeast meiosis
- Harry Scherthan, University of Kaiserlautern, Germany - Impact of bouquet disruption on meiotic chromosome pairing
- Zac Cande, University of California, Berkeley - Mechanism of bouquet formation during meiotic prophase
- Graham Moore, John Innes Research Institute, UK - Polyploidy induces early centromere association
- Nancy Kleckner, Harvard University - Chromosome morphogenesis, mitotic and meiotic
| June 20, Morning | Recombination enzymes and complexes |
Discussion leader: Jim Haber
- Scott Keeney, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - Homotypic and intergenic interactions important for Spo11 activity are uncovered by structure/function analysis
- Daniel Camerini-Otero, National Institute of Child Health and Development - Mouse Spo11: localization in wild-type and mutant mice
- Stephen C. West, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, England - Protein-mediated DNA interactions in recombination
- Hideyuki Ogawa, Iwate College of Nursing - The MER3 gene, encoding a novel helicase-like protein, and the EXO1 gene are required for meiotic crossover in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Douglas K. Bishop, University of Chicago - Meiosis-specific regulation of recombination complexes
- John Schimenti, The Jackson Laboratory - New mutagenesis technologies and meiosis genes in mice
| June 20, Evening | Meiotic chromosome structure and homolog synapsis |
Discussion leader: Michael Lichten
- Shirleen Roeder, Yale University - Chromosome synapsis, meiotic recombination and the regulation of meiotic cell cycle progression
- Peter B. Moens, York University, Canada - Focus on foci: mouse meiotic chromosome core-associated functions
- Maureen Eijpe, Wageningen University - Association of mammalian SMC1 and SMC3 proteins with meiotic chromosomes and synaptonemal complexes
- Anne Villeneuve, Stanford University School of Medicine - Pairing, synapsis and crossover control during C. elegans meiosis
- Jennifer Fung, Yale University - Characterization of synaptic initiation by analysis of Zip2 localization
- Garreth Jones, University of Birmingham, UK - Arabidopsis meiosis: progress and prospects
| June 21, Morning | Chromosome condensation and cohesion |
Discussion leader: Anne Villeneuve
- Denise Zickler, Université Paris-Sud - Pairing, synapsis and sister-chromatid cohesion
- Terry Orr-Weaver, M.I.T - Sister-chromatid cohesion at the centromere
- Barbara Meyer, University of California, Berkeley - Meiosis, mitosis and their relationship to nematode dosage compensation
- Josef Loidl, University of Vienna - Meiotic sister chromatid cohesion proteins in Caenorhabditis elegans
- Angelika Amon - The role of Spo13 in meiosis
- Franz Klein, University of Vienna, Austria - Distribution and modification of proteins required for initiation or repair of meiotic DSBs
| June 21, Evening | Recombination mechanisms |
Discussion leader: Tom Petes
- James Haber, Brandeis University - Meiotic and mitotic recombination compared
- Tomoko Ogawa, National Institute of Genetics, Japan - Roles of Mre11 of S. cerevisiae in meiotic recombination and mitotic repair reactions.
- Maria Jasin, Sloan-Kettering Institute - Double-strand break repair in mammalian cells
- Rhona Borts, Oxford University - Impact of the mismatch repair proteins on meiotic recombination
- Neil Hunter, Harvard University - Identification of a new DNA intermediate in meiotic recombination
- Franklin Stahl, University of Oregon - Biased junction resolution and the conversion gradient in yeast
| June 22, Morning | Control of progression through meiosis |
Discussion leader: Shirleen Roeder
- R. Scott Hawley, University of California, Davis - Multiple roles of the Nod protein in chromosome segregation
- Patricia A. Hunt, Case Western Reserve - The factors that influence chromosome segregation during mammalian oogenesis
- Bernard Maro, Sorbonne - Cell cycle control, cytoskeleton and meiotic maturation of the mouse oocyte
- Paul S. Burgoyne, National Institute for Medical Research, UK - Sex chromosome asynapsis and meiotic checkpoints in mice
- Kim Nasmyth, University of Vienna - Disjunction of homologous chromosomes in meiosis I depends on proteolytic cleavage of the meiotic cohesin Rec8p by separin
| June 22, Evening | Centromeres, kinetochores and chromosome segregation |
Discussion leader: Scott Hawley
- Terry J. Hassold, Case Western Reserve - Nondisjunction in the human female
- Daphne Preuss, University of Chicago - Arabidopsis centromeres--genetic mapping and sequence analysis
- Beth Sullivan, Salk Institute - Centromere function and chromosome inheritance in Drosophila
- Andrew Murray, University of California, San Francisco - The spindle checkpoint and meiotic chromosome segregation
- R. Kelly Dawe, University of Georgia - Involvement of maize meiotic kinetochores in the spindle checkpoint
- Attila Toth, University of Vienna - MAM1, a novel meiosis specific gene, is required to prevent both bipolar attachment of sister kinetochores and equational segregation during meiosis I in S. cerevisiae
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