Sunday pm
Organelle Genomes and Gene Transfer
- Discussion leader: Jeff Palmer
- Jean Feagin (Seattle Biomedical Research Inst.) Organelle genomes of Plasmodium
- Jeff Palmer (Indiana Univ.) Gene transfer from organelles to the nucleus in plants
- Eric Schon (Columbia Univ.) Inter- and intraorganellar exchange of information in human mitochondria
Monday am
Mitochondrial Mutations
- Discussion leader: Kathleen Newton
- Joanne Poulton (Oxford Univ., UK) MtDNA rearrangements in humans: transmission and phenotype
- Kathleen Newton (Univ. of Missouri-Columbia) Unstable mitochondrial genomes and aberrant phenotypes in maize
- Laurie Kaguni (Michigan State Univ.) Molecular and genetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA polymerase in Drosophila
- Marc Boutry (Univ. of Louvain, Belgium) Induction of mitochondrial mutants in transgenic plants expressing a mutator DNA polymerase
Poster session
Monday pm
RNA Editing and Organelle Transmission
- Discussion leader: Maureen Hanson
- Maureen Hanson (Cornell Univ.) RNA editing in plants
- Michael Yaffe (UC San Diego) Molecular Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Inheritance
- Liza Pon (Columbia Univ.) Actin Dependant Mitochondrial Movement and Inheritance in Yeast
Tuesday am
Transcription
- Discussion leader: Judith Jaehning
- Judith Jaehning (Univ. of Colorado, Denver) Biochemical and Genetic Analysis of the Yeast Mitochondrial RNA Polymerase
- Mike Gray (Dalhousie Univ., Canada) The mitochondrial transcription apparatus in plants
- Lori Allison (Rutgers Univ.) A plastid RNA polymerase with novel promoter specificity
- Giuseppe Attardi (Cal-Tech) Detailed structure-function analysis of the human mitochondrial transcription termination factor.
Round-Table Discussion:
Plastid engineering: Technical issues and Biological Problems
- Discussion leader: Pal Maliga (Rutgers Univ.)
Poster Session
Tuesday pm
Post-transcriptional regulation
- Discussion leader: David Stern
- Jean-David Rochaix (Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland) Nuclear genes involved in chloroplast gene expression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtdii
- Steve Mayfield (Scripps Inst., La Jolla, CA) RNA/Protein Interaction in Light Regulated Translation
- John Mullet (Texas A&M Univ.) Regulation of chloroplast psbD transcription by Blue Light
- David Stern (Boyce Thompson Inst., Ithaca, NY) Role of the 3' untranslated region in regulating chloroplast mRNA processing and stability
Wednesday am
Translation and Assembly
- Discussion leader: Tom Fox
- Tom Fox (Cornell Univ.) Genetic studies of mt translation controlled by nuclear genes
- Francis-Andre Wollman (IPBC, Paris, France) Looking for rate-limiting steps in chloroplast protein synthesis
- Sabeeha Merchant (UCLA) Biogenesis of chloroplast c-type cytochromes
- Alex Tzagoloff (Columbia Univ.) The greening of cytochrome oxidase
- Bernie Lemire (Univ. of Edmonton, Canada) The covalent attachment of FAD to yeast complex II requires import and processing
Poster session
Wednesday pm
Nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions
- Discussion leader: Ron Butow
- Ron Butow (UT Dallas) Retrograde regulation mutants of yeast.
- Rich Scarpulla (Northwestern Univ., Chicago) Hormone receptor signalling through nuclear respiratory factor 1.
- Greg Brown (McGill Univ., Montreal, Canada) Nuclear-mitochondrial gene interactions and male sterility in Brassica
Thursday am
Protein import into chloroplasts
- Discussion leader Alice Barkan
- Danny Schnell (Rutgers Univ.) The protein import machinery of chloroplasts
- Jürgen Soll (Kiel Univ., Germany) The protein import machinery of chloroplasts - constituents, regulation and function
- Ken Cline (Univ. of Florida, Gainesville) Proteins are targeted to the thylakoid membrane and lumen by several mechanisms
- Alice Barkan (Oregon) Genetic analysis of thylakoid protein targeting.
Poster session
Thursday pm
Targeting and sorting of proteins and RNA
- Discussion leader: Gottfried Schatz
- Katsuyoshi Mihara (Fukuoka, Japan) Cytosolic chaperones in precursor targeting to mitochondria: the role of MSF and hsp70
- Nancy Martin (Univ. of Louisville, Kentucky) Providing tRNA processing enzymes to mitochondria: Strategies include duplication, sharing and multifunctionality
- Robert Martin (Strasbourg, France) Mechanisms of tRNA import into yeast mitochondria
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