| SUNDAY |
| evening: |
Structure, Transmission and Expression Of Organelle Genomes |
Chair: David Stern (Cornell U., USA)
- Gottfried Schatz (U. Basel, Switzerland)
Welcoming address
- Franz Lang (U. Montreal, CND)
A comparative genomics approach to the evolution and the gene expression of mitochondria
- Ursula Goodenough (Washington U. USA)
Uniparental inheritance of organelle genomes
- Peter B. Heifetz (Novartis Co., USA)
Chemically inducible expression of plastid-encoded genes mediated by a nuclear-coded transactivator
| MONDAY |
| morning: |
Evolution And Transmission Of Organelles and their Genomes |
Chair: Ronald A. Butow (U. Texas, Dallas, USA)
- Kwang W. Jeon (U. Tennessee, USA)
Adaptation of bacteria to symbiosis in amoeba
- Katherine W. Osteryoung (U. Nevada, USA)
Plastid division in plants: elaboration of a prokaryotically derived mechanism
- Eric A. Shoubridge (McGill U., CND)
Nuclear-mitochondrial interactions: segregation of mtDNA and the assembly of a respiratory chain complex
- Peter E. Thorsness (U. Wyoming, USA)
Genetic and biochemical characterization of YME2, a gene involved in the maintenance of mitochondria DNA in yeast
- Janet M. Shaw (U. Utah, USA)
Mitochondrial fusion in yeast requires the transmembrane GTPase Fzolp
| evening: |
Role in development and aging |
Chair: Thomas D. Fox (Cornell U., USA)
- Les A. Grivell (U. Amsterdam, NL)
Role of mitochondrial proteases in quality control
- Marguerite Picard (U. Orsay, F)
Nuclear genes involved in the accumulation of mtDNA deletions in Podospora anserina
- Francisco G. Nobrega (U. Sao Paolo, Brasil)
YAH1 and ARH1 of Sacharomyces cerevisiae: two new essential genes that code for a putative mitochondrial electron transfer chain of unknown function
- Jane Langdale (Oxford Univ., UK)
Chloroplast function in leaf development
| TUESDAY |
| morning: |
Apoptosis and Disease I |
Chair: Douglas C. Wallace (Emory U., USA)
- Donald D. Newmeyer (La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA)
Cytochrome c efflux from mitochondria and the control of cell death
- Guido Kroemer (CNRS, Villejuif, F)
Bax and ANT cooperate in the mitochondrial control of apoptosis
Chair: David A. Clayton (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA)
- Douglas C. Wallace (Emory U., USA)
Mitochondrial DNA mutations and human disease
- David M. Koeller (U. Colorado, USA)
Mitochondrial ABC transporters and cellular iron metabolism
- Ann Chomyn (Caltech, USA)
Diverse ways in which tRNA mutations affect protein synthesis in human mitochondria
| evening: |
Apoptosis and Disease II |
Chair: Guiseppe Attardi (Caltech, USA)
- J.-I. Hayashi (U. of Tsukuba, Japan)
The interorganellar interaction between human mitochondria containing mtDNA with different pathogenic mutations derived from different patients
- Gino A. Cortopassi (UC Davis, USA)
Mitochondrial disease and cell death
- Roundtable Discussion: Novel aspects of mitochondrial cell biology
Chair: Gottfried Schatz (U. Basel, CH)
| WEDNESDAY |
| morning: |
Interactions between mitochondria, chloroplasts and the nucleus |
Chair: Sabeeha Merchant (UCLA, USA)
- Lori Allison (Univ. Nebraska, USA)
Nuclear-encoded sigma factors in higher plants
- Alison G. Smith (Cambridge U., UK)
Compartmentation of tetrapyrrole synthesis in plant cells
Chair: Jean-David Rochaix (U. Geneva, CH)
- Maureen Hanson (Cornell U., USA)
New views of plastid and mitochondrial morphology and interactions by GFP labelling in transgenic plants
- Christopher Leaver (Oxford, UK)
Mitochondrial biogenesis during flower development
- Sally MacKenzie (Purdue U., USA)
Nuclear-directed suppression of a mitochondrial mutation in the CMS common bean system
- Roundtable Discussion: Novel aspects of chloroplast cell biology
Chair: Sabeeha Merchant (UCLA, USA)
| THURSDAY |
| morning: |
Import of proteins into mitochondria |
Chair: Walter Neupert (U. Munich, D)
- Walter Neupert (U. Munich, D)
Preprotein translocases of mitochondria
- Carla M. Koehler (U. Basel, CH)
Biogenesis of mitochondrial inner membrane transporters
Chair: Katsuyoshi Mihara (Kyushu U., J)
- Niklaus Pfanner (U. Freiburg, D)
The TOM and TIM machineries of mitochondria
- Tohru Komiya (Kyushu U., Japan)
Precursor recognition by mitochondrial import receptors
- Trevor Lithgow (LaTrobe U., Aus)
Cytosolic and ribosome-associated factors in mitochondrial protein targeting
| evening: |
Novel functional aspects |
Chair: John E. Walker (MRC Cambridge, UK)
- John E. Walker (MRC Cambridge, UK)
Mitochondrial metabolite and ion transporters
- Steven M. Theg (UC Davis, USA)
Membrane properties relating to thykaloid protein trafficking
- Masayuki Numata (McGill U., CND)
Molecular identification of mitochondrial Na+/H+ exchangers
- Samuel Kaplan (U. Texas, Houston, USA)
Understanding the mitochondrial peripheral benzodiazepin receptor: an evolutionary approach.
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