Organelle Evolutionary Biology
Discussion Leader: Jan Keithly, Wadsworth Center

• Jeff Palmer, Dept. Biology, Indiana University

Transfer of Mitochondrial Genes to the Nucleus: What, When, How, and Why?
• Patricia Johnson, Molecular Biology Institute, Univ. California, Los Angeles
  Evolution of mitochondria and hydrogenosomes from a single progenitor organelle
• David Roos, University of Pennsylvania
  The apicomplexan plastid...Where did it come from? What does it do?

Signal Transduction
Discussion Leader: Sally MacKenzie, Univ. Nebraska-Lincoln

• Rob Larkin, The Salk Institute
  Molecular and genetic analysis of a retrograde signaling pathway from the plastid to the nucleus
• Ron Butow, Department of Molecular Biology and Oncology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  Cellular responses to mitochondrial dysfunctions in yeast
• Kathleen Newton, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri
  MtDNA deletions are associated with induction of stress proteins in maize plants
• Bruce Kohorn, Duke University
  TAKs, Redox regulated thylakoid membrane protein kinases

Monday morning

DNA and RNA Synthesis
Discussion Leader: Peter Heifetz, Novartis
• Laurie Kaguni, Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University
  A Drosophila model of mitochondrial DNA replication, mutagenesis and disease
• Gerry Shadel, Department of Biochemistry, Emory University
  Transcription-coupled processes involved in mitochondrial gene expression and replication
• Pal Maliga, Waksman Institute at Rutgers University
  The phage-type plastid RNA polymerase: promoters, subunits and function
• Dan Bogenhagen, SUNY at Stony Brook
  Nuclear gene products involved in mtDNA replication and repair

Morphology and Inheritance
Discussion Leader: Maureen Hanson, Cornell University

• Jodi Nunnari, Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Univ. California, Davis
  How to build a mitochondrial reticulum
• Mike Yaffe, Dept. Biology, Univ. California, San Diego
  Mechanisms of mitochondrial distribution and inheritance
• Kevin Pyke, Univ. Nottingham
  Plastid division and morphogenesis
• Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa, Dept. Biological Sciences, University of Tokyo
  The mechanism of plastid and mitochondrial division as asexual cytoplasmic inheritance with special focus on the organelle-dividing apparatus

Tuesday morning

Post-Transcriptional Mechanisms
Discussion Leader: Carol Dieckmann, Univ. Arizona

• Jean-David Rochaix, University of Geneva
  Characterization of nucleus-encoded factors involved in post-transcriptional steps of chloroplast gene expression
• Francis-André Wollman, IBPC, Paris
  Translational and post-translational regulation of chloroplast protein assembly
• Laurie Read, SUNY Buffalo
  UTP-dependent and -independent pathways of mRNA degradation in trypanosome mitochondria
• Alice Barkan, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon
  Genetic analysis of post-transcriptional regulatory mechanisms in maize chloroplasts
• Tom Fox, Cornell University
  Out of Mitochondria: Membrane-Localized Translation and Export of Mitochondrially Coded Proteins

Tuesday evening

Protein Import and Assembly
Discussion Leader: Klaas van Wijk, Stockholm University

• Ken Cline, Horticultural Sciences, University of Florida
  Components and mechanisms of a novel protein transport system in thylakoid membranes
• Steffen Reinbothe, Faculty of Biology, Ruhr University Bochum
  Regulation of protein import into chloroplasts
• Rosemary Stuart, University of Munich
  Assembly of the respiratory chain complexes in yeast mitochondria

Wednesday morning

Mitochondrial Diseases, Animal Models and Apoptosis
Discussion Leader: Eric Shoubridge

• Gordon Shore, McGill University
  Regulated mitochondrial protein traffic during oncogene-induced apoptosis
• Anu Suomalainen, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
  Molecular mechanisms underlying ADPEO disease with multiple mtDNA deletions
• Eric Schon, Columbia University
  Genetics of mitochondrial diseases
• Nils Larsson, Karolinska Institute
  Manipulation of mtDNA expression in the mouse
• Janne Toivonen, University of Tampere
  Technical knockout, a Drosophila model of mitochondrial disease

Metal Ions in Organelle Metabolism
Discussion Leader: Edie Gralla, Univ. California-Los Angeles

• Sabeeha Merchant, University of California, Los Angeles
  Redox signaling through copper
• Roland Lill, Institute for Cell Biology, Philipps-University, Marburg
  The essential role of mitochondria in the biogenesis of cellular Fe/S proteins
• Lee McIntosh, Plant Biology Lab, Michigan State University
  Signals and nuclear mutants controlling mitochondrial function

Genomics Applied to Organelle Biogenesis
Discussion Leader: Jeff Staub, Monsanto

• Pat Schnable, Center for Plant Genomics, Iowa State University
  A challenge from the post-post-genomic era: Identification of the physiologically significant substrate of a mtALDH required for male fertility in maize
• Klaas van Wijk, Stockholm University

Proteomics of the chloroplast
• Ian Small, INRA, Versailles

Identifying novel mitochondrial and plastid proteins from sequence data