1. Structure, function and interaction of red cell membrane proteins.

• Chair -- Joel Chasis, (Lawrence Berkeley),"Red cell membrane proteins: crossroads of structure and signal transduction."
• Pat Williamson, (Amherst), "Cloning and characterization of the phosholipid flipase."
• Samuel Lux, (Harvard), "Rescue of band 3 knockout mice with band 3 domain fusion proteins."
• Mohandas Narla, (Lawrence Berkeley), "Characterization of protein 4.1 knockout mice."
• Michael Tanner, (University of Bristol), Molecular determinants of band 3 structure and its interaction with glycophorin."

2. Erythrocyte proteins in nonerythroid cells

• Chair -- Jon Morrow, (Yale), "Ankyrin isoforms associated with internal organellar membranes."
• Velia Fowler, (Scripps Institute), "Regulation of actin-filament length."
• Vann Bennett, (Duke), "Ankyrin isoforms and functions in the brain."
• Peter Agre, (Johns Hopkins), "Structure and function of aquaporins."
• Athar Chishti, (St. Elizabeth Hospital, Boston), "p55 and its nonerythroid homologues."

3. Hematopoiesis I: Origin of hematopoietic stem cells.

• Chair -- Elaine Dzierzac, (NIMR, London), "Origin of the murine hematopoietic stem cell."
• Gordon Keller, (National Jewish Center, Denver), "Embryonic hematopoiesis."
• Len Zon, (Children's Hospital, Boston), "Early hematopoiesis in non-mammalian vertebrates."
• Roger Patient, (King's College, London), "Blood cell development in Xenopus
• Thomas Graf, (Heidelberg), "Control of lineage programming in hematopoietic cells."

4. Hematopoiesis II: Hematopoietic lineage development.

• Chair -- Stuart Orkin, (Harvard), "Regulatory circuitry for hematopoietic development."
• Nancy Speck, (Dartmouth), "Biochemistry and function of core binding factor in definitive hematopoiesis and leukemia."
• Katia Georgopoulos, (Harvard), "Role of Ikaros in hematopoietic cell fate."
• Harinder Singh, (U. Chicago), "PU.1 in hematopoietic lineage commitment."
• Yuan Zhuang, (Duke), "Function of E2A in hematopoiesis."

5. Signal transduction in hematopoietic cells.

• Chair -- Phillip Low, (Purdue), "Molecular communication between red cells and platelets."
• Yuichi Takakuwa, (Tokyo Women’s Medical University), "Regulation of membrane skeletal interactions by protein 4.1."
• Harvey Lodish, (MIT), "Erythropoietin receptor signal transduction."
• David Anstee, (Bristol), "Red cell receptors involved in signalling and cell adhesion"
• Marilyn Telen, (Duke), "Role of the Lu antigen in red cell adhesion."

6. Control of red cell gene expression I: Overcoming chromatin repression

• Chair -- Beverly Emerson, (Salk Institute, La Jolla), "Tissue-specific regulation of the human ß-globin gene locus in chromatin assembly systems in vitro"
• Doug Higgs, (Oxford), "Long range chromatin structure and alpha-globin gene expression."
• Vince Pirrotta, (U. of Geneva), "Repressive chromatin domains and differential gene expression".
• David Martin, (FHCRC, Seattle), "Cis sequences that suppress position effect variegation".
• Ken Zaret, (Brown University), "Chromatin structure and liver-specific transcriptional regulation."
• Janine Lasalle, (Harvard), "The role of nuclear organization in parental imprinting."
• Peter Fraser, (Erasmus, Rotterdam), "Mechanisms of developmental regulation in multi-gene loci"

7. Control of red cell gene expression II: Control of globin gene expression

• Chair -- Mark Groudine (FHCRC, Seattle), "What does the Locus Control Region (LCR) actually control?"
• Emma Whitelaw, (Univ. Sidney), "Epigenetic effects on transgene expression in mice."
• J. Douglas Engel, (Northwestern), "Control of globin gene expression and switching by LCR and gene proximal elements."
• Frank Grosveld, (Erasmus, Rotterdam), "ß-globin LCR directed transcription"
• George Stamatoyannopoulos, (Univ. Wash.), "Analysis of cis elements and trans factors involved in human globin gene switching."
• Dorothy Tuan, (Medical College of Georgia), "A transcription mechanism of HS2 enhancer function."
• James Bieker, (Mt. Sinai, N.Y.), "ELKF and erythroid-specific transcription."

8. Red cell diseases.

• Chair -- Griffin Rodgers, (NIH), "Clinical trials of therapies for sickle cell disease."
• Cheryl Hillary, (Southwestern Wisconsin Blood Center), "Adhesion of sickle cells to endothelial cells."
• Chris Patzy, (Lawrence Berkeley), "Sickle cell disease in transgenic/knock-out mice expressing exclusively human sickle hemoglobin."
• Irwin Sherman (U.C. Riverside), "Erythrocyte proteins involved in malarial parasite adhesion."
• Dror Baruch, (NIH), "Cloning and characterization of the adhesion receptor on malaria-infected erythrocytes."

9. Late Breaking Stories & Short Talks from Poster Presentations