IDENTIFYING NOVEL RNA EDITING SITES & MODELING OF FUNCTIONAL MOTIFS

• Discussion Leader: Robert Benne
• Peter Seeburg - "Regulation by RNA editing of the Ca condustance of glutamate receptor channels"
• Jose Gualberto - "RNA editing in the mitochondria of plants & approaches for the identification of intervening factors"
• Sergey Steinberg - "Structural rules & conformational compensation in the tRNA L-form"
• David Landsman - "Does the database of ESTs (dbEST) enrich our knowledge of RNA editing?"
• Saira Mian - "Statistical modeling & phylogenetic analysis of a zinc ion-dependent deaminase domain found in proteins involved in RNA editing and nucleoside/nucleotide metabolism"

MOLECULAR EVOLUTION OF EDITING AND EDITING MECHANISMS

• Discussion Leader: Larry Simpson
• Dennis Miller - "Conservation of insertion editing in mitochondria of the Myxomycota"
• Volker Knoop - "Occurence of RNA editing in early land plant mitochondria"
• Paul Sloof - "RNA editing & gene organization in mitochondria of the free-living bodonid B. saltans"
• Jinghua Yang - "Identification of A to I editing in mammalian mRNAs"
• Laura Landweber - "Mitochondrial origins of RNA editing"

MECHANISMS OF RNA EDITING I: CIS-ACTING FACTORS

• Discussion Leader: Henri Grosjean
• Pal Maliga - "Cis-sequence requirements for RNA editing in plastids"
• Jim McSwiggen - "Site-specific chemical modification of ribozymes: probing structure-activity relationships in catalytic RNAs"
• Daniel Kolakofsky - "Rationale for editing Paramyxovirus RNA"
• Donna Driscoll - "An RNA-binding protein recognizes a mammalian SECIS element required for the co-translational incorporation of selenocysteine"

MECHANISMS OF RNA EDITING II: TRANS-ACTING FACTORS

• Discussion Leader: Harold C. Smith
• Kazuko Nishikura - "Editing of gluR-B ion channel RNAs by dsRNA adenosine deaminases"
• James Ofengand - "Biosynthesis of pseudouridylic acid in rRNA"
• Steve Hadjuk - "Identification of a developmentally regulated editing complex from Trypanosoma brucei"
• Thomas Innerarity - "A novel translation repressor mRNA is extensively edited in mouse livers containing tumors induced through the transgenic overexpression of apobec-1"
• Donna Koslowsky - "Mapping contacts between gRNA and mRNA in trypanosome RNA editing"

MECHANISMS FOR RNA EDITING III: IN-VITRO SYSTEMS

• Discussion Leader: Jonatha Gott
• Michael Gray - "tRNA editing in Acanthamoeba castellanii mitochondria"
• Wolfgang Schuster - "Investigation of a pea mitochondrial in vitro editing system"
• Simon Litvak - "In vitro studies of the factors involved in wheat mitochondrial mRNA editing
• Ron Emeson - "Characterization of RNA editing events within serotonin 2C receptor transcripts"
• Daniel Morse - "Detection of inosine containing RNA"
• Barbara Sollner-Webb - "Enzymatic complexes that direct RNA editing in T. brucei"

FUNCTIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF RNA EDITING

• Discussion Leader: Maureen Hanson
• Nicholas Davidson - "Regulation of ApoB mRNA editing in mammalian small intestine"
• Michael Mulligan - "Plant mitochondrial gene expression is polymorphic as a result of incomplete editing"
• Mario Moerl - "tRNA identity switch by RNA editing"
• Stephen Heinemann - "The role of RNA editing in the glutamate receptor gene family"
• Charles Samuel - "RNA editing & translational control by a family of interferon inducible RNA-binding enzymes (ADAR and PKR)"
• Jane P. Petschek - "RNA editing and alternative splicing generate protein product diversity in Drosophila 4f-rnp during development"

GENETICS OF EDITING AND IMPICATIONS FOR ITS REGULATION

• Discussion Leader: Anita Hopper
• Lawrence Chan - "Trans-aciting factors & ApoB mRNA transcription & maturations as determinants of ApoB mRNA transcripts"
• Otavio Thiemann - "Analysis of minicircle copy number plasticity in L. tarentolae & 3'-end uridylylation sites of the gRNA transcripts"
• John Casey - "HDV amber/W editing: selectivity, regulation & genotype variations"
• Travis Antes - "Transcription independent cytidine incorporation into RNA in isolated Physarum mitochondria"
• Ralph Bock - "Protoplast fusion rescues an editing mutant, implications for chloroplast RNA editing site selection"

STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY AND MACRO-MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS

• Discussion Leader: Jack Keene
• Charles Carter - "E. coli cytidine deaminase provides detailed molecular model for ApoB RNA editing and a mechanism for RNA substrate recognition"
• James Scott - "Homology modeling of the ApoB mRNA editase"
• Alan Herbert - "Studies on the Z-DNA binding domains in human dsRNA adenosine deaminase"
• Ronald Hough - "The C-termini of dsRNA adenosine deaminases contain conserved motifs similar to the motifs of the DNA methyl transferase"

RNA EDITING IN CONTEXT WITH OTHER FORMS OF RNA PROCESSING

• Discussion Leader: Mary O'Connell
• Mark Sowden - "Temporal and spatial relationships between ApoB RNA editing & RNA splicing"
• David Stern - "Nuclear mutations affecting chloroplast RNA processing & stability in C. reinhardtii"
• Linda Bonen - "Splicing and editing in plant mitochondria"
• Chris Greer - "Mechanisms of joining RNA chains: functional roles of RNA ligases"