• Phil Fox (Amarillo Biosciences)
  "An overview of Sjogren's Syndrome: clinical manifestations and possible mechanisms"
• John Mountz (U Alabama-Birmingham)
  "MCMV model of Sjogrens syndrome in Fas-mutant B6-lpr/lpr mice"
• Austin Mircheff (U Southern California)
  "Secretory epithelium as hapless victim or inadvertant co-conspirator in Sjogren's autoimmunity"
• Yoshio Hayashi (Tokushima Univ, Japan)
  "The role for alpha-fodrin as an autoantigen in Sjogren's Syndrome"

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• Sue Michalek (U Alabama-Birmingham)
  "The mucosal immune system and protection against infectious diseases"
• Kohtaro Fujihashi (U Alabama-Birmingham)
  "Role of gamma-delta T cells for salivary gland immunity and oral tolerance"
• Sylvie Blondelle (Torrey Pines Inst)
  "Influence of cell membrane lipid composition on antimicrobial and antifungal peptide specificities"

• David Ann
  "Regulation of salivary-specific gene expression by Ras/Raf/ERK signaling pathway"
• Ray MacDonald (U Texas-Southwestern)
  "Transcriptional linkage between the exocrine and endocrine pancreas"
• Lily Mirels (U California - Berkeley)
  "Gene expression in immature salivary glands"
• Linda Samuelson (U Michigan)
  "Transgenic and evolutionary approaches to studying exocrine gene expression"

• Ken Yamada (NIDCR)
  "Morphogenesis, differentiation, and gene expression"
• Deborah Andrew (Johns Hopkins)
  "Regulation and formation of the Drosophila salivary gland"
• Priscilla Furth (U Maryland-Baltimore)
  "Reversible and Irreversible Changes During Cancer Progression"
• Hynda Kleinman/Matt Hoffman (NIDCR)
  "Role of basement membrane and growth factors in acinar differentiation"

• David Castle
  "Regulation of salivary protein secretion"
• Koty Hirschberg (NICHD)
  "Kinetic analysis of secretory protein trafficking and characterization of Golgi to plasma membrane transport intermediates in living cells"
• Wei Guo (Yale)
  "Polarized secretion in budding yeast"
• Special Lecture by John Young (U Sydney, Australia)
  "Sodium transport across salivary ducts: a perspective from 1965 to 1999"

• Indu Ambudkar (NIDCR)
  "Calcium, signaling and cell function"
• John Exton (Vanderbilt Univ)
  "Roles of Rho proteins and phospholipase D in cell signaling"
• Claude Klee (NCI)
  "Control of protein phosphorylation by calcium and oxidative stress"
• Silvio Gutkind (NIDCR)
  "A network of MAP kinases link G protein coupled receptors to the nucleus"

• Jim Turner (NIDCR)
  "Fluid secretion by salivary glands: mechanisms, regulation and major players"
• David Cook (U Sydney, Australia)
  Control of Na transport by intracellular Na: a new frontier
• Shmuel Muallem (U Texas-Southwestern)
  "CFTR, Cl^- and HCO₃^-"
• Peter Agre (Johns Hopkins)
  "Aquaporins in regulated epithelial water transport"

• Bruce Baum (NIDCR)
  "Salivary glands: valuable models to address key issues in tissue engineering"
• David Olson (Genteric)/Ira Goldfine (UCSF)
  "The endocrine secretion of hormones by exocrine glands of the gastrointestinal tract"
• Athanassios Sambanis (Georgia Tech)
  "Encapsulated cell therapies: core technologies and their application to the bioartificial endocrine pancreas
• David Mooney (U Michigan)
  "Synthetic matrices for controlling the development of engineered tissues"

• David Quissell (U Colorado)
  "Salivary gland homeostasis: a balance between growth and death"
• Robert Sclafani (U Colorado)
  "The GI to S phase transition of the cell cycle: lessons from yeast and human cancer cells"
• Joyce Hamlin (U Virginia)
  "Initiation of replication in mammalian chromosomes: possible mechanical links to cell cycle traverse"