Chair: Sabine Werner, Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried

• Sabine Werner - Novel growth factor-regulated genes and their roles in wound repair
• Helen Blau - (Stanford University School of Medicine) - Increased vascularization in non-ischemic adult muscle following implantation of myoblasts constitutively expressing high levels of VEGF
• Gary Grotendorst - (University of Miami Medical School) - Mechanism for CTGF mediated TGF-beta effects on fibroblasts
• * Alan Wells - (University of Alabama at Birmingham) - Growth factor modulation of de-adhesion in fibroblast motility
• * Ingrid Blom - (University Hospital, Ultrecht) - Connective tissue growth factor induces increased migration of rat mesangial cells in culture

Chair: Rick Assoian, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

• Rick Assoian - Control of G1 phase cell cycle progression in fibroblasts by cell adhesion to extracellular matrix
• Lucia Languino - (Yale University) - Modulation of cell proliferation by the integrin cytoplasmic domain
• * Livingston Van de Water - (MGH/Harvard Medical School) - Sequences within the EIIIA (ED-A) segment of fibroblasts implicated in regulating fibroblast activation during wound healing
• * William Carter - (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) - Adhesion of keratinocytes and gap junctional communication: Implications for wound repair
• * Lawrence T. Kim - (VA Hospital Dallas/UT Southwestern) - Integrin-dependent signaling is enabled during keratinocyte activation
• * Brian K. Pilcher - (Washington University School of Medicine) - Differential expression of transcripts in keratinocytes following contact with type I collagen: A model of keratinocyte activation and differentiation following epidermal injury

Chair: Joseph Korn, Boston University School of Medicine

• Joseph Korn - Cellular and molecular basis of a profibrotic phenotype in dermal fibroblasts
• Jack Gauldie - (McMaster University, Ontario) - Cytokine gene transfer in models of fibrogenesis
• Richard Bucala - (Picower Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset) - Fibrocytes: Circulating fibroblast-like cells that present antigen and mediate tissue repair
• * Giulio Gabbiani - (Universite de Geneve) - Mechanisms regulating fibroblast alpha-smooth muscle actin expression and polymerization
• * Ken Cutroneo - (University of Vermont) - Phosphorothioate oligodeoxynucleotides, a novel class of antifibrotic drugs that mimic glucocorticoids

Chair: Jean Schwarzbauer, Princeton University

• Jean Schwarzbauer - Extracellular matrix modulation of cell behavior
• Bill Parks - (Washington University School of Medicine) - Interactions between MMP's, matrix, and matrix receptors during epithelization
• Deane Mosher - (University of Wisconsin) - Lysophosphatidic acid and sphingosine-1-phosphate: Serum mediators of extracellular matrix organization
• * Gabriella Skuta - (UT Southwestern) - Uncoupling collagen matrix contraction and increased myosin light chain phosphorylation
• * Claire Johnson - (Pfizer Central Research, Sandwich, Kent, UK) - Gene expression profiling of wound healing in keratinocytes using DNA microarrays

Chair: Paul McNeil, Medical College of Georgia

• Paul McNeil - Mechanical wounding at the cellular level
• Richard Lee - (Harvard Medical School) - Mechanically induced genes in vascular smooth muscle
• Don Ingber - (Harvard Medical School) - The architecture of life
• * Maddy Parsons - (University College, London) - Mechanical load and growth factors alter dermal fibroblast cell-surface expression of alpha1 and alpha2 integrin subunits: Role in regulating procollagen synthesis
• * Beate Eckes - (Department of Dermatology, Cologne, Germany) - Gene regulation by mechanical forces in human dermal fibroblasts

Chair: Rick Morrison, University of Washington, Seattle

• Rick Morrison - Cell death signaling pathways in neurons
• Ron McKay - (NIH) - Reconstructing the Brain
• Ann Logan - (University of Birmingham, UK) - Attenuation of glial scarring in the injured CNS by inhibition of TGF-beta activity
• * Rivkah Isseroff - (University of California, Davis) - Epidermal growth factor receptor relocalization and kinase activity are necessary for directional migration of keratinocytes in DC electric fields
• * Mark Walker - (University of Ulster, UK) - Effect of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation upon a radiation impaired wound healing model in murine skin

Chair: Paul Martin, University College London

• Paul Martin - Mechanisms of repair in the embryo
• Clive Wilson - (University of Kent, UK) - Regulation of cell shape and movement in Drosophila
• Martin Cohn - (University of Reading, UK) - Molecular control of vertebrate limb development
• Ellen Heber-Katz - (Wistar Institute) - Evidence supporting a mouse model of regeneration

Chair: Pierre Coulombe, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

• Pierre Coulombe - Keratin genes, their proteins, and wound re-epithelization
• Gillian Ashcroft - (NIH/University of Manchester, UK) - Wound healing in p21 knock-out mice
• Thomas Braun - (Technical University of Baunschweig, Germany) - Analysis of skeletal muscle regeneration by myogenic transcription factors and FGFs
• * Michael Detmar - (Harvard Medical School) - Wound healing in thrombospondin-1 transgenic mice
• * Pyong Woo Park - (Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School) - Role of syndecan-1 shedding in bacterial pathogenesis

Chair: Joe Leibovich, UMDNJ New Jersey Medical School

• Anita Roberts - (NCI, NIH) - TGF-beta