AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CELL BIOLOGY ANNUAL MEETING
DECEMBER 9-13, 1995, WASHINGTON, DC
WASHINGTON CONVENTION CENTER
The 1995 ASCB Call for Abstracts is now available.
Please contact the National Office to abtain your copy
(Tel: 301-530-7153, Fax: 301-530-7139, E-mail:
ascbinfo at ascb.faseb.org). Within the next two weeks the
entire publication will be available on the ASCB gopher
as well. Below is a listing of the 1995 Symposia and
Minisymposia.
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SYMPOSIA TITLES AND SPEAKERS
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9
Scientific Keynote Address
Eric Kandel, Columbia University
Genes, Synapses, and the Cell-Term Memory
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10
SYMPOSIUM I: THE CELL CYCLE AND CANCER
Leland Hartwell, University of Washington (Chair)
Cell cycle checkpoints
Kim Nasmyth, Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna
Cyclin-dependent kinases and the cell cycle
Carol Greider, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Telomerases in cell immortalization and cancer
SYMPOSIUM II, THE HEINZ HERRMANN SYMPOSIUM: PATTERN
FORMATION AND EVOLUTION
Cynthia Kenyon, University of California, San Francisco
(Chair)
Pattern formation in C. elegans
Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin/HHMI
Evolution and development of the insect body plan
Cliff Tabin, Harvard Medical School
Evolution and development of the vertebrate body plan
MONDAY, DECEMBER 11
SYMPOSIUM III: CELL ADHESION IN DIFFERENTIATION AND
DISEASE
Richard Hynes, MIT/HHMI
Integrin and extracellular matrix function in
development
Mary Beckerle, University of Utah (Chair)
Cell adhesion-dependent signalling
Judah Folkman, Harvard Medical School
Endogenous inhibitors of blood vessel growth
SYMPOSIUM IV: THE EVOLUTION OF EUKARYOTIC SEX
Lawrence Hurst, University of Cambridge
Selfish genetic elements and their role in evolution:
the evolution of sex and some of what that entails
Ursula Goodenough, Washington University (Chair)
Sex in simple eukaryotes
Robin Lovell-Badge, Medical Research Council, London
Sex determination in mammals: the role and evolution
of the SRY gene on the Y chromosome
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12
SYMPOSIUM V: HOW MOLECULAR MOTORS WORK
Ron Vale, University of California, San Francisco/HHMI
(Chair)
Mechanical and structural studies of the kinesin
motor: are two heads better than one?
Ivan Rayment, University of Wisconsin
Structural basis of myosin motility
Mary Porter, University of Minnesota
Mutational analysis of dynein regulation
SYMPOSIUM VI: NEURONAL CONNECTIONS: ESTABLISHMENT AND
PLASTICITY
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, University of California, San
Francisco/HHMI (Chair)
Guidance of developing axons to their targets
Story Landis, Case Western Reserve University School of
Medicine,
Interactions between pre- and postsynaptic cells in
the initial establishment of synaptic junctions
Jeff Lichtman, Washington University School of Medicine
Cellular basis of activity-dependent synaptic
rearrangements
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13
SYMPOSIUM VII: MEMBRANE ASSEMBLY FROM THE NUCLEUS TO
THE CELL SURFACE
Randy Schekman, University of California, Berkeley/HHMI
(Chair)
Protein sorting during vesicle budding
Douglass Forbes, University of California, San Diego
Nuclear assembly and transport
Richard Scheller, Stanford University/HHMI
Mechanism and regulation of membrane fusion
SYMPOSIUM VIII: UNDERSTANDING AND CONTROLLING CELL
BIOLOGY THROUGH SYNTHETIC MOLECULES
Roger Tsien, University of California, San Diego/HHMI
(Chair)
Dissection of a nitric oxide signalling cascade using
caged compounds
Heidi Hamm, University of Illinois, Chicago
Use of synthetic peptides to investigate sites and
mechanism of G-protein action in signal transduction
Stuart Schreiber, Harvard University/HHMI
Chemical approach to understanding and controlling
signal transduction
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MINISYMPOSIA TOPICS AND CHAIRS
Apoptosis
Eileen White, Rutgers
Applications of Green Fluorescent Protein to cell
biology
Martin Chalfie, Columbia University
Cell adhesion and signalling
Randall T. Moon, University of Washington
Cell adhesion in development
Dan Brower, University of Arizona
Chaperones, protein folding, and posttranslational
processing
Elizabeth Craig, University of Wisconsin
Checkpoints and mitosis
Steve Elledge, Baylor College of Medicine
Chromatin structures, condensation, and transcription
Jerry Workman, Penn State University
Molecular motors and dynamics of cytoplasmic
organization
Julie Theriot, The Whitehead Institute
Endocytosis and intracellular trafficking of lipids
Richard Pagano, The Mayo Clinic
Extracellular matrix in cell proliferation and
differentiation
E. Helene Sage, University of Washington
Nuclear hormone receptors and cell signaling
Bruce Spiegelman, Dana Farber Cancer Research Institute
GTP-binding proteins and the signalling cascade
John Pringle, University of North Carolina
Interaction of the cytoskeleton with cell junctions
Susan Craig, The Johns Hopkins University
Gametes and fertilization
Judith White, University of Virginia
Localization of determinants in the embryo
Robert Boswell, University of Colorado
Molecular genetics of the cytoskeleton
Alison Adams, University of Arizona
Molecular structure approaches to the cytoskeleton
Ken Downing, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories
Nuclear import and export
Pamela A. Silver, Harvard Medical School
Pathways through the cell cycle
William G. Dunphy, California Institute of Technology
Protein targeting to organelles
Ken Cline, University of Florida
RNA trafficking and localization
Robert Singer, University of Massachusetts
Specification of cell fate
Chris Doe, University of Illinois
Tissue-specific gene expression
Nadia Rosenthal, Massachusetts General Hospital
Vesicle identity and addressing
Susan Ferro-Novick, Yale University
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