Support by grants and generous contributions from:

Cytokinetics, Inc.
National Science Foundation
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
U.S. Dept. Of Agriculture

• Tom Pollard (Salk) Keynote Speaker Acto-myosin in fission yeast
• David Drubin (UC Berkeley) Actin dynamics in budding yeast
• Patrick Hussey (Univ. Durham) ABPs and MAPs in plants
• Benedikt Kost (Rockefeller U) Arabidopsis cytoskeleton organization

• Liza Pon (Columbia U) Mitochondrial movement in budding yeast
• Chris Staiger (Purdue U) ABPs and cytoplasmic streaming in plants
• Corey Nislow (Cytokinetics) (10 min) Phenotyping Yeast Using Automated Image Acquisition on a Genome-Wide Scale
• Robert Singer (Einstein) Myosin and mRNA localization in budding yeast
• Michael Plamann (U. Missouri) Dyneins and nuclear movement, and morphogenesis in Neurospora
• Tony Bretscher Myosin V functions in budding yeast

• Susan Dutcher (U. Colorado) Basal body in Chlamydomonas
• Trisha Davis (U Washington) Budding yeast SPB
• Takashi Toda (ICRF, London) SPB in fission yeast
• Iain Hagen (Manchester) MTOCs in fission yeast

• Susan Wick (U Minnesota) Tubulin isoforms in maize
• Wallace Marshal (Yale) Flagellar length control in Chlamydomonas
• Douglas Drummond (M. Curie) (10 min) Fision yeast microtubule dynamics
• Mary Porter (U. Minnesota) Flagellar dynein arm assembly in Chlamydomonas
• Lynne Quarmby (Emory U) Katanins and flagellar excision in Chlamydomonas
• Gerald Steinberg (U. Muneich) Dyneins in Ustilago maydis

• Tobias Baskin (U Missouri) cortical microtubules and cellulose orientation
• Daniel Szymanski (Purdue U) trichome development in Arabidopsis
• Geoff Wasteneys (Australia National U) root hair development in Arabidopsis
• Anne Sylvester (U. Wyoming) warty mutant and cell wall expansion in maize
• Janice De Almeida (Gent) (10 min) Cytoskeleton in nematode infected Arabidopsis roots

• Zhenbiao Yang (Riverside) Small GTPases and tip growth in Arabidopsis
• Peter Hepler (Univ. Massachusetts) Profilins, calcium and tip growth in plants
• Jean-Pierre Zryd, (U. Lausanne) (10 min) Cell polarity in the moss Physcomitrella
• Kathy Gould (Vanderbilt U) GTPases and the actin cytoskelton in fission yeast
• Fulvia Verde (U Miami) (10 min) Control of fission yeast cell polarity by Orb6 kinase and microtubule-associated protein Tea1
• John Pringle (UNC) Role of septums in cytokinesis

• Kelly Dawe (U. Georgia) Kinetochore function in maize
• Emily Hildebrand (Johns Hopkins U) Mitotic motors in budding yeast
• Kerry Bloom (UNC) Spindle positioning in budding yeast
• David Pellman (Harvard) Spindle positioning in budding yeast

• Business Meeting
• Rong Li (Harvard) cdc42 and actin ring formation in budding yeast
• Issei Mabuchi (U.Tokyo) Actin contractile ring in fission yeast
• Daniel Mulvihill (UCLondon) (10 min) Myo2 during cytokinesis in fission yeast
• Michael Snyder (Yale) Regulation of Septins in budding yeast
• Sylvia Sanders (MIT) Sites for polarized growth in yeast

• David Kirk (Washington U) Division planes in Volvox
• Fred Chang (Columbia U) Determination of division plane in fission yeast
• Sheryll Bisgrove (Utah) (10 min) Division plane alignment in the brown alga Pelvetia
• Laurie Smith (UCSD) Division plane mutants in maize
• Gerd Jurgens (U. Tuebingen) Embryo division mutants in Arabidopsis