| Sunday |
| evening | 1. Capacitative Ca2+ influx |
| Chair James Putney USA |
| Marcus Hoth (Germany)
TRP proteins and calcium influx in T-lymphocytes |
| Craig Montell (USA)
The TRP superfamily of receptor operated cation channels |
| Michael Schaefer (Germany)
Functional properties of the mammalian TRP- channels 4 and 5 |
| Victoria M. Bolotina (USA)
Mysteries of store-operated calcium influx pathway in cardiovascular system. |
| Monday |
| morning | 2. Ca2+ channels and cell functions |
| Chair Katsuiko Mikoshiba Japan |
| Colin Taylor (UK)
Regulation of Ca2+ release from intracellular stores by IP3 and parathyroid hormone |
| Anthony Galione (UK)
NAADP-induced calcium release mechanisms |
| Richard Dolmetsch (USA)
Excitation-transcription coupling: L-type calcium channel signalling to the nucleus. |
| Samuel Wang (USA)
Calcium-based mechanisms of coincidence detection in cerebellar Purkinje neurons. |
| evening | 3. Ca2+ signaling complexes at the plasma membrane |
| Chair Shmuel Muallem USA |
| Baruch Minke (Israel)
Phospholipase C and termination of G-protein-mediated signaling in vivo. |
| Atsushi Miyawaki (Japan)
Localized activation of two important molecular switches: Ras and Rap1. |
| Daria Mochly-Rosen (USA)
Signaling by localization of PKC isoform in cellular microdomains. |
| Tuesday |
| morning | 4.Ca2+ and secretion |
| Chair Ole Petersen UK |
| Wolfhard Almers (USA)
Imaging single exo- and endocytotic events in living cells |
| Guy Rutter (UK)
Ca2+ transport in the secretory pathway visualised with recombinant targeted probes |
| Martha Nowycky (USA)
Modulation of exocytosis by non-voltage gated Ca2+ fluxes |
| Reinhard Jahn (Germany)
Mechanims of SNARE-mediated membrane fusion. |
| 4:00- 6:00 PM | POSTER SESSION I |
| Evening | 5. Transgenic and non mammalian models |
| Chair Marek Michalak CANADA |
| Evangelia Kranias (USA)
Calcium regulatory mechanisms in the heart: insights from genetically altered mouse models |
| Timothy McKinsey (USA)
Ca2+-calmodulin-dependent kinases and calcineurin in cardiac hypertrophy |
| Howard Baylis (UK)
Dissecting the the functions of Ca2+ channels in caenorhabditis elegans |
| Wednesday |
| Morning | 6. Mitochondrial Ca2+ and cell death. |
| Chair Rosario Rizzuto Italy |
| Javier Alvarez (Spain)
Mitochondrial Ca2+ and neurosecretion |
| Gyorgy Hajnoczky (USA)
Control of apoptosis by mitochondrial calcium signals |
| David Friel (USA)
Neuronal Ca2+ regulation- from fluxes to dynamics |
| evening | Keynote Speaker: Donald Gill |
| evening | 7. Ca2+ in neuronal and sensory cells |
| Chair Paul Worley USA |
| Karel Svoboda (USA)
Ca2+ regulation in single dendritic spines |
| George Augustine (USA)
Dendritic signaling events involved in long-term
synaptic depression |
| Daniela Pietrobon (Italy)
Calcium channelopaties in the central nervous system |
| Thursday |
| morning | 8. Ca2+ in development and fertilisation |
| Chair Michael Berridge |
| Karl Swann (UK)
Sperm-induced Ca2+ oscillations at fertilization in mammalian eggs |
| Michael Whitaker (UK)
Cell cycle calcium signals in early Drosophila embryos |
| Randall Moon (USA)
A non-canonical Wnt pathway that stimulates intracellular Ca2+ release. |
| Nicholas Spitzer (USA)
From molecules to motility: Transduction of axonal pathfinding cues by filopodial calcium transients. |
| 4:00-6::00 PM | POSTER SESSION II |
| evening | 9. Crosstalk between Ca2+ and other signalling pathways |
| Chair Dermot Cooper USA |
| Diego Restrepo (USA)
The role of Ca2+ in olfactory transduction |
| Rodolphe Fischmeister (France)
Compartmentation of cAMP in cardiac myocytes from transgenic mice with a cardiac-directed human AC8 expression. |
| Manuela Zaccolo (Italy)
Monitoring cAMP fluctuations in living cells using a GFP-tagged protein kinase A and FRET |