Conference Program
 
MECHANISMS OF HORMONE ACTION

August 5-10, 2001
Kimball Union Academy
Meriden, NH

Chair:
Gary L. Firestone

Vice Chair:
Christopher K. Glass

Sunday, Aug 5
7:30 p.m.
Opening Special Lecture:

Roger Tsien, Professor and HHMI Investigator, Univ. of California at San Diego
Genetically encodable reporters of signal transduction and protein interactions

Monday, Aug 6
9:00 a.m.
Endocrine Regulation of Phosphorylation Cascades
Session Chair - JoAnne Richards, Baylor College of Medicine

G. Stanley McKnight, Univ. of Wash
Protein Kinase A signaling

Natalie Ahn, Univ. of Colorado
Proteinomics and MAPK signal transduction

John Blenis, Harvard Medical School
Regulation of Cell Motility, Survival and Proliferation by MAP kinase and RSK

Morris White, Joslin Diabetes Ctr and HHMI Investigator
Insulin receptor signaling through IRS-1

Monday, Aug 6
7:30 pm
Mechanisms of Signal Transduction
Session Chair - Thomas Gelehrter, University of Michigan Medical School

Kunxin Luo, Univ. California at Berkeley
TGF-beta regulation of Smad signaling and Ski/Sno interactions

Bernd Groner, Inst. Biomed. Research, Frankfurt Germany
STAT5 signaling pathways

Michel Sanders, University of Minnesota
"Estrogen opposes apoptosis through transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms"

Cynthia Kenyon, UCSF
Endocrine regulation of Aging in C. elegans

Tuesday, Aug 7
9:00 a.m.
Hormone Signaling and Integration of Physiological Control
Session Chair - Diane Robins, University of Michigan Medical School

JoAnne Richards, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
New kinase signaling pathways in the ovary

Mona Nemer, Clinical Research Inst. Montreal
Nuclear signaling by G-protein coupled receptors during cardiac cell growth

Holly Ingraham, Univ. of California at San Francisco
Hormone signaling and neuroendocrine control

David Moore, Baylor College of Medicine
Natural products and nuclear receptors in cholesterol regulation

Tuesday, Aug 7
7:30 pm
Hormones and Development
Session Chair - Holly Ingraham, University of California, San Francisco

Pamela Mellon, Univ. of California, San Diego
Homeodomain proteins controlling the gonadotropin-releasing hormone gene in hypothalamic neurons

Ming-Jer Tsai, Baylor College of Medicine
Neural Development and the Nuclear Orphan Receptor COUP-TF

Carl Thummel, Univ. of Utah and HHMI Investigator
Molecular mechanisms of steroid hormone action in Drosophila

Wednesday, Aug 8
9:00 a.m.
Endocrine Control of Cell Growth and Differentiation
Session Chair - John Nilson, Case Western Reserve Univ. School of Medicine

Axel Thomson, MRC Human Reproductive Sciences Unit
Androgens and Regulation of Prostatic Organogenesis and Growth

Carol Lange, University of Minnesota Cancer Center
Regulation of Progesterone Receptor Stability and Transcriptional Activity in Breast Cancer

Aubrey Thompson, University of Texas Medical Brance
Regulation of intestinal epithelial cell proliferation: protein kinase C, TGF-betaRII, dietary lipids, and colon cancer

Jeff Rosen, Baylor College of Medicine
Mammary gland development and breast cancer: Insights from transgenic and knockout mouse models

Wednesday, Aug 8
7:30 pm
Transcription Complexes and Chromatin Structure
Session Chair - Michel Sanders, University of Minnesota

Leonard P. Freedman, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Mediating Transcriptional Activation by Nuclear Hormone Receptors

E. Brad Thompson, University of Texas Medical Branch
Role of AF-1 Transactivation Domain Folding and the Control of Glucocorticoid Receptor Transcriptional Activity

Shelley Berger, Wistar Institute
Chromatin Structure and histone phosphorylation

Gordon Hager, NIH
The dynamics of nuclear receptor interactions with genomic targets

Thursday, Aug 9
9:00 a.m.
Nuclear Receptors and Associated Factors
Session Chair - Christopher Glass, University of California, San Diego

Ching-yi Chang (McDonnel laboratory), Duke University Medical Center
Targeting Receptor:Cofactor interactions for new Drug Discovery

Paolo Sassone-Corsi, University of Strasbourg
Coupling Signaling to Transcription: A Physiological Outlook

Jae Woon Lee, Chonnam National University, Korea
A Novel Transcription Coactivator ASC-2 and its Physiological Functions

Michael Rosenfeld, UCSD/HHMI, CA
Molecular and physiological functions of NcoR and SMRT

Thursday, Aug 9
7:30 pm
Special Symposium: Mechanisms of Hormone Networking
Discussion leader: Gary Firestone, Conference Chair

Keith Yamamoto, UCSF, CA
Receptors as Components of Transcriptional Regulatory Complexes: Mechanisms, Composition, and Continuous Recycling


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