Conference Program
 
MOLECULAR MEMBRANE BIOLOGY

July 15-20, 2001
Proctor Academy
Andover, NH

Chair:
Peter Novick

Vice Chair:
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

Sunday Evening
Protein Translocation
Chair: Peter Novick
7.30-7.45 Welcome and Introduction
7:45-8:20Walter Neupert
Translocation of proteins across and into the membranes of mitochondria
8:20-8:55Reid Gilmore
Transfer of ribosomes from the SRP to the Sec61 complex
8:55-9:20Ramanujan Hedge
The encoding of functional diversity in N-terminal signal sequences
Monday Morning
Translocation and folding
Chair: Ineke Braakman
8:30-9:00Group Photograph
9:00-9:35Suresh Subramani
Assembly and dynamics of the peroxisomal matrix protein import machinery
9:35-10:10Chris Kaiser
Pathways for disulfide transfer in the endoplasmic reticulum
10.10-10.40Coffee
10:40-11:15Tom Rapoport
Protein Disulfide Isomerase Acts as a Redox-dependent Chaperone to Unfold Cholera Toxin
11:15-11:50Ari Helenius
Close-up View of the Calnexin/Calreticulin Cycle
11:50-12:25Randy Schekman
Domains of Sec24p involved in cargo sorting into COPII vesicles
Monday Evening
Vesicle Budding
Chair: Mike Roth
7:30-7:55Charles Barlowe
Mechanisms of COPII dependent transport
7:55-8:30Juan Bonifacino
Role of the GGAs in protein sorting at the TGN
8:30-9:05Suzanne Pfeffer
Role for Rabs in Cargo selection in endosome-TGN transport
9:05-9:40Sandra Schmid
Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Receptor-mediated Endocytosis
Tuesday Morning
Vesicle Targeting
Chair: Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz
9:00-9:35Susan Ferro-Novick
Tethering of ER-derived vesicles to the Golgi
9:35-10:10Bill Balch
GTPase Regulation of ER Export
10:10-10:45Hugh Pelham
The late Golgi compartment in yeast: entry and exit
10:45-11:15Coffee
11:15-11:50Graham Warren
Golgi transport and biogenesis
11:50-12:25William Wickner
Mechanisms of homotypic vacuole fusion
Tuesday Evening
Membrane/Cytoskeletal Interactions
Chair: Janet Shaw
7:30-8:05David Drubin
Roles for the actin cytoskeleton in endocytosis
8:05-8:40Trina Schroer
Cytoplasmic dynein, dynactin and cytoplasmic organization
8:40-9:15Julie Donaldson
Polyphosphoinositide turnover and Arf6-regulated membrane traffic
9:15-9:50Lois Weisman
Identification of an organelle-specific myosin V receptor
Wednesday Morning
Protein/Lipid Interaction
Chair: Sean Munro
9:00-9:35Scott Emr
Phosphoinositide- and ubiquitin-dependent protein sorting at the prevacuolar endosome in yeast
9:35-10:10Antonella de Matteis
Role of PI4Kb in membrane trafficking
10:10-10:45Marino Zerial
Rab GTPases and their effectors in the compartmental organization and function of early endosomes
10.45-11:10Coffee
11:10-11.45Silvia Corvera
PI3-kinase comes to life: early endsome dynamics visualized by high-speed Microscopy
11.45-12:20Vytas Bankaitis
Phosphatidylinositol transfer protein function in eukaryote
Wednesday Evening
New Structures
Chair: Gerry Waters
7.30-8.05Axel Brunger
Recent structural and biophysical studies of vesicle fusion proteins
8.05-8.30Fred Hughson
Regulated assembly and refolding of membrane fusion proteins
8.30-9.05Frances Brodsky
Structure-function analysis of a novel clathrin homologue
9.05-9.40Jonathan Goldberg
GTPase structure and function at the Golgi
Thursday Morning
Synaptic cycle
Chair: Peter Arvan
9:00-9:35Thomas Sudhof
The enigmatic functions of sec1/munc18-like proteins in membrane fusion
9.35-10.10Reg Kelly
Linking endocytosis to exocytosis in neurons
10:10-10:40Coffee
10:40-11:15Pietro DeCamilli
Phosphoinositides and actin in clathrin-mediated endocytosis at the synapse
11:15-11:50Dennis Selkoe
Intramembranous Proteolysis of Notch and APP and the Origin of Alzheimer's Disease
11:50-12:15Andreas Meyer
Vacuole fusion: linking NSF dependent SNARE activation to the V-ATPase V0 sector
12:15-12:30Peter van der Sluijs
Rabaptin4 directly interacts with gamma-adaptin on early endosomes and regulates membrane recycling
Thursday Evening
Polarity and Signalling
Chair: Jennifer Stow
7.30-8.05Ira Mellman
Conventional and unconventional mechanisms of epithelial cell polarity
8:05-8:40Rob Parton
Caveolae and Caveolins; linking cholesterol and signal transduction
8:40-9:05Sean Munro
PtdIns(4)P dependent targeting of PH domains to the Golgi apparatus
9:05-9:30Todd Graham
Requirement for an integral membrane P-type ATPase in clathrin-coated vesicle budding from the trans-Golgi network

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