| Sunday |
| 7:30 pm | Cell-Cell Interactions and Sensory Transduction |
| David Zusman (UC Berkeley), chair |
| George O'Toole (Dartmouth)
Biofilm formation in bacteria |
| John Kirby (UC Berkeley)
Che operons affecting gene expression in development |
| Break |
| Rob Arkowitz (Universite de Nice)
cdc24/42 and virulence in C. albicans |
| Richard Gomer (Rice University)
Counting factor regulation of behavior in Dictyostelium |
| Joe Brzostowski (NIH) minitalk
APF: a novel secreted protein complex that induces aggregation of Dictyostelium |
| After talks: Social get together |
| Monday |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Receptor Signaling - Signal Detection |
| Judy Van Houten (University of Vermont), chair |
| John Spudich (University of Texas Medical School)
The Expanding Family of Microbial Sensory Rhodopsins |
| Maria Gilles-Gonzalez (Ohio State University)
Oxygen signal transduction |
| Judy Van Houten (University of Vermont)
Chemotaxis of Paramecium |
| 11:00 am Break and group photo |
| Ravi Palanivelu (University of Chicago): GABA is essential for proper targeting of Arabidopsis pollen tubes |
| Eric Kunkel (Stanford University): Signal Reception in Leukocytes |
| Barry Taylor (Loma Linda University) minitalk
Signaling from Aer |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| Afternoon - free |
| 4:30 - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm | Receptor Signaling - Crossing the membrane |
| Rick Dahlquist (University of Oregon), chair |
| Joseph Falke (UC Boulder)
Bacterial transmembrane signaling |
| Sandy Parkinson (University of Utah)
Bacterial chemoreceptor networking |
| Dennis Bray (Cambridge University)
Receptor clustering models of signaling |
| Break |
| Ken Blumer (Washington University at St. Louis)
Receptor dimerization in yeast signaling |
| Pierangelo Luporini (University of Camerino)
signals and signal reception in ciliates |
| Minitalks/TBA |
| Tuesday |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Receptor coupling to intracellular pathways |
| Judy Armitage (University of Oxford), chair |
| Angela Martin (University of Oxford)
The chemosensory pathways of Rhodobacter sphaeroides |
| Gerald Hazelbauer (University of Missouriy)
MCP coupling to cheB |
| C.S. Raman (University of Texas - Medical School)
NO Signal Transduction in Prokaryotes |
| Break |
| Robin Preston (Medical College of Pennsylvania)
membrane potential changes in chemotaxis of Paramecium |
| Joseph Lengeler (Universitaet Osnabrueck)
Holistic modeling of complex biochemical networks, a realistic perspective? |
| Minitalks/TBA |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| Afternoon - free |
| 4:30 - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm | Genomic/Proteomic Approaches to Signaling |
| Mike Snyder (Yale University), chair |
| Martin Schuster (University of Iowa)
Microarrays of Pseudomonas in biofilms |
| Janine Maddock (University of Michigan)
polar tags in bacteria |
| William Loomis (UC San Diego)
microarrays and signal transduction in Dictyostelium |
| Break |
| Mike Snyder (Yale University)
proteomic analysis of signaling in yeast |
| Alan Wolfe (Loyola University Chicago) minitalk
Use of array technology to investigate the global regulatory role of acetyl-phosphate |
| Minitalks/TBA |
| Wednesday |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Intracellular Signal Networking |
| Phil Matsumura (University of Illinois Medical School), chair |
| George Ordal (University of Illinois)
B. subtilis signaling |
| Ruth Silversmith (University of North Carolina)
CheY signaling |
| Michael Eisenbach (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Involvement of cheY acetylation in bacterial chemotaxis |
| Break |
| Alan Kimmel (NIH)
Galpha9 in adaptation in Dictyostelium |
| Marie-France Gulli (Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research)
Serine kinases in alpha factor signaling |
| Joachim Schultz (University of Tubingen)
Cyclase - channel interactions in Paramecium |
| Minitalks/TBA |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| Afternoon - free |
| 4:30 - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm | Spatial sensing mechanisms |
| Kathy Borkovich (University of Texas Medical School), chair |
| Lawrence Rothfield (University of Connecticut Health Center)
Spatial sensing in bacterial division site placement |
| Christine Jacobs (Yale University)
Caulobacter polarity by 2 component kinases during division |
| Rick Firtel (UC San Diego)
PTEN/PI3K in Dictyostelium chemotaxis |
| Break/Business Meeting |
| Peter Devreotes (Johns Hopkins)
Spatial sensing mechanisms in Dictyostelium |
| Orion Weiner (Harvard University)
Spatial sensing in neutrophils |
| Kersi Pestonjamasp (Scripps research Institute) minitalk
Functions of rac in neutrophil chemotaxis |
| Thursday |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Bacterial Motility |
| Howard Berg (Harvard University), chair |
| Bob Macnab (Yale University)
Flagellar protein export and assembly |
| Chi Aizawa (Teikyo University)
Flagellar growth and type III secretion |
| Keichi Namba (Protonic NanoMachine Project)
Flagellar growth mechanisms |
| Break |
| Ariel Blocker (Unite de Pathogenie Microbienne Moleculaire)
Type III secretion |
| Wenyan Shi
the pilin motor of Myxococcus xanthus |
| Minitalks/TBA |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| Afternoon - free |
| 4:30 - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm | Eukaryotic Motility |
| Guenther Gerisch (Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry), chair |
| Guenther Gerisch (Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry)
Movement of cytoskeletal proteins in Dictyostelium |
| Peter Satir (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
Light chain phosphorylation in the eukaryotic flagellum |
| Win Sale (UC Berkeley)
Kinases anchored in the eukaryotic flagellar axoneme that controls motility |
| Break |
| Fred Chang (Columbia University)
Motility of the actin cytoskeleton in yeast |
| Jared Rifkin (Queens College) minitalk
Dictyostelium chemotaxis towards pteridines: vector analysis of motility patterns |
| Minitalks/TBA |
| Friday |
| Breakfast and Departure |