| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Reception |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Alternative Reproductive Strategies |
| Discussion Leader: JOHN EPPIG (The Jackson Laboratory) |
| JOHN EPPIG
Introduction |
| JEAN PAUL RENARD (Unite de Biologie du Developement INRA)
"Reprogramming nuclear activities during early rabbit embryonic development" |
| TOMOHIRO KONO (Tokyo University of Agriculture)
"Progress of nuclear competence in oogenesis" |
| HANS SCHOLER (University of Pennsylvania)
"Oocytes from mouse embryonic stem cells" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:45 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Sperm-egg Interactions |
| Discussion Leader: RICHARD CARDULLO (University of California, Riverside) |
| RICHARD CARDULLO
Introduction |
| ELIZABETH LORD (University of California, Riverside)
"Adhesion molecules involved in pollen tube guidance" |
| MICHAEL ENSSLIN (Emory University)
"SED1, an EGF repeat and discoidin-domain protein involved in mouse sperm-egg binding" |
| TANYA HOODBHOY (National Institutes of Health)
"Persistent taxon-specific sperm binding to chimeric human-mouse zonae pellucidae" |
| WILLIE SWANSON (University of Washington)
"Life in the fast lane: functional inferences from rapidly evolving reproductive proteins" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Sperm Signal Transduction |
| Discussion Leader: VIC VACQUIER (Scripps Institute of Oceanography) |
| VIC VACQUIER
Introduction |
| VIC VACQUIER
"Egg ligands, sperm receptors and the sea urchin sperm acrosome reaction" |
| DAVID CLAPHAM (Harvard Medical School, HHMI)
"The role of CatSper ion channels in sperm motility" |
| ANDY SINGSON (Wakesman Institute, Rutgers University)
"Mutants that affect gamete function at fertilization in C. elegans" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Sperm-egg Membrane Interactions |
| Discussion Leader: SHEILA MCCORMICK (University of California, Berkeley) |
| SHEILA MCCORMICK
Introduction |
| UELI GROSSNIKLAUS (University of Zurich)
"Maternal effects on seed development in Arabidopsis" |
| PAUL PRIMAKOFF (University of California, Davis)
"Mouse Sperm-Egg Fusion" |
| SHEILA MCCORMICK (University of California, Berkeley)
"Functional analyses of plant gamete gene expression" |
| KENJI MIYADO (Osaka University Medical School)
"Tetraspanins and gamete membrane fusion" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Keynote Address |
| DAVID C. PAGE (Whitehead Institute, HHMI, MIT)
"Human infertility and the Y Chromosome" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Events of Egg Activation |
| Discussion Leader: DIANE SHAKES (College of William and Mary) |
| DIANE SHAKES
Introduction |
| ANDY GOLDEN (National Institutes of Health)
"The Myt1 ortholog in C. elegans is essential for normal oocyte development and maturation" |
| JEAN-PIERRE OZIL (Institut National de la Rechereche Agronomique)
"Oocyte activation: The root of things" |
| PETER JACKSON (Stanford University)
"CSF arrest in meiosis II by the anaphase promoting complex regulator Emi1" |
| RICHARD CARTHEW (Northwestern University)
"RNA interference and egg activation" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Paternal Effects |
| Discussion Leader: BARBARA WAKIMOTO (University of Washington) |
| BARBARA WAKIMOTO
Introduction |
| TIM KARR (University of Chicago)
"Molecular mechanism(s) of wolbachia-induced sexual incompatibility in Drosophila" |
| BARBARA WAKIMOTO (University of Washington)
"Genetic dissection of paternal effects and sperm activation pathways in Drosophila" |
| TBA - POSTER TALKS |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Maternal Effects |
| Discussion Leader: MARIANNA WOLFNER (Cornell University) |
| MARIANNA WOLFNER
Introduction |
| CHARLES GLABE (University of California, Irvine)
"Species-specific gamete adhesion is mediated by EBR1, the egg surface receptor for bindin" |
| MARY MULLINS (University of Pennsylvania)
"Maternal control of vertebrate embryonic development: mutant studies from the zebrafish" |
| HOWARD LIPSHITZ (Hospital for Sick Children)
"Regulation of maternal transcripts during egg activation in Drosophila" |
| KENNETH KEMPHUES (Cornell University)
"Establishing embryonic polarity in C. elegans" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Establishment of Embryonic Polarity |
| Discussion Leader: RICHARD SCHULTZ (University of Pennsylvania) |
| RICHARD SCHULTZ
Introduction |
| LESILEE ROSE (University of California, Davis)
"Cell polarity and spindle positioning in C. elegans" |
| MAGDALENA ZERNICKA-GOETZ (University of Cambridge)
"Early patterning in the mouse embryo" |
| BERNARD MARO (CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie)
"Cell polarity and cell interactions control blastocyst morphogenesis during mouse early embryogenesis" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |