| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Organelle Evolution |
| Discussion leader: Lawrence Grossman, Wayne State |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Michael Gray, Dalhousie
Mitochondrial Evolution: Going Off in All Directions |
| 8:10 pm - 8:50 pm | Monique Turmel, Univ. Laval
The green algal ancestry of land plants as revealed by the chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes |
| 8:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Jeff Boore, DOE Joint Genome Institute
Reconstructing animal phylogeny by comparing whole mitochondrial genomes |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:45 am | Photo session |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Organelle Morphology and Dynamics |
| Discussion leader: Kathy Osteryoung, Michigan State |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Angus McQuibban, Cambridge
Rhomboids and the Mitochondrion |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa, Rikkyo
The ultra-small unicellular alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae (Schyzon) as a model system for investigating the dividing apparatus of mitochondria and plastids |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Michael Yaffe, UC San Diego
Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Distribution and Inheritance |
| 11:10 am - 11:50 am | Shelley Meeusen, UC Davis
The behavior of mitochondria |
| 11:50 am - 12:10 pm | selection from posters |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Organelle import/export and biogenesis |
| Discussion Leader: Ken Cline, Florida |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Steve Theg, UC Davis
Energetics of protein transport across the thylakoid membrane |
| 8:10 pm - 8:50 pm | Danny Schnell, Massachusetts
Plastid Protein Import: Mechanistic insights and role in organelle biogenesis |
| 8:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Elke Pratje, Hamburg
Mitochondrial signal peptidases |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | DNA Replication |
| Discussion Leader: Laurie Kaguni, Michigan State |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Daniel F. Bogenhagen, Stony Brook
Maintenance of Mitochondrial DNA by Nuclear Proteins |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | David Clayton, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Mouse Models of Mitochondrial DNA Replication |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Ian Holt, Cambridge
The mechanism of replication of vertebrate mitochondrial DNA |
| 11:10 am - 11:50 am | Hans Spelbrink, Tampere
Human mtDNA replication proteins and nucleoids |
| 11:50 am - 12:10 pm | Arnold Bendich, Washington |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Metals, cofactors and redox |
| Discussion Leader: Dennis Winge, Utah |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Heinz Osiewacz, Frankfurt
Copper, respiration and aging in the filamentous ascomycete Podospora anserina |
| 8:10 pm - 8:50 pm | Rudolf Schweyen, Vienna
Mitochondrial cation transport systems |
| 8:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Tracey Rouault, NIH
Iron-sulfur cluster biogenesis and regulation of mammalian iron metabolism |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | RNA processing and translation |
| Discussion leader: Gadi Schuster, Technion |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Linda Spremulli, North Carolina
Mammalian mitochondrial ribosomes: Structural studies and interactions with initiation factors |
| 9:40 am - 10:15 am | Tom Fox, Cornell
Organization and regulation of yeast mitochondrial translation |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Ian Small, INRA
PPR proteins play various roles in post-transcriptional processes in mitochondria and plastids |
| 11:10 am - 11:50 am | Alice Barkan, Oregon
Group II intron splicing complexes in chloroplasts: Intron-specific splicing factors derived by diversification of a novel family of RNA binding proteins |
| 11:50 am - 12:30 pm | Larry Simpson, UCLA
Characterization of U-insertion/deletion RNA editing complexes from trypanosomatid mitochondria |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Nuclear-organelle interactions and organellar gene regulation |
| Discussion Leader: Michel Goldschmidt-Clermont, Geneva |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | David Hockenbery, Washington
Regulation of mitochondrial biogenesis in cancer cells |
| 8:10 pm - 8:50 pm | Jean-David Rochaix, Geneva
Nuclear -chloroplast crosstalk in Chlamydomonas |
| 8:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Asa Strand
Mg-Protoporphyrin IX, a link between the chloroplast and the nucleus |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Mitochondrial behavior in life and death |
| Discussion Leader: Sally Mackenzie, Nebraska |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Sylvia Lee, Cornell
A critical role of mitochondria in C. elegans longevity |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Pierre Roubertoux, CNRS
Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, two genomes for making a brain |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:20 am - 10:55 am | Nika Danial, Harvard
Integration of glycolysis and apoptosis by the pro-apoptotic BCL-2 family
protein BAD |
| 10:55 am - 11:30 am | Richard Youle, NIH
Role of mitochondrial fission and fusion in apoptosis |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Nils-Goran Larsson, Karolinska
The mtDNA mutator mouse |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Presentation from posters |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Disease mechanisms and model systems |
| Discussion Leader: Gerald Shadel, Yale |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Ann Reich-Saada, Jerusalem
The patho-physiological mechanisms of thymidine kinase2 and deoxyguanosine kinase deficiencies in mitochondrial DNA depletion |
| 8:10 pm - 8:50 pm | Shi Du Yan, Columbia
Amyloid, oxidative stress, and mitochondrial toxicity |
| 8:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Eric Schon, Columbia
Sco1, Copper transport and redox sensing |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |