Martin Feder, Chair

• Martin Feder (Chicago)
  "Evolution of the ‘Hsp70 Genome' in Drosophila"
• Marla Sokolowski (Toronto)
  "Behavioral Evolution in Drosophila'
• Greg Gibson (NC State)
  "Quantitative Genetic Dissection of Signal Transduction in Drosophila"
• Suzanne Rutherford (Washington)
  "Hsp90 and Evolvability"

Francine B. Perler (New England Biolabs), Chair

• Victoria Derbyshire (Wadsworth Center)
  "Molecular Symbiosis: Inteins and Introns"
• Paul Liu (Dalhousie, CA)
  "Trans-Splicing and Intein Mobility"
• Shmuel Pietrokovski (Weizmann Inst.)
  "Intein function hinted by their distribution and evolution"
• Ken Mills (Harvard Univ.)
  "Role of intein structure in protein trans-splicing"
• Randy Hampton (UCSD)
  "ER Protein Degradation in Regulation and Quality Control"
• Hanjo Hellman (Univ. of Texas at Austin)
  "Function of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in plant hormone action"

Ann E. Sluder, Chair

• Michael T. Bender (Georgia)
  "Steroid Hormone Signaling in Drosophila Metamorphosis"
• Ann E. Sluder (Cambria Biosciences)
  "Nuclear Receptors in Nematodes: Conservation, Divergence and Function"
• John T. Moore (Glaxo Wellcome)
  "The Pregnane X Receptor: A Promiscuous Xenobiotic Receptor that Regulates CYP3A Expression"
• Kenneth Korach (NIEHS)
  "Differential Regulation by the Alpha and Beta Forms of Mammalian Estrogen Receptor"

Richard I. Morimoto, Chair

• Richard I. Morimoto (Northwestern)
  "The Stress of Polyglutamine Protein Aggregates on Protein Homeostasis in C. elegans"
• Linda Hendershot (St. Jude)
  "Protein Folding in the ER: Sensing When Things Go Wrong"
• Laurence Goffin (Univ. of Melbourne)
  "The unfolded protein response requires nuclear localization of the ERN1p/IRE1p receptor"
• Davis Ng (Penn State)
  "Unfolded Protein Response Pathway"
• Jon Clardy (Cornell)
  "Structure/Function of Immunophilins"
• Lawrence E. Hightower (Connecticut)
  "The Heat Shock Response: Putting the Brakes on Inflammation"

Ann Hirsch, Chair

• Ann Hirsch (UCLA)
  "The Nitrogen-Fixing Symbiosis: How the Plants and the Microbe Get Together"
• Bonnie Bassler (Princeton)
  "How bacteria talk to each other: regulation of gene expression by quorum sensing"
• Jamie Foster (Hawaii)
  Vibrio and the Squid Light Organ
• Stephen Dobson (Kentucky)
  "Impotence by Association: Tales of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility and Other Reproductive Manipulations by the Wolbachia Endosymbiont"

Anthony Zera, Chair

• Anthony Zera (Nebraska)
  "Evolutionary Genetics of Endocrine Variation"
• Gretchen Hofmann (Ariz. State)
  "Physiological ecology of molecular chaperones"
• Michael Purugganan (NC State)
  "Molecular Evolutionary Ecology of Flower Development"
• H. Frederik Nijhout (Duke)
  "The Evolution of Regulation in the Cell Cycle"

Stephen Bell, Chair

• Yoshizumi Ishino (Osaka, Japan)
  "DNA Replication and Recombination in Archaea"
• Isaac Cann (Osaka, Japan)
  "Accessory Factors in DNA Replication at Extreme Temperatures"
• Stephen Bell (Cambridge, England)
  "Transcriptional Regulation in Archaea"
• John Battista (LSU)
  "DNA Repair and the Extreme Radioresistance of Deinococcus radiodurans"

Tom Muir, Chair

• Tom Muir (Rockefeller)
  "Expressed Protein Ligation: Introduction of Biosensors"
• Tom Evans (New England Biolabs)
  "Intein-Mediated Protein Ligation"
• Charles P. Scott (Pennsylvania State Univ.)
  "Intracellular cyclic peptide libraries"
• Jun Qin (Baylor)
  "Biophysics Meets Biochemistry in the Post-Genomics Era"
• Volker Heinrichs (Maxygen)
  "Rapid Evolution of Selective Proteins Through Molecular Breeding"

Frank Slack, Chair

• Frank Slack (Yale)
  "Control of Development by Small RNAs: Oddities or Emissaries"
• Ya-Ming Hou (Thomas Jefferson)
  "Transfer RNA and Pathogenicity Islands"
• Phillip D. Zamore (U. Mass.)
  "RNAi: an In Vitro Approach to Understanding Mechanism"