Sunday, July 4 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM | 
Keynote Address | 
- Joan Massague (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY)
 
The TGF-b/SMAD pathway  
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Monday, July 5 9:00 AM - 12:00 AM | 
Signal Transduction I  | 
Discussion Leader: Ben Neel (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, MA)
- Dafna Bar-Sagi (State University of New York, NY)	
 
Ras signaling and growth control
 - Larry Feig (Tufts University School of Medicine)
 
Downstream signaling from Ras through the Ral GTPase
 - 10:30 AM - Coffee Break
 - Lew Cantley  (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, MA)
 
Role of P13K in cell growth and cell survival
 - Nick Tonks (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY)
 
Signaling by tyrosine phosphatases
  
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Monday, July 5 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM | 
Signal Transduction II | 
Discussion Leader: Melanie Cobb  (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, TX)
- Melanie Cobb  (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, TX)
 
Structure and regulation of MAP kinase pathways
 - John Blenis (Harvard Medical School, MA)
 
ERK/RSK and p70-S6 kinase signaling during cell growth and death
 - Andrey Shaw (Washington University School of Medicine, MO)
 
Adhesion and T Cell activation	
 - Gerard Evan (Imperial Cancer Research Fund, UK)
 
Apoptosis in cancer
  
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Tuesday, July 6 9:00 AM - 12:00 AM | 
Transcription | 
Discussion Leader: Doug Dean (Washington University School of Medicine, MO)
- Doug Dean (Washington University School of Medicine, MO)
 
Transcriptional repression by the retinoblastoma protein
 - Jacqueline Lees (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
 
Role of E2F in cellular proliferation
 - 10:30 AM - Coffee Break
 - Don Ayer (University of Utah)
 
Transcriptional Repression and Activation by the LEF/TCF Family
 - Helen Piwnica-Worms  (Washington University School of Medicine, MO)
 
Mitosis: to be or not to be
  
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Tuesday, July 6 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM | 
Cell Cycle Regulation | 
Discussion Leader: Chuck Sherr (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, TN)
- Chuck Sherr (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, TN)
 
The ARF-p53 pathway
 - Erich Nigg (Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland)	
 
Regulation of the centrosome cycle	
 - Joan Ruderman (Harvard Medical School, MA)
 
p27-inducible proteolysis of cell cycle regulators
 - James Maller (University of Colorado School of Medicine)	
 
Centrosomes and cell cycle control in early Xenopus embryos
  
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Wednesday, July 7 9:00 AM - 12:00 AM | 
Checkpoints and Cancer | 
Discussion Leader: Doug Hanahan (University of California at San Francisco, CA)
- Doug Hanahan (University of California at San Francisco, CA)
 
Pathways of tumorigenesis
 - Gigi Lozano (MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX)
 
The p53/mdm2 regulatory pathway 	
 - 10:30 AM - Coffee Break
 - Ron DePinho(Dana Farber Cancer Institute, MA)
 
Telomerase, tumor suppressors and tumorigenesis in the mouse
 - Tony Wynshaw-Boris (NIH)
 
Understanding the pleiotropic functions of ATM in vivo by modeling in the mouse
  
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Wednesday, July 7 
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM | 
Extracellular Matrix in Signaling | 
Discussion Leader: Zena Werb (University of California at San Francisco, CA)
- Zena Werb (University of California at San Francisco, CA)
 
A matter of choice: multiple signaling pathways downstream from integrins
 - Charles Streuli (University of Manchester, UK)
 
Modulation of differentiation and survival signaling pathways by extracellular matrix
 - Sheila Thomas (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, MA)
 
Cytoskeletal targets of Src PTKs
 - Mary Beckerle (University of Utah, UT)
 
Signaling functions of LIM proteins at sites of cell adhesion
  
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Thursday, July 8 9:00 AM - 12:00 AM | 
Cell Signaling in Development | 
Discussion Leader: Barry Gumbiner (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY)
- Barry Gumbiner (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY)
 
Signaling by cadherins and catenins
 - Doug Hilton (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, Australia)
 
SOCS protein negative regulators of cytokine signal transduction
 - 10:30 AM - Coffee Break
 - Scott Ogg (Massachusetts General Hospital, MA) 
 
Genetic analysis of insulin-like signaling in C. elegans
 - Edward Skolnik (New York University Medical Center)
 
The Ste20 kinase misshapen regulates JNK activation, dorsal closure, and targeting of photoreceptor axons in Drosophila
  
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Thursday, July 8 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM | 
Cell Signaling in Apoptosis | 
Discussion Leader: Stan Korsmeyer (Dana Farber Cancer Institute, MA)
- Stan Korsmeyer (Dana Farber Cancer Institute, MA)
 
When Good Things Happen to BAD and Bad Things to Good Proteins
 - Sally Kornbluth (Duke Univerity School of Medicine, NC)
 
Apoptotic regulation in a Xenopus egg cell-free system
 - Junying Yuan  (Harvard Medical School )
 
The proteases to die for
 - Ben Neel (Beth Isreal Deaconess Medical Center, MA)
 
"Signaling by protein-tyrosine phosphatases"
  
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