| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | KEYNOTE SESSION |
| Discussion Leader: Liza Pon (Columbia University) |
| 7:30 pm | David Drubin (University of California, Berkeley)
"Phospho-regulation of cell division and chromosome segregation in budding yeast" |
| 8:30 pm | Patrick Hussey (University of Durham)
"Plant development and the cytoskeleton" |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ACTIN ORGANIZATION |
| Discussion Leader: Thomas Pollard (Yale University) |
| 9:00 am | Thomas Pollard (Yale University)
"Regulation of actin filament assembly by Arp2/3 complex" |
| 9:30 am | Anthony Bretscher (Cornell University)
"Role of formins in actin assembly: nucleation and barbed end association" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am | Mathias Peter (ISREC, Switzerland)
"Spatial and temporal regulation of Cdc42 in yeast" |
| 11:00 am | Rich Meagher (University of Georgia)
"Actin and actin-binding protein gene families in Arabidopsis" |
| 11:30 am | David Kovar (Yale University)
"Profilin likely contributes to the sparse requirement for F-actin by Chlamydomonas reinhardtii" |
| 11:45 | Bruce Goode (Brandeis University)
"Regulation of Arp2/3 complex activity and function by the actin-binding protein coronin" |
| 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 | MICROTUBULE ORGANIZATION |
| Discussion Leader: Berl Oakley (Ohio State University) |
| 7:30 pm | Trisha Davis (University of Washington)
"Assembling the yeast spindle pole body" |
| 8:00 pm | Susan Dutcher (Washington University)
"Basal Bodies assembly and function in Clamydomonas" |
| 8:30 pm | Wallace Marshall (Yale University)
"Regulation of centriole duplication by centriole number in Chlamydomonas: a mechanism for centriole error correction" |
| 8:45 pm | Berl Oakley (Ohio State University)
"New functions for g-tubulin" |
| 9:15 pm | Geoff Wasteneys (Australian National University)
"MOR1: an ancient MAP of the Dis1-TOGp-XMAP215 class" |
| 9:30 pm | Regina McClinton (University of Louisiana)
"Katanin homologues in plants" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MOTORS AND OTHER FORCE GENERATORS |
| Discussion Leader: John Cooper (Washington University) |
| 9:00 am | Wei-Lih Lee(Washington University)
"The role of Pac1 during dynein-dependent spindle movement in budding yeast" |
| 9:30 am | Win Sale (Emory University School of Medicine)
"Regulation of Flagellar dynein by phosphorylation: kinases anchored in the 9+2 axoneme" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am | Zacheus Cande (University of California at Berkeley)
"An evolutionary and functional analysis of kinesins in the basal eukaryote, Giardia intestinalis" |
| 11:00 am | Frantisek Baluska (University of Bonn)
"Myosin VIII: molecular structure and emerging functions" |
| 11:30 am | Magdalena Bezanilla (Washington University)
"Phylogenetic and functional characterization of plant myosins" |
| 11:45 am | Katherine Osteryoung (Michigan State University)
"FtsZ mediated chloroplast fission" |
| 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 | CHROMOSOME MOVEMENT |
| Discussion Leader: Zacheus Cande (University of California at Berkeley) |
| 7:30 pm | Peter Sorger (MIT)
"Molecular architecture of the budding yeast kinetochore" |
| 8:00 pm | David Ehrhardt & Sidney Shaw (Stanford University)
"Insights from live cell imaging of cytokinesis and microtubule dynamics in Arabidopsis" |
| 8:30 pm | Jan Vos (Wageningen Univerity)
"Microtubule dynamic instability and preprophase band dynamics in tobacco BY-2 cells" |
| 8:45 pm | Kerry Bloom (University of North Carolina)
"Regulation of chromosome movement and kinetochore microtubule dynamics in budding yeast" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | INTRACELLULAR MOVEMENT |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Hepler (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) |
| 9:00 AM | Peter Novick (Yale)
Spatial regulation of exocytosis in yeast |
| 9:30 AM | Lois Weisman (University of Iowa)
The vacuole-specific myosin V receptor, Vac17p, coordinates vacuole inheritance
with the cell cycle |
| 10:00 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 AM | Roger Hangarter (Indiana University)
Light-induced chloroplast movements in Arabidopsis |
| 11:00 AM | Nina Allen (North Carolina State University)
Endoplasmic reticulum targeted GFP reveals ER dynamics in tobacco NT-1 cells
during interphase and cell division |
| 11:30 AM | Peter Hepler (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Actin polymerization and pollen tube growth |
| 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 | CYTOKINESIS |
| Discussion leader: John Pringle (University of North Carolina) |
| 7:30 PM | Mohan Balasubramanian (University of Singapore)
Importance of myosin II-containing progenitor for actomyosin ring
assembly in fission yeast |
| 8:00 PM | Efrei Bi (University of Pennsylvania Medical School)
Role of Cdc42p in control of septins in yeast |
| 8:30 PM | Bo Liu (University of California at Davis)
Kinesin-related proteins in the phragmoplast of Arabidopsis thaliana |
| 8:45 PM | Phong Tran (University of Pennsylvania)
Microtubule force production and nuclear position in S. pombe |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | MORPHOGENESIS, CYTOSKELETON AND SIGNALING |
| Discussion leader: Chris Staiger (Purdue University) |
| 8:45 AM | John Pringle (University of North Carolina)
Role of cortical markers in bud-site selection in S. cerevisiae |
| 9:15 AM | Laurie Smith (University of California at San Diego)
Three Brick genes required for polarized cell growth and division of maize
leaf epidermal cells |
| 9:45 AM | Takashi Hashimoto (tiara Institute of Science and Technology)
Microtubule Basis for Helical Growth in Arabidopsis |
| 10:00 AM | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 AM | Roland Wedlich-Soldner (Harvard Medical School)
A mechanism for spontaneous cell symmetry breaking driven by GTP-
bound Cdc42 |
| 11:00 AM | Noni Franklin-Tong (University of Birmingham)
Signal-mediated cytoskeletal responses during the self-incompatibility
response in pollen tubes of Papaver rhoeas |
| 11:30 AM | Anne Mie Emons (Wageningen University, Netherlands)
The cytoskeleton in Rhizobium-host cell interactions |
| 11:45 AM | Simon Gilroy (Pennsylvania State University)
The cytoskeleton and plant trophism |
| 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 | EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES |
| Discussion leader: Mike Snyder (Yale University) |
| 7:30 PM | Business meeting |
| 8:00 PM | Mike Snyder (Yale University)
Large scale analysis of the yeast genome and proteome: A tale of two chips |
| 8:30 PM | Charlie Boone (University of Toronto)
Genetic interaction network form large-scale synthetic lethality screens. |
| 9:00 PM | Steve Almo (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
Structural biology in the 3rd millennium |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
