Preliminary Program, 39th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, Washington, D.C., December 11-15, 1999.

 Symposia will begin with the Keynote Address at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, December 11. Thereafter, two symposia will be given consecutively each morning, at 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Symposium Chairs are indicated with an asterisk(*). All Symposium speakers were invited by the Program Committee.


Saturday, December 11

The Impact of Genome-Wide Studies on Cell and Developmental Biology (7:30 p.m.)

David Botstein*, Stanford University School of Medicine
Cornelia Bargmann, University of California, San Francisco
Gerald Rubin, University of California, Berkeley

Sunday, December 12

Stem Cells and Tissue Morphogenesis (8:00 a.m.)

David Anderson*, The California Institute of Technology
M. K. Barton, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Janet Rossant, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto

Asymmetric Cellular Organization (10:30 a.m.)

W. James Nelson*, Stanford University
John Pringle, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ralph Quatrano, Washington University

Monday, December 13

Dynamics of the Nucleus (8:00 a.m.)

Angus Lamond*, University of Dundee, Scotland
Iain Mattaj, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
Erin O'Shea, University of California, San Francisco

Signaling and the Actin Cytoskeleton in Cell Motility and Adhesion (10:30 a.m.)

Thomas Pollard*, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Gary Borisy, University of Wisconsin
Anne Ridley, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University College, London

Tuesday, December 14

Sorting out Vesicle Trafficking (8:00 a.m.)

Scott Emr*, University of California, San Diego
Margaret Scott Robinson, University of Cambridge
William Wickner, Dartmouth Medical School

Visualizing Function: A Revolution in Electron Microscopy (10:30 a.m.)

Eva Nogales*, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Joachim Frank, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
Nigel Unwin, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge

Wednesday, December 15

Cellular Degeneration and Disease (8:00 a.m.)

Leonard Guarente*, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nancy Bonini, University of Pennsylvania
Dennis Selkoe, Harvard Medical School

Cell Biology of Cancer (10:30 a.m.)

Thea Tlsty*, University of California, San Francisco
Bert Vogelstein, The Johns Hopkins University
George Yancopoulos, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals


Minisymposia are held from 3:30–5:45 pm, six concurrently on each day from Sunday, December 12 through Wednesday, December 15. Scheduling will be announced in September. Co-chairs are listed; they will in turn invite four additional speakers in each minisymposium, at least three of whom will be selected from among the submitted abstracts (submission deadline: August 2).


Biogenesis, Positioning and Remodeling of Subcellular Organelles
  Jodi Nunnari, Katherine Osteryoung

The Cell Biology of Infectious Diseases
  Chris Lamb, David Schneider

Crosstalk Between Integrins and Other Receptors
  Joan Brugge, Rudy Juliano

Cytoskeletal Motor Proteins
  Sharyn Endow, Tama Hasson

Cytoskeleton Assembly and Dynamics
  Claire Walczak, Matthew Welch

The Cytoskeleton in Polarity and Development
  Raffi Aroian, Sylvia Sanders

Cytoskeleton Regulation by Signaling Cascades
  John Hartwig, Sachiko Tsukita

Development of Organismal Polarity
  Bruce Bowerman, Lee Niswander

Drug Targets and Chemical Approaches to Biological Mechanisms
  Timothy Mitchison, Kevan Shokat

Endocytosis
  Pietro DeCamilli, Helmut Kramer

Extracellular Matrix Assembly and Function
  Merton Bernfield, Jean Schwarzbauer

Formation and Fusion of Vesicles
  Jenny Hinshaw, Reinhard Jahn

Localization, Stability and Transport of mRNA
  Paul Macdonald, Robert Singer

Mechanisms of Cell Duplication and Division
  Stephen Bell, Arturo DeLozanne

Perpetuation of the Species: Gametogenesis and Fertilization
  Ira Herskowitz

Protein Translocation Across Membranes
  Susan Michaelis, Tom Rapoport

Protein Turnover and Autophagy
  Raymond Deshaies, Daniel Klionsky

Nuclear Structure and Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Transport
  Katherine Lee Wilson, Michael Rexach

Programmed Cell Death
  Jeff Dangl, Eileen White

Regulated Secretion
  Chris Kaiser, Tom Sudhof

Regulation, Structure and Function of Cell Junctions
  Kathy Green, Margaret Wheelock

Signal Transduction Pathways from the Cell Surface to the Nucleus
  Deborah Morrison, Jeremy Thorner

Spindles and Spindle Poles
  Rebecca Heald, Yixian Zheng

Stopping and Starting the Cell Cycle
  William Dunphy, Daniel Lew

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