FRIDAY, APRIL 17
9:00a.m. WELCOME / INTRODUCTION: Developmental Biology student 9:10 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Ira Herskowitz (U. of California at San Francisco) 10:00 Chris Doe (University of Illinois) The role of Notch and Numb signaling in the asymmetric division of Drosophila neuroblasts 10:45 Susan McConnell (Stanford) Asymmetric division and spindle orientation in the ferret cortex 11:30 LUNCH BREAK / POSTERS (any Bay Area participants) 1:00 p.m. Ralph Quatrano (University of North Carolina) Asymmetric division of Fucus zygotes 1:45 Daphne Preuss (University of Chicago) Signal transduction pathways involved in polarized Arabadopsis pollen tube morphogenesis 2:30 REFRESHMENT BREAK 3:00 W. James Nelson (Stanford) Generation of cell polarity in kidney epithelial cells 3:45 Abraham Kupfer (National Jewish Center for Immunolgy) Polarized signaling in activated T cells 4:30 ANNOUNCEMENTS 5:00 - 6:30 WINE & CHEESE RECEPTION (open to all) / POSTERS 7:00 DINNER (speakers and students)
SATURDAY, APRIL 18 9:00 a.m. ANNOUNCEMENTS 9:15 John Pringle (University of North Carolina) Signal transduction pathways that control bud-site selection and bud formation in S. cerevisiae 10:00 Liqun Luo (Stanford) Rho GTPase and the development of polarized neuronal dendrites in the Drosophila nervous system 10:45 Joseph Frankel (University of Iowa) Intracellular patterning and the cortical cytoskeletal lattice in Tetrahymena 11:30 LUNCH BREAK / POSTERS 1:00 p.m. Alan Grossman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Bi-polar localization of chromosome origins during Bascilus subtilus chromosome segregation 1:45 Lucille Shapiro (Stanford) Temporal and spatial control of Caulobacter cell cycle 2:30 REFRESHMENT BREAK 3:00 Susan Strome (Indiana University) Mechanisms for asymmetric segregation of germline P-granules in C. elegans embryos 3:45 Kenneth Kemphues (Cornell University) The role of the Par proteins in controlling asymmetric divisions in C. elegans embryos 4:30 CLOSING REMARKS: Developmental Biology student 5:00 CATERED DINNER PARTY (open to all)