December 9-13, 2000 • Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, California 

Richard Hynes, President
Jean Schwarzbauer, Program Chair
Dean Sheppard, Local Arrangements Chair
Elizabeth Hay, 40th Anniversary Chair 

KEYNOTE SYMPOSIUM
The ASCB: 40 Years Leading the Revolution in Cell Biology:

Saturday, Dec. 9, 6:00 p.m.
J. Michael Bishop, University of California, San Francisco
Michael S. Brown, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Joseph L. Goldstein, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 

SYMPOSIA

The Mechanism of Protein Synthesis:

Sunday, Dec. 10, 8:00 a.m.
Alan Hinnebusch, NIH/NICHD
Harry F. Noller, Jr., University of California, Santa Cruz
Nahum Sonenberg, McGill University

Novel Dimensions of Cell Motility:

Sunday, Dec. 10, 10:30 a.m.
Marie-France Carlier, Laboratory of Structural Enzymology and Biochemistry, France
Thomas M. Roberts, Florida State University
H. Lee Sweeney, University of Pennsylvania

Chromosome Dynamics:

Monday, Dec. 11, 8:00 a.m.
Douglas E. Koshland, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Victoria Lundblad, Baylor College of Medicine
Daphne Preuss, University of Chicago

Determination of Left-Right Asymmetry:

Monday, Dec. 11, 10:30 a.m.
Daniel Constam, Institut Suisse de Recherche Experimentale sur le Cancer
Nobutaka Hirokawa, University of Tokyo
Elizabeth Robertson, Harvard University

Pathogen Recognition and Host Defense:

Tuesday, Dec. 12, 8:00 a.m.
Barbara Baker, University of California, Berkeley
Pamela Bjorkman, California Institute of Technology/Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ruslan M. Medzhitov, Yale University

Cellular Organization at the Synapse:

Tuesday, Dec. 12, 10:30 a.m.
Mary Kennedy, California Institute of Technology
Joshua R. Sanes, Washington University Medical School
Morgan Sheng, Massachusetts General Hospital/Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Biological Clocks:

Wednesday, Dec. 13, 8:00 a.m.
Steve Kay, The Scripps Research Institute
Ann Rougvie, University of Minnesota
Joseph S. Takahashi, Northwestern University/Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Chemical Approaches to Biological Problems:

Wednesday, Dec. 13, 10:30 a.m.
Daniel E. Kahne, Princeton University
Jeff Kelly, The Scripps Research Institute
Laura Kiessling, University of Wisconsin Symposia 

MINISYMPOSIA

Minisymposia will be scheduled, six each afternoon, Sunday through Wednesday of the Annual Meeting. Four additional speakers for each minisymposium will be selected by the co-chairs from among abstract submissions. The schedule will be announced in September.

Biophysical approaches in cell biology:

Steven M. Block,
Mimi Koehl

Cell migration and pathfinding:

Gian Garriga,
Denise Montell

Cell regulation by scaffolding and adaptor proteins:

Sharon L. Milgram,
John Scott

Centromeres, kinetochores and genomic instability:

Pamela B. Meluh,
Peter K. Sorger

Checkpoint regulatory proteins:

Angelika Amon,
Sally Kornbluth

Chromatin modification and nuclear organization:

Sarah C.R. Elgin,
Sharon Y. Roth

Cytoskeletal cross-talk and intermediate filaments:

Pierre A. Coulombe,
Gregg G. Gundersen

Cytoskeletal machinery and dynamics:

Frank B. Gertler,
Dorothy A. Schafer

Extracellular matrix signalling:

David D. Schlaepfer,
Sheila M. Thomas

Genetics and genomics of cell adhesion:

Nicholas H. Brown,
Ben Williams

Membrane rafts:

Barbara Baird,
Frederick R. Maxfield

Microbial subversion of cellular functions:

Pascale Cossart,
Jorge Galan

Molecular mechanisms of endocytosis:

Frances M. Brodsky,
Howard Riezman

Novel functions of cadherins and protocadherins:

Ulrich Tepass,
Tadashi Uemura

Novel intercellular signaling pathways:

Joanne Chory,
Roeland Nusse

Organelle dynamics:

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz,
Janet M. Shaw

Post-transcriptional regulation of cellular functions:

Victor R. Ambros,
Elizabeth R. Gavis

Proteoglycans and cell communication:

Alan C. Rapraeger,
Scott Selleck

Regulation of cytoskeletal motors:

Vladimir I. Gelfand,
Rong Li

Regulation of membrane traffic by lipids:

Jean E. Gruenberg,
Wieland B. Huttner

Signal regulation through proteolysis:

Paul Polakis,
Michael D. Tyers

Spindle pole duplication and function:

Duane A. Compton,
Trisha Davis

Trafficking between nucleus and cytoplasm:

Douglass Jane Forbes,
Susan Rae Wente

Vesicle docking and fusion:

Charles K. Barlowe,
Frederick M. Hughson