41st Annual Meeting
December 8–12, 2001
Washington, DC

Elaine Fuchs, President;
Joan Brugge, Program Chair;
Yixian Zheng, Local Arrangements Chair

Keynote Symposium:

December 8, 6:00 PM
Genomics, Stem Cells and Functional Approaches to Cell Biology of the New Century
    Shirley Tilghman, Princeton University;
    Craig Venter, Celera Genomics;
    Irving Weissman, Stanford University,
    and former Congressman John Porter

Symposia:

Genotype/Phenotype Plasticity in Differentiation and Cancer
     Sunday, December 9, 8:00 AM
       Mina Bissell, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories
       Gerard Evan, University of California, San Francisco
       Kenneth Kinzler, The Johns Hopkins University

Cellular Processes That Regulate Membrane Processing
     Sunday, December 9, 10:30 AM
       Frances Brodsky, University of California, San Francisco
       Ira Mellman, Yale University
       Randy Schekman, University of California, Berkeley

The Cell Biology of Sensation
     Monday, December 10, 8:00 AM
       David Corey, Massachusettes General Hospital
       Catherine Dulac, Harvard University
       Charles Zuker, University of California, San Diego

Regulation of Chromosome Functions
      Monday, December 10, 10:30 AM
        Tatsuya Hirano, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
        Barbara Meyer, University of California, Berkeley
        Carl Wu, The National Cancer Institute, NIH

The Molecular Basis of Disease
      Tuesday, December 11, 8:00 AM
        Stanley Falkow, Stanford University
        Jonathan Seidman, Harvard Medical School
        Bruce Spiegelman, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Cytoskeletal Mechanisms and the Cell Cycle
      Tuesday, December 11, 10:30 AM
        Anthony Hyman, Max-Planck Institute
        Rong Li, Harvard Medical School
        Edward Salmon, University of North Carolina

Understanding Signaling Networks
      Wednesday, December 12, 8:00 AM
        Henry Bourne, University of California, San Francisco
        Joanne Chory, The Salk Institute
        Michael Dustin, New York University

Cell Polarity and Development
      Wednesday, December 12, 10:30 AM
        Kenneth Kemphues, Cornell University
        Matthias Peter, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research
        Eric Wieschaus, Princeton University

Biological Machines
    Arthur Horwich, Mark Mooseker

Cell Biology of Angiogenesis
    Luisa Iruela-Arispe, M. Celeste Simon

Cell Biology of Degenerative Diseases
    Kevin Campbell, Don Cleveland

Cell Cycle: Differentiation and Development
    Pat O’Farrell, Joan Ruderman

Cell Cycle Regulation
    Steve Elledge, Nancy Walworth

Cell Motility
    Alan Rick Horwitz, Jonathan Raper

Chemical Approaches to Cell Biology
    Craig Crews, Timothy Mitchison

Cytoskeletal Dynamics in Living Cells
    Patricia Wadsworth, Clare Waterman-Storer

Cytoskeletal Processes During Development
    William Saxton, Jeffrey Settleman

Cytoskeleton and Cell Junctions/Focal Complexes
    Pamela Cowin, Christopher Turner

ECM Proteins and their Receptors: Structure, Function and Modulation
    Timothy Springer, Mary Zutter

Endocytosis
    Harald Stenmark, Beverly Wendland

Establishment and Maintenance of Cell Polarity
    Karl Matter, Keith Mostov

Integrin Effector Functions and Crosstalk with Other Receptors
    Paola Defilippi, Sanford Shattil

Intracellular Cargo Transport and Vesicle Trafficking
    Susan Ferro-Novick, Lawrence Goldstein

Lipid Microdomains
    Deborah Brown, Chiara Zurzolo

Mechanisms of Cell Signaling
    Adam Arkin, Joseph Ecker

Microenvironment/Extracellular Matrix in Development and Disease
    Lisa Coussens, Fiona Watt

Mitosis/Meiosis
    Sandra Holloway, Yixian Zheng

Nuclear Structure/Function
    Andrew Belmont, Gary Karpen

Nuclear Trafficking
    Anita Corbett, Susan Wente

Orchestrating Actin Cytoskeletal Networks
    Dyche Mullins, Sally Zigmond

Organelle Biogenesis and Propagation
    Janet Shaw, Graham Warren

Pathogen–Host Cell Interactions
    Daniel Portnoy, David Roos

Protein Folding and Quality Control in the ER
    Randy Hampton, Ari Helenius

Receptor Signaling Pathways
    Dafna Bar-Sagi, Kunxin Luo

Rediscovery of Mitochondrial Biology
    Guido Kroemer, Doug Wallace

Regulation of Protein Function and Stability by Post-Translational Modifications
    Raphael Kopan, Cecile Pickart

Signaling and Development
    Randall Moon, Malcolm Whitman

Signals that Mediate RNA Localization, Processing and Stability
    Tulle Hazelrigg, Jeanne Lawrence

Stem Cells
    Helen Blau, Ron McKay

Stress Regulation and Programmed Cell Death
    Colin Duckett, Scott Lowe

Abstract Submission Deadline: August 1