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Front Matter (R1-R4)

Introduction: Molecular kinesis in cellular function and plasticity (1-2)

Kinesin molecular motors: Transport pathways, receptors, and human disease (3-7)

All kinesin superfamily protein, KIF, genes in mouse and human (8-15)

Assembly and transport of a premessenger RNP particle (16-21)

Ribonucleoprotein infrastructure regulating the flow of genetic information between the genome and the proteome (22-28)

Spatial and temporal control of RNA stability (29-32)

Molecular mechanisms of translation initiation in eukaryotes (33-40)

The target of rapamycin (TOR) proteins (41-48)

The physiological significiance of -actin mRNA localization in determining cell polarity and directional motility (49-54)

Sorting and directed transport of membrane proteins during development of hippocampal neurons in culture (55-61)

Molecular organization of the postsynaptic specialization (62-65)

A cellular mechanism for targeting newly synthesized mRNAs to synaptic sites on dendrites (66-72)

Think globally, translate locally: What mitotic spindles and neuronal synapses have in common (73-75)

Vasopressin mRNA localization in nerve cells: Characterization of cis-acting elements and trans-acting factors (76-83)

Local translation of classes of mRNAs that are targeted to neuronal dendrites (84-89)

Cytoskeletal microdifferentiation: A mechanism for organizing morphological plasticity in dendrites (90-96)

Tracking the estrogen receptor in neurons: Implications for estrogen-induced synapse formation (97-104)

Synaptic regulation of protein syntesis and the fragile X protein (105-110)

Proceedings program (111-112)