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National Academy of Sciences Colloquium
Molecular Kinesis in Cellular Function and Plasticity
December 7-9, 2000
Program
Thursday, December 7, 2000
Session 1: Molecular Motors ant! Nuclear RNA
Lawrence Goldstein, University of California, San Diego
Kinesin molecular motors: Transport pathways, receptors, and human disease
Nobutaka Hirokawa, University of Tokyo School of Medicine
Kinesin superfamily motor proteins, KIFs and the mechanism of intracellular transport in neurons
Reinhard Luhrmann, Max-Planck-Institut fur Biophysikalische Chemie
Assembly and structural dynamics of the spliceosome
Christine Guthrie, University of California, San Francisco
Exploring the catalytic core of the spliceosome
fain Mattaj, EMBL
Roles of Ran in interphase and mitosis
Bertil Daneholt, Karolinska Institute
Assembly and transport of a specific pre-mRNP particle
Friday, December 8, 2000
Session 2: Gene Expression and Translational Mechanisms
Jack Keene, Duke University Medical Center
Ribonomics: The organization of genetic information between the genome and the proteome
Howard Lipshitz, Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto
Spatial and temporal control of RNA stability
Christopher Hellen, SUNY, Brooklyn
Molecular events in initiation of translation in eukaryotes
Nahum Sonenberg, McGill University
Signaling pathways that control translation by phosphorylation of initiation factors
Matthias Hentze, EMBL
Protein-mRNA interactions controlling translation
Session 3: Localization of RNA and Protein
Robert Singer, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Intracellular transport and localization of RNA
John Carson, University of Connecticut Health Center
RNA trafficking in oligodendrocytes
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Gary Banker, Oregon Health Sciences University
Imaging membrane traffic in living nerve cells
Poster Session
Morgan Sheng, Harvard Medical School
Molecular organization of the postsynaptic specialization
Paul Worley, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
IEGs reveal novel mechanisms of synaptic plasticity
Joel Richter, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Translational control in the CNS
Saturday, December 9, 2000
Session 4: Neurona! Plasticity
Evita Mohr, University of Hamburg School of Medicine
Vasopressin mRNA localization in nerve cells: Characterization of cis-acting elements and trans-acting factors
James Eberwine, University of Pennsylvania
Regulated translation of mRNAs in dendrites: Localized generation of intra- and intercellular messengers
Oswald Steward, University of California, Irvine
Targeting of mRNA to postsynaptic sites on neuronal dendrites
Hsui-Ling Li, Columbia University CPS
Synapse-specific plasticity: Analysis of functional and structural changes
Erin Schuman, California Institute of Technology
mRNA trafficking and protein synthesis at the synapse
Andrew Matus, Friedrich Miescher Institute
The contribution of cytoskeletal dynamics to morphological plasticity in the central nervous system
Bruce McEwen, Rockefeller University
Regulation of synapse formation in hippocampus by estrogens: Where are the estrogen receptors and what do they do?
William Greenough, University of Illinois
Regulation of protein synthesis at synapses