Endocytosis and Intracellular Trafficking

Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa , Scheman Continuing Education Building at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
September 10-13, 1998

Invited Speakers: Richard G.W. Anderson, Univ. of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
Juan S. Bonifacino, NICHD, NIH
Frances Brodsky, U Cal-San Francisco, Hooper Fndn
Scott Emr, U Cal-San Diego Sch Med
Gareth Griffiths, EMBL-Heidelberg
Kenneth A. Jacobson, U North Carolina
James H. Keen, Jefferson Medical College
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, NICHD, NIH
Frederick Maxfield, Cornell U Med College
Ira Mellman, Yale School of Medicine
Natasha V. Raikhel, Michigan State University
Michael G. Roth, U Texas SW Med Ctr
Randy W. Schekman, Univ. of California-Berkeley
Sandra S. Schmid, The Scripps Research Institute
Jan E. Schnitzer, Harvard Med School
M. Gerard Waters, Princeton University

Program:
Tentative Program
Endocytosis and Intracellular Trafficking
September 10 - 13, 1998

The 10th Annual Growth Factor and Signal Transduction Conference
at Iowa State University, Ames Iowa



Thursday, September 10

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Registration (2nd floor lobby)
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Reception (2nd floor lobby)

Plenary Session I

4:00 pm - 4:15 pm Welcome and Introduction
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm Richard G. W. Anderson,Caveolae and coated pits mediate parallel, but not redundant,
endocytic pathways
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm Jan E. Schnitzer, Molecular mechanisms mediating trafficking bycaveolae
5:45 pm - 7:00 pm Dinner (Stagedoor Cafe)

Friday, September 11

8:30 am - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast (1st floor lobby)

Plenary Session II

9:00 am - 9:45 am Kenneth A. Jacobson, Transient confinement of GPI-anchored proteins and glycosphingolipids in the plasma membrane
9:45 am - 10:30am James H. Keen, Receptors, clathrin coated pit formation, and endocytosis
10:30 am - 11:00am Break with refreshments (1st floor lobby)
11:00 am -11:45am Frances Brodsky, Endocytosis: Mechanism and subversion
11:45 am - 1:00pm Presented Papers - Session I
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch (Stagedoor Cafe)
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Poster Session I

Plenary Session III
4:30 pm - 5:15pm Sandra S. Schmid, Regulation of dynamin GTPase and its role in endocytosis
5:15 pm - 6:00pm Juan S. Bonifacino, Signal-adaptor interactions in endocytosis and lysosomal targeting
6:00 pm - 7:30pm Dinner (Stagedoor Cafe)
7:30 pm - 9:00pm Dessert Party

Saturday, September 12
8:00 am - 8:30 am Continental breakfast (1st floor lobby)

Plenary Session IV
8:30 am - 9:15 am Frederick Maxfield, Endocytic Trafficking of Lipids and Proteins
9:15 am - 10:00am Gareth Griffiths, Latex bead phagosomes and actin-membrane interactions
10:00 am - 10:30am Break with refreshments (1st floor lobby)
10:30 am - 11:15am Michael G. Roth,The role of lipid signaling in constitutive membrane traffic
11:15 am - 12:30pm Presented Papers - Session II
12:30 pm - 1:30pm Lunch (Stagedoor Cafe)
1:30 pm - 3:00pm Poster Session II

Plenary Session V

3:30 pm - 4:15 pm Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Life history of secretory membrane transport intermediates
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm M. Gerard Waters, Regulation of secretory vesicle targeting
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm Break
5:45 pm - 6:30 pm Ira Mellman, Endosomes and epithelial cell polarity
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Dinner (Stagedoor Cafe)

Sunday, September 13
8:15 am - 9:00 am Continental breakfast (1st floor lobby)

Plenary Session VI

9:00 am - 9:45am Randy W. Schekman, Protein sorting and vesicle morphogenesis in the secretory pathway
9:45 am - 10:30am Scott Emr, Sorting out protein traffick in the golgi
10:30am - 11:00am Break with refreshments (1st floor lobby)
11:00am - 11:45am Natasha V. Raikhel, Mechanisms of targeting to plant vacuoles
12:00pm - 12:30pm Buses leave for the Des Moines Airport

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