MECHANISMS OF SECRETION

Society of General Physiologists Symposium September 4-6, 1997

Thursday, Sept. 4

Morning - Second messenger regulation of secretion

  • Rodolfo Llinas (New York University) Calcium microdomains and neurotransmitter release
  • Ruth Heidelberger (Univ. Texas) Calcium requirements for neurotransmitter release
  • William Roberts (Univ. Oregon) Local calcium signaling in hair cells
  • Erwin Neher (Max Planck Institute) Calcium requirements for exocytosis in chromaffin cells

    • Afternoon - Poster session I . New ideas, new faces

    Evening - Proteins involved in secretion I

  • Reinhard Jahn (Yale Univ.) Botulinum and tetanus neurotoxins: emerging tools for the study of membrane fusion
  • Richard Scheller (Stanford Univ.) Insights into the molecular mechanisms of synaptic vesicle docking and fusion
  • Thomas Sudhof (Univ. Texas) A systematic approach to studying synaptic function in vertebrates

    • Friday, Sept. 5

    Morning - Proteins involved in secretion II

  • Kathleen Buckley (Harvard Univ.) Synaptotagmin function in fibroblasts
  • Barry Ganetsky (Univ. Wisconsin) Genetic studies of secretory proteins in Drosophila
  • Michael Nonet (Washington Univ.) Genetic studies of secretory proteins in C. elegans
  • Peter Novick (Yale Univ.) Yeast genes essential for secretion

    • Afternoon - Poster session II New ideas, new faces

    Evening - Vesicle pools in secretion

  • Wolfhard Almers (Max Planck Institute) The last seconds in the life of a secretory vesicle
  • Thomas Martin (Univ. Wisconsin) Late ATP-dependent and calcium-activated steps of dense core granule exocytosis
  • George Augustine (Duke Univ.) Proteins involved in synaptic vesicle docking and fusion

    • Saturday, Sept. 6

    Morning - Membrane fusion mechanisms

  • Richard Steinhardt (Univ. California) Mechanisms involved in membrane re-sealing
  • Joshua Zimmerberg (National Institutes of Health) Calcium triggering of membrane fusion in egg cells
  • Judy White (Univ. Virginia) Viral fusion mechanisms

    • Afternoon - Endocytosis

  • Christina Artalejo (Wayne State Univ.) Rapid endocytosis in chromaffin cells
  • Pietro DeCamilli (Yale Univ.) Proteins involved in endocytosis
  • John Heuser (Washington Univ.) Endocytosis pathways

    • Evening - Plenary Lecture

    James Rothman (Sloan-Kettering) Mechanisms of intracellular protein transport

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