Cell, Vol. 56, No. 5, March IO, 1989

Announcements

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTERIAMGEN MINISYMPOSIUM

“‘REGULATION OF ORGANELLE PROTEINS AND THEIR GENES IN EUKARYOTES”

A minisymposium to be held at the University of Southern California Comprehensive Cancer Center, 2025 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA on April IO, 1989.

Speakers

Walter Neupert, Ph.D., M.D., institut fur Physiologische Chemie der Universitat Munchen, Federal Republic of Germany #‘Pathways of protein transport into mitochrondria”

Randy W. Schekman, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, CA ‘Control of protein transport in to and from the endoplasmic reticulum”

Hsiao-Ping Moore, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, CA “Molecular sorting in regulated secretory cells”

Ari Helenius, Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT “Viral glycoproteins: Intracellular transport and sorting”

Monty Krieger, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technolog K

, Cambrid e, MA “The f. DL receptor pathway: Genes required for the synt 9 esis and unction of a membrane glycopro tein “

Amy Lee, Ph.D., USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA *‘Stress-inducible transcriptional regulation of GRP78: a binding protein in the endoplasmic reticulum ”

David A. Clayton, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA “Initiation of mitochondrial DNA replication and transcription”

Admission is open to all and there is no charge for attendance. For further information and registration contact: Ms. Josephine Lopez, Coordinator, Cancer Center Symposiums, USC Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1441 Eastlake Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90033, (2 13) 224-6503.

Cell, Vol. 56, No. 5, March IO, 1999

The Fidelity of DNA Synthesis: Structural and Mechanistic Perspectives

Sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

When: September 24-29, 1989

Where: Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina, USA

Why: To discuss recent advances in nucleic acid and protein structure, chemistry, enzymology and genetics that contribute to understanding the fidelity of DNA replication.

Topics and Participants

Structures and stabilities of nucleic acids and mispalred bases J. Fresco, 0. Kennard, D. Patel, J. Petruska, A. Rich

D. Shugar, I. Tinoco, D. Turner, R. Wells

Structure and function of DNA polymerases and replication complexes S. Benkovic, C. McHenry, A. Mildvan, T. Steitz, T. Wang, S. Wilson

Fidelity of DNA synthesis H. Echols, M. Goodman, C. Joyce, T. Kunkel, L. Loeb, J. Ninio, N. Sinha

Mutator mechanisms and mismatch repair M. Bessman, E. Cox, J. Drake, H.-J. Fritz, J. Miller P. Modrich, M. Radman, R. Schaaper, M. Sekiguchi

The Conference will feature morning and evening sessions. Afternoons are reserved for informal discussions and poster sessions.

Cost: $325 (registration fee, ground transportation, meals and double-occupancy room)

To apply: Send name, address, phone number and description of research interests to:

Fidelity Conference Roe1 M. Schaaper and Thomas A. Kunkel,

NIEHS, P.O. Box 12233 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA

Application deadline: June 1, 1989. The conference will be limited to 110 people.

Cell, Vol. 56, No. 5, March 10, 1989

National Institutes of Health

FOGARTY INTERNATIONAL CENTER

Conference on

INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATION IN GROWH AND DEVELOPMENT

May 15-17,1989

Organized by J. R. Tata

The conference will focus on recent developments in cellular and molec- ular biology of chemical communication between cells and intracellular signal transduction, particularly related to growth and differentiation.

Speakers will include:

C. Barrett (Research Triangle Park) G. Blobel (New York) K. Catt (Bethesda) D. Cleveland (Baltimore) P. Ekblom (Tubingen) D. Epel (Pacific Grove) G. Felsenfeld (Bethesda) M. Greenberg (Boston j M. Lippman (Washington J S. Nakanishi (Kyoto) I. Pastan (Bethesda J G. Ringold (Palo Alto) M. Rodbell (Research Triangle Park)

J. Rosen (Houston J R. Sager (Boston) H. Samuels (New York) W. Schmid (Heidelberg) P. Seeburg (Heidelberg) M. Sporn (Bethesda) J. Jata (London) A. Ullrich (San Francisco) J. Waldmann (Bethesda) P. Wassarman (Nutley) J. Williams (London J J. Williamson (Philadelphia)

For details contact: Nancy Shapiro Fogarty International Center Building 38A, Room B2N13 National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892 Tel: (301) 496-9624