TRANSLATIONAL CONTROL
September 6 - 10, 2006
Abstract Deadline: June 7, 2006

Please note that the meeting is currently oversubscribed.
If you choose to register you will be placed on a waitlist and notified of availability.

Organizers:
Alan Hinnebusch, National Institute of Child Health & Human
Development, National Institutes of Health
Nahum Sonenberg, McGill University, Canada
Gerhard Wagner, Harvard Medical School

past program

You are cordially invited to participate in the tenth conference on Translational Control to be held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The opening session will begin at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, September 6 and the meeting will end after lunch on Sunday, September 10, 2006. As currently planned, the program will have eight sessions devoted to oral presentations, together with three poster sessions for presentations which cannot be accommodated in the formal sessions. Selection of talks for the oral sessions will be made by the organizers in conjunction with the session chairpersons, from the submitted abstracts.

Sessions & Chairs:
Initiation Factors & Mechanism
Orna Elroy-Stein

Regulatory Elements in mRNA (inc. IRESs)
Paul Fox

Viral Strategies
Ian Mohr

Ribosome Structure & Function
Christian Spahn

Elongation & Termination
Knud Nierhaus

Development and CNS
Nancy Standart

Regulation of Factors
Ray Kaempfer

mRNA Localization & Turnover
Dan Schoenberg

Invited Speakers:
Jennifer Doudna
Mans Ehrenberg
Witold Filipowicz
Joachim Frank
Jack Keene
Paul Lasko
Roy Parker
Robert Singer

Abstracts should contain only new and unpublished material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers and individual session chairs. Status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. Apply in writing to meetings@cshl.edu stating need for financial support - preference is given to those submitting abstracts.

We hope that you or a member of your laboratory will be able to participate. In addition, please bring this announcement to the attention of any other interested parties. We look forward to seeing you at Cold Spring Harbor in September.

This conference is supported in part by funds provided by: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and Cell Signaling Technology, Inc.

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Regular packages are all inclusive and cover registration, food, housing, parking, wine-and-cheese party, lobster banquet, etc. No Housing packages include all costs except housing. Full payment is due 4 weeks prior to the meeting.