The Cell Cycle
May 14 - 18, 2008
Abstract Deadline: March 10, 2008

Organizers:
Orna Cohen-Fix, NIH, NIDDK
Nicholas Dyson, Massachussetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Johannes Walter, Harvard Medical School

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You are cordially invited to participate in the ninth biennial meeting on The Cell Cycle which will be held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The meeting will begin on Wednesday, May 14, 2008, and will conclude with lunch on Sunday, May 18. The specific goal for this meeting is to create a forum in which diverse areas of cell cycle regulation in a broad spectrum of experimental organisms can be openly and critically discussed.

Emphasis will be placed both upon areas of traditional interest to the cell cycle field, such as control of G1, DNA replication, checkpoint pathways and mitosis, and on areas of emerging interest and importance, such as the links between cell cycle regulation and development, spindle and chromosome dynamics, and the segregation of cellular organelles.

Keynote:
Timothy Mitchison, Harvard Medical School

Confirmed Discussion Leaders:
Hiroyuki Araki, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Sue Biggins, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute
Kathleen Gould, HHMI/Vanderbilt University
Peter Jackson, Genentech & Stanford University Med School
Judith Kimble, HHMI/University of Wisconsin
Randy King, Harvard Medical School
Sally Kornbluth, Duke University Medical Center
Karim Labib, Cancer Research UK
Matthew Michael, Harvard University
David Morgan, University of California, San Francisco
Terry Orr-Weaver, Whitehead Institute/MIT
Paul Russell, The Scripps Research Institute
Peter Sicinski, Harvard Medical School
Helle Ulrich, Cancer Research UK
Curt Wittenberg, The Scripps Research Institute

The format of the meeting will include morning and evening sessions consisting of eight or nine 15-minute talks per session, entirely selected from the abstracts, principally on unpublished work. In addition, there will be two poster sessions, held in the afternoons. The organizers will decide the suitability of each abstract for oral or poster presentation, but please specify if you prefer a poster.

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

Status of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the Organizers. Please bring this notice to the attention of any of your colleagues who may be interested. We hope to see you at Cold Spring Harbor in May.

This conference is supported in part by funds provided by:
National Cancer Institute

We have funds to provide partial scholarships for individuals who are US citizens/permanent residents from minority groups under-represented in the life sciences. Please provide justification in writing to meetings@cshl.edu and state your financial needs. Preference will be given to those applying who submit abstracts to the meeting.

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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.