Contents
Symposium Participants
Foreword
Polarity and Position Specification
Germ Plasm Assembly and Germ Cell Migration in Drosophila (C. Rongo, H. Tarczy-Broihier, L. Moore, M. Van Doren, A. Forbes, and R. Lehmann); Efficient Translation and Phosphorylation of Oskar Require Oskar Protein and the RNA Helicase Vasa (F.-H. Markussen, W. Breitwieser, and A. Ephrussi); Controls of Cell Fate and Pattern by 3' Untranslated Regions: The Caenorhabditis elegans Sperm/Oocyte Decision (A. Puoti, M. Gallegos, B. Zhang, M.P. Wickens, and J. Kimble); The Drosophila Germarium: Stem Cells, Germ Line Cysts, and Oocytes (A.C. Spradling, M. de Cuevas, D. Drummond-Barbosa, L. Keyes, M. Lilly, M. Pepling, and T. Xie); Genetic Characterization of hadad, a Mutant Disrupting Female Gametogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana (J.M. Moore, J.-P. Vielle Calzada, W. Gagliano, and U. Grossniklaus)
Asymmetric Divisions
Establishment of Cell Type in a Primitive Organism by Cell-specific Elimination and Proteolytic Activation of a Transcription Factor (A. Hofmeister and R. Losick); Building Organs and Organisms: Elements of Morphogenesis Exhibited by Budding Yeast (I. Herskowitz); Cortical Asymmetries Direct the Establishment of Cell Polarity and the Plane of Cell Division in the Fucus Embryo (R.S. Quatrano); Asymmetric Segregation of the Drosophila Numb Protein during Mitosis: Facts and Speculations (J.A. Knoblich, L.Y. Jan, and Y.N. Jan); On the Roles of inscuteable in Asymmetric Cell Divisions in Drosophila (W. Chia, R. Kraut, P. Li, X. Yang, and M. Zavortink) Maternal Genes with Localized mRNA and Pattern Formation of the Ascidian Embryo (S. Yoshida, Y. Satou, and N. Satoh)
Axis Formation
Related Signaling Networks in Drosophila That Control Dorsoventral Patterning in the Embryo and the Immune Response (L.P. Wu and K.V. Anderson); Nodal Signaling and Axis Formation in the Mouse (I. Varlet, J. Collignon, D.P. Norris, and E.J. Robertson); Axis Duplication and Anterior Identity in the Mouse Embryo (P. Thomas, J.M. Brickman, H. Pöpperl, R. Krumlauf, and R.S.P. Beddington); FGF Signaling in Mouse Gastrulation and Anteroposterior Patterning (J. Rossant, B. Ciruna, and J. Partanen); Lineage and Functional Analyses of the Mouse Organizer (P.P.L. Tam, K.A. Steiner, S.X. Zhou, and G.A. Quinlan); Goosecoid and Goosecoid-related Genes in Mouse Embryogenesis (M. Wakamiya, J. Rivera-Peréz, A. Baldini, and R.R. Behringer)
Morphogens
Cell Response to Different Concentrations of a Morphogen: Activin Effects on Xenopus Animal Caps (J.B. Gurdon, K. Ryan, F. Stennard, N. McDowell, A.M. Zorn, D.J. Crease, and S. Dyson); Analysis of Fgf8 Gene Function in Vertebrate Development (M. Lewandowski, E.N. Meyers, and G.R. Martin); Patterning by Genes Expressed in Spemann's Organizer (E.M. De Robertis, S. Kim, L. Leyns, S. Piccolo, D. Bachiller, E. Agius, J.A. Belo, A. Yamamoto, A. Hainski-Brousseau, B. Brizuela, O. Wessely, B. Lu, and T. Bouwmeester); Brainiac and Fringe are Similar Pioneer Proteins That Impart Specificity to Notch Signaling during Drosophila Development (S. Goode and N. Perrimon); Cell Culture and Whole Animal Approaches to Understanding Signaling by Wnt Proteins in Drosophila (R. Nusse, C. Harryman Samos, M. Brink, K. Willert, K.M. Cadigan, A. Wodarz, M. Fish, and E. Rulifson)
Tissue Specification
Multiple Roles of Cholesterol in Hedgehog Protein Biogenesis and Signaling (P.A. Beachy, M.K. Cooper, K.E. Young, D.P. von Kessler, W.-J. Park, T.M. Tanaka Hall, D.J. Leahy, and J.A. Porter); Control of Cell Growth and Fate by patched Genes (R.L. Johnson and M.P. Scott); The Smoothened Gene and Hedgehog Signal Transduction in Drosophila and Vertebrate Development (J. Quirk, M. van den Heuvel, D. Henrique, V. Marigo, T.A. Jones, C. Tabin, and P.W. Ingham); WNT5 Is Required for Tail Formation in the Zebrafish Embryo (G.-J. Rauch, M. Hammerschmidt, P. Blader, H.E. Schauerte, U. Strähle, P.W. Ingham, A.P. McMahon, and P. Haffter); Genes That Control Organ Form: Lessons from Bone and Branching Morphogenesis (M.A. Krasnow); Branching Morphogenesis in the Drosophila Tracheal System (B.-Z. Shilo, L. Gabay, L. Glazer, M. Reichman-Fried, P. Wappner, R. Wilk, and E. Zelzer); Branching Morphogenesis of the Lung: New Models for a Classical Problem (B.L.M. Hogan, J. Grindley, S. Bellusci, N.R. Dunn, H. Emoto, and N. Itoh); The Enamel Knot: A Putative Signaling Center Regulating Tooth Development (I. Thesleff and J. Jernvall); BMP Signaling and Vertebrate Limb Development (H. Zou, K.-M. Choe, Y. Lu, J. Massagué, and L. Niswander)
Patterning and Transcription
Hox Genes and Mammalian Development (M.R. Capecchi); Intercompartmental Signaling and the Regulation of vestigial Expression at the Dorsoventral Boundary of the Developing Drosophila Wing (J. Kim, J. Magee, and S.B. Carroll); The Dance of the Hox Genes: Patterning the Anteroposterior Body Axis of Caenorhabditis elegans (C.J. Kenyon, J. Austin, M. Costa, D.W. Cowing, J.M. Harris, L. Honigberg, C.P. Hunter, J.N. Maloof, M.M. Muller-Immerglück, S.J. Salser, D.A. Waring, B.B. Wang, and L.A. Wrischnik); The Regulation of Enhancer-Promoter Interactions in the Drosophila Embryo (J. Zhou, H.N. Cai, S. Ohtsuki, and M. Levine); Cross-Regulatory Interactions between Hox Genes and the Control of Segmental Expression in the Vertebrate Central Nervous System (S. Nonchev, M. Maconochie, A. Gould, A. Morrison, and R. Krumlauf); Role of the Brn-3 Family of POU-domain Genes in the Development of the Auditory/Vestibular, Somatosensory, and Visual Systems (M. Xiang, L. Gan, D. Li, L. Zhou, Z.-Y. Chen, D. Wagner, B.W. O'Malley, Jr., W. Klein, and J. Nathans); Upstream and Downstream of Brachyury, a Gene Required for Vertebrate Mesoderm Formation (J.C. Smith, N.A. Armes, F.L. Conlon, M.Tada, M. Umbhauer, and K.M. Weston)
Signaling in Organogenesis
Signal Transduction Downstream of RAS in Drosophila (G.M. Rubin, H.C. Chang, F. Karim, T. Laverty, N.R. Michaud, D.K. Morrison, I. Rebay, A. Tang, M. Therrien, and D.A. Wassarman); Mutations That Perturb Vulval Invagination in C. elegans (T. Herman and H.R. Horvitz); Genetics and the Evolution of Plant Form: An Example from Maize (J. Doebley and R.-L. Wang); Control of Cell Division Patterns in Developing Shoots and Flowers of Arabidopsis thaliana (E.M. Meyerowitz); Pancreas Development in the Chick Embryo (S.K. Kim, M. Hebrok, and D.A. Melton); The Specification of Muscle in Drosophila (M.K. Baylies, M. Bate, and M. Ruiz Gomez); Homeobox Genes and Heart Development (C. Biben, S. Palmer, D.A. Elliott, and R.P. Harvey); A Transcriptional Pathway for Cardiac Development (Q. Lin, D. Srivastava, and E.N. Olson); Induction of Chick Cardiac Myogenesis by Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (T.M. Schultheiss and A.B. Lassar); Expression of Wnt and Frizzled Genes during Chick Limb Bud Development (M. Kengaku, V. Twombly, and C. Tabin); Outgrowth and Patterning of the Vertebrate Limb (J.W.R. Schwabe, C. Rodriguez-Esteban, J. De La Peña, A.T. Tavares, J.K. Ng, E.M. Banayo, B. Foys, B. Eshelman, J. Magallon, R. Tam, and J.C. Izpisúa-Belmonte); Retrovirus-mediated Insertional Mutagenesis in Zebrafish and Identification of a Molecular Marker for Embryonic Germ Cells (A. Amsterdam, C. Yoon, M. Allende, T. Becker, K. Kawakami, S. Burgess, N. Gaiano, and N. Hopkins)
Neural Induction and Pathfinding
Graded Sonic Hedgehog Signaling and the Specification of Cell Fate in the Ventral Neural Tube (J.Ericson, J. Briscoe, P. Rashbass, V. van Heyningen, and T.M. Jessell); Guidance of Developing Axons by Netrin-l and Its Receptors (E.D. Leonardo, L. Hinck, M. Masu, K. Keino-Masu, A. Fazeli, E.T. Stoeckli, S.L. Ackerman, R.A. Weinberg, and M. Tessier-Levine); The Many Faces of Fasciclin II: Genetic Analysis Reveals Multiple Roles for a Cell Adhesion Molecule during the Generation of Neuronal Specificity (C.S. Goodman, G.W. Davis, and K. Zito); Cell Lineage Determination and the Control of Neuronal Identity in the Neural Crest (D.J. Anderson, A. Groves, L. Lo, Q. Ma, M. Rao, N.M. Shah, and L. Sommer); Cadherins in Brain Patterning and Neural Network Formation (M. Takeichi, T. Uemura, Y. Iwai, N. Uchida, T. Inoue, T. Tanaka, and S.C. Suzuki); Retinoids and Posterior Neural Induction: A Reevaluation of Nieuwkoop's Two-step Hypothesis (P.J. Kolm and H.L. Sive); Genetic Analysis of Pattern Formation in the Zebrafish Neural Plate (W. Driever, L. Solnica-Krezel, S. Abdelilah, D. Meyer, and D. Stemple); Cell Interactions in Patterning the Mammalian Midbrain (D. Rowitch, P.S. Danielian, S.M.K. Lee, Y. Echelard, and A.P. McMahon); Otx and Emx Functions in Patterning of the Vertebrate Rostral Head (I. Matsuo, Y. Suda, M. Yoshida, T. Ueki, C. Kimura, S. Kuratani, and S. Aizawa)
Summary: A Common Language (M.P. Scott)
Author Index
Subject Index