SEPTEMBER    8

Geraldine Seydoux (Johns Hopkins University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

Breaking Symmetry:  Polarization of the C. elegans Embryo

                          15

J.K. Sky Yu (Institute of Cellular and Organismal Biology, Taiwan)

Evolution of Genetic Networks Underlying the Emergence of Vertebrate Neural Crest:  Insights from Amphioxus

                          22

Jerry Workman (Stowers Institute for Medical Research)

Protein Complexes that Modify Chromatin for Transcription

                          29

Hitoshi Sakano (University of Tokyo)

Neural Map Formation in the Mouse Olfactory System

OCTOBER         6

Edward Kravitz (Harvard Medical School)

Genetic Manipulations in the Fruit Fly Fight Club:  Sex and War in a Single Gene and Other Stories

                          13

Doug Lowy (National Cancer Institute)

                          20

Tim Mitchison (Harvard Medical School)

How does Cancer Chemotherapy Directed at Dividing Cells Really Work?

                          27

James Rothman (Yale University)

Mechanism and Regulation of Membrane Fusion

NOVEMBER      3

Iswar Hariharan (University of California-Berkeley)

Growth, Death and Regeneration:  Studies in Drosophila

                          10

Greg Copenhaver (University of North Carolina)

Understanding Meiotic Recombination Using Arabidopsis Tetrads

                          17

Jasper Rine (University of California-Berkeley, HHMI)

Epigenetic Inheritance of Transcriptional States

DECEMBER      1

Karen Adelman (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

Competition by Design:  The Ongoing Battle between Paused Pol II and Nucleosomes for Promoter Occupancy

                            8

Ronald Davis (Scripps Research Institute Florida)

Optical Imaging of Memory Formation in Drosophila

                          15

Connie Cepko (Harvard Medical School)

Cell Fate Determination in the Vertebrate Retina