Thursday, April 29th

1. • Welcoming Reception                                                      5:00 – 5:30 pm
   

1. • Introductory Remarks                                                       5:30 – 5:45 pm
   

1. • Keynote Lecture
   

  Ruth Lehmann, Skirball Institution:                                   5:45 – 7:00 pm

  "Germ Cells are Forever"

1. • Carnegie Employee Dinner                                                         7:15 pm
   

Friday, April 30th

1. • Continental Breakfast                                                                  8:00 am
   

1. • James Priess, Fred Hutchinson:                                                  9:00 am
   

  "Perinuclear P granules and germ cell development in

  C. elegans"

1. •Gary Wessel, Brown U.:                                                             10:00 am
   

“A funny thing happened on the way to the gonad:

  multipotency and  germ-line determination in maximally

  indirect developers”

1. • Break                                                                                         11:00 pm
   

1. • Xin Chen, Johns Hopkins:                                                         11:20 am
   

  "Making the right turns: a lesson from Drosophila male

  germline"

• Lunch                                                                                        12:30 pm

1. •Tim Schedl, Washington U.:                                                        2:00 pm
   

  "Intersection of the decision to initiate meiotic development

   and regulation of the mitotic cell cycle in C. elegans"

1. •Richard Behringer, U. of Texas:                                                 3:00 pm
   

  "Mammalian gonad and reproductive tract development"

1. • Break                                                                                           4:00 pm
   

1. • William Sullivan, U. California at Santa Cruz:                              4:20 pm
   

"Wolbachia, Germ cells, and Big Sur"

1. • Happy Hour                                                                                 5:30 pm