Speakers and tentative titles

Keynote lecture:
Stephen A. Stricker, The University of New Mexico, USA Jumpstarting life in the sea: calcium signals and kinase activities during oocyte maturation and fertilization in nemertean worms and other marine invertebrates
Oral presentations:
Kazuyoshi Chiba, Ochanomizu University, Japan
Maturation and fertilization in starfish oocytes
Marco Conti, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Integrated control of the meiotic cell cycle and translation in mouse oocytes
Ryusaku Deguchi, Miyagi University of Education, Japan
Establishment of the sperm-egg fusion site during oocyte maturation in the jellyfish Cytaeis uchidae
Olivier Haccard, National Center for Scientific Research, France
ARPP19: at the crossroads of PKA signalling and meiotic cell cycle regulation
Masatoshi Hara, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, USA
Translational control at the oocyte-to-embryo transition in Drosophila
Chizue Hiruta, Iwate Medical University, Japan
Parthenogenesis in the water flea Daphnia pulex
Evelyn Houliston, University Pierre and Marie Curie, France
Oocyte maturation in Clytia hemisphaerica
Laurinda A. Jaffe, University of Connecticut Health Center, USA
Signaling pathways for restarting the meiotic cell cycle in mammalian ovarian follicles in response to luteinizing hormone
Takeo Kishimoto, Ochanomizu University, Japan
To resume, or not to resume meiosis: that is the question of the starfish oocyte
Tomoya Kitajima, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan
Chromosome segregation errors in oocytes
Keiichiro Kyozuka, Tohoku University, Japan
Cortical matured oocyte as a tool for the analysis of sperm inducing Ca2+ release in starfish Asterina pectinifera
Peter Lenart, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
How polar body extrusion in starfish oocytes is different from a somatic cell cytokinesis
Johne Liu, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada
Oocyte maturation: spindle assembly checkpoint, aneuploidy and beyond
Midori Matsumoto, Keio University, Japan
Meiotic chromosome behavior in the triploid planarian
Alex McDougall, University Pierre and Marie Curie, France
Specifying cleavage planes in early ascidian embryos
Hiroki Nishida, Osaka University, Japan
Oocyte maturation and establishment of the animal-vegetal axis in ascidians
Ei-ichi Okumura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Autoregulatory activation of cyclin B-Cdk1: Arpp19, but not its upstream Gwl, is essential at meiotic G2/M-phase transition in starfish oocytes
Makoto Osada, Tohoku University, Japan
Oocyte maturation and sperm motility regulated with neural factors in bivalve mollusks
Luigia Santella, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy
Calcium and actin in the saga of awakening oocytes
Ken-ichi Sato, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
Xenopus egg membrane microdomain-associated uroplakin III-Src system in oocyte maturation and fertilization
Noburu Sensui, University of the Ryukyus, Japan
An oocyte becomes fertilizable at its release into seawater from the oviduct without meiotic progression, in an ascidian, Phallusia nigra
Hideki Shirakawa, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Molecular mechanism of calcium oscillations in mammalian eggs
Leia Shuhaibar, University of Connecticut Health Center, USA
Live imaging of cyclic GMP signaling in mouse ovarian follicles
Kazunori Tachibana, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Pronuclear migration and fusion in starfish fertilization
Noriyo Takeda, Tohoku University, Japan
Oocyte maturation and sperm release are induced by neuropeptides in jellyfish
Mark Terasaki, University of Connecticut Health Center, USA
Serial section electron microscopy of oocytes and follicles
Gary Wessel, Brown University, USA
Many paths to the same goal - diversity of mechanisms in echinoderm fertilization and germ line determination