Monday, 09 March

16:00 – Opening and welcoming

16:15 – Honorary lecture: The Anaphase movement
Miguel Mota (Estação Agronómica Nacional, Portugal)

17:15 – From photobleaching to microinjection - cell biological studies of chromosome
autonomy in anaphase
Gary Gorbsky (Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, USA)

18:15 – The role of cytoplasmic dynein in kinetochore‐fiber assembly and anaphase A
chromosome motion
Conly Rieder (Wadsworth Center, USA)

19:30 – Port Cocktail

Tuesday, 10 March

09:30 – Kinetochore-microtubule interaction: fibers, rings, and motors as couplers to
tubulin depolymerization
Dick McIntosh (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)

10:30 – A view of the kinetochore from the Ndc80 complex
Ted Salmon (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)

11:30 – Coffee break

12:00 – Anaphase chromosome movement mechanisms as viewed through the eyes of
crane fly spermatocytes
Arthur Forer (York University, Canada)

13:00 – Lunch

14:30 – A Pacman-Flux Mechanism for Anaphase A
David Sharp (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA)

15:30 – Mechanisms that ensure accurate chromosome segregation
Duane Compton (Dartmouth Medical School, USA)

16:30 – Coffee break

17:00 – Spindle assembly and anaphase without kinetochores in Xenopus egg extracts
Rebecca Heald (University of California at Berkeley, USA)

18:00 – Anaphase Spindle Elongation in the Drosophila Embryo: Coupling Microtubule
Dynamics with a Sliding Filament Mechanism
Jonathan Scholey (University of California at Davis, USA)

19:00 – Anaphase Quality
Helder Maiato (IBMC, University of Porto, Portugal)

20:00 – Concluding remarks

21:00 – Conference Dinner