Bldg. KW, Rm. C608

General Electric Corporate Research and Development

One Research Circle

(518) 387-5975

Optical spectroscopy of breast biopsies and human breast cancer xenografts in nude mice

Fay A. Marks

130 Desoto Street, room 439

Parran Hal,

University of Pittsburgh

(412) 383-8926

Targeted inhibition of hepatitis B virus gene expression: a gene therapy approach

Frank Y.-T. Tung and Steven W. Bowen

Messadi

Associate Adjunct Professor

UCLA School of Dentistry

10833 LeConte Ave., CHS 20-118

(310) 206-7399

Effect of TGF-beta1 on PDGF receptors expression in human scar fibroblasts

Messadi DV , Le A, Berg S, Huang G, Zhuang W and Bertolami CN

Department of Biochemistry

Boston University School of Medicine

Aminoalkylaziridines as substrates and inhibitors of lysyl oxidase: specific inactivation of the enzyme by n-(5-aminopentyl)aziridine

Narasimhan Nagan, Patrick S. Callery and Herbert M. Kagan

Medical Research Service (151)

Bay Pines VA Medical Center

The Alzheimer's plaques, tangles and memory deficits may have a common origin; part I; a calcium deficit hypothesis

Ming Chen

Medical Research Service (151)

Bay Pines VA Medical Center

The Alzheimer's plaques, tangles and memory deficits may have a common origin - part II: Therapeutic rationale

Ming Chen

Wang

Biology Department

California State University

5500 University Parkway

(909)-880-7005

Characterization of kinetics of anti-Trichinella spiralis newborn larvae immunity in rats

Ching-Hua Wang

Medical Research Service (151)

Bay Pines VA Medical Center

813-398-9467

The Alzheimer's plaques, tangles and memory deficits may have a common origin - Part III: animal model

Ming Chen

NIH, NIDDK, GBB, Rm 8N319

10 Center Dr. MSC 1766

Apoptosis in the developing cerebellum of the thyroid hormone deficient rat

Qianxun Xiao and Vera M. Nikodem

Wang

Biology Department

California State University

5500 University Parkway

Early induction and augmentation of parasitic antigen-specific antibody-producing B lymphocytes in the non-Peyer's patch region of the small intestine

Ching-Hua Wang, Elizabeth M. Richards, Robert D. Block, Enio M. Lezcano and Ricardo Gutierrez

Medical Research Service (151),

Bay Pines VA Medical Center,

The Alzheimer's plaques, tangles and memory deficits may have a common origin - part IV: can calpain act as a-secretase?

Ming Chen

2 Talaat Harb Street

Cairo, Egypt

Electrosigmoidogram in the various pathologic conditions of the sigmoid colon

Ahmed Shafik

Department of Cell Biology

Baylor College of Medicine

One Baylor Plaza

(713)-798-8227

(713)-798-6251

A regulatory system for target gene expression

Mark M. Burcin, Bert W. O´Malley and Sophia Y. Tsai

Andrus Gerontology Center

University of Southern California,

3715 McClintock Ave.

Use of genetically engineered mice as models for exploring the role of oxidative stress in neurodegenerative diseases

Julie K. Andersen

Department of Clinical Scciences

Colorado State University

(970)- 491-1275

In search of an animal model for postmenopausal diseases

E. A. Thorndike and A. S. Turner

Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene & Public Health

615 N. Wolfe Street

410-955-3062

Lurie's tubercle-count method to test TB vaccine efficacy in rabbits

Arthur M. Dannenberg, Jr.

May

736 Medical Research Building II

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

(615)-936-1667

(615)- 936-1653

Ascorbate function and metabolism in the human erythrocyte

James M. May

Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology

Temple University School of Medicine

AHP Bldg., Room 553

3307 North Broad St.

(215) 707-7416

The p130 pocket protein: keeping order at cell cycle exit/re-entrance transitions

Xavier Mayol and Xavier Grana

Department of Physiology

Tufts University, School of Medicine

136 Harrison Avenue

(617) 636- 6707

How do intracellular proteolytic systems change with age?

Ana Maria Cuervo and J. Fred Dice

Cullen

Department of Genetics and Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Duke University Medical Center

(919)-681-8979

Chemokine receptors and human immunodeficiency virus infection

Paul D. Bieniasz and Bryan R. Cullen

Pawelec

Tübingen Aging and Tumour Immunology (TATI) Group

EUCAMBIS Central Facility

Section for Transplantation Immunology and Immunohaematology

Abteilung Innere Medizin II

Medizinische Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik

Otfried-Müller-Str. 10

T cells and aging

Graham Pawelec , Ed Remarque, Yvonne Barnett, and Rafael Solana

Department of Pathology

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

BST S-420

3500 Terrace St

412-648-1916

Alzheimer's disease and brain development: common molecular pathways

Kelly Jordan-Sciutto and Robert Bowser

Centrella

Department of Surgery, Plastic Surgery Section

Yale University School of Medicine

333 Cedar Street

PO Box 208041

(203) 785-4927

Control of TGF-beta receptor expression in bone

Michael Centrella , Changhua Ji, and Thomas L. McCarthy

GRECC (182)

Audie Murphy VA Hospital

7400 Merton Minter Blvd.

(210) 617-5312

(210) 617-5197

Does caloric restriction alter IL-2 transcription?

Mohammad A. Pahlavani

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Golding Building Room 701

1300 Morris Park Ave

(718) 430-4259

Mechanism of action of antibody to capsular polysaccharide in Cryptococcus neoformans infection

Marta Feldmesser and Arturo Casadevall

Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics, Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and GRECC

John L. McClellan Memorial VA hospital

VA Medical Research, GC143, 151/LR

4300 W 7th

Regulation of transcription factor NF KAPPA B in immune senescence

Usha Ponnappan

Temple University Hospital,

3401 North Broad Street,

Free fatty acids (FFA), a link between obesity and insulin resistance

Guenther Boden

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pathology,

Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine,

Regulation of bile acid synthesis

John Y. L. Chiang

Professor of Medicine Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension

Box C-281

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

4200 E. Ninth Ave

Vasopressin signaling pathways in vascular smooth muscle

Raphael A. Nemenoff

Michigan State University

Department of Pediatrics and Human Development

Cell-cell communication in carcinogenesis

James E. Trosko and Randall J. Ruch

Virology/ Immunology Laboratories

Departments of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and Microbiology

The University of Maryland School of Medicine, Ten South Pine Street

Herpes simplex virus type 2: unique biological properties include neoplastic potential mediated by the Pk domain of the large subunit of ribonucleotide reductase

Laure Aurelian and Randall J. Ruch

Amati

Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC)

Myc and the cell cycle

Bruno Amati, Konstantinos Alevizopoulos and Jaromir Vlach

Vicente

Division of Cardiovascular Research

St. Elizabeth's Medical Center

736 Cambridge Street

Control of vascular smooth muscle and endothelial cell proliferation and its implication in cardiovascular disease

Ioakim Spyridopoulos and Vicente Andrés

Department of Pediatric Surgery

Children's Hospital, 700 Children's Drive

Columbus, Ohio 43205

(614) 722-3930

Structure and function of heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor (HB-EGF)

Karen M. Davis-Fleischer, and Gail E. Besner

Wenman

Department of Pediatric,

Section of Infectious Diseases

403 Neurosciences Building, School of Medicine

1515 Newton Court

University of California

Eukaryotic-like histones in Chlamydia

Ravi Kaul and Wanda M. Wenman

TB192, Division of Rheumatolology/Allergy and Clinical Immunology

School of Medicine

University of California

Molecular and immunological characterization of shellfish allergens

Patrick SC Leung and Ka-Hou Chu

University of Pittsburgh,

Biomedical Science Tower, Room BST E1055,

Regulation of survival pathways by IL-3 and induction of apoptosis following IL-3 withdrawal

Daniel E Johnson

Associate Professor

Department of Comparative Medicine

1670 University Blvd., 419 Volker Hall

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Alzheimer's disease and heparan sulfate proteoglycan

Ken-ichiro Fukuchi , Michael Hart, and Ling Li

Pittsburgh Cancer Institute

Biomedical Science Tower, W1057

200 Lothrop Street

(412)-624 7737

(412)-624 0343

Mathematical modeling of immunological reactions

Penelope A. Morel

Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery,

Associate Professor of Pharmacology/Cancer Biology; Box 3094,

Department of Anesthesiology,

Duke University Medical Center,

Transcriptional regulation of alpha-1 adrenergic receptors

Daniel R. Scanga and Debra A. Schwinn

Hruby

Department of Microbiology

Nash Hall 220

Oregon State University

Biology of vaccinia virus acylproteins

Douglas W. Grosenbach and Dennis E. Hruby

Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology-66

University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

1515 Holcombe Blvd,

Signal transduction during apoptosis; implications for cancer therapy

Michael Story and Reinhard Kodym

Rothblum

Henry Hood Research Program

Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology

Penn State College of Medicine

Weis Centre for Research

100 N. Academy Avenue

(717)-271-6701

Transcription by RNA polymerase I

Katherine M. Hannan, Ross D. Hannan and Lawrence I. Rothblum

X.u

Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research and Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

The Rockefeller University

Cellular and molecular basis of ß-amyloid precursor protein metabolism

Jeffrey P. Greenfield, Gunnar K. Gouras and Huaxi Xu

Children's Hospital Research Foundation #5

3333 Burnet Ave.

513-636-4531

DNA inverted repeats and human disease

John J. Bissler

Drug Discovery Program

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute at the University of South Florida

12902 Magnolia Drive

RB and apoptotic cell death

Q. Ping Dou and Bing An

Department of Animal Biology

Via Berengario, 14, 41100

(059)-226769

The neuro-immunological interface in an evolutionary perspective: the dynamic relationship between effector and recognition systems

Enzo Ottaviani Silvana Valensin and Claudio Franceschi

Department of Neurobiology

Harvard Medical School

The essential role of inflammation and induced gene expression in the pathogenic pathway of Alzheimer's disease

Lars Nilsson, Jack Rogers and Huntington Potter

Johnson

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Science Park-Research, Division

Department of Carcinogenesis

P.O. Box 389

(512)-237-9511

Role of E2F in cell cycle control and cancer

David G. Johnson and Robin Schneider-Broussard

Department of Biosystems Science

The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

The neutral theory and natural selection in the HLA region

Yoko Satta, Yi-Ju Li and Naoyuki Takahata

Dept. Immunology

The Scripps Research Unit

10550 North Torrey Pines Road

Cellular activation mechanisms in septic shock

Jocelyn S. Downey, and Jiahuai Han

Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology

Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center

1653 West Congress Parkway

(312)-942-8711

(312)-942-3267

Four varieties of voltage-gated proton channels

Thomas E. DeCoursey

Ozols

Department of Biochemistry

University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Isolation and structural analysis of microsomal membrane proteins

F.S. Heinemann and Juris Ozols

Dept. of Psychobiology

University of California, Irvine

2205 Biological Science II

Synaptic mechanisms in auditory cortex function

Raju Metherate

Cutaneous Biology Research Center

Massachusetts General Hospital, Building

149, 13th Street

(617)-724-9538

The keratinocyte growth-differentiation switch

Paolo Dotto

Hughes

Department of Biology and Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics

The Pennsylvania State University,

Natural selection and the evolutionary history of major histocompatibility complex loci

Austin L. Hughes and Meredith Yeager

Dept. of Genetics

Emory University School of Medicine

Human mutations affecting branched chain a-ketoacid dehydrogenase

Dean J. Danner and Christopher B. Doering

Section of Infectious Diseases

Department of Medicine

University of Illinois at Chicago

Rm 864, M/C 735, 808 S.Wood st

(312)-996-6099

Mechanism of mycobacterium avium complex pathogenesis

Venkata M. Reddy

Yee

Department of Biochemistry

Tufts University School of Medicine

(617)-636-6409

New perspectives on retinoblastoma family functions in differentiation

Amy S. Yee , Heather H. Shih, and Sergei G. Tevosian

University of Pittsburgh

Department of Anesthesiology

Critical Care Medicine

W1356 Biomedical Science Tower

(412) 648-9587

Alcohol and anesthetic mechanisms in genetically engineered mice

Gregg E. Homanics , Joseph J. Quinlan, Robert M. Mihalek, and Leonard L. Firestone

Beck

Department of Biology

University of Massachusetts at Boston

100 Morrissey Blvd.

(617)-287-6650

Macrokines: invertebrate cytokine-like molecules?

Gregory Beck

Section of Microbiology

University of California

1 Shields Ave.

156 Hutchison Hall

DNA strand exchange proteins: a biochemical and physical comparison

Piero R. Bianco, Robert B. Tracy and Stephen C. Kowalczykowski

Department of Biochemistry

Rush Medical College

Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center

1653 West Congress Parkway

(312) 942-7837

The role of CD44 as a cell surface hyaluronan receptor during tumor invasion of connective tissue

Warren Knudson

Cancer Biology Laboratory

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

P.O. Box 85800

CD44 structure and function

Jayne Lesley and Robert Hyman

Institute of Pathology,

Cancer Research Center,

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine,

Mechanisms regulating the binding activity of CD44 to hyaluronic acid

Dacai Liu, Tong Liu, Ruliang, Li, and Man-Sun Sy

Bourguignon

Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy

University of Miami Medical School

CD44 isoform-cytoskeleton interaction in oncogenic signaling and tumor progression

Lilly Y.W. Bourguignon , Dan Zhu and Hongbo Zhu

University of Karlsruhe, Institute of Genetics

Postfach 3640

The CD44 protein family: roles in embryogenesis and tumor progression

Helmut Ponta and Peter Herrlich

J

Division of cell Biology

Cancer Institute,

Hokkaido University School of Medicine

Kita-15, Nishi-7

Kita-ku

CD44 expression and growth factors

Jun-ichi Hamada , Yutaka Sawamura, and Erwin G. Van Meir

Dept. of Biomedical Sciences,

Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine

Virginia Tech

Role of CD44 in CTL and NK cell activity

Asimah Q. Rafi-Janajreh, Prakash S. Nagarkatti and Mitzi Nagarkatti

Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

(216)-368-3055

(216)-368-3407

Plasticity of CD44s expression during progression and metastasis of fibrosarcoma in an animal model system

Lloyd A. Culp and Priit Kogerman

School of Biological Sciences

University of Manchester

Room 2.205 Stopford Building

Oxford Road

Regulation of the extracellular ligand binding activity of integrins

Catherine Fernandez , Katherine Clark, Louise Burrows , Neil R. Schofield and Martin J. Humphries

Josep J.

Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular

Facultat de Química, Universitat de Barcelona

+34-93.402.12.17

Excitatory amino acid neurotransmission. Pathways for metabolism, storage and reuptake of glutamate in brain

Monica Palmada and Josep Joan Centelles

Department of Protein Biochemistry

Institute of Life Science

Kurume University

2432-3 Aikawa-machi; Kurume

Integrin-mediated platelet adhesion

Masaaki Moroi and Stephanie M. Jung

Department of Pharmacology

University of Colorado Health Sciences Cente,

4200 E. Ninth Avenue

Endocytosis and intracellular sorting of receptor tyrosine kinases

Alexander Sorkin

Göran

BioTransplant Inc

617-241-5200

Evolution of the human HLA-DR region

Göran Andersson

Johns Hopkins University

Asthma and Allergy Center

5501 Hopkins Bayview Circle

(410)-550-2145

IgE-mediated desensitization in human basophils and mast cells

Donald MacGlashan, Jr. , Sandra Lavens-Phillips, and Katsushi Miura

Department of Bone Biology and Osteoporosis

Merck Research Laboratories

(215)-652-4328

(215)-652-7574

Integrin-mediated signaling in the regulation of osteoclast adhesion and activation

Le T. Duong and Gideon A. Rodan

Human Bone Cell Research Group

Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Biology University of Liverpool

G-protein coupled receptors in bone

Wayne B. Bowler , James A. Gallagher and Graeme Bilbe

David M.

Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology

Washington University School of Medicine

Campus Box 8103, 660 S. Euclid Ave.

(314)-362-7058

FGF signaling in skeletal development

Michael C. Naski and David M. Ornitz

Division of Endocrinology,

Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital and Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research,

3755 Côte Ste. Catherine Road,

Role of PTHRP and PTH-1 receptor in endochondral bone development

Andrew C. Karaplis and Ron A. Deckelbaum

Institut de Genetique Moleculaire de Montpellier

CNRS

1919 Route de Mende

34293 Montpellier

(33).467.040231

MAP kinase signaling cascades and gene expression in osteoblasts

Robert A. Hipskind and Graeme Bilbe

Department of Molecular Pharmacology

Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University

2-3-10 Kandasurugadai, Chiyoda-ku

Transcription factors and osteoblasts

Masaki Noda, Akira Nifuji, Kunikazu Tuji, Kohichi Furuya, Ichiro Sekiya, Yoshinori Asou, Nanako Kawaguchi, Karuhito Yamachita

Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Department of Pharmacological & Physiological Science

1402 South Grand

Transcriptional activation through the vitamin D receptor in osteoblasts

Dennis M. Kraichely and Paul N. MacDonald

Department of Molecular and Human Genetics

Baylor College of Medicine

Transcriptional regulation of osteoblast differentiation during development

Gerard Karsenty

René

Genetics Unit

Shriners Hospital

1529 Cedar Ave

Transcriptional coactivators potentiating AP-1 function in bone

René St-Arnaud and Isabelle Quélo

Department of Cell Biology and Cancer Center

University of Massachusetts Medical Center

55 Lake Ave. North

(508)-856-6800

Nuclear Structure - Skeletal Gene Expression Interrelationships

Gary S. Stein , André J. van Wijnen, Janet L. Stein, Jane B. Lian

P. O. Box 56

The Viikki Biocenter

FIN-00014

University of Helsinki

358-9-708 59068

358-9-708 59031

Conserved functions of the cytoplasmic domains of integrin beta subunits

Jari Ylänne

Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale,

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

205, Route de Narbonne, 31077

Interaction of mycobacterial glycolipids with host cells

Isabelle Vergne and Mamadou Daffé

Department. of Pathology

MSB 594

New York University Medical Center,

(212)-263-5342

RAS pathways to cell cycle control and cell transformation

Marcos Malumbres and Angel Pellicer

Department of Environmental Health Sciences

University of Alabama

Is exposure to environmental or industrial endocrine disrupting estrogen-like chemicals able to cause genomic instability?

Deodutta Roy , John B. Colerangle and Kamleshwar Prasad Singh

Shiuan

Division of Immunology

Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope

Aromatase and breast cancer

Shiuan Chen

Department of VCAPP

Washington State University

(509)-335-2303

Hormonal control of pituitary prolactin-secreting tumors

Dipak K. Sarkar

Breast Cancer Research Laboratory

Fox Chase Cancer Center

7701 Burholme Avenue

Biological and molecular basis of human breast cancer

Jose Russo , Xiaoqi Yang, Yun-Fu Hu, Betsy A. Bove, Yajue Huang, Ismael D.C.G. Silva, Quivo Tahin, Yuli Wu, Nadia Higgy, Abdel Zekri, and Irma H. Russo

S.

Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology

Box 3813

Duke University Medical Center

(919)-681-6178

Physiologic importance of protein phosphatase inhibitors

Carey J. Oliver and Shirish Shenolikar

Department of Biology

Faculty of Science

Kyushu University

Evolution and phylogeny of defense molecules associated with innate immunity in horseshoe crab

Sadaaki Iwanaga and Shun-ichiro Kawabata

Department of Dermatology

422 Curie Boulevard

Stellar-Chance Laboratories M8c

University of Pennsylvania

Basonuclin, a zinc finger protein associated with epithelial expansion and proliferation

Hung Tseng

Department of Microbiology

Miami University

40 Pearson Hall

(513)-529-2431

Molecular and genetic analysis of iron uptake proteins in the Brazilian purpuric fever clone of Haemophilus influenzae biogroup aegyptius

Laura M. Smoot, Erin C. Bell, Robert L. Paz, Kara A. Corbin, Deanna D. Hall, Judith N. Steenbergen, Andrea C. Harner, and Luis A. Actis

University of Maryland Baltimore

Room 7-59, Bldg MSTF

10 South Pine Street

Systemic gene therapy with p53 inhibits breast cancer: recent advances and therapeutic implications

Qing-Rong Chen and A. James Mixson

The Wistar Institute

3601 Spruce Street

Molecular events in melanoma development and progression

Friedegund Meier, Kapaettu Satyamoorthy, Mark Nesbit, Mei-Yu Hsu, Birgit Schittek, Claus Garbe, and Meenhard Herlyn

Washington University School of Medicine

Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology

4566 Scott Avenue, Campus Box 8113

The regulation of carbohydrate and fat metabolism during and after exercise

John O. Holloszy, Wendy M. Kohrt and Polly A. Hansen

Division of Research

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Medical College of Ohio

Richard D. Ruppert Health Center

3120 Glendale Avenue

(419)-383-4473

The role of carbohydrates in mammalian sperm-egg interactions: how important are carbohydrate epitopes?

Jane Zara and Rajesh K. Naz

Donald E.

Uppsala University

BMC, Box 596, S-571 24

Integrins during muscle development and in muscular dystrophies

Donald Gullberg, Teet Velling, Lars Lohikangas, Carl-Fredrik Tiger

Dipartimento di Fisiopatologia Clinica

Unità di Andrologia

Viale Pieraccini 6

++39.55.4221848

Nongenomic effects of progesterone on spermatozoa: mechanisms of signal transduction and clinical implications

Elisabetta Baldi, Michaela Luconi, Lorella Bonaccorsi, Gianni Forti

Division of Cell Biology

La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology

10355 Science Center Drive

Lymphocyte activation: the coming of the protein tyrosine phosphatases

T. Mustelin, J. Brockdorff, A. Gjörloff-Wingren, P. Tailor, S. Han, X. Wang & M. Saxena

Dipartimento di Biologia

Università di Milano

Via Celoria 26, 20133

39.2.26604462

39.2.26604469

Signaling events during male germ cell differentiation : bases and perspectives

Giovanna Berruti