GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE: CELL CONTACT AND ADHESION

要求提供资金，以支持戈登细胞接触会议， 粘连 该会议于1973年首次召开。 它召集了每一个 从那以后的一年。 总共有9次会议。 每个 会议已被高度超额认购。 因此，有一个持续的 在过去的18年里，人们对这一科学领域的兴趣。 1991年 会议的安排是为了尽可能避免工作重叠， 与其他相关会议的主题和发言人。 的议题 所涵盖的是感兴趣的科学家，包括不同的社区， 分子生物学家，细胞生物学家，发育生物学家， 神经生物学家，肿瘤学家，血液学家等的主题将检查 控制细胞相互作用的分子机制， 有趣的生物系统。 其中将讨论具体的 细胞表面受体，如整联蛋白家族的那些， 免疫球蛋白超家族、钙粘蛋白、选择素家族等。 细胞运动，细胞骨架/膜相互作用和机制， 将讨论神经突延伸和神经形成。 几位发言者 将讨论细胞外基质在发育中的作用， 过程以及细胞分裂、迁移和分化。 最后，内皮细胞/白细胞相互作用中的受体功能， 以及免疫系统中的受体将被认为具有特殊的 强调受体修饰的调节作用， 磷酸化或选择性剪接对受体组织的影响， 功能 因此，这些主题将引起各种科学家的兴趣 他们的共同兴趣是细胞粘附机制的分子基础。

Funds are requested to support the Gordon Conference on Cell Contact and Adhesion. This conference first met in 1973. It has convened every other year since that time. Altogether, there have been 9 sessions. Each session has been highly oversubscribed. Thus, there has been a sustained interest over the past 18 years in this general area of science. The 1991 Conference has been organized to avoid, as much as possible, overlap in topics and speakers with other related conferences. The topics to be covered are of interest to a diverse community of scientists including molecular biologists, cell biologists, developmental biologists, neurobiologists, oncologists, hematologists etc. The topics will examine the molecular mechanisms controlling cell interactions in several interesting biological systems. They will include discussions of specific cell surface receptors such as those of the integrin family, the immunoglobulin superfamily, the cadherins, the Selectin family etc. Topics of cell motility, cytoskeleton/membrane interactions and the mechanisms of neurite extension and nerve formation will be discussed. Several speakers will discuss the role of the extracellular matrix in developmental processes as well as in cell division, migration and differentiation. Finally, receptor function in endothelial cell/leukocyte interactions as well as receptors in the immune system will be considered with special emphasis on the modulating influence of receptor modifications such as phosphorylation or alternative splicing on receptor organization and function. Thus, the topics will be interest to a variety of scientists whose common interest is the molecular basis of cell adhesive mechanisms.