ORGANIZERS: Tin Tin Su (tin.su@colorado.edu), Claudio Sunkel (cesunkel@ibmc.up.pt), Alvaro Tavares (tavares@igc.gulbenkian.pt), Maurizio Gatti (maurizio.gatti@uniroma1.it), David Glover (d.glover@gen.cam.ac.uk)

June 14-18 2006 at Hotel IPANEMA PARK, Porto, Portugal

PROGRAM Speaker list Poster titles

(each session with 6 talks, max 20 min each; 15 min + 5 min for questions)

Wednesday 14

12:00 Registration Opens

17:00 – 19:00 Cell Cycle Regulation I

19:00 – 20:00 Keynote Speaker, 2001 Nobel Laureate Tim Hunt: ‘Getting into and out of mitosis’

20:00 Dinner (Hotel)

22:00-24:00 Poster Session 1 (A and C posters)

Thursday 15

08:30 – 10:30 Cell Cycle Regulation II

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 13:00 Cell and Tissue Growth

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Hotel

14:00 – 15:30 Poster Session 3 (B and D posters)

15:30 – 17:30 Stem Cells and Asymmetric Division

17:30 – 18:00 Coffee break

18:00 – 20:00 Asymmetric Division and Mitosis

20:00 Free evening: you are on your own

Friday 16

08:30 – 10:30 Tumorigenesis

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 13:00 Chromosome Structure and Replication

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Hotel

14:00 – 15:30 Poster Session 3 (A and D posters)

15:30 – 17:30 Spindle Organization and Function

17:30 – 18:00 Coffee break

18:00 – 20:00 Spindle and Checkpoint

20:00 Dinner (organized)

Saturday 17

08:30 – 10:30 Centrosomes

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 13:00 Kinetochores and Chromosome Segregation

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Hotel

14:00 – 15:30 Poster Session 4 (B and C posters)

15:30 – 17:30 Cytokinesis

17:30 – 18:00 Coffee break

18:00 – 20:00 DNA and Checkpoint

20:00 Dinner (Hotel): farewell party