Cloner of Dolly the Sheep to Co-Chair January 13 Symposium on Cell Biology & Cloning.

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LARCHMONT, N.Y.--(BW HealthWire)--Jan. 3, 2001

Scientists from fifteen countries have registered to attend the Symposium on Cell Biology & Cloning: Structure & Function of a Cell Nucleus, co-chaired by Ian Wilmut, Ph.D., of Scotland's Roslin Institute, cloner of Dolly, the world's most famous sheep, and Tanja Dominko, D.V.M., Ph.D., of Advanced Cell Technology. The symposium is sponsored by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., and its publication Cloning, the peer-reviewed journal of which Dr. Wilmut is editor in chief, and organized by BioConferences International, Inc.

The day-long symposium will be held on January 13 at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska, as a preconference event in conjunction with the International Embryo Transfer Society's annual meeting at the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Omaha.

"The purpose of the symposium is to provide a solid basic cell biology background to the growing number of scientists who use nuclear transfer to create and propagate genetically identical animals," says Dr. Dominko. "Since successes after nuclear transfer are still accidental rather than predictable outcomes, we strongly believe a better understanding of cell biology will contribute to an educated discussion and reevaluation of current nuclear transfer strategies."

Eight leading scientists will make presentations on meiotic versus mitotic chromatin structure and function, transcriptional repression prior to MET, genomic imprinting, chromatin structure and gene expression, the relationship between DNA replication and transcription, the role of the nuclear envelope, and somatic versus embryonic cell cycle.

      What: Symposium on Cell Biology & Cloning: Structure & Function of
        a Cell Nucleus

      When: Saturday, January 13, 2001, 8:15 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

      Where: Henry Doorly Zoo, 3701 South Tenth Street, Omaha, Nebraska

      Co-chairs: Ian Wilmut, Ph.D., Roslin Institute, editor in chief,
        Cloning Tanja Dominko, D.V.M., Ph.D., Advanced Cell
        Technology, senior editor, Cloning

      Speakers: Hugh Clarke, Ph.D., McGill University, "Control of
        Nuclear Behavior by Oocyte Cytoplasm" Alan P. Wolffe, Ph.D.,
        Sangamo BioSciences, "Consequences of Chromatin Structure for
        Chromatin Activity" Gregory H. Leno, Ph.D., Infigen, Inc.,
        "Differences Between Cycling and Quiescent Mammalian Cells"
        Hans Scholer, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, "Regulation
        of Embryonic Gene Expression" Robert Feil, Ph.D., The Babraham
        Institute, "Genomic Imprinting" Manfred J. Lohka, Ph.D.,
        University of Calgary, "Role of Nuclear Envelope" Cal Simerly,
        Ph.D., Oregon Health Sciences University, "Somatic Centrosome
        and the Cell Cycle" Justin St. John, Ph.D., University of
        Birmingham, "Nuclear-Mitochondrial Intergenomic Communication"

      Details: For complete information on the symposium, speakers,
        presentation topics, and registration, visit the web site
        http://www.bioconferences.com/clo.

      Contact: Press will be limited. For press credentials, please call
        or e-mail: BioConferences International, Inc. Harriet I.
        Matysko, Vice President Phone [phone] ext. 608
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