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abstract: Apoptosis plays a key role in the morphogenesis during development and in the maintenance of tissue homeostasis in adults. Its mechanisms have been intensely studied, and early stages of apoptosis are about to be fully understood. The fate of later stage apoptotic cells remain to be characterized.

abstract: This conference assembles established and promising new investigators who are working on all aspects of erythroid cells, from the developmental/environmental control of its ontogeny, to cellular/morphogenic aspects related to its unique membrane structure, to transcriptional/epigenetic regulation of its gene expression, and to disorders that follow from variations in these normal processes.

abstract: The 2009 Gordon Conference on Chronobiology will present cutting-edge research on the molecular, cellular and systems aspects of circadian biology. The Conference will feature a wide range of topics, such as the dynamics of transcription and cell cycles, molecular mechanisms of clocks, genetics of human clocks, metabolism and clocks, novel functions for clock genes, model organism clocks, entrainment mechanisms, and the neurobiology of the suprachiasmatic nucleus.

abstract: The 2009 GRC on Catecholamines will focus on cutting-edge developments in catecholamine research. In recent years, catecholamines have been the focus of investigations using a broad range of approaches from molecular biology to behavior and clinical studies. One of the characteristics of the field is that neuronal systems using catecholamines have much in common, although investigators who focus on particular catecholamines or on different actions of the same catecholamine are often unaware of complementary aspects of catecholamine research. It is increasingly apparent that continued progress will require increasingly integrated approaches in studies of catecholamine biology, function and dysfunction. Thus, molecular biologists are being drawn to more integrated systems approaches and behavioral biologists are exploiting many molecular approaches.