| 2006 Experimental Biology Meeting |
| A socializer for regular and emeritus members is scheduled for the AACBNC at EB 2006 in San Francisco on Saturday, April 1. The socializer will be held from 5:30-7:00 pm at the Argent Hotel in the Franciscan I room and is sponsored by The Anatomical Record, a Wiley-Liss publication. Members are encouraged to bring their spouse or a guest. The dates of EB 2006 are Saturday, April 1 - Wednesday, April 5, 2006. Further details regarding the meeting can be found at www.faseb.org/meetings/eb2006/call/default.htm |
| KEYNOTE ADDRESS for the American Association of Anatomists at EB 2006 Supported by JEOL USA, Inc. through the AACBNC JUDAH FOLKMAN, M.D. Harvard Medical School Sunday, April 2; 5:15 - 6:15 pm in Room 103 Moscone Convention Center "The Platelet Angiogenesis Proteome for Early Detection of Cancer" |
| New Functions of Spectrin & the Membrane Skeleton Tuesday, April 4, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Room 123 Co-sponsored by the Association of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Neurobiology Chairpersons Chair: Steven Goodman (Univ. of Texas, Dallas) Warren Zimmer (Texas A&M Health Science Center) Spectrin's Key Role in Synaptic Transmission Muriel Lambert (UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School) Spectrin: Its Role in DNA Repair Troy Stevens (Univ. of South Alabama College of Medicine) Control of Store Operated Calcium Entry by the Spectrin Membrane Skeleton Steven Goodman (Univ. of Texas , Dallas) Spectrin is a Chimeric E2/E3 Ubiquitin Ligase |
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| Socializer of the AACBNC at Experimental Biology 2006 |
| Spectrin was first isolated from RBCs in the 1960s and its role as a major structural component of the RBC membrane skeleton was well defined by 1980. In 1981, demonstrated that spectrin was a ubiquitous protein in nonerythroid cells. Twenty-five years later, the speakers will discuss spectrin’s role in neurotransmission, DNA repair, the role of a spectrin binding partner in Ca release from internal stores, and recent studies demonstrating that spectrin has a previously unknown function as a chimeric E2/E3 ubiquitin conjugating/ligating enzyme. |