Invited Speakers
| Ueli Aebi | Basel, Switzerland | |
| Asifa Akhtar | Heidelberg, Germany | |
| Geneviève Almouzni | Paris, France | |
| Andy Belmont | Urbana, IL, USA | |
| Wendy Bickmore | Edinburgh, UK | |
| Giacomo Cavalli | Montpellier, France | |
| Vicky Chandler | Tucson, AZ, USA | |
| Christoph Cremer | Heidelberg, Germany | |
| Thomas Cremer | Munich, Germany | |
| François Cuzin | Nice, France | |
| Wouter De Laat | Rotterdam, The Netherlands | |
| Stefan Dimitrov | Grenoble, France | |
| Amanda Fisher | London, UK | |
| Peter Fraser | Cambridge, UK | |
| Susan Gasser | Basel, Switzerland | |
| Susan Gerbi | Providence, RI, USA | |
| Robert Goldman | Chicago, IL, USA | |
| Yosef Gruenbaum | Jerusalem, Israel | |
| Ingrid Grummt | Heidelberg, Germany | |
| John Gurdon | Cambridge, UK | |
| Edith Heard | Paris, France | |
| Margarete Heck | Edinburgh, UK | |
| Tatsuya Hirano | RIKEN, Japan | |
| Ron Laskey | Cambridge, UK | |
| Angus Lamond | Dundee, UK | |
| Greg Matera | Cleveland, OH, USA | |
| Marcel Méchali | Montpellier, France | |
| Danesh Moazed | Boston, MA, USA | |
| Philippe Pasero | Montpellier, France | |
| Ana Pombo | London, UK | |
| Thoru Pederson | Worcester, MA, USA | |
| John Sedat | San Francisco, CA, USA | |
| Robert Singer | Bronx, NY, USA | |
| David Spector | Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA | |
| Frank Uhlmann | London, UK | |
| Roel van Driel | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| Wim Vermeulen | Rotterdam, The Netherlands | |
| Neus Visa | Stockholm, Sweden |
More speakers will be selected from submitted abstracts