Speakers
| F. Aberger | University of Salzburg | Salzburg | Austria |
| K. Anderson | Sloan-Kettering Institute | New York | USA |
| P. A. Beachy | Stanford University | Stanford | USA |
| J. Briscoe | NIMR | London | UK |
| F. Charron | IRCM | Montréal | Canada |
| P.-T. Chuang | UCSF | San Francisco | USA |
| F. de Sauvage | Genentech Inc | San Francisco | USA |
| S. Eaton | Max Planck Institute | Dresden | Germany |
| I. Guerrero | Universidad Autonoma de Madrid | Madrid | Spain |
| A. Gulino | University La Sapienza | Rome | Italy |
| P. W. Ingham | IMCB | Singapore | Singapore |
| J. Jiang | UT Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas | USA |
| L. Joyner | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
New York | USA |
| T. Kornberg | UCSF | San Francisco | USA |
| X. Lin | Cincinnati Children's Hospital | Cincinatti | USA |
| E. Marti | CSIC | Barcelona | Spain |
| S. Mayor | Tata Institute | Bangalore | India |
| A. P. McMahon | Harvard University | Cambridge | USA |
| P. Mehlen | Centre Léon Bérard | Lyon | France |
| A. Oro | Stanford University | Stanford | USA |
| M. Perron | Université Paris XI | Orsay | France |
| A. Plessis | Jacques Monod Institute | Paris | France |
| J. Reiter | UCSF | San Francisco | USA |
| D. J. Robbins | Dartmouth Medical School | Hanover | USA |
| H. Roelink | University of Washington | Seattle | USA |
| A. Ruiz i Altaba | University of Geneva | Geneva | Switzerland |
| M. P. Scott | Stanford University | Stanford | USA |
| P. P. Thérond | IBDC | Nice | France |
| C. Tickle | University of Dundee | Dundee | UK |
| R. Toftgard | Karolinska Institute | Stockholm | Sweden |
| Pending: | |||
| Konrad Basler | University of Zurich | Zurich | Switzerland |
| Sam Kunes | Harvard University | Cambridge | USA |
