Abstract
The intention of this meeting, organised under the auspices of the British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB), was to bring together researchers with a range of specific interests, and a shared fascination with the endoplasmic reticulum. There were sessions on ‘ER structure, remodelling and dynamics’, ‘Receptors:channels’, ‘ER and calcium’ and ‘Protein synthesis and chaperones’ as well as poster sessions and ample opportunity for discussion. Thus, whilst the meeting itself generated lively and informative interactions between individuals from different research backgrounds, this report will focus on those talks most closely related to aspects of trafficking. A more broad ranging overview of the meeting is to be published elsewhere (Molecular Membrane Biology). Viki Allan opened the meeting by showing some high resolution Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) microscopy movies of ER membranes (from Xenopus egg extracts) moving on microtubules. She went on to discuss interactions between the ER and microtubules and the role of various motor proteins in this system, with dynein being the motor driving ER movement towards the minus end of microtubules (a process which is regulated by the reversible phosphorylation of the light intermediate chain of dynein). In
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