Meeting place: Aquamaris Conference Center, Juliusruh, Rügen Island, 200 km north of Berlin

Local Organizers: Gunnar Jeserich (Osnabrück, Germany), Hans H. Althaus (Göttingen, Germany), Klaus-Armin Nave (Heidelberg, Germany)

International Organizing Committee: P. Braun (Montreal, Canada), D. Colman (New York, NY, USA), M.Filbin (New York, NY, USA), G. Hashim (New York, NY, USA), K. Ikenaka (Okasaki, Japan), J.M. Matthieu (Lausanne, Switzerland), T. Miyatake (Tokyo, Japan), S. Pfeiffer (Farmington, CT, USA), G. Tennekoon (Philadelphia, PA, USA), B. Trapp (Cleveland, OH, USA), K. Uyemura (Tokyo, Japan), B. Zalc (Paris, France).

Format: Short oral communications, posters; maximally 150 participants (acceptance on a first-come first-served basis).

Travel connections from main meeting: Organizers will provide a bus from Free University conference site to Aquamaris Conference Center (and back to the three airports of Berlin).

Deadline for registration and abstracts: May 1, 1999

Program: The major topics of the program include: 1) Glial cell fate and differentiation; 2) Signal transduction and transcriptional regulation; 3) Interactions of myelin proteins and lipids; 4) Leukodystrophies and multiple sclerosis; 5) Extracellular matrix in glial migration and remyelination; 6) Animal models of disease; 7) Axon-glial interactions

For further information contact: Dr. G. Jeserich, Abt. Zoophysiologie, Universitaet Osnabrueck, Barbarastr.11, D-49069 Osnabrueck, Germany; Fax: +49-541-969-2870, Phone: +49-541-969-2880, e-mail: jeserich@biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de