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The article presents abstracts of the papers related to gap junction presented at the Poster Sessions of the 2005 International Gap Junction Conference held in Whistler, British Columbia. They include "Functional Analysis of Connexins Associated with Epidermal Disease and Syndromes," "Fate of Gap Junction Plaques During Cell Migration," "Molecular Cloning and Functional Analysis of a Novel Gene KDN Encoding Cx43 Partner Protein," "Glucose Represses Connexin36 in Insulin-Secreting Cells," and "Regulation of Cx43 Gap-Junctional Hemichannels (GJH) by PKC-Mediated Phosphorylation."

The article presents information on the 2005 International Gap Junction Conference held in Whistler, British Columbia. Dr. Daniel Goodenough from Harvard Medical School opened the meeting with a historical review of the gap junction field as seen through the "eye of a lens." 14 platform sessions were held over the course of this 5-day meeting covering the entire field of gap junction biology. Apart from the main program, two alternate proposals for revising the current human and rodent connexin gene names, in an attempt to reduce the confusion in the field, was presented by a subcommittee on connexin gene nomenclature.