The article presents abstracts of papers related to cell communication and adhesion presented at the 2005 International Gap Junction Conference held in Whistler, British Columbia. They include "Exogenous Overexpression of Connexins Induces Premature Assembly of Connexons in the ER," "Binding of a Thioredoxin-Fold Protein to Connexin43 Correlates with Oligomerization State," "Cell Adhesion Proteins Facilitate Gap Junction Formation," "ZO-1 Regulates Connexin43 Gap Junction Patterning via Control of Channel Accretion," and "Novel Rab GAP-Like Protein, CIP8S, Interacts with Connexin43 and Induces Its Degradation."