Alpine pathways of membrane traffic.

Introduction The Sixth Annaberg Conference continued the success of previous meetings through a combination of interesting talks, lively poster sessions and ample opportunities for the participants to meet informally in the hotel, on the ski slopes and even in the disco. As in previous years, the meeting was held in the medieval Schloss Goldegg near Salzburg, Austria, which provided an unusual but atmospheric setting for a conference dealing with recent advances in cell biology. The presentations covered a wide range of topics relating to protein transport along endocytic and exocytic pathways. In this report, we concentrate on a selection of these talks, and highlight concepts and trends that emerged during the meeting. We apologize to those speakers whose work we were unable to include owing to space limitations.