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The 2008 Basement Membranes Gordon Research Conference will be the fourteenth in a highly successful series of biannual meetings that have been major international forums for dissemination of new concepts regarding the structure and function of basement membranes and their receptors. Basement membranes are complex extracellular structures that play crucial roles in the organization and function of most tissues and organs, including muscle, skin, blood vessels, brain, heart, lung, eye, kidney, and peripheral nerves. This conference has traditionally attracted both senior and junior scientists from a wide range of fields, including protein structure, cell and developmental biology, pathology, and neurobiology. In addition, it has been attended by clinicians and scientists involved in research and/or treatment of human disorders involving basement membranes. The 2008 Conference will present a diverse mixture of sessions on basement membrane protein structure, biosynthesis, assembly, receptors, and function during development and in disease. The meeting will feature an exciting program that includes a keynote lecture by Joan Brugge.