FASEB Conference: Virus Assembly, July 23-28, 1994 held at The Vermont Academy, Saxtons River, Vermont

FASEB 会议：病毒组装，1994 年 7 月 23-28 日在佛蒙特州萨克斯顿河佛蒙特学院举行

• 批准号: 9401254
• 负责人: Patricia Spear
• 金额: $ 0.5万
• 依托单位: Federation of Amer Societies For Exper Biology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-07-15 至 1995-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9401254&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FASEB; Conference; Virus; Assembly; July

Spear 9401254 This award is for partial support of a conference entitled "Virus Assembly" to be held under the auspices of the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB) from July 23 to 28, 1994, at the Vermont Academy, Saxtons River, Vermont. The purpose of the conference is to bring together scientists working on all aspects of virus assembly and structure (including the initial disassembly steps associated with viral entry into cells) for bacterial, plant, animal and human viruses. The intention is to encourage communication of ideas and hypotheses about virus assembly and structure, across the usual taxonomic barriers, and to promote dissemination of results obtained with a variety of different viruses using a variety of different experimental approaches, including biochemical and genetic methods as well as X-ray crystallography, electron microscopy and image reconstruction. There are no other conferences devoted entirely to problems of virus assembly and structure, across the viral taxonomic groups, except the previous two FASEB conferences on this topic held in 1990 and 1992. The previous conferences in this series were enormously successful and achieved the kind of communication desired. It seems likely, given the current rate of progress in this field, that the FASEB conference of 1994 also achieve the desired goals. %%% The purpose of the conference is to bring together, for exchange of information, the leading researchers on the structure and assembly of viruses. Viruses infecting humans, animals, plants and bacteria are all included in the program because their similarities and differences help to define the general principles of virus structure and assembly. It is important to understand these general principles, in part because the assembly of proteins and nucleic acids into complicated structures is vital to the functioning of human cells and tissues as well as of the viruses. In addition, some of the most promising new antiviral drugs and agricultural pest control strategies are likely to act by interfering with virus assembly. Understanding the structures of viruses allows one to predict the properties of agents that should be able to block virus assembly and therefore prevent the spread of virus infection. ***

Spear 9401254该奖项是为了部分支持将于1994年7月23日至28日在佛蒙特州萨克顿河的佛蒙特学院举行的由美国实验生物学学会联合会（FASEB）主持的题为“病毒组装”的会议。会议的目的是汇集科学家们对病毒组装和结构（包括与病毒进入细胞相关的初始拆卸步骤）的所有方面的工作，为细菌，植物，动物和人类病毒。其目的是鼓励关于病毒组装和结构的想法和假设的交流，跨越通常的分类障碍，并促进使用各种不同的实验方法，包括生物化学和遗传学方法以及X射线晶体学，电子显微镜和图像重建获得的各种不同病毒的结果的传播。除了1990年和1992年举行的两次FASEB会议外，没有其他会议完全致力于病毒组装和结构的问题。 这一系列的前几次会议都取得了巨大的成功，并实现了所期望的那种交流。鉴于该领域目前的进展速度，1994年FASEB会议似乎也有可能实现预期目标。 %%% 会议的目的是为了交流信息，把病毒结构和装配方面的主要研究人员聚集在一起。感染人类、动物、植物和细菌的病毒都包括在该计划中，因为它们的相似性和差异有助于定义病毒结构和组装的一般原则。理解这些一般原理是很重要的，部分原因是蛋白质和核酸组装成复杂的结构对人体细胞和组织以及病毒的功能至关重要。此外，一些最有前途的新型抗病毒药物和农业害虫控制策略可能通过干扰病毒组装来发挥作用。了解病毒的结构可以让人们预测应该能够阻止病毒组装的代理的属性，从而防止病毒感染的传播。 ***