FASEB Conference: Virus Assembly Being Held at Vermont Academy, Saxton River, Vermont, June 22-27, 1996

9514329 Hendrix请特别支持将于1996年6月22日至27日在佛蒙特州萨克斯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“病毒大会”的会议。会议的目的是汇集从事细菌、植物、动物和人类病毒组装和结构各方面工作的科学家（包括与病毒进入细胞有关的初始拆卸步骤）。其目的是鼓励交流关于病毒组装和结构的想法和假设，跨越通常的分类学障碍，并促进传播使用各种不同实验方法（包括生化和遗传方法以及x射线晶体学、电子显微镜和图像重建）从各种不同病毒获得的结果。除了1990年、1992年和1994年举行的前两次FASEB会议外，没有其他会议专门讨论病毒组装和结构问题，跨越病毒分类类群。这一系列的前几次会议都非常成功，达到了人们所期望的交流效果。鉴于这一领域目前的进展速度，1996年的FASEB会议似乎很可能是正在举行的关于病毒组装和结构主题的系列会议中的第四次会议。将组成部分组装成完整的病毒是当前研究的一个领域。这项工作的许多方面涉及结构和生物学特征，以及病毒进入细胞时发生的拆卸/重组过程。为了汇集这些领域的最新成果，本次会议将包括大多数积极从事这一研究的科学家。这次会议将使人们更好地了解病毒组装的过程。＊＊＊

9514329 Hendrix Partical support is requested for a conference entitled "Virus Assembly" to be held under the auspices of the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB) from June 22 to June 27, 1996, at theVermont 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 confereces 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, 1992 and 1994. 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 1996 will be the fourth in an ongoing series of conferences on the topic of virus assembly and structure. %%% The assembly of component parts into complete viruses is an area of intensive current study. Many aspects of this work involve both structural and biological features, and the disassembly/reassembly processes that occur when viruses enter cells. In order to bring together the latest results in these areas this conference will include most of the scientists actively engaged in this research. The conference will lead to greater understanding of the processes of viral assembly. ***