FASEB Summer Conference: Molecular Biophysics of Cellular Membranes being held in Vermont on July 20-25, 1996

FASEB 夏季会议：细胞膜分子生物物理学于 1996 年 7 月 20-25 日在佛蒙特州举行

• 批准号: 9600520
• 负责人: John Silvius
• 金额: $ 0.3万
• 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: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-07-01 至 1997-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9600520&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FASEB; Summer; Conference; Molecular; Biophysics

9600520 Silvius Recent research in mammalian cell biology has identified a number of important membrane related phenomena whose proper understanding will require a convergence of sophisticated approaches from the areas of both cell/molecular biology and structural biology/biophysics. In the past, large society meetings have provided the occasion for membrane researchers working within these often distinct disciplines to interact regularly and at 'critical mass' to discuss such problems (and strategies to approach them). However, at present to an increasing (and distressing) extent this is no longer the case. The key objective of this conference is to bring together structural/biophysical and cell-/molecular-biological workers to discuss questions of membrane organization and function that are emerging as key issues for the understanding of mammalian cellular function and whose resolution will require a combination of approaches drawn from the distinct disciplines just noted. To this end two complementary themes will be explored: the structure and dynamics of membrane proteins in relation to their function, and the supramolecular organization of membranes and its relevance to membrane function in mammalian cells. The proposed conference will build on three previous successful FASEB summer conferences in the area of membrane structure and dynamics (1988, 1990 and 1994). An important new element (and motivation) of the 1996 meeting, extending a welcome trend begun by the 1994 conference, will be a more extensive integration of topics and researches from the area of 1994 conference, will be a more extensive integration of topics and researchers from the area of cell and molecular biology. Exchange of information and ideas between researchers will be encouraged by combining symposium-style presentations from invited authorities, shorter presentations by conferees selected from submitted abstracts, poster presentations and two workshops designed to demystify emerging technologies with great potential to contribute to membrane-biological research. Special effort will be made in the program to provide opportunities for productive discussions and to encourage participation in these discussions by distributing summaries of the oral and poster presentations in advance to all conferees. A list of the topics and invited speakers that the conference will feature is given below. All speakers listed have agreed to participate. As noted above a limited number of additional conference applicants will be selected, based on submitted abstracts, to give short oral presentations of their research in areas that complement the theme of each session. %%%

9600520 Silvius 哺乳动物细胞生物学的最新研究已经确定了许多重要的膜相关现象，正确理解这些现象需要融合细胞/分子生物学和结构生物学/生物物理学领域的复杂方法。 过去，大型学会会议为这些通常不同学科领域的膜研究人员提供了定期和“临界质量”互动的机会，以讨论此类问题（以及解决这些问题的策略）。 然而，目前情况已不再是这样（而且令人痛苦）。本次会议的主要目标是将结构/生物物理学和细胞/分子生物学工作者聚集在一起，讨论膜组织和功能问题，这些问题正在成为理解哺乳动物细胞功能的关键问题，其解决方案需要结合刚刚提到的不同学科的方法。 为此，将探讨两个互补的主题：膜蛋白的结构和动力学与其功能的关系，以及膜的超分子组织及其与哺乳动物细胞膜功能的相关性。 拟议的会议将以之前在膜结构和动力学领域成功举办的三届 FASEB 夏季会议（1988 年、1990 年和 1994 年）为基础。 1996年会议的一个重要的新元素（和动机）延续了1994年会议开始的受欢迎趋势，将是对1994年会议领域的主题和研究进行更广泛的整合，将是对细胞和分子生物学领域的主题和研究人员进行更广泛的整合。 通过结合受邀权威人士的研讨会式演讲、从提交的摘要中选出的与会者的简短演讲、海报演讲和两个旨在揭开对膜生物学研究具有巨大潜力的新兴技术的神秘面纱的研讨会，将鼓励研究人员之间的信息和想法交流。 该计划将特别努力提供富有成效的讨论的机会，并通过提前向所有与会者分发口头和海报演示的摘要来鼓励参与这些讨论。 下面列出了会议的主题和受邀演讲者的列表。 列出的所有发言者均同意参加。 如上所述，将根据提交的摘要选择数量有限的额外会议申请者，以简短口头介绍其在与每届会议主题互补的领域的研究。 %%%