US-Pakistan Workshop & Symposium on Genomics and Computational Biology, Lahore, Pakistan, October 16-19, 1997

描述：该奖项是为了表彰美国代表团参加将于1997年10月16日至19日在巴基斯坦拉合尔举行的美巴基因组学和计算生物学研讨会。率领美国代表团的是约翰·霍普金斯大学的劳伦斯·格罗斯曼博士和马萨诸塞州贝弗利新英格兰生物实验室研究部主任理查德·罗伯茨博士。巴基斯坦的联合组织者是拉合尔旁遮普大学国家分子生物学卓越中心主任Sheikh Riazuddin博士。来自巴基斯坦和几个邻国的科学家和研究生将参加这次研讨会。主题将包括：线虫、大米、人类、流感病毒和其他生物的DNA测序工作。单独的会议将致力于序列数据的计算分析，确定与重大遗传疾病和/或具有重要经济意义的性状有关的基因。美方与会者将分别参观拉合尔地区大学和政府实验室在这一领域的研究设施。讲习班的目的是确定共同感兴趣的研究领域，并评估在这一新兴领域联合研究的潜力。范围：这次会议建议的研究项目可以在巴基斯坦成功完成，因为它们不需要昂贵的设施，除了计算设备，而且巴基斯坦可以提供基本的人口生物学信息，还可以在数据的处理和解释方面做出智力贡献。研讨会的主题对美国和巴基斯坦都很重要。美国私家侦探和联合私家侦探是杰出的科学家。这位巴基斯坦科学家负责建立国家分子生物学英才中心。他的活动加强了美国和巴基斯坦科学家之间的合作研究，特别是在巴基斯坦方面与美国的能力互补的领域，比如通过提供新的酶，或者通过广泛的数据收集或实验。计算生物学研究应该是互惠互补合作的另一个领域。计划在美国代表团中至少包括一名女科学家和一名初级科学家。这一建议符合在对双方都有利的领域加强美外合作的国际目标，并增强了初级科学家的国际经验。

Description: This award is for support of a US delegation to attend a U.S.-Pakistan Workshop and Symposium on Genomics and Computational Biology to be held in Lahore, Pakistan in October 16-19, 1997. Leading the US delegation are Dr. Lawrence Grossman, of Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. Richard Roberts, Director of Research, New England Biolabs in Beverly, MA. The Pakistani co-organizer is Dr. Sheikh Riazuddin, Director, the National Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology at the University of Punjab in Lahore. The symposium will be attended by scientists and graduate students from Pakistan and several neighboring countries. The topics will include: DNA sequencing efforts in C. elegans, rice, humans, H. influenza and other organisms. Separate sessions will be devoted to the computational analysis of sequence data, the identification of genes associated with major genetic diseases and/or traits of economic importance. The US participants will conduct separate visits to research facilities in this field in universities and government laboratories in the Lahore area. The workshop is intended to identify research areas of common interest and to assess the potential for joint research in this emerging field. Scope: The research projects that would be recommended in this meeting could be done successfully in Pakistan, since they do not entail expensive facilities, other than computational equipment, and since Pakistan could provide basic population biology information, and can also make intellectual contributions in the processing and interpretation of the data. The topic of the workshop is important to the United States and to Pakistan. The American P.I. and co-PI are eminent scientists. The Pakistani scientist was responsible for establishing the National Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology. His activities have strengthened collaborative research between American and Pakistani scientists, especially in areas where the Pakistani side complements the capability in the United States, such as by providing new enzymes, or by doing extensive data collections or experiments. Research in computational biology should be one additional area for beneficial complementary cooperation. It is planned to include at least one woman scientist, and one junior scientist within the US delegation. This proposal meets INT objective of increasing U.S.-foreign collaboration in areas that benefit both sides, and in enhancing junior scientists' international experience.