U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar: Molecular Interactions of Actin

小托马斯9616741 该奖项支持美国科学家参与美国-拟于1997年4月1日至5日在夏威夷毛伊岛举行的日本-澳大利亚肌动蛋白分子相互作用研讨会。 共同组织者是教授大卫D。明尼苏达大学的托马斯、日本大坂大学的柳田俊夫和克里斯托瓦尔G.澳大利亚悉尼大学的dosRemedios说。 本次研讨会将重点关注肌动蛋白在收缩和细胞运动过程中的作用，并将研究肌动蛋白如何在结构水平上与其他蛋白质相互作用。 肌动蛋白是生物医学上重要的蛋白质，在所有肌肉的收缩中起着重要作用，并且是细胞骨架的主要组成部分，细胞骨架对动物和植物中每个细胞的功能至关重要。 这次研讨会将汇集来自美国，日本和澳大利亚的研究人员谁开发了互补的技术来研究肌动蛋白生物物理学。 与日本和澳大利亚科学家交流想法和数据将使美国科学家能够推进自己的工作，并为未来的合作研究项目奠定基础。 研讨会的组织者特别努力让博士后研究人员参与进来。 会议记录预计将在一本名为《肌动蛋白和肌动蛋白结合蛋白质》的书中出版。 ***

9616741 Thomas This award supports the participation of American scientists in a U.S.-Japan-Australia seminar on Molecular Interactions of Actin, to be held in Maui, Hawaii from April 1-5, 1997. The co-organizers are Professors David D. Thomas of the University of Minnesota, Toshio Yanagida of Osaka University in Japan, and Cristobal G. dosRemedios of the University of Sydney in Australia. This seminar will focus on the role of actin in the process of contractility and cell movement, and will examine how actin interacts with other proteins at the structural level. Actin is a biomedically important protein that plays an essential role in the contraction of all muscles and is a major component of the cytoskeleton which is crucial to the function of every cell in both animals and plants. This seminar will bring together researchers from the United States, Japan and Australia who have developed complementary techniques to study actin biophysics. The exchange of ideas and data with Japanese and Australian scientists will enable the U.S. scientists to advance their own work, and will set the stage for future collaborative research projects. Seminar organizers have made a special effort to involve postdoctoral researchers. The proceedings of the meeting are expected to be published in a book entitled Actin and Actin-Binding Proteins. ***