Gordon Research Conference on Protein Folding Dynamicsto be held on January 2004, Ventura, California

PI将于2004年1月11日至16日在加州文图拉港镇的福点喜来登酒店组织一次关于蛋白质折叠动力学的戈登研究会议。生物学的定量描述正迅速成为21世纪科学的一个重要新前沿。这个领域一方面涉及生物学和生物化学的思想和方法，另一方面涉及复杂系统的物理学。蛋白质折叠代表了这种方法正在取得成功的首要案例，并正在成为生物学其他领域的榜样。这一领域的成功所需要的理论和实验合作已经建立，而戈登蛋白质折叠动力学会议正在成为讨论这些相互作用的主要论坛。第二届戈登会议将为来自不同背景的科学家交流思想提供一个极好的论坛。本次会议由生物科学理事会分子和细胞生物科学部的分子生物物理学项目以及数学和物理科学理事会的物理部提供支持。

The PI will organize a Gordon Research Conference on Protein Folding Dynamics to be held on January 11-16, 2004, at the Four Points Sheraton, Harbortown, Ventura, California. A quantitative description of Biology is rapidly emerging as a major new frontier for science in the 21st century. This field involves the cross-fertilization of ideas and methods from biology and biochemistry on the one hand and the physics of complex systems on the other. Protein Folding represents the premier case where this approach is becoming successful and is becoming an example for other fields in biology. The theoretical and experimental collaboration needed for the success of this field has been established, and this Gordon Conference on Protein Folding Dynamics is becoming the main forum for discussion of these interactions. This second Gordon conference will provide an excellent forum for an exchange of ideas from scientists with different backgrounds.This conference is supported by the Molecular Biophysics Program in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences in the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Division of Physics in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate.