Conference: Biological Membranes: Emerging Challenges at the Interface between Theory, Computer Simulation, and Experiment to be held in June 2004 in Sun Valley, Idaho

理论、计算机模拟和实验之间的接口是开发表征具有生物重要性的复杂大分子组件的方法的关键领域。对于这种实验/理论相结合的方法，脂质双层膜是一个理想的目标，因为细胞膜的实际重要性，以及膜生物物理学社区中活跃的研究人员社区，他们致力于合作，多学科的方法。为了促进研究人员之间的交流，并确定理论、计算和实验可以相互补充的领域中的挑战，P.I.(Scott Feller饰)和Greg Voth正在组织一次会议，将于2004年6月20-25日举行。这次会议的一个明确目标将是发展该领域的知名研究人员和初级调查人员之间的关系，特别是妇女和代表不足的少数群体成员，这些人主要在膜领域被发现(他们中的许多人正在实验室建立资金的过程中)。被邀请的演讲者中有几名女性，还有一名非裔美国人。这笔赠款将资助这些初级研究人员以及博士后、研究生和本科生的旅费，以期扩大和多样化膜生物物理学领域。

The interface between theory, computer simulation, and experiment is a critical area for the development of methods to characterize complex macromolecular assemblies of biological importance. Lipid bilayer membranes are an ideal target for this combined experimental/theoretical approach, because of both the practical importance of the cell membrane and because there is an active community of researchers in the membrane biophysics community who are committed to collaborative, multi-disciplinary approaches. To facilitate communication among investigators, and to identify challenges in the field where theory, computation, and experiment can complement each other, the P.I. (Scott Feller) and Greg Voth are organizing a meeting to be held June 20-25, 2004.An explicit goal of this meeting will be to develop relationships between established researchers in the field and beginning investigators, specifically women and members of under-represented minority groups who are found predominantly, at least in the membrane field, among the junior investigators (many of whom are in the process of establishing funding in their labs). Several women are among the invited speakers, as well as an African-American. This grant will support travel costs for these beginning investigators as well as postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates, in the hope of expanding and diversifying the field of membrane biophysics