U.S.-Mexico Workshop: Physical and Chemical Aspects of Molecular Biology. An International Workshop on Current Problems in Complex Fluids

这个美国-墨西哥奖将支持一个关于分子生物学物理和化学方面的讲习班，作为关于复杂流体当前问题的一系列国际讲习班的继续。该会议将于2007年1月3日至6日在墨西哥的普埃布拉举行，由哥伦比亚-梅隆大学的Mathias Loesche教授与哥伦比亚大学的墨西哥国立自治大学物理研究所的Rolando Castillo和圣路易斯波托西自治大学物理研究所的Jaime Ruiz-Garcia。组织者的目的是讨论分子和细胞生物学的当前发展在一个跨学科的设置，侧重于物理学和生物学之间的接口。讲习班将包括研究报告和讨论与生物学相关问题有关的跨学科专题，如：有限几何形状中的核酸构象;脂质膜动力学、结构和功能;二维矩阵中的蛋白质;和细胞信号作为二维和三维空间之间信息流的耦合。会议将促进不同群体的高级研究人员之间的交流和接触，他们各自领域的领导者，以及年轻的研究人员，如终身教职员工，博士后和研究生，来自美国，墨西哥和欧洲。因此，预计将促进两国个人或团体在生物物理学和定量生物学领域的具体研究项目中的合作，并促进利用特殊设施和实验室。将特别强调研究生和其他年轻研究人员的参与和培训。

This U.S.-Mexico award will support a workshop on the physical and chemical aspects of molecular biology as continuation of a series of international workshops on current problems in complex fluids. The meeting will be held in Puebla, Mexico, January 3 - 6, 2007, and has been organized by Prof. Mathias Loesche of Carnegie-Mellon University, together with Profs. Rolando Castillo of the Institute of Physics, National Autonomous University of Mexico, and Jaime Ruiz-Garcia of the Institute of Physics, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis de Potosi. The organizers aim to discuss current developments in molecular and cellular biology in an interdisciplinary setting that focuses on the interface between physics and biology. The workshop will include research presentations and discussions of interdisciplinary topics related to problems of relevance in biology, such as: nucleic acid conformation in confined geometries; lipid membrane dynamics, structure and function; proteins in two-dimensional matrices; and cell signaling as the coupling of information flow between 2D and 3D spaces.The meeting will foster communication and contact between a diverse group of senior researchers, leaders of their respective fields, and young researchers, such as tenure-track faculty, postdocs and graduate students, from the U.S., Mexico and Europe. As such, it is expected to foster collaboration in specific research projects between individuals or groups of both countries in areas of biological physics and quantitative biology and to promote access to special facilities, and laboratories. Particular emphasis will be placed on the participation and training of graduate students and other young researchers.