Conference: 2010 Biomolecular Interactions & Methods GRC and GRS to be held in Galveston, Texas on January 16-22, 2010

智力价值关于生物分子相互作用和方法的第六次戈登研究会议将于2010年1月17日至22日在德克萨斯州加尔维斯顿的加尔韦斯酒店举行，第一次相关的戈登研究研讨会将于2010年1月16日至17日在同一地点举行主要GRC之前。这次戈登研究会议是一次将致力于引人注目的生物学问题的“方法”专家与“系统”科学家混合在一起的首要会议。其目标是开发能够对生物样本进行定量表征的新型合作。这次会议有五个显著的特点：(1)首先是这次GRC的多学科、多尺度的目标：这次会议汇集了生物学家、生物物理学家、结构生物学家、动力学和热力学从业者、化学家和理论家。(2)第二个决定性特征是出类拔萃的演讲者名单，其中包括大多数知名科学家和崭露头角的年轻调查人员。(三)会议形式和内容独具特色。其他重要的生物物理会议，如生物物理学会，在规模和范围上更大。(4)自由信息交流：在全球资源中心的主持下举行会议，除了通过在更正式的会议上发言之外，还可以自由交流信息。(5)这次会议的最后一个特点是伴随而来的戈登研究研讨会(GRS)，它是由学生和博士后科学家组织的，并为他们组织。广泛的影响这次会议在许多层面上有更广泛的影响：(1)这次会议在促进新的合作方面发挥了独特的作用，将“方法”实践者和研究重要生物学问题的不同科学家聚集在一起。(2)这次会议培养青年科学家的历史悠久。这是这次会议的第一次GRS会议，由一名学生和一名博士后科学家组织，两人都是女性。将被正式确定。GRC的主要会议主席正在指导这些年轻的研究人员，他们已经制定了一个项目，其中包括学生和博士后演讲者以及职业小组会议。(3)本次会议致力于多样性：GRC的四位主席中有两位是女性，GRS的两位联席主席都是女性；九位会议主席中有两位是女性；受邀的演讲者来自欧洲、亚洲和美国以及学术和工业组织。主办方保留了相当数量的特邀演讲，从摘要中挑选，以确保发言者选择的更多多样性。

Intellectual MeritThe sixth biennial Gordon Research Conference on Biomolecular Interactions and Methods will be held at the Hotel Galvez in Galveston, Texas from January 17-22, 2010, and the first associated Gordon Research Seminar will precede the main GRC on January 16-17, 2010 at the same location. This Gordon Research Conference is a premier meeting that mixes "methods" experts with "systems" scientists working on compelling biological problems. The goal is to develop novel collaborations that enable quantitative characterization of biological samples. This conference has five distinguishing features: (1) First is the multidisciplinary, multi-scale goal of this GRC: this conference brings together biologists, biophysicists, structural biologists, practitioners of kinetics and thermodynamics, chemists and theoreticians. (2) The second defining feature is an exceptional speaker roster that includes most well-established scientists and rising young investigators. (3) This conference is unique in its format and content. Other major biophysical meetings, such as the biophysical society, are larger in scale and scope. (4) Liberal Information Communication: Having the meeting under the auspices of the GRC enables the free exchange of information beyond that achieved by presentations at more formal meetings. (5) A final defining feature of this conference is the accompanying Gordon Research Seminar (GRS), which is organized by and for students and postdoctoral scientists.Broader ImpactsThis conference has broader impacts at many levels: (1) This conference plays a unique role in facilitating novel collaborations by bringing together "methods" practitioners together with diverse scientists investigating important biological problems. (2) This conference has a long history of training young scientists. The first ever GRS meeting for this conference, which is being organized by one student and one postdoctoral scientist, both women. will be formalized. The main GRC meeting chair is mentoring these young investigators, and they have put together a program that includes student and postdoctoral speakers and a career panel session. (3) This conference is committed to diversity: two of the four GRC chairs are women, both GRS co-chairs are women; two of nine session chairs are women; and invited speakers are from Europe, Asia and the US and from both academic and industrial organizations. The organizers have reserved a significant number of invited talks to be chosen from the abstracts to ensure additional diversity in the speaker selection.