Protein Folding Dynamics: Folding: The Landscapes of Natural and Synthetic Life" to be held at the Hotel Galvez in Galveston, Texas, January 10-15, 2016

关于蛋白质折叠动力学的戈登研究会议(GRC)将于2016年1月10日至15日在德克萨斯州加尔维斯顿的Galvez酒店举行。这次会议将汇集资深科学家、博士后研究人员和研究生，他们对蛋白质折叠动力学有广泛的兴趣和方法。会议的性质允许与会者之间进行密切互动，他们可以分享他们的想法和成果。通过将化学、物理和生物学的研究人员聚集在一起，在一个具体的论坛上探索该领域最新的令人兴奋的发展，鼓励从事不同系统的研究人员进行公开讨论，加强了跨学科研究的新范式。会议将聚集实验学家和理论家，讨论蛋白质折叠动力学的基本问题及其在功能、蛋白质序列进化和与蛋白质错误折叠相关的疾病中的作用。越来越清楚的是，了解蛋白质折叠动力学的细节对于描述几乎所有的生命过程都是至关重要的，包括蛋白质合成、共翻译折叠、蛋白质变构、蛋白质功能和与蛋白质错误折叠相关的疾病。会议将涵盖一系列主题，即体外和体内折叠，蛋白质聚集，蛋白质进化和设计，以及蛋白质动力学在功能中的作用。2016年的会议正在扩大，包括关于蛋白质进化、非生物折叠分子甚至完整染色体折叠的完整正式会议。这一扩大部分是为了回应前几年与会者的要求，但目前的组织者认为，扩大议题范围将增加会议的学术价值。与会者将能够花一周多的时间进行演讲和陈述，从而实现想法的协同，并确定和解决各种问题。

The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Protein Folding Dynamics "Folding: The Landscapes of Natural and Synthetic Life" will be held at the Hotel Galvez in Galveston, Texas, January 10-15, 2016. The meeting will bring together senior scientists, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students from a wide range of interests and approaches to protein folding dynamics. The nature of the conference allows close interaction among participants, who can share their ideas and results. By bringing together researchers from chemistry, physics and biology to explore recent exciting developments in this field in a concrete forum that encourages open discussions from researchers working on different systems, the new paradigm of cross-disciplinary research is strengthened.The conference will assemble experimentalists and theoreticians to discuss basic issues in protein folding dynamics and their role in function, in the evolution of protein sequences and in disorders associated with protein misfolding. It has become increasingly clear that understanding the details of protein folding dynamics is crucial in describing virtually all processes of life, including protein synthesis, co-translational folding, protein allostery, protein function and diseases related to protein misfolding. The conference will cover a range of topics namely in vitro and in vivo folding, protein aggregation, protein evolution and design, and the role of protein dynamics in function. The 2016 conference is expanding to include complete formal sessions on protein evolution and the folding of non-biological foldamers and even complete chromosomes. This expansion was partly in response to requests from previous years' participants but also the current organizers believed that extending the range of topics would add to the intellectual merit of the conference. Participants will able to spend time together over a week of talks and presentations, thus allowing synergy of ideas and identification and solutions of a variety of problems.