Conference: 37th Annual Gibbs Conference on Biothermodynamics

第37届吉布斯生物热力学年度会议将于2023年10月14日至17日在伊利诺伊州卡本代尔的大自然户外教育中心举行。吉布斯会议汇集了对理解结构和能量学变化如何体现在生物功能上有相似兴趣的研究人员。本次会议为研究人员之间的科学交流和合作互动提供了一个独特的机会，同时促进了早期职业培训生的专业成长，并促进了一个公平、无障碍和包容的生物热力学社区。2023年的会议将邀请来自全国各地的科学家作为特邀演讲者，并为早期职业和实习科学家创造许多与同行和导师联系的机会。生物热力学旨在了解导致生物功能的化学过程的能量学。现代生物热力学发展了新的思想，利用技术进步来探索变构学的基本原理。更广泛地说，生物热力学现在包括结构生物学，以帮助连接结构，能量学和功能之间的差距。为了推动这一领域的发展，有必要将各个学科结合起来。该领域现在处于计算方法、详细动力学研究、结构生物学、分子生物学、高通量方法和经典热力学的交叉点。这些不同学科的结合将导致生物学各个领域的新发展。现代生物热力学的发展不仅继续确定变构的基本原理，而且还导致了研究蛋白质-蛋白质和蛋白质-配体相互作用、酶及其细胞途径的新方法和方法的发展。本次会议由分子和细胞生物科学部分子生物物理集群支持。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The 37th Annual Gibbs Conference on Biothermodynamics will be held at the Touch of Nature Outdoor Education Center in Carbondale, Illinois on October 14-17, 2023. The Gibbs Conference brings together researchers with similar interests in understanding how changes in structure and energetics manifest in biological function. This conference provides a unique opportunity for scientific exchange and collegial interactions among researchers, while fostering the professional growth of early career trainees and promoting an equitable, accessible, and inclusive biothermodynamics community. The 2023 conference will bring together scientists from across the country as invited speakers and create numerous opportunities for early-career and trainee scientists to connect with peers and mentors.Biological thermodynamics aims to understand the energetics of chemical processes that lead to biological function. Modern biothermodynamics has evolved new ideas with the use of technological advancements to probe the basic tenets of allostery. More broadly, biothermodynamics now includes structural biology to help link the gap between structure, energetics, and function. To move the field forward, there is a need to bring together various disciplines. The field is now at the intersection of computational methodologies, detailed kinetic investigations, structural biology, molecular biology, high- throughput approaches, and classical thermodynamics. Combining these diverse disciplines will lead to new developments in all areas of biology. Developments in modern biothermodynamics not only continue to identify fundamental principles of allostery but are also leading to the development of new approaches and methodologies to study protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions, enzymes, and their cellular pathways. This meeting is supported by the Molecular Biophysics Cluster of the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.