2000 GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON BIOPOLYMERS

我们正在为将于2000年6月18日至23日在美国罗得岛州纽波特的萨尔维里贾纳学院举行的生物高聚物戈登会议申请部分资金支持。申请的资金将主要用于支付出席会议的演讲者的旅费，较小的部分将用于从提交的摘要中选出的博士后和/或学生演讲者的会议费用。本次会议的目的是促进在寻求理解和预测生物大分子特性的研究人员社区内传播思想和信息。这个团体包括研究蛋白质和核酸物理特性的物理学家、数学家和化学家，以及将这些观察结果放在生物学背景下的生物化学家和生物学家。自1964年成立以来，这些生物分子的结构、动力学和功能一直是戈登会议的焦点，使其成为这些学科融合的独特论坛。在今年2000年的会议上，我们寻求创造一个令人兴奋和活跃的气氛来讨论核酸、蛋白质及其相互作用的实验和理论结果，并将这些结果综合起来，最终建立这些系统的模型。为此，我们正在聘请为这些领域带来创新和广度的会议主席，负责确定这个社区将面临的下一个挑战。由于本次会议在过去几年中一直超额认购，我们将努力选择那些过去的贡献和未来的希望使他们对本次会议充满热情和深思熟虑的参与者。因此，我们将积极推动一个开放和充满活力的环境，以讨论正式讲座和海报展示。

We are requesting funds in partial support of the Biopolymers Gordon Conference to be held June 18-23, 2000, at Salve Regina College in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. The requested funds will mainly be used to pay travel expenses for speakers attending the conference, with a smaller portion allocated to conference fees for post-doctoral and/or student speakers, who have been selected from submitted abstracts. The purpose of this conference is to facilitate the dissemination of ideas and information within the community of investigators who seek to understand and predict the properties of biological macromolecules. This community includes the physicists, mathematicians and chemists who study the physical properties of proteins and nucleic acids, and the biochemists and biologists who put those observations in biological context. The structure, dynamics, and functions of these biological molecules have been the focus of this Gordon Conference since its inception in 1964, making it a unique forum where these disciplines converge. In this year 2000 conference, we seek to create an exciting and enlivened atmosphere for the discussion of experimental and theoretical results on nucleic acids, proteins, and their interactions, with the synthesis of these results culminating in our ability to model these systems. To this end, we are engaging session chairpersons who bring innovation and breadth to these fields, with the charge to identify the next challenges this community will face. Since this conference has been oversubscribed for past years, we will endeavor to select participants whose past contributions and future promise make them enthusiastic and thoughtful participants in this meeting. We will thereby actively promote an open and dynamic environment for discussion of the formal lectures and the poster presentations.