2000 GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON BIOPOLYMERS

我们请求部分资金支持将于2000年6月18日至23日在美国罗德岛州纽波特的Salve Regina学院举行的生物聚合物戈登会议。请拨的经费将主要用于支付出席会议的发言者的旅费，还有一小部分用于从提交的摘要中挑选的博士后和(或)学生发言者的会议费。这次会议的目的是促进想法和信息在寻求了解和预测生物大分子性质的研究人员社区内的传播。这个群体包括研究蛋白质和核酸物理性质的物理学家、数学家和化学家，以及将这些观察放在生物学背景下的生物化学家和生物学家。自1964年召开以来，这些生物分子的结构、动力学和功能一直是本次戈登会议的焦点，使其成为这些学科汇聚的独特论坛。在今年的2000年会议上，我们寻求创造一个令人兴奋和活跃的氛围，讨论关于核酸、蛋白质及其相互作用的实验和理论结果，这些结果的综合最终将使我们能够对这些系统进行建模。为此，我们正在聘请会议主席，他们为这些领域带来创新和广度，负责确定这个社区将面临的下一个挑战。由于过去几年的超额认购，我们将努力挑选那些过去的贡献和未来的承诺使他们成为本次会议热情和深思熟虑的与会者。因此，我们将积极促进一个开放和充满活力的环境，供讨论正式讲座和海报演示。

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.