The Johns Hopkins Folding Meeting

描述(申请人提供)：第六届约翰·霍普金斯折叠展 会议将于2001年3月17日至20日在酷派会议中心举行， 距离巴尔的摩和华盛顿约2小时车程，位于西部伯克利斯普林斯 弗吉尼亚。这次会议吸引了来自世界各地的与会者 代表了从事蛋白质折叠研究的最著名的实验室。 近年来，理解RNA折叠的努力取得了实质性进展 多年来，RNA和蛋白质折叠在很大程度上共享一个共同的概念 框架。还没有努力让蛋白质和RNA折叠实验室参与到 持续的对话，尽管最近约翰斯实验室之间的经历 霍普金斯认为，这样的对话是互利的。2001年及未来 会议，关于RNA折叠的讨论将纳入每一届会议 开会。计划在2001年举行五次会议，每次四人发言 静电学、折叠反应路径、动力学、预测和 大型建筑群带来的设计和折叠问题。 在选择参加会议的人时，拉特曼博士将努力获得 尽可能多的实验室代表，并保持平衡 初级和高级调查人员，美国和外国参与者，不同 实验和理论方法，以及RNA和蛋白质。拉特曼医生 预计大约四分之一的参与者将参与 与RNA相关的研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The 6th annual Johns Hopkins Folding Meeting will be held 17-20 March 2001 at the Coolfont Conference Center, located about 2 hours from Baltimore and Washington in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. This meeting has attracted an international roster of participants representing the most prominent labs engaged in protein folding research. Efforts to understand RNA folding have made substantial progress in recent years and, to a large extent, RNA and protein folding share a common conceptual framework. There has been no effort to engage protein and RNA folding labs in sustained conversation, though the recent experience among labs at Johns Hopkins is that such dialog is mutually beneficial. For the 2001 and future meetings, discussion of RNA folding will be integrated into each session of the meeting. Five sessions of four speakers each are planned for 2001, on the topics of electrostatics, folding reaction pathways, dynamics, prediction and design, and folding problems posed by large complexes. In selecting participants for the meeting, Dr. Lattman will try to obtain representation from as many labs as possible and maintain a balance between junior and senior investigators, US and foreign participants, different experimental and theoretical approaches, and RNA vs. protein. Dr. Lattman anticipates approximately one quarter of the participants will be engaged in RNA-related research.