14th International Congress on Flavins and Flavoproteins

描述（由申请人提供）：本次大会将是连续系列国际黄素专题讨论会的第十四届，每三年举行一次。最近一次会议于1999年8月29日至9月4日在德国康斯坦茨举行。申请经费的会议将于2002年7月14日至18日在英国剑桥大学圣约翰学院举行。这些会议为学生、博士后和高级研究人员提供了一个机会，就当前黄素和黄素蛋白的研究进行深入的讨论，并以海报和演讲的形式展示他们自己的工作。会议记录以专题讨论会卷的形式出版，为所有与会者提供有用的参考资料。会议计划讨论以下主题：简单风味蛋白的新结构和机制含义；复杂黄蛋白体系中的电子转移黄素：光和生物；新家族——基于富马酸还原酶框架的催化作用。Maria Vanoni（谷氨酸合成酶的结构-功能研究），Denis Stuehr （NO合成酶-风味蛋白的动力学和结构研究，揭示其独特的调节机制），Sunny Xie（黄酶的单分子研究）和Gary Cecchini（复合物II的功能和生理学的结构见解）将进行全体讲座。此外，还预留了一段时间，从会议上展示的海报中挑选演讲。下午被保留用于海报会议，以确保在这些会议上最大程度的互动，这些会议传统上非常受参与者欢迎。每期海报会提供茶水。演讲是由一个国际组织委员会挑选的，考虑到会议上发言者的多样性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Congress will be the fourteenth in a continuing series of International Flavin Symposia, held every three years. The most recent conference was held in Konstanz Germany on August 29-September 4, 1999. The meeting for which funding is requested will be held from July 14-18, 2002 in St. John's College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. These meetings offer an opportunity for students, postdoctoral fellows, and senior researchers to hold intensive discussions on current research in flavins and flavoproteins, and to present their own work in posters and talks. The Proceedings are published as a symposium volume which provides a useful reference for all participants. Sessions are planned on the following topics: New structures and mechanistic implication of simple flavoproteins; Electron transfer in complex flavoprotein systems; Flavins:light and biology; and New families--catalysis based on the fumarate reductase framework. Plenary lectures will be presented by Maria Vanoni (structure-function studies of glutamate synthases), Denis Stuehr (The NO synthase flavorptoein-kinetic and strucural studies to reveal its unique mechanisms of regulation), Sunny Xie (Single-molecule studies of flavoenzymes), and Gary Cecchini (Structural insights into the function and physiology of complex II). In addition, a session has been reserved for presentations to be selected from posters presented at the meeting. The afternoons are reserved for poster sessions, to ensure maximal interaction at these sessions, which have been traditionally very popular with participants. Tea will be served at each poster session. Presentations were selected by an International Organizing Committee with an eye to a diverse representation of speakers at the meeting.