2009 Vitamin B12 and Corphins Gordon Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：第四届两年一度的戈登维生素B12和Corphins研究会议将于2009年8月2日至7日在英国牛津大学莫德林学院举行。这个会议是一个多学科的会议，在欧洲地点（2005年在牛津举行）和美国地点（2007年在缅因州的比德福德举行）之间交替举行，反映了两大洲维生素B12和Corphins领域的相当大的社区。2009年会议主席是奥地利因斯布鲁克大学有机化学教授Bernhard Kr¿utler，副主席是来自美国麻省理工学院（MIT）的Catherine L. drerennan教授。2009年会议的目标是：以一群来自不同领域的科学家为特色，包括流行病学、毒理学、遗传学、生物化学、微生物学、化学和物理学。他们都在维生素B12和肽领域的研究前沿工作。主题将从疾病模型、营养、B12摄取和运输，到B12辅助因子和肽的酶催化机制。2. 举办一个令人兴奋和鼓舞人心的会议，让不同社区和年龄的成员积极参与，讨论最新和最热的发展，最重要的是，分享从不同观点和背景获得的见解。增加的多学科互动也旨在促进合作。3. 确保新想法和研究人员的不断涌入。为了实现这一目标，演讲者名单主要由以前或最近没有发言的演讲者组成，并且已经确定了一些初级和其他科学家，特别是博士后，将展示他们的工作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The fourth biannual Gordon Research Conference on Vitamin B12 and Corphins will be held August 2-7, 2009, at Magdalen College, Oxford (UK). This conference is a multidisciplinary meeting that alternates between this European site (in 2005 it was held in Oxford) and the sites in the United States (in 2007 in Biddeford, Maine), reflecting the sizeable communities in the field of vitamin B12 and Corphins on both continents. The Chair of the 2009 meeting is Bernhard Kr¿utler, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, with the vice- Chair being Prof. Catherine L. Drennan from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA USA. The aims for the 2009 meeting are: 1. To feature a group of scientists from widely different fields including epidemiology, toxicology, genetics, biochemistry, microbiology, chemistry, and physics. All of them are working at the forefront of research in the fields of vitamin B12 and corphins. The topics presented will vary from disease models, nutrition, B12 uptake and transport, to mechanisms of enzyme catalysis with B12-cofactors and corphins. 2. To organize an exciting and stimulating conference in which the members of the different communities and seniorities actively participate, discuss the latest and hottest developments and most importantly, share insights obtained from diverse viewpoints and backgrounds. The increased multidisciplinary interactions are also intended to promote collaborations. 3. To ensure a continuing influx of new ideas and investigators. To achieve this, the speakers list has been made up mostly of speakers that have not spoken before or recently and several junior and other scientists, in particular postdocs, have been identified that will present on their work. The vitamin B12 cofactor, discovered as a result of the search for the cause of pernicious anemia, plays an important role in medicine. Conditions such as methylmalonic aciduria and homocystinuria are inborn errors of vitamin B12 metabolism. In addition, B12 nutritional deficiencies in the elderly are linked to dementia.