23rd Annual Symposium of The Protein Society

描述（由申请人提供）：蛋白质协会第 23 届研讨会将于 2009 年 7 月 25 日至 29 日在马萨诸塞州波士顿的波士顿科普利广场万豪酒店举行。会议主题是运动中的蛋白质。会议组织者是 Celia Schiffer（马萨诸塞大学医学院）和 David Eliezer（康奈尔大学威尔医学学院）。两次全体会议的主题是“动力学和热力学”和“变构学”。科学会议将重点关注蛋白质设计、运输、折叠、细胞骨架动力学、蛋白质治疗和靶点、蛋白质-核酸相互作用动力学、无序、耐药性、膜重塑、动态复合物和网络、信号传导以及易位和运输。讲师包括知名的高级研究人员（例如约翰·库里扬（John Kuriyan，伯克利）、汤姆·布伦德尔（Tom Blundell，剑桥）、雷切尔·格林（Rachel Green，霍普金斯大学）、苏珊·泰勒（Susan Taylor，加州大学圣地亚哥分校）、迈克尔·埃克（Michael Eck，哈佛大学）等）和初级研究人员，都是根据其杰出的研究项目而被选择的。此外，该计划高度多样化，女性和其他代表性不足的群体分别占受邀演讲者的近三分之一和四分之一。我们的目标是吸引生物医学领域的更多研究人员，蛋白质在这些领域发挥着重要作用，从基础生物化学和生物物理学到细胞生物学再到人类治疗学。我们的许多研讨会涵盖与人类健康和疾病的广泛领域直接相关的主题：神经退行性疾病（折叠和紊乱）、癌症（信号传导、细胞骨架动力学、蛋白质核酸相互作用、耐药性以及治疗和靶标）、传染病（易位和运输、信号传导、膜重塑）和心脏病（贩运、动态复合物和网络、信号传导）。我们计划有 1,300 名与会者，包括本科生和研究生、博士后研究员以及来自美国和其他国家的初级和高级科学家。预计约有300名研究生和200名博士后参加会议。口头会议包括受邀演讲者和推广海报演讲。安排了15场全体会议、61场特邀演讲和30场推广墙报演讲。海报会议共有约 400 张海报。预计将收到约 700 份摘要。选择推广海报演讲来代表最新进展，并为本科生、研究生以及博士后研究员提供在会议上发言的机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The 23rd Symposium of The Protein Society will be held July 25-29, 2009 at the Boston Marriott Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts. The meeting theme is Proteins in Motion. The meeting organizers are Celia Schiffer (Univ of Massachusetts Med Sch) and David Eliezer (Weill Med Coll of Cornell Univ). Two Plenary Sessions will feature the topics of "Dynamics and Thermodynamics" and "Allostery." Scientific sessions will focus on Protein Design, Trafficking, Folding, Cytoskeleton Dynamics, Protein Therapeutics and Targets, Dynamics of Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions, Disorder, Drug Resistance, Membrane Remodeling, Dynamic Complexes and Networks, Signaling, and Translocation and Transport. Lecturers, including both high profile senior investigators (e.g. John Kuriyan (Berkeley), Tom Blundell (Cambridge), Rachel Green (Hopkins), Susan Taylor (UCSD), Michael Eck (Harvard) etc.) and junior investigators, were chosen on the basis of their outstanding research programs. In addition, the program is highly diverse with women and other underrepresented groups comprising nearly one third and one fourth of the invited speakers, respectively. Our goal is to appeal to an expanded audience of researchers in biomedical fields where proteins play an important role, ranging from basic biochemistry and biophysics to cell biology to human therapeutics. Many of our symposia cover topics with direct relevance to broad areas of human health and disease: neurodegenerative disorders (Folding & Disorder), cancer (Signaling, Cytoskeleton Dynamics, Protein Nucleic Acid Interactions, Drug Resistance, and Therapeutics & Targets), infectious diseases (Translocation & Transport, Signaling, Membrane Remodeling) and heart disease (Trafficking, Dynamic Complexes and Networks, Signaling). We plan for 1,300 attendees, including undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, as well as junior and senior scientists from the U.S. and other countries. Approximately 300 graduate students and 200 postdoctoral fellows are expected to attend the meeting. Oral sessions include invited speakers and promoted poster talks. 15 plenary talks, 61 invited speakers and 30 promoted poster talks are scheduled. The poster sessions total approximately 400 posters. About 700 abstract submissions are anticipated. Promoted poster talks are chosen to represent late-breaking developments and to provide an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students as well as postdoctoral fellows to speak at the meeting.