The 3rd Latin American Protein Society Meeting (LAPSM)

第三届拉丁美洲蛋白质学会会议（LAPSM）

• 批准号: 8006549
• 负责人: L. Mario Amzel
• 金额: $ 0.5万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-01 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8006549
• 关键词: Advisory Committees; American; Area; Back; Behavior; Country; Disease; Fostering; Funding; Hispanics; International; Investments; Latin America; Minority; Postdoctoral Fellow; Protein Region; Proteins; Request for Applications; Research; Research Personnel; Rest; Science; Scientist; Shapes; Societies; Students; Work; amyloid formation; instrumentation; meetings; member; protein folding; public health relevance; structural biology; symposium; web site; working group

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The number of research groups working in the field of protein science in Latin America has increased substantially in the last decade. This situation was fostered by significant recent investments in structural biology instrumentation in the region, and by the recruitment of young investigators that were attracted back to their countries after successful post-doctoral stays abroad. However, there is still a lack of critical mass in each country individually, resulting in research groups with complementary expertise and available facilities scattered over a large continent. The 3rd Latin America Protein Society Meeting (LAPSM) will bring together scientists from Latin American countries with their international colleagues in what is shaping up as an outstanding opportunity to increase the interactions between Latin American groups as well as the interactions of these groups with the rest of the world. This application requests funds to allow five US students from the US to attend this meeting. This opportunity will be especially attractive to US students of Hispanic background that have previously had limited contact with the region. The student will be selected from a pool of applicants that will send information to a request for applications posted in the meeting Web- site. Awardees will be selected by a panel formed by members of the Organizing Committee and of the International Advisory Committee. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This meeting is an outstanding opportunity to not only expand the horizons of the Protein Society but also to attract minority students and scientists of the US to a conference in which they will have a major presence. The meeting will bring together investigators in the area of protein folding with researchers working in the fundamental principles underlying two medically important subjects: amyloid formation and the behavior of intrinsically disordered regions of proteins.

描述（由申请人提供）：在拉丁美洲蛋白质科学领域工作的研究小组的数量在过去十年中大幅增加。这种情况是由于该地区最近对结构生物学仪器进行了大量投资，以及招聘了年轻的研究人员，这些研究人员在国外成功地进行了博士后停留后被吸引回国。然而，每个国家仍然缺乏足够的数量，导致具有互补专门知识和现有设施的研究小组分散在一个大大陆上。第三届拉丁美洲蛋白质协会会议（LAPSM）将汇集来自拉丁美洲国家的科学家与他们的国际同事，这是一个增加拉丁美洲团体之间互动以及这些团体与世界其他地区互动的绝佳机会。这份申请要求资金允许五名来自美国的美国学生参加这次会议。这个机会将特别吸引西班牙裔背景的美国学生，他们以前与该地区的接触有限。学生将从申请者中挑选出来，这些申请者将向会议网站上发布的申请请求发送信息。获奖者将由组织委员会和国际咨询委员会成员组成的小组选出。 公共卫生关系：这次会议是一个很好的机会，不仅扩大了蛋白质协会的视野，也吸引了美国的少数民族学生和科学家参加会议，他们将有一个主要的存在。会议将汇集蛋白质折叠领域的研究人员与研究两个医学重要主题的基本原理的研究人员：淀粉样蛋白的形成和蛋白质内在无序区域的行为。