Meeting: Mechanisms of Nucleic Acid Enzymes, June 13-18, 1998, at Saxton's River, Vermont

这次会议将讨论作用于DNA和RNA的酶的结构、机制和生物学作用。包括作用于核酸的蛋白质和RNA酶。这次会议旨在吸引来自美国和国外的广泛的跨学科科学家。其中包括化学家、生化学家、结构和分子生物学家、遗传学家和细胞生物学家。本次会议将是美国实验生物学学会联合会（FASEB）就这一主题举行的第三次会议，上一次是在1996年。从那时起，对这些分子的结构、机制和调控潜力的理解得到了极大的扩展。因此，这次FASEB会议既及时又具有时效性。组织者为9场会议选出了讨论领袖，并为另一场会议选出了主讲人。演讲者既有各自领域前沿的诺贝尔奖得主，也有注定要在各自专业领域取得突破的有成就的年轻科学家。会议将讨论的主题包括核酸酶的结构和功能；合成酶及新活性；移动元件的内切酶和整合酶；RNA的催化和被RNA催化；重组与修复；连接酶、拓扑异构酶和盖帽酶；复制的蛋白质;和基因组学。此外，还将举办海报比赛；获奖海报的学生和博士后将有机会进行演讲。会议将为研究核酸的基本特征提供有力和富有成效的方法，并将作为研究与核酸相互作用的酶的多学科论坛。尽管围绕这一一般领域的各种专业也举行了会议，但这种特殊的跨学科主题组合是前所未有的，并为对基础研究和生物技术感兴趣的科学家之间提供了丰富的科学交流的独特机会。

9802699 Belfort This meeting will cover the structure, mechanism, and biological roles of enzymes that act on DNA and RNA. Included are both protein and RNA enzymes that act on nucleic acids. The meeting is designed to attract a broad cross-disciplinary spectrum of scientists from the U.S. and abroad. These include chemists, biochemists, structural and molecular biologists, geneticists and cell biologists. This meeting will be the third held by the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB) on this general topic, the last having been in 1996. Since then, the understanding of the structure, mechanism and regulatory potential of these molecules has expanded greatly . This FASEB meeting is therefore both timely and topical. The organizers have selected discussion leaders for the nine sessions and a keynote speaker for an additional session. Speakers range from Nobel prize-winners at the forefront of their fields to accomplished young scientists destined to make inroads in their specialities.The topics to be covered at the meeting include nuclease structure & function; synthetic enzymes and novel activities; endonucleases and integrases of mobile elements; catalysis of and by RNA; recombination and repair; ligases, topoisomerases, and capping enzymes; replication proteins; and genomics. In addition, there will be a poster competition; students and post-docs with winning posters will be given the opportunity to present a talk. The meeting will provide a focus for powerful and fruitful approaches to studying fundamental features of nucleic acids and will serve as a multidisciplinary forum for the study of enzymes which interact with nucleic acids. Although meetings centering on various specialities of this general field are also held, this particular interdisciplinary mix of topics is unprecedented and promises a unique opportunity for fertile scientific exchange among scientists with interests in basic research and biotechnology.