U.S.-Polish-Czech Workshop on Modeling Interactions in Biomolecules

这次美国-波兰-捷克关于生物分子相互作用建模的研讨会将汇集来自美国、捷克和波兰的学生和研究人员，讨论当前的计算化学方法及其在生物系统中的应用。研讨会的联合组织者是来自杰克逊州立大学的Jerzy Leszczynski博士、捷克共和国查尔斯大学的Jaroslaw Burda和波兰弗罗茨瓦夫理工大学的Waclaw Sokalski。拟议的会议将聚焦于一个快速发展的跨学科领域：分子建模，它是计算化学、分子生物学、生物物理学、固体物理学和分子图形学的联系。会议的主要目的是建立一个跨学科论坛，代表新出现的方法学的主要专家将会见对其在生物和材料科学中的应用感兴趣的科学家。一大批少数民族学生和博士后将被邀请在这次研讨会上做演讲，HBCU的代表将从与外国同事的互动中受益，导致新的科学合作。这是一次及时的会议，讨论了计算化学研究领域的快速发展，该领域也包含了学生培训的一个方面，因为这不是研究生院课程传统上教授的一个领域。该项目还实现了将美国和中东欧的顶尖专家聚集在一起，在平等、互惠和互利的基础上，在共同利益和能力强的领域结合互补努力和能力的计划目标。

This U.S.-Polish-Czech workshop on modeling interactions in biomolecules will bring together students and researchers from the United States, the Czech Republic and Poland to discuss current methods of computational chemistry and their application to biological systems. The co-organizers of the workshop are Dr. Jerzy Leszczynski from Jackson State University, Jaroslaw Burda from Charles University in the Czech Republic and Waclaw Sokalski from Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland.The proposed meeting will focus on a rapidly developing interdisciplinary field: molecular modeling which is the linking of computational chemistry, molecular biology, biophysics, solid state physics, and molecular graphics. The main objective of the meeting is to establish an interdisciplinary forum where leading experts representing recently emerging methodologies will meet with scientists interested in their applications in biological and material sciences. A large group of minority students and post-docs will be invited to makes presentations at this workshop and the HBCU representatives will benefit from interactions with foreign colleagues, leading to new scientific collaborationsThis is a timely meeting on a rapidly progressing field of research in computational chemistry that also contains an aspect of student training, as this is not an area traditionally taught in the graduate school curriculum. This project also fulfills the program objectives of bringing together leading experts in the U.S. and Central/Eastern Europe to combine complementary efforts and capabilities in areas of strong mutual interest and competence on the basis of equality, reciprocity, and mutuality of benefit.