Conference: Biological Membranes: Emerging Challenges at the Interface between Theory, Computer Simulation, and Experiment to be held in June 2004 in Sun Valley, Idaho

理论，计算机模拟和实验之间的接口是开发具有生物学重要性的复杂大分子组装表征方法的关键领域。脂质双分子层膜是这种实验/理论结合方法的理想目标，因为细胞膜的实际重要性，也因为膜生物物理学界有一个活跃的研究群体，他们致力于合作，多学科的方法。为了促进研究人员之间的交流，并确定理论，计算和实验可以相互补充的领域的挑战，私家侦探（Scott Feller）和Greg Voth将于2004年6月20日至25日组织一次会议。这次会议的一个明确目标是发展该领域的成熟研究人员和初级研究人员之间的关系，特别是女性和少数群体的成员，他们至少在膜领域中占主导地位，在初级研究人员中占主导地位（其中许多人正在为他们的实验室建立资金）。受邀演讲者中有几位女性，还有一位非洲裔美国人。这项资助将支持这些初级研究者以及博士后、研究生和本科生的旅行费用，以期扩大和多样化膜生物物理学领域

The interface between theory, computer simulation, and experiment is a critical area for the development of methods to characterize complex macromolecular assemblies of biological importance. Lipid bilayer membranes are an ideal target for this combined experimental/theoretical approach, because of both the practical importance of the cell membrane and because there is an active community of researchers in the membrane biophysics community who are committed to collaborative, multi-disciplinary approaches. To facilitate communication among investigators, and to identify challenges in the field where theory, computation, and experiment can complement each other, the P.I. (Scott Feller) and Greg Voth are organizing a meeting to be held June 20-25, 2004.An explicit goal of this meeting will be to develop relationships between established researchers in the field and beginning investigators, specifically women and members of under-represented minority groups who are found predominantly, at least in the membrane field, among the junior investigators (many of whom are in the process of establishing funding in their labs). Several women are among the invited speakers, as well as an African-American. This grant will support travel costs for these beginning investigators as well as postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates, in the hope of expanding and diversifying the field of membrane biophysics