Gordon Research Conference: Protein Folding Dynamics and Gordon-Kenan Graduate Seminar to be held on January 6-13, 2006 in Ventura, California

该研究所将组织一次戈登蛋白质折叠动力学研究会议和第一届戈登-凯南蛋白质折叠动力学研究生研究研讨会，这是一个为研究生和博士后举办的研讨会，讨论蛋白质折叠的方法和模型。会议将于2006年1月6日至13日在加利福尼亚州文图拉的Four Points喜来登港口城举行。蛋白质折叠是一个多学科的研究领域，旨在解决生物学中的基本问题之一。了解折叠的动力学和能量特征是阐明蛋白质功能和设计问题的关键。因此，很少有其他领域能如此成功地将物理科学和生物科学结合在一起。越来越多的研究将实验和理论结合在一起，这一结合正在推进我们对折叠过程的基本定量理解。技术和理论的进步改变了我们对蛋白质折叠发生方式的看法。可以在接近全原子分子动力学模拟所能达到的时间尺度上通过实验观察到快速事件。新的、复杂的“简单”蛋白质模型允许对整体动力学进行采样并与实验进行比较。这次戈登蛋白质折叠动力学研究会议是一个相对较新的会议，专门将实验和理论结合在一起，探索该领域的进展。戈登-凯南蛋白质折叠动力学研究生研究研讨会是作为GRC蛋白质折叠动力学卫星组织的一次新会议。这个工作坊将为研究生和博士后科学家提供一个场所，让他们了解蛋白质折叠的当前技术、理论和模型。年轻和发展中的科学家的参与和纳入代表了我们愿景的一个关键目标，即为这一充满活力的多学科研究领域提供科学家，他们在实验蛋白质折叠方法以及为解释该领域的实验提供基础的模型和理论方面具有广泛的基础。本次会议得到了生物科学局分子和细胞生物科学部的分子生物物理学计划和数学和物理科学局的物理部的支持。

The PI will organize a Gordon Research Conference on Protein Folding Dynamics and the first Gordon-Kenan Graduate Research Seminar in Protein Folding Dynamics, which is a workshop for graduate students and postdocs addressing the methods and models of protein folding. The meetings will take place at the Four Points Sheraton Harbortown, Ventura, California, January 6-13, 2006. Protein folding is a multidisciplinary area of research addressing one of the fundamental problems in biology. Understanding the dynamical and energetic features of folding are keys to elucidating issues of protein function and design. Consequently, few other fields have seen such a successful blend of physical and biological sciences. Progressively, more studies that bring together experiment and theory are being published, and this combination is advancing our fundamental quantitative understanding of the folding process. Technological and theoretical advances have altered our view of the how protein folding occurs. Fast events can be observed experimentally on timescales that approach those accessible by all-atom molecular dynamics simulations. New, sophisticated "simple" models of proteins allow ensemble kinetics to be sampled and compared to experiment.This Gordon Research Conference in Protein Folding Dynamics, is a relatively new conference, set up to specifically bring experiment and theory together to explore advances in the field. The Gordon-Kenan Graduate Research Seminar in Protein Folding Dynamics is a new meeting being organized as a satellite to the GRC in Protein Folding Dynamics. This workshop will serve as a venue for graduate students and postdoctoral scientists to develop background on current techniques, theories and models of protein folding. The involvement and inclusion of young and developing scientists represents a key objective in our vision to provide this vibrant multi-disciplinary research area with scientists who are broadly based in both experimental protein folding methodologies and the models and theories that provide a basis for the interpretation of experiment in this field. This conference is supported by the Molecular Biophysics Program in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences in the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Division of Physics in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate.