US-Mexico Workshop in Biological Chemistry: Multidisciplenary Approaches to Protein Folding; Mexico City, October 22-24, 2008

这个美国-墨西哥项目将支持一个生物化学研讨会，该研讨会由加州大学洛杉矶分校化学与生物化学系的Joan Selverstone Valentine博士和墨西哥研究中心（CINVESTAV）化学系的Liliana Quintanar博士联合组织。该研讨会将于2008年10月在墨西哥墨西哥城举行，将讨论蛋白质折叠的多学科进展及其应用。蛋白质折叠可以从许多不同的角度进行研究，包括对决定折叠中间体形成的热力学和动力学方面的理解，对使蛋白质折叠成为可能的化学相互作用的理解，以及对生理功能和细胞中蛋白质折叠的更多生物学方面的理解。会议将汇集所有这些不同的观点，以产生新的见解和国际合作。本次研讨会的一个主要组成部分旨在向研究生和年轻研究人员介绍研究蛋白质折叠的不同方法，并促进来自美洲不同国家的该领域的高级和年轻研究人员之间的互动。学生、青年和资深研究人员之间的互动有望鼓励学生攻读研究生和博士后研究，并激发未来的合作。

This U.S.-Mexico project will support a workshop in Biological Chemistry, jointly organized by Dr. Joan Selverstone Valentine of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California-Los Angeles and Dr. Liliana Quintanar of the Department of Chemistry at the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV) in Mexico. The workshop, to be held in Mexico City, Mexico in October 2008, will discuss multidisciplinary advances in protein folding and their applications. Protein folding can be studied from many different perspectives, including the understanding of the thermodynamic and kinetic aspects that dictate the formation of folding intermediates, to the understanding of the chemical interactions that make protein folding possible, to the more biological aspects about physiological function and protein folding in the cell. The meeting will bring together all these different perspectives in order to generate new insights and international collaborations.A major component of this workshop aims to introduce graduate students and young researchers to different approaches to studying protein folding and to promote the interactions between senior and young researchers in the field from different countries of the Americas. Interactions between students, young and senior researchers are expected to encourage students to pursue graduate and postdoctoral studies and stimulate future collaborations.