Conference: "FASEB Summer Research Conferences on Virus Structure and Assembly"; - Saxtons River, Vermont.

知识价值FASE B病毒结构和组装夏季研究会议将讨论病毒结构确定领域的最新发展，如单粒子电子显微镜图像重建、断层扫描和不对称重建。会议将强调遗传学、分子病毒学、细胞生物学、生物物理病毒学和结构病毒学在许多病毒系统的研究中的融合，其中一些病毒系统是理解生物现象的重要模型。此外，还将重点介绍补充结构分析并可用于审问这些复杂生物过程的其他生物物理技术。这是一个多方面的会议，将作为一个论坛，整合来自许多病毒系统的研究结果，以帮助我们基本了解病毒生命周期中的事件，从最初的宿主细胞受体附着和进入、细胞贩运、基因组复制、病毒粒子组装/基因组包装，到病毒与宿主免疫机制的相互作用。广泛影响这次会议已经演变为一个有广泛参与的会议，将吸引来自世界各地的150-180名与会者。传统上，FASEB病毒结构和大会会议有很好的包括妇女的历史，由于组织者的努力，与会者的百分比多年来一直在稳步增加。在过去10年中，出席会议的妇女比例分别为32%(2000年)、29%(2002年)、34%(2004年)、33%(2006年)和40%(2008年)。女发言者的比例与出席会议的妇女比例没有太大差别。女科学家曾担任会议领导人、演讲者和海报主持人。在本次会议上，受邀会议主席和发言者中有15/38人(40%)是妇女(包括一名任职人数不足的少数群体)。我们这次会议的目标是通过增加代表不足的少数民族初级科学家的参与，包括研究生、博士后研究员和初级首席研究人员，来延续这一外联传统。为努力实现这一目标，将与以前会议的妇女和任职人数不足的少数群体与会者取得联系，并提醒他们注意2010年会议的日期，并鼓励他们出席；将鼓励所有以前的与会者带上任职人数不足的研究生和女研究生。这些初级调查人员是未来科学家中的一个重要群体，有可能为该领域做出重大贡献。接触这一重要研究领域的前沿发现是他们培训的一个重要组成部分。这次会议是由生物分子系统集群和分子和细胞生物科学部门的基因和基因组系统集群共同资助的

Intellectual MeritThe FASEB Summer Research Conference on Virus Structure and Assembly will address recent developments in the area of virus structure determination, such as single particle electron-microscopic image reconstruction, tomography, and asymmetric reconstruction. The conference will emphasize the convergence of genetics, molecular virology, cell biology, biophysical virology, and structural virology in the study of many viral systems, some that serve as important models for understanding biological phenomena. In addition, there will a focus on other biophysical technologies that complement structural analysis and that can be used to interrogate these complex biological processes. This is a multi-faceted meeting that will serve as a forum for integration of research findings from many viral systems towards our fundamental understanding of the events in the viral life cycle, from the initial host cell receptor attachment and entry, cellular trafficking, genome replication, virion assembly/genome packaging, to interaction of viruses with the host immune machinery.Broader ImpactThis meeting, which has evolved into a broadly attended conference, will attract 150-180 participants from around the world. Traditionally the FASEB Virus Structure and Assembly conference has had an excellent history of including women, with the percentage of attendees steadily increasing over the years, due to the efforts of the organizers. In the past 10 years the percentage of women attending the conference has been 32% (2000), 29% (2002) 34% (2004), 33% (2006) and 40% (2008). The percentage of women speakers has not differed significantly from the percentage of women in attendance. Women scientists have served as session leaders, speakers, and poster presenters. In the present conference 15/38 (40%) of the invited session chairs and speakers are women (including one under-represented minority). Our goal for this meeting is to continue this tradition of outreach by increasing the participation by under-represented minority junior scientist, including graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and beginning principal investigators. In an effort to accomplish this goal both women and under-represented minority attendees of previous meetings will be contacted and alerted to the dates of the 2010 conference and encouraged to attend; all prior attendees will be encouraged to bring their under-represented and female graduate students. These junior investigators are an important group of future scientist with the potential to make significant contributions to the field. Exposure to cutting edge findings in this important field of research is an essential component of their training.This conference is co-funded between the Biomolecular Systems Cluster and the Genes and Genome Systems Cluster in the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences