INTL SYMPOSIUM ON HEAT SHOCK PROTEINS IN BIOLOGY AND MED

热休克蛋白（Heat shock proteins，HSPs）在细胞生物学中起着重要的作用，包括介导蛋白质折叠、细胞调节以及在免疫和炎症反应以及细胞应激反应中具有重要的生理功能。 该提案的总体目标是组织一次会议，汇集热休克蛋白研究前沿的科学家。 迄今为止，大多数热休克会议都集中在热休克反应的一个方面，分子伴侣的功能。我们的目标是提供一个基础广泛的计划。 我们将有关于热休克蛋白在热疗/放射治疗，炎症和免疫，癌症和免疫治疗，自身免疫和感染性疾病，血管和心血管疾病，基因调控和表达中的作用的会议。 这次会议应促进交叉授粉和多学科合作，并有助于扩大科学家对自己工作的看法。 这次会议的题目是“生物学和医学中的热休克蛋白国际研讨会”，将于2000年11月6日至8日在马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔的海洋生物学实验室举行。

Heat shock proteins (HSPs) play a number of critical and emerging roles in the biology of the cell including the mediation of protein folding, cell regulation as well as possessing important overall physiological functions in the immune and inflammatory responses and the cellular stress response. The overall goal of the proposal is to organize a meeting that will bring together scientists on the cutting edge of research in HSPs. To date most heat shock meetings have focused on one aspect of heat shock response, molecular chaperone function. Our goal is to present a broad based program. We will have sessions on the role of heat shock proteins in hyperthermia/radiation therapy, inflammation and immunity, cancer and immunotherapy, autoimmunity and infectious diseases, vascular and cardiovascular disease, gene regulation and expression. This meeting should stimulate cross-pollination and multi-disciplinary collaborations and help to broaden scientists perspective of ones own work. The meeting is entitled the 'International Symposium on Heat Shock Proteins in Biology and Medicine' and will be held 6-8 November 2000 at the Marine Biology Laboratory at Woods Hole, MA.