FASEB CONFERENCE: Nucleic Acids

拟议的会议题为“核酸酶：结构，机制和新的应用”将集中在结构，机制，生物学作用，和作用于DNA和RNA的酶的医学相关性。会议旨在吸引具有结构生物学，生物化学和细胞生物学专业知识的广泛的跨学科科学家小组。这次会议提供了一个独特的论坛，讨论新的酶，对核酸的作用，DNA和RNA酶学在生物技术中的核心作用的信息爆炸，以及越来越多的人类代谢紊乱和疾病，其中核酸酶牵连。通过将结构生物学家，生物化学家，细胞生物学家和临床医生聚集在一起讨论共同利益，新的见解和跨学科合作将得到促进。科学计划将包括九个会议，由杰出的特邀演讲者在以下主题领域进行口头演讲：（1）DNA修复酶;（2）DNA和RNA聚合酶;（3）纯化和遗传重排;（4）DNA和RNA修饰酶;（5）解旋酶和依赖核酸的NTPases;（6）RNA和RNA催化剂（7）裂解和降解酶（8）新技术和生物信息学（9）与核酸酶学有关的疾病。组织者已经招募了主要的调查人员担任这些会议的讨论领导人。该计划还将包括每日海报会议。鼓励所有与会者展示他们研究的海报。为了鼓励年轻科学家的职业发展，将从研究生和博士后与会者中选出六名优秀的海报进行简短的口头陈述。FASEB 2002会议旨在突出核酸酶学中的几个新兴主题，包括新酶对DNA和RNA的动态重排和修饰，参与DNA代谢的酶与RNA世界的酶之间的相似性，以及核酸酶对生物技术和医学的新兴影响。会议的亲密形式旨在促进从事RNA和DNA酶各个方面工作的研究人员之间的信息和想法的自由交流-从而加快这两个领域的研究。

The proposed meeting entitled "NUCLEIC ACID ENZYMES: STRUCTURES, MECHANISMS AND NOVEL APPLICATIONS" will focus on the structures, mechanisms, biological roles, and medical relevance of enzymes that act on DNA and RNA. The meeting aims to attract a broad cross-disciplinary group of scientists with expertise in structural biology, biochemistry, and cell biology. The meeting provides a unique forum for discussing the explosion of information on new enzymes that act on nucleic acids, the central role of DNA and RNA enzymology in biotechnology, and the growing list of human metabolic disorders and disease in which nucleic acid enzymes are implicated. By bringing together structural biologists, biochemists, cell biologists and clinicians to discuss common interests, new insights and interdisciplinary collaboration will be fostered. The Scientific Program will consist of nine sessions of oral presentations by distinguished invited speakers in the following subject areas: (1) DNA repair enzymes; (2) DNA and RNA polymerases; (3) Recombination and genetic rearrangements (4) DNA and RNA modification enzymes; (5) Helicases and nucleic acid-dependent NTPases; (6) RNA and RNA catalysts (7) Cleavage and degradative enzymes (8) New techniques and bioinformatics (9) Diseases related to nucleic acids enzymology. The organizers have recruited leading investigators to serve as Discussion leaders for these sessions. The Program will also include daily poster sessions. All attendees will be encouraged to present posters on their research. To encourage career development of junior scientists, six outstanding posters from the ranks of graduate students and post-doc attendees will be selected for short oral presentations. The FASEB 2002 meeting aims to highlight several emerging themes in nucleic acids enzymology including the dynamic rearrangement and modification of DNA and RNA by novel enzymes, the parallels between enzymes involved in DNA metabolism and those of the RNA world, and the burgeoning impact that nucleic acid enzymes are having on biotechnology and medicine. The intimate format of the conference is designed to promote free exchange of information and ideas among researchers who work on diverse aspects of RNA and DNA enzymes- thereby expediting research in both fields.