The Johns Hopkins Folding Meeting

描述(申请人提供)：在过去的二十年里，约翰霍普金斯大学在蛋白质折叠领域形成了强大的影响力。各团体的共同利益促成了1996年约翰霍普金斯蛋白质折叠年会的召开。最近，约翰霍普金斯大学有幸成为了许多对RNA感兴趣的杰出团队的所在地，包括RNA折叠。随着我们的RNA和蛋白质社区相互教育，我们变得很清楚，蛋白质和RNA折叠领域有很多共同之处，更好的沟通可以证明是协同的。因此，从2001年开始，我们的聚会更名为约翰·霍普金斯折叠会议。它继续促进就折叠问题所有方面的前沿发展进行公开和非正式的交流，包括来自实验者、以物理为导向的理论家和那些对基于计算机的算法感兴趣的人的贡献。这次会议吸引了代表从事折叠研究的最著名实验室的国际与会者名册。我们请求为接下来的三次约翰·霍普金斯折叠会议提供支持。这些会议将于2003年3月、2005年3月和2007年3月在酷派会议中心举行，每两年一次，距离巴尔的摩和华盛顿约2小时车程，位于西弗吉尼亚州伯克利斯普林斯。我们采用了一个组织结构，其中包括一个指导委员会，目前由八名霍普金斯大学参与蛋白质和RNA折叠研究的个人投资者组成，其中两名会议组织者中有一人来自约翰·霍普金斯大学以外。这种结构将确保演讲者和主题集中在折叠方面的最新发展，并避免年复一年地重复。在选择会议参与者时，我们将尽可能多地从实验室获得代表，并在实验和理论、RNA和蛋白质之间保持平衡。还将选择参与者，以便在性别和职业水平上取得平衡。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over the last two decades, Johns Hopkins has developed a strong presence in the field of protein folding. The common interests of the various groups led to the establishment of the annual Johns Hopkins Protein Folding Meeting in 1996. More recently, Johns Hopkins has had the good fortune to become home to a number of outstanding groups with interests in RNA, including RNA folding. As our RNA and protein communities educated one another, it became clear to us that the fields of protein and RNA folding had much in common, and that better communication could prove synergistic. Thus, beginning in 2001, our gathering was renamed the Johns Hopkins Folding Meeting. It continues to promote open and informal communication of frontier developments on all aspects of the folding problem, including contributions from experimentalists, physically oriented theoreticians, and those interested in computer-based algorithms. This meeting has attracted an international roster of participants representing the most prominent laboratories engaged in folding research. We are requesting support for the next three Johns Hopkins Folding Meetings. These will be held on a biennial cycle, in March of 2003, 2005, and 2007, at the Coolfont Conference Center, located about 2 hours from Baltimore and Washington in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. We have adopted an organizational structure that includes a steering committee, currently consisting of eight Hopkins PIs involved in protein and RNA folding research, and in which one of two meeting organizers is from outside Johns Hopkins. This structure will ensure that speakers and topics focus on the most recent developments in folding, and avoid repetition from year to year. In selecting participants for the meeting, we will obtain representation from as many labs as possible and maintain a balance between experiment and theory, and between RNA and protein. Participants will also be selected to provide a balance in gender and career level.