2004 Gordon Research Conference on Biopolymers

描述(申请人提供)：我们申请资助将于2004年6月13日至18日在美国罗德岛州纽波特的Salve Regina学院举行的生物聚合物戈登研究会议，以及2006年和2008年的会议。这笔资金将主要用于支付出席会议的发言者的会议费和/或旅费。 自1964年成立以来，生物聚合物戈登会议的目的一直是将寻求了解生物大分子的结构、动力学和功能的生物化学家、化学家、物理学家和数学家聚集在一起，特别是蛋白质、核酸和蛋白质-核酸复合体。会议传统上包括热力学、动力学和结构研究，包括实验、计算机模拟和理论。这次会议是一个独特的论坛，这些学科和主题汇聚在一起。此外，我们正在扩展曲目，以包括涉及生物聚合物应用的令人兴奋的新工作，特别是在生物工程领域。 为2004年会议选择的专题代表了长期感兴趣的基本领域，并强调了新的和新兴的研究领域和方法。我们寻求将用不同方法解决相关问题的研究人员以及在一个领域取得的成就表明重要应用于其他系统的研究人员聚集在一起，所有这些研究人员都因共同关注蛋白质和核酸而团结在一起。我们计划让杰出的资深科学家担任领导，就未来研究的重要方向进行讨论，以丰富会议内容。 由于这次会议传统上是超额认购的，我们将努力挑选热情和深思熟虑的与会者，他们过去取得了重大成就，未来也有很大希望。该计划包含了核酸和蛋白质生物物理学领域中一些最令人兴奋的研究，并有望在会议内外引起热烈的讨论。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We request funds to partially support the Biopolymers Gordon Research Conference to be held from June 13-18, 2004 at Salve Regina College in Newport, Rhode Island, USA, as well as the 2006 and 2008 meetings. The funds will be used primarily to pay conference fees and/or travel expenses for the speakers attending the conference. The purpose of the Biopolymers Gordon Conference since its inception in 1964 has been to bring together biochemists, chemists, physicists, and mathematicians who seek to understand the structure, dynamics, and function of biological macromolecules, particularly proteins, nucleic acids, and protein-nucleic acid complexes. The conference traditionally includes thermodynamic, kinetic and structural studies, involving experiments, computer simulations, and theory. This conference is a unique forum in which these disciplines and topics converge. In addition, we are expanding the repertoire to include exciting new work involving biopolymer applications, particularly in the area of bioengineering. The topics chosen for the 2004 conference represent fundamental areas of longstanding interest together with an emphasis on new and emerging research areas and methodologies. We seek to bring together researchers who are addressing related questions with different approaches, as well as researchers whose achievements in one area suggest important applications to other systems, all united by their common focus on proteins and nucleic acids. We plan to enrich the conference by involving distinguished senior scientists as leaders for discussions on important directions for future study. Since this conference is traditionally oversubscribed, we will endeavor to select enthusiastic and thoughtful participants with significant past accomplishments and substantial future promise. The program encompasses some of the most exciting research in the field of nucleic acid and protein biophysics and promises to generate lively discussions both in and outside of the sessions.