The Johns Hopkins Folding Meeting

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的二十年中，约翰霍普金斯已经在蛋白质折叠领域发展了强大的存在。各个团体的共同利益导致了1996年年度约翰霍普金斯蛋白质折叠会议的成立。最近，约翰霍普金斯有幸成为许多对RNA（包括RNA折叠）感兴趣的杰出团体的所在地。随着我们的RNA和蛋白质社区相互教育，我们清楚地认识到蛋白质和RNA折叠领域有许多共同之处，更好的交流可以证明是协同的。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。它继续促进关于折叠问题各个方面的前沿发展的公开和非正式交流，包括实验学家，物理理论家和对计算机算法感兴趣的人的贡献。这次会议吸引了一批国际与会者，他们代表了从事折叠研究的最著名的实验室。我们请求支持接下来的三次约翰霍普金斯折叠会议。这些会议将每两年举行一次，分别于2003年、2005年和2007年3月在西弗吉尼亚州伯克利斯普林斯的Coolfont会议中心举行，该中心距离巴尔的摩和华盛顿约2小时车程。我们采用了一个组织结构，其中包括一个指导委员会，目前由八个参与蛋白质和RNA折叠研究的霍普金斯PI组成，其中两个会议组织者之一来自约翰霍普金斯以外。这种结构将确保演讲者和主题集中在折叠的最新发展，并避免每年重复。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，并在实验和理论之间以及RNA和蛋白质之间保持平衡。参加者的挑选也将兼顾性别和职业水平。

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.