Albany 2013: The 18th Conversation

描述(申请人提供)：第18次对话将于2013年6月11日至15日在州立大学举行。纽约的奥尔巴尼分校。晚上的主旨演讲将由以色列魏兹曼研究所的诺贝尔奖获得者Ada Yonath和哈佛大学的Jack Szostak就生命的起源和进化发表。对话将涵盖以下结构生物学领域 生命和进化的起源，RNA和复杂性，计算生物学，酶动力学，蛋白质相互作用，蛋白质：相互作用和折叠，内在无序蛋白质，病毒结构和功能，DNA-蛋白质识别，纳米孔，DNA纳米技术，基因组薄弱环节的令人兴奋的发展和突破。这些主题将通过特邀讲座和海报讨论论文来涵盖。共有83场讲座，其中55场由资深科学家主讲，28场由青年研究人员主讲。年轻研究人员(研究生、博士后研究员和初级教师)的演讲将基于从提交给海报演示的摘要中挑选出来的内容。5.5小时的专题讨论会时间将留出，直到收到摘要，以便从摘要中选择大量的讲座。届时将会展出约二百张海报。在总共83场演讲中，至少有30场将由女性科学家发表。该计划将接纳来自20多个国家的约400名科学家。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The 18th Conversation will be held in June 11-15 2013 at the State Univ. of New York at Albany. The Keynote evening lectures will be delivered by Nobel Laureates Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute, Israel and Jack Szostak, Harvard, on origin of life and evolution. The Conversation will cover the following areas of structural biology Origin of Life and Evolution, RNA and the complexities, Exciting developments and breakthroughs in computational biology, Enzyme Dynamics, Protein Interactions, Proteins: Interactions and Folding, Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Virus Structure & Function, DNA-Protein Recognition, Nanopores, DNA nanotechnology, Genome Weak Links. The subjects will be covered by invited lectures and poster discussion papers. There will be a total of 83 lectures, 55 by senior scientists and 28 by young researchers. Lectures by young researchers (graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and starting faculty) will be based on selection from abstracts submitted for poster presentation. 5.5 hours of the symposium time will be left vacant until abstracts are received so that a significant number of lectures can be selected from the abstracts. The number of posters presented will be some 200. Out of a total of 83 talks, a minimum of 30 will be delivered by female scientists. The program will admit some 400 scientists from over 20 Nations.