2009 Vitamin B12 and Corphins Gordon Conference

描述（由申请人提供）：第四届关于维生素B12和Corphins的两年一度的戈登研究会议将于2009年8月2日至7日在英国牛津大学马格达伦学院举行。该会议是一个多学科会议，在欧洲（2005年在牛津举行）和美国（2007年在缅因州比德福德举行）之间交替举行，反映了两大洲维生素B12和Corphins领域的相当大的社区。2009年会议的主席是奥地利因斯布鲁克大学有机化学教授Bernhard Kr <$utler，副主席是Catherine L。Drennan，来自美国马萨诸塞州剑桥的马萨诸塞州理工学院（MIT）。2009年会议的目标是：1。一群来自不同领域的科学家，包括流行病学，毒理学，遗传学，生物化学，微生物学，化学和物理学。他们都在维生素B12和corphins领域的研究前沿工作。提出的主题将从疾病模型，营养，B12的吸收和运输，到B12辅因子和corphins的酶催化机制。2.组织一个令人兴奋和刺激的会议，不同社区和高级成员积极参与，讨论最新和最热门的发展，最重要的是，分享从不同的观点和背景获得的见解。增加多学科互动也是为了促进合作。3.以确保新的想法和研究人员的不断涌入。为了实现这一目标，发言者名单主要由以前或最近没有发言的发言者组成，并确定了几位初级科学家和其他科学家，特别是博士后，将介绍他们的工作。 维生素B12辅助因子是在寻找恶性贫血的原因时发现的，在医学上起着重要作用。甲基丙二酸尿症和同型胱氨酸尿症等疾病是维生素B12代谢的先天性缺陷。此外，老年人的B12营养缺乏与痴呆症有关。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The fourth biannual Gordon Research Conference on Vitamin B12 and Corphins will be held August 2-7, 2009, at Magdalen College, Oxford (UK). This conference is a multidisciplinary meeting that alternates between this European site (in 2005 it was held in Oxford) and the sites in the United States (in 2007 in Biddeford, Maine), reflecting the sizeable communities in the field of vitamin B12 and Corphins on both continents. The Chair of the 2009 meeting is Bernhard Kr¿utler, Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, with the vice- Chair being Prof. Catherine L. Drennan from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA USA. The aims for the 2009 meeting are: 1. To feature a group of scientists from widely different fields including epidemiology, toxicology, genetics, biochemistry, microbiology, chemistry, and physics. All of them are working at the forefront of research in the fields of vitamin B12 and corphins. The topics presented will vary from disease models, nutrition, B12 uptake and transport, to mechanisms of enzyme catalysis with B12-cofactors and corphins. 2. To organize an exciting and stimulating conference in which the members of the different communities and seniorities actively participate, discuss the latest and hottest developments and most importantly, share insights obtained from diverse viewpoints and backgrounds. The increased multidisciplinary interactions are also intended to promote collaborations. 3. To ensure a continuing influx of new ideas and investigators. To achieve this, the speakers list has been made up mostly of speakers that have not spoken before or recently and several junior and other scientists, in particular postdocs, have been identified that will present on their work. The vitamin B12 cofactor, discovered as a result of the search for the cause of pernicious anemia, plays an important role in medicine. Conditions such as methylmalonic aciduria and homocystinuria are inborn errors of vitamin B12 metabolism. In addition, B12 nutritional deficiencies in the elderly are linked to dementia.