The 3rd Latin American Protein Society Meeting (LAPSM)

描述(由申请人提供)：拉丁美洲蛋白质科学领域的研究小组数量在过去十年中大幅增加。造成这种情况的原因是该区域最近对结构生物学仪器进行了大量投资，以及在国外成功完成博士后研究后被吸引回国的年轻研究人员。然而，每个国家仍然缺乏各自的临界质量，导致研究小组拥有互补的专业知识和可用的设施，分散在一个大洲上。第三届拉丁美洲蛋白质学会会议(LAPSM)将使来自拉丁美洲国家的科学家与他们的国际同行汇聚一堂，这将是一个增加拉丁美洲群体之间的互动以及这些群体与世界其他地区互动的绝佳机会。这份申请申请的资金允许五名美国学生参加这次会议。这一机会将对具有拉美裔背景的美国学生特别有吸引力，他们以前与该地区的接触有限。学生将从申请者池中选出，申请者将向会议网站上发布的申请发送信息。获奖者将由组织委员会和国际咨询委员会成员组成的小组选出。 与公共健康相关：这次会议是一个极好的机会，不仅可以扩大蛋白质学会的视野，还可以吸引美国的少数族裔学生和科学家参加一个他们将有重要参与的会议。这次会议将汇集蛋白质折叠领域的研究人员，研究两个医学上重要课题的基本原理：淀粉样蛋白的形成和蛋白质内在无序区域的行为。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The number of research groups working in the field of protein science in Latin America has increased substantially in the last decade. This situation was fostered by significant recent investments in structural biology instrumentation in the region, and by the recruitment of young investigators that were attracted back to their countries after successful post-doctoral stays abroad. However, there is still a lack of critical mass in each country individually, resulting in research groups with complementary expertise and available facilities scattered over a large continent. The 3rd Latin America Protein Society Meeting (LAPSM) will bring together scientists from Latin American countries with their international colleagues in what is shaping up as an outstanding opportunity to increase the interactions between Latin American groups as well as the interactions of these groups with the rest of the world. This application requests funds to allow five US students from the US to attend this meeting. This opportunity will be especially attractive to US students of Hispanic background that have previously had limited contact with the region. The student will be selected from a pool of applicants that will send information to a request for applications posted in the meeting Web- site. Awardees will be selected by a panel formed by members of the Organizing Committee and of the International Advisory Committee. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This meeting is an outstanding opportunity to not only expand the horizons of the Protein Society but also to attract minority students and scientists of the US to a conference in which they will have a major presence. The meeting will bring together investigators in the area of protein folding with researchers working in the fundamental principles underlying two medically important subjects: amyloid formation and the behavior of intrinsically disordered regions of proteins.