The 3rd Latin American Protein Society Meeting (LAPSM)

第三届拉丁美洲蛋白质学会会议（LAPSM）

• 批准号: 8006549
• 负责人: L. Mario Amzel
• 金额: $ 0.5万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-01 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8006549
• 关键词: Advisory Committees; American; Area; Back; Behavior; Country; Disease; Fostering; Funding; Hispanics; International; Investments; Latin America; Minority; Postdoctoral Fellow; Protein Region; Proteins; Request for Applications; Research; Research Personnel; Rest; Science; Scientist; Shapes; Societies; Students; Work; amyloid formation; instrumentation; meetings; member; protein folding; public health relevance; structural biology; symposium; web site; working group

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.

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去十年中，拉丁美洲蛋白质科学领域工作的研究小组数量有所增加。最近在该地区的结构生物学工具上进行了重大投资，并招募了在成功的博士后出国后居住后将其吸引回国的年轻调查员，从而促进了这种情况。但是，每个国家仍然缺乏临界质量，导致研究小组具有互补的专业知识和散布在大型大陆上的可用设施。第三次拉丁美洲蛋白质协会会议（LAPSM）将与来自拉丁美洲国家的科学家一起与国际同事一起汇聚，这是增加拉丁美洲群体之间的相互作用以及这些团体与其余的互动之间的相互作用的绝佳机会世界。该申请要求资金允许来自美国的五名美国学生参加这次会议。这次机会将对以前与该地区接触有限的西班牙裔背景学生特别有吸引力。将从申请人库中选出学生，这些申请人将向会议网站上发布的申请请求发送信息。获奖者将由组织委员会成员和国际咨询委员会成员组成的小组选择。 公共卫生相关性：这次会议不仅是扩大蛋白质社会的视野，还可以吸引美国的少数族裔学生和科学家到他们将拥有重要存在的会议。这次会议将与研究人员一起在蛋白质折叠的领域中汇集研究人员，研究了两个重要的主题的基本原理：淀粉样蛋白的形成和蛋白质本质上无序区域的行为。