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September 4-7, 1997
Rensselaerville, New York
This is a call for participation in a conference to be held this Fall that
will bring together investigators involved in:
- the structural and functional characterization of biological motors
- the design and fabrication of nano-scale device
- and related subfields of bioscience and bioengineering.
The aim is to stimulate a free exchange of information and ideas among researchers
working in these fast-moving fields with considerable overlap in interests
but few opportunities for communication. It is hoped that the meeting will
attract:
- biophysicists and structural biologists working on macromolecular
motors and complex cellular machines, including but not limited to ATP synthase,
bacterial and eukaryotic flagella, cilia, axostyles, myosin, kinesin, dynein,
and complex protein-nucleic acid machines like ribosomes, polymerases and
kinetochores.
- molecular biologists, biochemists and computational biologists engaged
in the engineering of structural subunits from macromolecules (proteins,
nucleic acids, polysaccharides)
- chemists and nano-engineers involved in the design and production
of sub-micron scale mechanical devices (e.g., nanomachines and switches).
The intent of the conference is to encourage a free-flow of information
and opinion about how nature has designed molecular and supermolecular machines
and to explore how (or whether) these principles might apply to nano-engineering.
The meeting will be held on Sept 4-7 in a conference center set on a picturesque
hillside in the Helderbergs in upstate New York. The site includes a modern
auditorium building for plenary and poster sessions, and several comfortable
buildings and cottages (with antique furnishings, parlors with working fireplaces,
kitchens, honor bars) for housing the participants. The conference fee ($400)
will cover room and meals from the evening of Sept 4 (Thursday) through
midday on Sept 7 (Sunday), as well as transportation between the conference
site and the Albany airport. Formal plenary sessions will be restricted
to mornings and evenings, with the afternoons free for informal discussion
and impromptu workshops.
The organization and format of the meeting will follow the "Albany
model", developed last year for our conference on "Frontiers
of Mitochondrial Research", which optimizes interactivity and spontaneity.
The meeting will be organized as follows:
- Specific session topics will be developed by a program committee over
the summer based on responses to this call-for- participation and input
from participants (see below). The committee is currently composed of bioscientists
from Albany and New York City (listed below) but will be expanded to include
other interested researchers worldwide.
- A meeting homepage will be established on the WWW that will contain
updates about evolving topics and participant lists. Through this page,
potential participants will be able to see who is coming, and participants
will be able to provide timely, ongoing input into the topic-shaping process.
- All pre-registered participants will be asked to submit a short abstract
(200-300 words). These abstracts will be posted on the homepage over the
summer and a vote of the participants will be taken in August to select
the speakers for the plenary sessions. Those participants not selected as
speakers will be asked to mount a poster describing their work at the meeting.
- We currently have a modest base of financial support for the meeting
and additional funding is being sought. This limited funding will be used
to partially diffray costs of all participants and to assist individuals
with limited resources to attend the conference, including young investigators
(i.e., students and postdocs nominated by participants).
If you are interested in attending the conference, please send the pre-registration
form at the end of this announcement to carmen@wadsworth.org or fax it to
Carmen Mannella (Wadsworth Center, Albany NY) at 518-486-4901. You may also
use the form to ask to be kept updated about topics and participants without
pre- registering at this time.
Please respond to this "call" as soon as possible since we are
limited to about 100 participants at the conference center. Note that you
need not send the conference fee now in order to register, just check the
first box in registration form below. We will bill you later.
Finally, and this is important, PLEASE RELAY THIS MESSAGE TO YOUR COLLEAGUES
WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN THIS MEETING. I will keep all respondents appraised
of developments by email and (later) by the meeting page WWW site.
Thank you for considering to participate in what we hope will be an exciting
conference.
Program Committee, The 1997 Albany Conference
Carmen Mannella, Joachim Frank, Conley Rieder, Michael Koonce, Ned Seeman
Preregistration Form
1997 ALBANY CONFERENCE ON
BIOMOLECULAR MOTORS AND NANOMACHINES
Name:
Address:
Phone number:
Fax number:
Email address:
[ ] I would like to pre-register for this conference. Put me
down as a participant in the area of:
[ ] I don't wish to pre-register at this time, but keep me
updated regarding participants and topics
[ ] (optional at this time) The title of my abstract is:
[ ] (optional at this time) My abstract is attached at the
end of this form. (Note: please send abstracts as
unencoded, ascii files.)
Comments:
Questions? Contact:
Carmen Mannella
The Wadsworth Center and The Albany Conferences
carmen@wadsworth.org
(518)474-2462
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