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About the Program
The 21st Symposium of The
Protein Society will open on Saturday, July 21, 2007 at
the Boston Marriott Copley Place in Boston,
Massachusetts. The Opening Plenary Session, Epigenetics,
and the Opening Plenary Lecture by Peter Walter (UCSF)
will take place from 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. on Saturday,
with the Opening Reception immediately following. Join
us at the Opening Reception to network and socialize
with your colleagues. Jeremy M. Berg, Director of the
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS),
National Institutes of Health is the featured banquet
speaker on Tuesday evening. The Symposium will conclude
on Wednesday, July 25, 2007 at Noon. All events will
take place at the Boston Marriott Copley Place.
The meeting organizers,
Fabrizio Chiti (Universit di Firenze, Italy) and Judith
Frydman (Stanford University) have organized an
exceptional scientific program, which includes more than
50 invited speakers and 16 scientific sessions.
Twenty selected young investigators will have an
opportunity to give short oral presentations during
scientific sessions. An Opening Plenary Lecture by Peter
Walter (UCSF) as well as a Closing Plenary Session
entitled: From Biophysics to Biology: Studying Proteins
in the Celli will be featured. The 2007 Society Awards
will be presented in two Awards Plenary Sessions and
awardees will present plenary lectures.
The theme of the meeting
Proteins: From Birth to Death will follow the life and
works of proteins in the cell, from their birth on
ribosomes, throughout their maturation through folding
with and without the help of chaperones to their
ultimate demise through misfolding and degradation.
Sessions will discuss the dynamic properties and
functions of folded proteins, the relation of protein
conformation to disease and their role in epigenetic
inheritance. Sessions will also highlight emerging
approaches to study proteins and proteomes, ranging from
single molecules to the study of proteins in their
cellular context.
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