Nuclear Pore Complex (NPC) is a remarkable biological machine that gates all the transport between cell nucleus and the cell cytoplasm. The mechanisms of the selectivity of transport through the NPC (and other similar biological channels) is still not understood. Workshop on the Nuclear Pore Complex will provide an interdisciplinary forum for researches from various disciplines, from bio-chemistry and cell biology to physics and computational modeling to discuss both basic and applied aspects of the transport through the NPC. Particular focus of the workshop will be to foster the interaction between experimental and theoretical approaches aimed at relating NPC structure to its function and understanding mechanisms of the selectivity of transport through the NPC and related bio-mimetic artificial nano-molecular devices.
Organizers:
Michael Elbaum (Weizmann)
Tijana Jovanovic-Talisman (NIH)
Anton Zilman (LANL)
zilmana@lanl.gov
Advisory Committee:
Siegfried Musser (Texas A&M)
Michael Rexach (UC Merced)
Michael Rout (Rockefeller U.)
Administrative Coordinator:
Adam Shipman
conferences@cnls.lanl.gov