The meeting organizers Dr. Daniel Raleigh (SUNY-Stony Brook) and Dr. Jonathan Weissman (University of California, San Francisco) have planned an exciting meeting that features over 50 invited speakers and includes sessions on protein-ligand interactions, the assembly and function of molecular machines, protein misfolding and amyloid formation, protein engineering and design. Three special sessions on Systems Biology will be offered including an opening plenary session and two award plenary sessions. The 2005 Stein and Moore Award will be jointly presented to Dr. Avram Hershko (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology) and Dr. Alexander Varshavsky (California Institute of Technology) for their revolutionary work in discovering the ubiquitin system of protein degradation, its mechanisms, and its significance to living cells. We are pleased to report that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2004 "for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation" jointly to Dr. Avram Hershko, Dr. Aaron Ciechanover (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology) and Dr. Irwin Rose (University of California, Irvine).

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