From: Allen P. Minton <minton@helix.nih.gov>
  To  : RASMB@bbri.harvard.edu
  Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 09:25:57 -0500 (EST)

RASMB '96

     THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON REVERSIBLE ASSOCIATIONS
                  IN STRUCTURAL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
                               
                  February 13-16, 1996, Bethesda, MD

     In February, 1994, an international conference centered on the topic
of Reversible Associations in Structural and Molecular Biology (RASMB) was
held at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.  The meeting was
widely held by its participants to have been one of the best of its kind
in their experience, and there was essentially unanimous agreement that
the Melbourne meeting should represent the first of a biannual series of
symposia on this general topic. 

     The Second International Symposium will be held in Bethesda next
February during the week preceding the national meeting of the Biophysical
Society in nearby Baltimore.  The symposium will focus on the central role
of reversible associations in a wide variety of biophysical and
biochemical phenomena.  System-oriented sessions will be devoted to
assembly of large protein complexes, protein folding, protein- surface
interactions, ligand-receptor interactions, protein-nucleic acid
interactions, and MHC-T cell interactions.  Method-oriented sessions will
be devoted to solution methods, surface methods, structural methods, and
theoretical and computational methods. 

     On behalf of the organizing committee, I invite you to attend,
present a poster, and contribute to the exchange of information in this
vital and exciting field. 

     A conference brochure and registration form may be obtained from
Sylvia Delong, Conference Coordinator, FAES, One Cloister Court, Suite
230, Bethesda, MD 20814.  Telephone: (301) 496- 7975, FAX: (301) 402-0174. 

NOTE: Due to the capacity of the Lister Hill Auditorium, registration will
be limited to the first 120 respondents in order of postmark or fax date.