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The 22nd Annual Symposium of The Protein Society will be held July 19-23, 2008 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego in San Diego, California. It will feature an outstanding scientific program that is being organized by the co-chairs, Douglas Barrick (The Johns Hopkins University) and Leemor Joshua-Tor (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). The academic liaison is José Onuchic (University of California, San Diego).

The meeting theme is Proteins: Machines of Life. The scientific program will include more than 50 invited speakers and 14 scientific sessions. Two Plenary Sessions will be featured on the topics of “Nucleic Acid Motors” and “Protein Motors.” Jane Richardson (Duke University) will be the featured speaker at the Awards Banquet of the 22nd Annual Symposium of The Protein Society. The 2008 Society Awards will be presented in Awards Plenary Sessions, and awardees will present plenary lectures. Sessions will address molecular mechanisms of protein folding, design, and dynamics from simple globular proteins to molecular machines, focusing in part on recent structural advances in nucleic acid and protein motors. The symposium will also feature sessions on complex multiprotein systems, including advances in structure determination, proteomics, and systems biology.