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Biopolymers (proteins, RNA, DNA) are central to most biological processes, including those relevant to human health such as signaling pathways, metabolism, and gene expression. They are implicated in many human diseases, are usually targets of therapeutic drugs and are becoming increasingly used as therapeutic agents themselves. The 2008 Biopolymers GRC will explore recent advances and future trends in understanding the structure, stability, dynamics, and interactions of biopolymers, as well as the impact of these fundamental physico-chemical properties on cellular processes. Biopolymers GRC is uniquely poised to foster multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary connections between chemistry, chemical engineering, physics and biology. This meeting of scientists working in the areas of experimental and theoretical understanding of biopolymers allows the results and ideas to be exchanged, compared, discussed, and synthesized.