The mission of the Oklahoma Structural Biology Nexus (OSBN) is to improve the environment for structural biology research in Oklahoma to better serve and educate the citizens of Oklahoma, the nation and the world via the advances in biomolecular science that can be facilitated by structural biology.

The objectives of the OSBN are

1) to promote interactions between structural biologists in Oklahoma

2) to facilitate collective actions to obtain support for structural biology infrastructure and research activities

3) to provide a network that accelerates the incorporation of the structural biology into the research of non-structural biology labs in both large and small academic institutions and in industry in order to realize the potential of structural biology to move science and drug-development forward

4) to bring international leaders in structural biology to Oklahoma to speak at symposia for the purpose of bringing international attention to structural biology in Oklahoma

5) to help attract and recruit outstanding and promising structural biologists to Oklahoma at the post-doc and faculty member level

6) to enrich the education in structural biology of students and post-docs via workshops on advanced topics

7) to promote interest in structural biology at the high school level and the undergraduate level since many of our most talented students are native to Oklahoma.

8) to serve as an interface between the structural biology community and other scientific organizations (i.e., the Oklahoma Academy of Sciences)

9) to educate the general public about structural biology

For more information on the OSBN contact Ann West awest{at}ou.edu or Blaine Mooers blaine-mooers{at}ouhsc.edu.