International Bio-Nano-Information (BNI) Fusion Conference to be held in Marina del Rey, CA on July 20-22, 2005.

提案编号：CTS-0502767 PRINCIPAL调查员：C-M HOINSTUTION：UCLA国际生物纳米信息(BNI)融合会议这笔赠款用于资助将于2005年7月20-22日在加利福尼亚州马里纳德雷市举行的生物纳米信息(BNI)融合会议。NSF的支持将支付研究生的旅费和会议费用，并使大约40名学生能够参加会议。拟议会议的学术价值主要涉及一个新兴领域的技术信息交流。对自然界中过程的观察(例如，纳米级的细胞功能导致宏观结构和更高阶的功能)导致了一种引人注目的方法，该方法融合了生物技术、纳米技术和信息科学，这将丰富革命性的特定应用技术的发展。生物-纳米信息学的融合将最终形成可与自然界中的体系结构相媲美的系统体系结构。从根本上理解如何在分子水平上操纵这三个领域的相互作用，以产生增强的、新出现的性质，并将解决可能在多大程度上进一步“突破极限”的问题。该提案的更广泛影响如下。通过技术融合在新兴功能方面取得进步是一项雄心勃勃且具有挑战性的任务，需要来自世界各地的研究人员参与。这次会议将把领先的研究人员聚集在一起，分享他们在生物、纳米和信息学技术方面的成就，并探索BNI融合的潜力。BNI Fusion大会将为学生提供一个独特的机会，体验由涵盖各种跨学科领域的杰出专家讲授的课程。将安排一次海报会议，让年轻研究人员展示他们的发现。除了在专题讨论会期间向每位与会者提供的会议记录(以光盘形式出版，以方便多媒体)外，预计还将在一份档案期刊的特刊上发表选定的论文。

PROPOSAL NO.: CTS-0502767PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: C-M HOINSTITUTION: UCLA INTERNATIONAL BIO-NANO-INFORMATION (BNI) FUSION CONFERENCEThis grant is for partial funding for the Bio-Nano-Information (BNI) Fusion Conference to be held in Marina del Rey, CA on July 20-22, 2005. NSF support will pay travel expenses and meeting costs for graduate students, and enable approximately 40 students to attend the conference. The intellectual merit of the proposed conference involves primarily the exchange of technical information in an emerging area. Observation of processes in nature (e.g. cellular function at the nano scale resulting in macroscopic structures and higher-order functionalities) leads towards a compelling approach consisting of fusing biotechnology, nanotechnology, and information science, which will enrich the development of revolutionary application-specific technologies. Fusion of bio-nano-informatics will culminate in systemic architectures that will rival those occurring in nature. Fundamental comprehension of how the interplay of these three areas can be manipulated on the molecular level to produce enhanced, emergent properties and will address the question of how much further it is possible to "push the envelope". The broader impacts of the proposal are as follows. Making advancements in emergent functionality through technology fusion is an ambitious and challenging task, which needs the participation of researchers from around the world. This conference will bring leading researchers together to share their accomplishments in bio, nano and informatics technologies, as well as to explore the potential of BNI fusion. The BNI Fusion Conference will provide students a unique opportunity to experience lectures given by preeminent specialists covering wide varieties of interdisciplinary fields. A poster session will be arranged for young researchers to present their findings. In addition to the proceedings (published on CD-ROM to facilitate multimedia) provided to each participant at the time of the symposium, selected papers are expected to be published in a special issue of an archival journal.