First International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering: Integration of Biological Design Principles, from Molecules to Cells, January 14-18, 2007; Coronado, California

马修·P·德利萨0634387这次会议的目的是对分子生物学和定量工程科学交界处正在进行的各个子领域的合并做出及时的回应。为此，申请者正在发起和组织第一届国际生物分子工程会议(ICBE)。这次会议每两年举行一次，将涵盖生物分子工程的广泛领域，并有助于促进、塑造和完善该领域的整体定义。第一次会议的主题是“从分子到细胞的生物设计原理的整合”；会议的目的是提供一个场所：(1)为涵盖生物分子工程广度的不同领先研究人员的科学陈述提供场所；(2)学术和行业研究人员之间的互动，他们为该领域带来不同的方法和视角；(3)代表生物分子工程未来的博士生和博士后研究人员的积极参与；以及(4)关于整个领域现状的健康讨论，重点是跨越不同水平的生物学复杂性之间的界面整合。会议的三个主要议题将是：(1)工程功能生物分子，(2)分子相互作用和细胞内途径，(3)系统生物学和多尺度集成。科学计划将包括8-10个受邀演讲，大约20个贡献演讲，以及2个海报会议，供研究生、博士后和初级教师展示他们的研究，以及小组讨论，讨论和辩论该领域的当前问题。

Matthew P DeLisa0634387The purpose of this conference is to provide a timely response to the ongoing coalescence of various subfields at the interface of molecular biology and quantitative engineering science. For this, the applicants are instituting and organizing the First International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering (ICBE). This meeting, to be held every two years, will cover the breadth of Biomolecular Engineering and serve to promote, shape, and refine the definition of the field as a whole. The Theme of the first meeting will be "Integration of Biological Design Principles, from Molecules to Cells"; the conference Aims are to provide a venue: (1) For scientific presentations from a diverse group of leading researchers who cover the breadth of Biomolecular Engineering, (2) For interactions between academic and industry researchers, who bring different approaches and perspectives to the field, (3) For active participation by Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers, who represent the future of Biomolecular Engineering, and (4) For healthy discourse on the current state of the field as a whole, with an emphasis on integrating across the interfaces between different levels of biological complexity. The three major topics of the conference will be: (1) engineering functional biomolecules, (2) molecular interactions and intracellular pathways, and (3) systems biology and multi-scale integration. The scientific program will include 8-10 invited talks, roughly 20 contributed talks, and 2 poster sessions for graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty to showcase their research, as well as panel discussions to discuss and debate the current issues of this field.