Americas Program Planing Visit for a Collaboration on Functional Materials Between the United States, Argentina and Brazil

该计划访问奖将为加州大学洛杉矶分校的Miguel A.Garcia-Garibay博士、Heather Maynard博士和Jeffrey Zink博士提供旅行支持，与阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯大学的Pedro Aramendia博士和巴西Campinas大学的Munir S.Skaf博士就一份提交给NSF的提案进行合作。他们正在开发的项目将应对生物医学和环境领域的高通量、多功能、快速和廉价传感领域的挑战。他们还将研究分子功能装置的自下而上的设计，以及信号转导、放大和控制的基本分子方面，这在生物系统和人工信息存储和读出中是必不可少的。这次访问的直接价值在于，通过将这些研究人员聚集在一起进行面对面的讨论，可以设计、编写和提交更强有力的提案。这个计划中的研究项目将解决一个重要的研究领域，同时汇集来自三个国家的不同研究人员小组。

0635336Garcia-GaribayThis planning visit award will provide travel support to Drs. Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay, Heather Maynard and Jeffrey Zink, University of California, Los Angeles, to work with Dr. Pedro Aramendia at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina and Dr. Munir S. Skaf at the Universidade de Campinas in Brazil, on a proposal to be submitted to NSF. The project they are developing will deal with challenges in the areas of high throughput, versatile, fast, and cheap sensing in the biomedical and the environmental areas. They will also look at the bottom-up design of molecular functional devices and the basic molecular aspects of signal transduction, amplification and control, which are essential in biosystems and artificial information storage and readout. The immediate value of this visit, is that by bringing these researchers together for face-to-face discussions, a stronger proposal can be designed, written and submitted. This planned research project will tackle an important area of research, while bringing together a diverse group of researchers from three countries.