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

0635336 Garcia-Garibay该计划访问奖将为Miguel A.洛杉矶加州大学的Garcia-Garibay、石楠梅纳德和杰弗里津克，与阿根廷布宜诺斯艾利斯大学的Pedro Aramendia博士和Munir S. Skaf在巴西坎皮纳斯大学，关于一项提交给NSF的提案。 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器件的自下而上设计以及信号转导，放大和控制的基本分子方面，这些方面在生物系统和人工信息存储和读出中至关重要。 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。

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.