Symposium NN: Protein & Peptide Engineering for Therapeutic and Functional Materials; Boston, MA; November 26-30, 2007

ID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 0737634 PI: Pachavis， Robert ORG：材料研究学会标题：专题讨论会NN：治疗和功能材料的蛋白质和肽工程知识优点：研讨会将为科学家和工程师提供一个论坛，他们将蛋白质和肽作为当前和新兴技术的关键组成部分，从药物输送到组织工程，分子电子学和纳米技术，分享想法和结果。专门为来自弱势群体的初级教师、博士后、研究生和研究人员提供资金，使他们能够在一个充满活力的多学科国际研讨会上展示研究成果。每四次口头会议将有8-10个演讲，包括一个主题演讲以及邀请和贡献的论文。晚上还安排了海报会议。一大批杰出的主讲人和受邀演讲者已经同意参加。在过去的十年中，蛋白质和肽科学的显著进步导致了新的合成和发现方法，新的折叠基序和构建块结构，以及肽和蛋白质自组装的控制，以创建从纳米到微米长度尺度的结构。现在，这些进步将有助于发现和开发可形成自组装层次结构的材料，这些材料对生物医学、分子电子学和纳米技术等新兴技术非常有用。研讨会为国际专家和初入研究人员提供了一个分享最新进展的论坛。更广泛的影响：所申请的资金将专门用于使年轻的科学家，特别是那些来自代表性不足群体的科学家，能够参加这次跨学科研讨会。

ID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 0737634 PI: Pachavis, Robert ORG: Materials Research SocietyTitle: Symposium NN: Protein & Peptide Engineering for Therapeutic and Functional MaterialsINTELLECTUAL MERIT: The symposium will provide a forum for scientists and engineers who use proteins and peptides as a critical component in current and emerging technologies ranging from drug delivery to tissue engineering, molecular electronics, and nanotechnology to share ideas and results. Funding is requested specifically to enable junior faculty, postdoctorals, graduate students, and researchers from underrepresented groups to present research results in a dynamic multidisciplinary international symposium. Each of four oral sessions will feature 8-10 presentations including a keynote address plus invited and contributed papers. An evening poster session is also scheduled. A substantial group of distinguished keynote and invited speakers has already agreed to participate. During the past decade remarkable advances in protein and peptide science have led to new synthetic and discovery methodologies, new folding motifs and building block architectures, and control of peptide and protein self-assembly to create structures from the nanometer to the micrometer length scales. These advances are now poised to enable discovery and development of materials that form self-assembled hierarchical structures useful for emerging technologies in biomedicine, molecular electronics, and nanotechnology. The symposium provides a forum for international experts and beginning researchers to share recent advances.BROADER IMPACTS: The requested funding will be used exclusively to enable younger scientists, in particular, those from underrepresented groups, to participate in this interdisciplinary symposium.