NSF-GEM4 Summer School on Cellular and Molecular Mechanics

细胞/分子生物学和工程学领域的跨学科研究显然是一个新兴领域，将成为科学、工程和生物学研究的前沿。同样明显的是，迫切需要让工程师了解生物学，让生物学家了解工程学，也需要培训这一关键、新兴领域的研究人员。在这个项目中，NSF-GEM4细胞和分子力学暑期学校将通过五所美国机构(UIUC、MIT、加州理工大学、佐治亚理工学院和德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校)的合作建立。在接下来的五年里，细胞和分子力学暑期班将分别在加州理工大学、德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校、加州大学洛杉矶分校、麻省理工学院和佐治亚理工学院举办。来自工程学和生物学的专家被邀请讲授力学和生物学的基本知识以及最新的研究成果。参与者，包括研究生、博士后和工程学和生物学的教职员工，将学习彼此的研究工具和方法，以探索在共同感兴趣的主题上的潜在合作。暑期班系列预计将培养出同样熟悉工程学和生物学研究工具和方法的下一代研究人员，目标是在工程学和生物学的交叉点上培养一个新的跨学科研究领域。暑期班的影响将是重大和深远的，包括开发新的研究工具，改变现有的研究方法，并可能导致解决社会面临的一些最具挑战性的问题，包括医疗保健、能源和环境。这五家美国机构的地理位置具有战略意义。这些机构之间的合作将为这一新兴领域的潜在协调奠定基础，并加强未来教育和研究工作的影响。

Interdisciplinary research in the areas of cell/molecular biology and engineering is clearly an emergent field that will become the frontiers of scientific, engineering, and biological research. It is also clear that there is an urgent need to educate engineers about biology and biologists about engineering, and a need to train researchers in this critical, emergent field. In this project, an NSF-GEM4 Summer School on Cellular and Molecular Mechanics will be established through a collaborative effort among five US institutions (UIUC, MIT, Caltech, Georgia Tech, and UT-Austin). In the next five years, the Summer School on Cellular and Molecular Mechanics will be held at Caltech, UT-Austin, UIUC, MIT, and Georgia Tech, respectively. Experts from engineering and biology are invited to give lectures on basic knowledge in mechanics and in biology as well as on state-of-the-art research. Participants, including graduate students, postdocs, and faculty members from both engineering and biology, will learn the research tools and methods in each other's to explore potential collaborations on topics of mutual interest.The Summer School series is expected to produce the next generation of researchers who are equally familiar with the tools and methodologies in engineering and biology research, with a goal to foster a new, interdisciplinary research area at the intersection of engineering and biology. The impact of the Summer Schools will be significant and far-reaching, including developing new research tools, transforming the existing research methodologies, and potentially leading to solutions to some of the most challenging problems facing society including healthcare, energy and the environment. The five US institutions are strategically located geographically. The collaborations among these institutions will form the foundation for potential coordination in this emergent field and enhance the impact of future educational and research efforts.