Travel Support to the 2009 Macromolecular Materials GRC and GRS; Ventura, CA; January 10-15, 2009

ID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 0841011 PI: Pochan， Darrin ORG: University of delaware标题：2009大分子材料戈登研究会议（GRC）和研究生研究研讨会（GRS）高分子材料戈登研究会议（GRC）和互补性研究生研究研讨会（GRS）的组织者将补充现有的旅费支持资金，以加强生物材料重点博士后和高级研究生参加本次会议。虽然不完全致力于生物材料，但该计划的很大一部分与生物材料计划所支持的领域直接相关。本次GRC的一个创新之处在于，在GRC之前，将举行为期两天的戈登-凯南研究生/博士后研究研讨会。该活动将向新研究者介绍GRC的经验，并使他们有机会以通常不提供给新手研究者的方式参与。申请资金的四分之一将用于支持预计参加GRC的大约30名学生和博士后中的5名。国家科学基金将重点支持女性和少数民族青年教师、学生和博士后，他们将向组委会申请这项支持。更广泛的影响：更广泛的影响在于培育和发展明天？美国生物材料领域和相关跨学科领域的领导者，并进一步促进从事这一跨学科研究的科学人员的多样性。与过去的传统保持一致，今年的主题是什么？会议涵盖了一系列重要和及时的主题，从生物材料合成到物理和工程，包括聚合物科学的工业趋势。这些课程主题包括聚合物薄膜的机械性能和图案，用于DNA络合和细胞递送的聚电解质，用于生物材料的带电聚合物，复杂胶束组装，聚合物纳米粒子和纳米技术，以及带电聚合物组装理论。

ID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 0841011 PI: Pochan, Darrin ORG: University of DelawareTitle: 2009 Macromolecular Materials Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and Graduate Research Seminar (GRS)INTELLECTUAL MERIT: The organizers of the Macromolecular Materials Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and complementary Graduate Research Seminar (GRS) will supplement the available funds for travel support to enhance participation of biomaterials-focused post doctoral and senior graduate students at this meeting. Although not devoted entirely to biomaterials, a significant portion of the program is of direct relevance to the areas supported by the Biomaterials program. An innovative feature of this GRC will be a two-day Gordon-Kenan Graduate/Postdoc Research Seminar that will precede the GRC itself. This event will introduce new investigators to the GRC experience and give them a chance to participate in ways not normally available to beginning investigators. A quarter of the requested funds will be used to support attendance at the GRC by five of the approximately 30 students and postdocs expected to participate. Special emphasis will be placed on using the funds provided by NSF to support female and minority junior faculty, students, and postdocs, who will apply for this support to the organizing committee.BROADER IMPACTS: The broader impacts lie in the cultivation and development of tomorrow?s leaders in the biomaterials field and related interdisciplinary fields and to further diversity in the scientific workforce performing this interdisciplinary research. In keeping with the past tradition of the Polymers West GRC, the Programmatic Themes of this year?s conference cover a range of important and timely topics spanning the range from biomaterial synthesis to physics and engineering, including industrial trends in polymer science. These programmatic themes include polymer thin film mechanical properties and patterning, polyelectrolytes for DNA complexation and cellular delivery, charged polymers for biomaterials, complex micelle assembly, polymer nanoparticles and nanotechnology, and the theory of charged polymer assembly.