Conference Support for Biofunctional Architectures - Reversible Interactions and Surface Recognition Symposium; San Francisco, CA; Spring 2010

生物功能架构会议支持——可逆相互作用和表面识别研讨会；

• 批准号: 0950741
• 负责人: Tonya Kuhl
• 金额: $ 0.4万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-12-15 至 2010-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0950741&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Support; Biofunctional; Architectures; Reversible

This award by the Biomaterials program in the Division of Materials Research to University of California Davis is to provide partial support for the attendance of graduate students, postdocs and young faculty members at a symposium on "Biofunctional Architectures ? Reversible Interactions and Surface Recognition Symposium." This symposium will be held as part of the American Chemical Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California from March 22 to 24, 2010. Scientific themes of the conference will include theoretical, computational modeling and experimental aspects on: a) Biofunctional architectures for targeting and nano-technology; b) Reversibly associating polymer thin-films; c) Dynamics of tethered ligand-receptor interactions; and d) Biomolecular self-assembly on surfaces. This symposium is expected to provide knowledge base for the rapid advancement of computational and experimental work towards elucidating the structures and interactions responsible for the functionality of biological materials found in nature. A key challenge now is to utilize this knowledge towards the development of bio-mimetic systems for technological applications such as drug targeting, biosensing-arrays, biomolecule based devices, medical nanotechnology, and the creation of new materials with ultra functionalities.Broader impact of the conference is to bring together students, junior scientists and leading researchers from USA and abroad to advance the knowledge base for biofucntional architectures. In addition, this conference is expected to create interactions and collaborations among current and future researchers in the field. Towards this goal, wide dissemination of the scientific information presented and discussed during the symposium will be accomplished through a special issue of Biointerphases, an open access online journal. Articles in this special issue "In Focus" will be after the normal review process and criteria of Biointerphases.

该奖项由加州戴维斯大学材料研究部生物材料项目颁发，旨在为研究生、博士后和年轻教职员工参加“生物功能建筑？可逆相互作用和表面识别研讨会。“这次研讨会将于2010年3月22日至24日在加州州弗朗西斯科举行的美国化学学会春季会议的一部分。会议的科学主题将包括以下方面的理论、计算建模和实验方面：a）靶向和纳米技术的生物功能结构; B）可逆缔合聚合物薄膜; c）束缚配体-受体相互作用的动力学; d）表面上的生物分子自组装。预计本次研讨会将为计算和实验工作的快速发展提供知识基础，以阐明自然界中发现的生物材料的结构和相互作用。现在的一个关键挑战是利用这些知识开发生物模拟系统的技术应用，如药物靶向，生物传感阵列，生物分子基设备，医疗纳米技术，以及创造具有超功能的新材料。会议的更广泛的影响是汇集来自美国和国外的学生，初级科学家和领先的研究人员，以推进生物功能架构的知识基础。此外，本次会议预计将在该领域当前和未来的研究人员之间建立互动和合作。为实现这一目标，将通过一份开放获取的在线期刊《Biointerphase》特刊，广泛传播专题讨论会期间介绍和讨论的科学信息。本特刊“焦点”中的文章将经过生物界的正常审查程序和标准。