Conference: Biosensors, Biochips and Micro/Nano-devices Symposium at IBE 2011 Annual Conference, March 2011, Atlanta, Georgia

智力优势：生物和化学物种的检测和量化是解决现代社会在许多领域面临的各种挑战的核心，例如生物医学诊断、卫生保健、全球安全以及化学和生物威胁、病原体和潜在恐怖袭击的安全保障。近年来，包括生物芯片和微/纳米器件在内的基于生物传感器的技术正在迅速发展，以满足对小型化易于使用的设备日益增长的需求，从而实现对各种目标分子的快速、选择性和敏感检测，用于广泛的应用。本次生物传感器、生物芯片和微/纳米器件研讨会将汇集生物传感器领域的科学家，他们在工程和生命科学的界面上工作，讨论该领域的新发现、当前进展和未来前景。本次研讨会将包括四个部分：传感器和生物传感器、生物仪器和器件、生物mems / nem和生物纳米技术。研讨会将特别鼓励本科生和研究生参与，并鼓励学生以口头或海报的形式展示他们的研究工作。研讨会将加强来自不同学科（工程和科学）的未来科学家的管道，并加强对新兴生物传感器领域下一代科学家的科学培训。拟议预算的大部分将用于支持学生参加研讨会。研讨会将于2011年3月3-5日在佐治亚州亚特兰大的Loews Atlanta酒店举行的生物工程研究所（IBE）年度会议上组织。IBE （www.ibe.org）是一个专业组织，旨在促进生物工程基础在各个层面的广泛探索。从分子到有机体再到景观尺度。IBE通过生物启发工程将工程引入生命科学。由于生物传感器领域本质上是跨学科的，IBE年会是组织这次生物传感器、生物芯片和微/纳米器件研讨会的理想场所。通过IBE年会，与生物传感器技术直接相关的许多领域的工程师、科学家和技术人员将聚集在一起，讨论生物传感器技术在食品安全、环境监测和生物医学诊断方面的最新进展和应用。此外，研讨会亦会邀请本地创业公司的代表，介绍他们各自的技术和策略，以推动生物传感器领域的技术转移，并与IBE的“生物商业连结”会议合作。广泛影响：IBE年度会议的研讨会旨在讨论新兴生物传感器技术的当前进展及其在生物工程和生命科学界面中的应用，并促进新技术向商业实体的转移。研讨会将特别为本科生和研究生提供机会，展示他们的研究成果，并与生物工程领域的工程师、科学家、技术专家和教育工作者进行互动，这将有助于将我们的学生塑造成未来生物工程领域的领导者。

Intellectual Merit: Detection and quantification of biological and chemical species are central to solving a wide variety of challenges faced by modern society in many areas, such as biomedical diagnostics, health care, and global safety and security from chemical and biological threats, pathogens, and potential terror attacks. Biosensor-based technology including biochips and micro/nano-devices are expending rapidly in recent years to meet the growing needs for miniaturized easy-to-use devices for achieving rapid, selective and sensitive detection of various target molecules for a wide range of applications. This Biosensor, Biochips and Micro/nano-Devices Symposium is to bring together scientists in the biosensor field who are working at the interface of engineering and life science to discuss new findings, current progresses, and future perspectives in the field. This symposium will include four sessions: Sensors and Biosensors, Bioinstrumentation and Devices, Bio-MEMS/NEMs, and Bio-Nanotechnology. The symposium will especially encourage undergraduate and graduate student participation, and encourage students to present their research work as oral or poster format. The symposium will enhance the pipeline of our future scientists from different disciplines (engineering and science) and enhance the scientific training of our next generation of scientists in the emerging biosensor fields. The majority of the proposed budget will be supporting students to attend the symposium.The Symposium will be organized at the Institute of Biological Engineering (IBE) Annual conference which will be held at the Loews Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, March 3-5, 2011. IBE (www.ibe.org) is a professional organization which was established to promote broad inquiry in the fundamentals of biological engineering at all levels? and from molecular to organism to landscape scales. IBE is bringing engineering to life science through biology-inspired engineering. As the Biosensor field by its nature is interdisciplinary, the IBE annual conference is an ideal place to organize this Biosensors, Biochips and Micro/nano- Devices Symposium. Through IBE annual meetings, engineers, scientists, and technologists in many areas directly related to biosensor technology will come together to discuss the latest progressand applications of biosensor technology in food safety, environment monitoring, andbiomedical diagnostics. Partnering with the Bio-business Nexus session at IBE, the symposium will also promote technology transfer in the biosensor areas by inviting representatives from local start-up companies to present their respective technologies and strategies for moving concepts to commercial success.Broad Impact: The symposium at IBE annual conference is to discuss current progress in emerging biosensor technologies and its applications in the interface of engineering and life science among a biological engineering audience, and to promote the transfer of new technologies into commercial entities. The symposium will especially provide undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to present their research and to interact with engineers, scientists, technologists and educators in the biological engineering community, which will help to shape our students as the future leaders in biological engineering.