Fouth International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering (ICBE) Jan 13-16, 2013 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

第四届生物分子工程国际会议 (ICBE) 2013 年 1 月 13-16 日在佛罗里达州劳德代尔堡举行。

• 批准号: 1232498
• 负责人: Miriam Cortes-Caminero
• 金额: $ 0.98万
• 依托单位: American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-01-01 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1232498&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Fouth; International; Conference; Biomolecular; Engineering

1232498 Cortes-CamineroThe field of biomolecular engineering has rapidly emerged as an important area of research with affects ranging from the environment to medicine; however, there are few forums that bring together biologists, chemists, and engineers to discuss ways in which their disciplines can collaborate to find novel solutions to fundamental and applied problems that are limiting the development of new technologies and therapies. In response to this need, we are organizing the Fourth International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering (ICBE). The Fourth ICBE will be held from Sunday, January 13 through Wednesday, January 16, 2013, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is anticipated ~200 attendees, a size that is accommodated routinely by the meeting site. It is envisioned that roughly 30% of the attendees will be graduate students and young investigators. As currently defined, biomolecular engineering covers the multidisciplinary interface between molecular biology and quantitative engineering science. Established research subfields have come to include protein, metabolic, cell, and tissue engineering. The growth of these areas has paralleled the rapid sequencing of genomes, large-scale elucidation of protein structures, and expansion of computational resources. These developments have expanded the availability of biological data exponentially in ways that few foresaw. The key challenge confronting the emerging field of systems biology is integrating all this information across the varied levels of biological complexity, from molecules to pathways, from pathways to cells, and from cells to tissues. The lines between these subfields are increasingly blurred as they coalesce under the umbrella of molecular biology.Intellectual MeritThe topics covered by this conference share a common theme: they will require the intersection of viewpoints, knowledge, and technologies from biology and engineering, from both academia and industry. The time is ripe to bring leading researchers with these complementary backgrounds together to aid in furthering the field of biomolecular engineering, as well as to provide a strong educational forum to train young researchers as future leaders in this emerging field. There is an increasing need for biologists, engineers and biochemists to collaborate and to train one another in complementary viewpoints and expertise. The conference will be a unique coming together of researchers from academia and industry, who are using quantitative approaches to advance the understanding and application of biology at the molecular level. The conference will stimulate integration of these approaches across the molecular, cellular, and higher scales of biological complexity. Broader ImpactThe Aims of this conference are to provide a venue:1. for scientific presentations from a diverse group of leading biology, chemistry and engineering researchers who cover the breadth of Biomolecular Engineering;2. for interactions between academic and industry researchers, who bring different approaches and perspectives to the field;3. for active participation by Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers, who represent the future of biomolecular engineering; and4. for bringing scientists and engineers together to provide an atmosphere and venue to discuss their disciplines and approaches, and to motivate new research into barriers limiting the development of biomolecular technologies.The scope, theme, and aims of the meeting fall squarely within the mission of NSF, which has been increasingly committed to integrating the engineering sciences with the life sciences, encouraging research and development in multidisciplinary areas, educating the next generation of young scientists and translational medicine, and increasing the diversity of the workforce in science and engineering. This application, if successful, will directly impact Aims 3 and 4, by providing support for graduate student/postdoctoral associate participants, and by providing a forum for the interactions between normally separated leading scientists and engineers to stimulate new ideas that could benefit economic, health and environmental related activities. Conference chairs will actively encourage participation of women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities in all meeting announcements and in the application process for student/postdoctoral awards. Selection of awardees will include this as a criterion.

1232498考特斯-卡米诺生物分子工程领域已迅速崛起为一个重要的研究领域，其影响范围从环境到医学；然而，很少有论坛将生物学家、化学家和工程师聚集在一起，讨论他们的学科如何合作，为限制新技术和疗法发展的基本和应用问题找到新的解决方案。针对这一需要，我们正在组织第四届国际生物分子工程会议(ICBE)。第四届ICBE将于2013年1月13日(星期日)至1月16日(星期三)在佛罗里达州劳德代尔堡举行。预计将有大约200人参加，这是会议地点通常能容纳的人数。据设想，大约30%的与会者将是研究生和年轻的调查人员。按照目前的定义，生物分子工程涵盖了分子生物学和定量工程科学之间的多学科界面。已建立的研究子领域包括蛋白质、代谢、细胞和组织工程。这些区域的增长伴随着基因组的快速测序、蛋白质结构的大规模阐明和计算资源的扩展。这些发展以几乎没有人预见到的方式成倍地扩大了生物数据的可获得性。新兴的系统生物学领域面临的关键挑战是将所有这些信息整合到不同水平的生物复杂性中，从分子到途径，从途径到细胞，从细胞到组织。这些子领域之间的界限越来越模糊，因为它们在分子生物学的保护伞下结合在一起。智力价值这次会议涵盖的主题有一个共同的主题：它们将需要来自学术界和工业界的生物学和工程学的观点、知识和技术的交叉。现在是时候将具有这些互补背景的领先研究人员聚集在一起，以帮助进一步发展生物分子工程领域，并提供一个强大的教育论坛，将年轻研究人员培养成这一新兴领域的未来领导者。生物学家、工程师和生物化学家越来越需要在互补的观点和专业知识方面相互合作和培训。这次会议将是来自学术界和工业界的研究人员的一次独特的聚会，他们正在使用定量方法在分子水平上促进对生物学的理解和应用。这次会议将促进这些方法在分子、细胞和更高层次的生物学复杂性上的整合。更广泛的影响这次会议的目的是提供一个场所：1.为涵盖生物分子工程广泛领域的不同领域的领先生物、化学和工程研究人员提供科学报告；2.学术和行业研究人员之间的互动，他们为该领域带来不同的方法和视角；3.代表生物分子工程未来的博士生和博士后研究人员的积极参与；以及4.将科学家和工程师聚集在一起，提供一个讨论他们的学科和方法的氛围和场所，并激励对限制生物分子技术发展的障碍进行新的研究。会议的范围、主题和目标正好属于NSF的使命，NSF越来越致力于将工程科学与生命科学相结合，鼓励多学科领域的研究和开发，教育下一代年轻科学家和转化医学，并增加科学和工程劳动力的多样性。这项申请如果成功，将直接影响目标3和目标4，为研究生/博士后助理参与者提供支持，并为通常分开的顶尖科学家和工程师之间的互动提供一个论坛，以激发可能有利于经济、卫生和环境相关活动的新想法。会议主席将积极鼓励妇女、任职人数不足的少数群体和残疾人参与所有会议公告和学生/博士后奖项的申请过程。获奖者的选择将包括这一标准。