Travel Grants for US Scientists to Attend Metabolic Pathway Analysis 2013 Conference at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, England on September 16-20, 2013

1346586该奖项支持美国研究人员和研究生参加将于2013年9月16-20日在英国牛津举行的代谢途径分析会议。会议的主要重点是代谢网络的结构(拓扑)分析，特别是与线性代数、线性规划和计算机建模有关的技术。这一重点可以应用于从个体反应机制到途径、细胞器、整个生物体以及最近的混合种群的许多层面的抽象。课程内容包括新陈代谢途径分析、新陈代谢通量分析、基本模式分析、新陈代谢模型、新陈代谢工程、基因组规模模型。有一天将专门介绍新陈代谢的热力学。NSF的支持将帮助确保会议的成功，因为它将部分支付选定的美国学术科学家和工程师的会议费用，重点放在代表人数不足的群体和研究生身上。在没有NSF支持的情况下，许多美国学术科学家和研究生将无法参加代谢分析/工程研究人员的国际社会的互动并从中受益。该奖项由CBET部门的生物技术、生化和生物工程项目获得，由分子和细胞生物学部门的合成和系统生物学项目共同赞助。

1346586 Carlson, Ross P.This award supports the participation of US investigators and graduate students in the Metabolic Pathway Analysis meeting to be held in Oxford, UK from Sep. 16-20, 2013. The meeting has a primary focus on the structural (topological) analysis of metabolic networks, and in particular techniques allied to linear algebra, linear programming and computer modelling. This focus may be applied at many levels of abstraction, from individual reaction mechanisms, through pathways, organelles, whole organisms and, most recently, mixed populations. Covered topics will include Metabolic pathway analysis, Metabolic flux analysis, Elementary mode analysis, Metabolic modelling, Metabolic engineering, Genome scale modelling. One day will be devoted to Thermodynamics in Metabolism. NSF support will help ensure the success of the meeting by partially defraying conference costs for select US academic scientists and engineers with an emphasis on underrepresented groups and graduate students. In the absence of NSF support, many US academic scientists and graduate students would not be able to attend and to benefit from interactions with the international community of metabolic analysis/engineering researchers. The award from the Biotechnology, Biochemical, and Bioengineering Program of the CBET Division is co-sponsored by the Synthetic and Systems Biology Program of the Molecular and Cell Biology Division.