Complex Coacervation: Principles and Applications - A Special Symposium at the 2015 American Chemical Society Fall Meeting; August 17-18, 2015; Boston, MA

非技术：该奖项由马萨诸塞州大学阿默斯特分校材料研究部生物材料项目颁发，旨在支持学生、博士后科学家和初级教师参加2015年8月16日至21日在马萨诸塞州波士顿举行的2015年美国化学学会秋季会议上举行的题为“复杂凝聚：原理和应用-特别研讨会”的会议。这次为期两天的研讨会的重点是生物材料，这次会议建立在2009年，2012年和2014年美国化学学会会议上成功举办的关于这一主题的小型会议的基础上。本次会议预计将提供一个环境，交流思想和新的方法和技术的产生等领域：在生物和原始生物系统的相分离;生物医学应用;和食品，个人护理的应用。这项建议的更广泛影响是增加学生、博士后科学家和代表性不足的少数民族学生在科学和工程领域的参与。会议形式将为学生提供各种机会，参加顶级科学家的最先进的讲座，并与他们见面，交流和展示他们的成果，并参与讨论。技术：这个为期两天的会议旨在介绍电荷驱动材料自组装的一般性和复杂凝聚的具体情况。该活动预计将介绍这一研究领域的最新进展，强调复合凝聚层作为一类材料的新趋势和未来方向，并突出与这些类型材料相关的各种应用和科学。由于这一领域将极大地受益于来自化学家，生物学家，物理学家和工程师的多学科互动，会议计划包含邀请演讲者和学生的出色安排。会议分为四个领域：1）理论和表征; 2）生物和原始生物系统中的相分离; 3）生物医学应用; 4）食品，个人护理和药物输送系统中的应用。海报会议是以这样一种方式组织的，学生将能够展示他们的结果，并与同行在该领域进行交流。会议形式将为学生提供各种机会，参加顶尖科学家的最先进的讲座，与科学家会面，交流，展示他们的成果，并参与讨论。此外，本次会议预计将为学生提供职业和专业发展的机会。

Non-Technical: This award by the Biomaterials program in the Division of Materials Research to University of Massachusetts at Amherst is to support students, postdoctoral scientists and junior faculty members to attend a conference titled "Complex Coacervation: Principles and Applications - A Special Symposium" at the 2015 American Chemical Society Fall Meeting in Boston, MA, August 16 to 21, 2015. The focus of this two-day symposium is on biomaterials, and this conference builds upon earlier successful smaller conferences on this topic held at American Chemical Society Meetings in 2009, 2012 and 2014. This conference is expected to provide a setting for the exchange of ideas and the generation of new approaches and technologies in such areas as: phase separation in biological and proto-biological systems; biomedical applications; and applications in food, personal care. The broader impact of this proposal is to increase the participation of students, postdoctoral scientists and underrepresented minority students in science and engineering areas. The conference format will provide students with various opportunities to attend state-of-art lectures by top scientists and meet with them, communicate and present their results, and participate in discussions.Technical: This two-day conference is designed to provide an introduction to charge-driven materials self-assembly in general and complex coacervation in specific. The event is expected to present recent developments in this area of research, emphasizing new trends and future directions for complex coacervates as a class of materials, and highlighting the wide variety of applications and science relevant to these types of materials. Since this field would greatly benefit from multidisciplinary interactions from chemists, biologists, physicists, and engineers, the conference program contain an excellent arrangement of both invited speakers and students. The conference is broken down into four areas: 1) theory and characterization; 2) phase separation in biological and proto-biological systems; 3) biomedical applications; and 4) applications in food, personal care, and drug delivery systems. The poster sessions are organized in such a way that students will be able to present their results and communicate with peers in the field. The conference format will provide various opportunities for students to attend state-of-art lectures of the top scientists, meet the scientists, communicate, present their results, and participate in discussions. In addition, this conference is expected to provide students with career and professional development opportunities.