Symposium Support for the 252nd American Chemical Society National Meeting: Soft Material Surface Modification to Control Cell/Surface Interactions

非技术：由阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校材料研究部生物材料项目颁发的本次会议奖将于2016年8月21日至25日在宾夕法尼亚州费城举行的美国化学学会2016年全国会议和博览会上组织为期两天的“软材料表面改性以控制细胞/表面相互作用”研讨会。本次会议旨在汇集在生物材料合成、性能和应用等跨学科领域工作的顶尖科学家。期待研究生、博士后和助理教授的积极参与。受邀的演讲者将包括新任命的助理教授和学术界的知名研究人员，以及国家实验室和工业界的初级和高级科学家。他们将展示他们的案例研究，并强调使用软材料来控制细胞/表面相互作用的表面改性方法的新趋势和未来方向。此外，本次研讨会预计将为初级教师、学生和博士后研究人员（包括相当数量的女性）提供与高级研究人员交流的重要机会。本次研讨会将向所有对软材料/细胞界面相关课题感兴趣的科学家/工程师开放。技术：本次研讨会的组织者组织了一次会议，深入讨论了软材料的基础知识，表面改性，包括聚合物纳米和微粒/细胞和平面/细胞相互作用，以及广泛的应用和变革性研究。本次会议旨在将多个学科（物理、化学、生物和工程）结合起来，发展对聚合物细胞相互作用基础的理解，并基于这些新概念和方法开发应用。本次研讨会预计将为参与生物相关聚合物合成、生物材料组装以定制细胞/表面修饰和细胞/组织封装的科学家和工程师提供一个论坛，并分享在这一迅速发展的领域取得的最新进展。

Nontechnical: This conference award by the Biomaterials program in the Division of Materials Research to University of Alabama at Birmingham is to organize a two-day symposium on "Soft Material Surface Modification to Control Cell/Surface Interactions" at the 2016 National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from August 21 to 25, 2016. This conference aims to bring together leading scientists working in the interdisciplinary area of biomaterials synthesis, properties, and applications. The active participation of graduate students, postdoctoral students and assistant professors is expected. The invited speakers will include newly appointed assistant professors as well as established researchers in academia, and junior and senior scientists at national laboratories and industry. They are expected to show their case research, and emphasize new trends and future directions for surface modification approaches using soft materials to control cell/surfaces interactions. Additionally, this symposium is expected to offer important opportunities for junior faculty members, students and postdoctoral researchers, including a significant number of women, to network with senior researchers. The symposium will be open to all interested scientists/engineers, who are actively working on topics related to soft materials/cell interfaces.Technical: The organizers of this symposium have put together a meeting for the in-depth discussions of fundamentals of soft materials, surface modification including polymer nano- and microparticle/cell and planar surfaces/cell interactions, as well as a broad representation of applications and transformative research. This conference aims in interfacing multiple disciplines (physics, chemistry, biology and engineering) in developing an understanding of the fundamentals of polymer cell interactions, and developing applications based on these novel concepts and approaches. This symposium is expected to provide a forum for scientists and engineers involved in synthesis of biologically relevant polymers, biomaterials assembly to tailor cell/surface modification, and cell/tissue encapsulation, and to share the most recent advances made in this rapidly expanding field.