WORKSHOP: 2016 GRS/GRC on Biomineralization

非技术性：该奖项由西北大学材料研究部生物材料项目颁发，以支持参与者的旅行和/或注册，以参加将于2016年8月14日至19日在西班牙吉罗纳PGA加泰罗尼亚商业和会议中心举行的2016年GRS/GRC关于“生物矿化”的最新科学进展并展示其最新科学进展。该奖项是由国际科学与工程办公室的全球风险基金共同设立的。这次会议致力于将年轻和资深科学家聚集在一起，讨论他们目前的研究，并与他们的同行建立非正式网络，促进来自不同国家和领域的科学家之间的合作和互动，这可能导致终身合作和科学成就。为了实现这些科学目标和更广泛的影响，组织者邀请了相当数量的早期职业教师和博士后科学家以及资深科学家在会议上发言。拟议的旅行和注册津贴将用于吸引来自美国的早期职业科学家，并鼓励年轻教职员工参加会议。让各种各样的科学家参加这种密集的互动会议，将是刺激更广泛地参与尖端国际项目的绝佳方式。技术：本次戈登研究会议将汇聚多学科的科学家小组，并将提供一个鼓舞人心的平台，讨论关于生物如何(以及为什么)合成生物矿化组织的最新想法和最新进展，以及如何将这些见解应用于材料研究、生物技术、再生医学和解决环境问题等多个领域。预计这次会议将召集一群最优秀、最聪明的科学家，他们研究生命的所有领域的生物矿化作用，从细菌制造的纳米颗粒到植物和脊椎动物的中观结构组件和活组织。会议将特别强调新的高分辨率技术的使用以及建模和实验的协同使用。本次研讨会的目标是将顶尖的纯科学家和应用科学家聚集在一起，目的是将多个学科(物理、化学、生物、工程等)联系起来。了解生物矿化的基本原理，并基于这些新概念开发应用程序。这次会议上的这些互动对于理解特定材料应该如何设计成与生物实体“共生”，以及如何使生物材料的功能与其活的同类材料具有相似性将是至关重要的。

Nontechnical: This award by the Biomaterials program in the Division of Materials Research to Northwestern University is in support of the participants' travel and/or registration to attend and present recent scientific development by US-based researchers for the 2016 GRS/GRC on "Biomineralization" to be held at PGA Catalunya Business and Convention Centre, Girona, Spain from August 14 to 19, 2016. This award is cofounded by the Global Venture Funds in the Office of International Science and Engineering. This conference is committed in bringing young and senior scientists together, and to discuss their current research and builds informal networks with their peers fostering collaborations and interactions between scientists from different countries and fields that may lead to a lifetime of collaboration and scientific achievement. To fulfill these scientific goals and broader impacts, the organizers have invited a significant number of early career faculty and postdoctoral scientists as well as senior scientists to speak at the meeting. The proposed travel and registration stipends will be used to bring early career scientists from the US, and to encourage the participation of young faculty members at the meeting. Exposing a diverse mix of scientists to this kind of intensive interactive meeting will be an excellent way to stimulate broader participation in cutting edge international projects. Technical: This Gordon Research Conference will bring together a multidisciplinary group of scientists, and would provide a stimulating platform to discuss the latest ideas and recent advances on how (and why) organisms synthesize biomineralized tissues, and on how one may apply these insights in areas as diverse as materials research, biotechnology, regenerative medicine, and address environmental issues. The meeting is expected to assemble a group of best and brightest scientists investigating biomineralization across all domains of life, from nanoparticles made by bacteria to meso-structured assemblies and live tissues in plants and vertebrates. The conference will particularly highlight the use of novel high-resolution techniques and the synergetic use of modeling and experiments. The goal of this workshop is to bring together top class pure and applied scientists with the aim of interfacing multiple disciplines (physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, etc.) to understand the fundamentals of biomineralization, and develop applications based on these novel concepts. These interactions at this conference will be critical in generatng an understanding of how particular materials should be designed to be "symbiotic" with biological entities and how to get similarity in functioning of biomaterials with their living counterparts.