WORKSHOP: Lorentz center workshop: Anisotropy and Shape in Biological Materials: From Structure to Functionality

研讨会：洛伦兹中心研讨会：生物材料中的各向异性和形状：从结构到功能

• 批准号: 1639574
• 负责人: Linda Hirst
• 金额: $ 0.36万
• 依托单位: University of California - Merced
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-05-01 至 2016-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1639574&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WORKSHOP; Lorentz; center; workshop; Anisotropy

Nontechnical:This award by the Biomaterials program in the Division of Materials Research to University of California, Merced is for the participant travel support to attend and present recent scientific developments at the 2016 Lorentz Center Meeting to be held at the Lorentz Center, in Leiden, the Netherlands from May 23rd-27th 2016. This award is cofounded by the Global Venture Funds in the Office of International Science and Engineering. This workshop is committed to 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 this scientific goal and the broader impacts, the organizers have invited a significant number of early career faculty and postdocs as well as senior scientists to speak at the meeting. The proposed travel stipends will be used to bring early career scientists from the US, and to encourage the participation of female physics and engineering faculty 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 workshop is on deformable biological and bio-inspired materials, and will focus on the role of anisotropy on the structural and functional attributes of biomaterials, especially from a morphological point of view. Although material anisotropy has been demonstrated to have significant implications, on the strength and functioning of tissue engineered constructs, its role as a control parameter for designing biomaterials in general is yet to be assessed. This necessitates the need for a fundamental insight into the science of deformable materials bounded, on the one hand by structural ordering, and on the other hand by biological activity. The goal of this workshop is to bring together top class pure and applied scientists (about 25 to 55 participants) with the aim of interfacing multiple disciplines (physics, chemistry, biology and engineering) to understand the fundamentals of anisotropic deformable materials, and in tandem, develop applications based on these novel concepts. These interactions will be critical to generate 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.

非技术奖项：该奖项由加州大学默塞德分校材料研究部生物材料项目颁发，旨在为参加2016年洛伦兹中心会议的参与者提供旅费支持，该会议将于2016年5月23日至27日在荷兰莱顿的洛伦兹中心举行。该奖项由国际科学与工程办公室的全球风险基金共同创立。该研讨会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，这可能导致一生的合作和科学成就。为了实现这一科学目标和更广泛的影响，组织者邀请了大量的早期职业教师和博士后以及资深科学家在会议上发言。拟议的旅行津贴将用于从美国引进早期职业科学家，并鼓励女性物理和工程教师参加会议。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一种极好的方式。技术：本次研讨会是关于可变形生物和仿生材料，并将重点关注各向异性在生物材料的结构和功能属性中的作用，特别是从形态学的角度来看。尽管材料各向异性已被证明对组织工程构建体的强度和功能具有重要影响，但其作为设计生物材料的控制参数的作用尚未得到评估。这就需要对可变形材料的科学有一个基本的认识，一方面是结构的有序，另一方面是生物活动。本次研讨会的目标是汇集一流的纯和应用科学家（约25至55名参与者），旨在连接多个学科（物理，化学，生物和工程），以了解各向异性可变形材料的基本原理，并在此基础上开发基于这些新概念的应用。这些相互作用对于理解如何设计特定材料以与生物实体“共生”以及如何获得生物材料与其生物对应物在功能上的相似性至关重要。