RoL: Conference: DESYN-C3: An International Conference on Engineering Synthetic Cells and Organelles

国际工程合成细胞和细胞器会议将于2019年夏季在新墨西哥州阿尔伯克基附近举行。会议聚焦于合成生物学，确立了合成细胞技术的最新水平，并确定了该领域未来工作的重大挑战和机遇。它展示了来自美国和国际一流大学和国家实验室的合成细胞技术的世界领先者。会议阐述了NSF的使命，NSF越来越致力于将工程科学与生命科学相结合，鼓励多学科领域的研究和开发，教育下一代年轻科学家，支持尖端科学应对当前和未来的挑战，并确保美国科学家参与全球事务。会议的主题将集中在创造合成细胞的基础技术的开发上。会议将以单轨形式在两年半的时间里就五个议题举行会议。主题将是(1)创造合成细胞和细胞器的策略；(2)合成细胞质结构的空间和时间组织；(3)传感、信号和电路；(4)分子机器、力学和运动学；以及(5)合成细胞技术的含义。会议记录和配套技术路线图将在会议结束后公布。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The International Conference on Engineering Synthetic Cells and Organelles will be held near Albuquerque, New Mexico during the summer of 2019. The conference focuses on synthetic biology, establishes the state-of-the-art of synthetic cell technology, and identifies grand challenges and opportunities for future work in this field. It features world leaders in synthetic cell technology from premier US and international universities and national laboratories. The meeting addresses the mission of NSF, which has been increasingly committed to integrating the engineering sciences with the life sciences, encouraging research and development in multidisciplinary areas, educating the next generation of young scientists, and supporting cutting edge science to answer current and future challenges as well as making sure US-based scientists are globally engaged. Topics of the conference will focus on development of foundational technologies for creating synthetic cells. The conference will hold sessions on five topics over 2.5 days in a single-track format. The topics will be (1) strategies to create synthetic cells and organelles; (2) spatial and temporal organization of synthetic cytoplasmic structures; (3) sensing, signaling, and circuits; (4) molecular machines, mechanics, and motility; and (5) implications of synthetic cell technology. The conference proceedings, and a companion technology roadmap, will be published subsequent to the conference.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.