Supporting Student and Diversity Involvement at the 2020 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference; Vail, Colorado; June 17-20 2020

支持学生和多元化参与 2020 年夏季生物力学、生物工程和生物运输会议；

• 批准号: 2017872
• 负责人: Jonathan Vande Geest
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2022-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2017872&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Supporting; Student; Diversity; Involvement; 2020

This award will provide support for the annual Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference (SB3C) in Vail, Colorado form June 17th - 20th of 2020. This conference will bring together current and future leaders across the broad fields of bioengineering and biology to promote state-of-the-art research, collaboration, and international scientific discourse. Sessions will span a broad range of topics including Cell & Tissue Engineering, Computational Biomechanics & Diagnostic Models, and Rehabilitation & Assistive Technologies. This year’s conference will place particular emphasis on mechanobiology, which studies how physical forces and changes in the mechanical properties of cells and tissues can alter the function of an organism. The primary objective of this award is to enable the participation of students and early career scientists in the 2020 SB3C, especially those from underrepresented groups. A secondary objective is to include supporting highly-qualified student researchers who write the most meritorious scientific abstracts in the Student Paper Competition. Finally, discussions at the conference will be captured by a professional science writer and disseminated via a published paper. This will be in addition to the publicly-available conference proceedings. Taken together, these activities will build a foundation for a more diverse professional bioengineering workforce. Offering merit-based diversity travel fellowships pay for conference registration costs for students (undergraduate and graduate), postdoctoral fellows, and early career scientists from underrepresented groups will broaden participation. All who receive these funds will participate in a novel Diversity Mentor-Mentee Event. This event will provide an environment where attendees can network, initiate long term mentoring relationships, and discuss challenging aspects of being successful researchers. Students who receive support as finalists or winners in the student paper competition can add this information to their resumes, and the competition provides an opportunity for students to develop as researchers and is a significant career boost, enhancing retention of the most talented students and providing role models for all student attendees. Finally, the creation of a scholarly publication synthesizing the state-of-the-art discussions on bridging mechanics and biology will provide a lasting, tangible record of contemporary discussions on the conference theme – “Mechanobiology: Linking physics, form and function”.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.

该奖项将为2020年6月17日至20日在科罗拉多维尔举行的年度夏季生物力学，生物工程和生物运输会议（SB3C）提供支持。本次会议将汇集生物工程和生物学广泛领域的当前和未来领导者，以促进最先进的研究，合作和国际科学话语。 会议将涵盖广泛的主题，包括细胞组织工程、计算生物力学诊断模型和康复辅助技术。&&&今年的会议将特别强调机械生物学，它研究细胞和组织的物理力和机械特性的变化如何改变生物体的功能。 该奖项的主要目标是使学生和早期职业科学家参与2020年SB3C，特别是那些来自代表性不足的群体。第二个目标是支持高素质的学生研究人员谁写的最有价值的科学摘要在学生论文比赛。 最后，会议上的讨论将由专业科学作家记录，并通过发表的论文传播。 这将是除了公开会议记录。总之，这些活动将为更多样化的专业生物工程工作人员奠定基础。 为代表性不足的群体的学生（本科生和研究生）、博士后研究员和早期职业科学家提供基于成绩的多样性旅行奖学金，以支付会议注册费用，这将扩大参与范围。所有收到这些资金的人都将参加一个新颖的多元化导师-学员活动。 本次活动将提供一个环境，与会者可以网络，启动长期的指导关系，并讨论成为成功的研究人员的挑战方面。 在学生论文竞赛中获得决赛选手或获奖者支持的学生可以将此信息添加到他们的简历中，比赛为学生提供了作为研究人员发展的机会，是一个重要的职业发展，提高了最有才华的学生的保留率，并为所有学生与会者提供了榜样。 最后，创建一个学术出版物，综合最先进的讨论桥接力学和生物学将提供一个持久的，有形的记录当代讨论的会议主题-"机械生物学：连接物理，形式和功能"。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得支持的评估使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

项目成果

The Elephant in the Cell: Nuclear Mechanics and Mechanobiology.

细胞中的大象：核力学和力学生物学。

• DOI: 10.1115/1.4053797
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of biomechanical engineering
• 作者: Jones,MichelleL;Dahl,KrisNoel;Lele,TanmayP;Conway,DanielE;Shenoy,Vivek;Ghosh,Soham;Szczesny,SpencerE
• 通讯作者: Szczesny,SpencerE