Workshop: Developing Community in Engineered Living Materials; Bozeman, Montana; 13 July 2023

工程活性材料（elm）是一类新兴的材料，由于在材料上或材料内包含活细胞而具有额外或独特的功能。elm有望在材料开发、制造和使用方面提供更好的可持续性。例如，使用活细胞作为（微型）工厂将有助于从可持续投入中产生所需的材料，例如从单糖或废物中生产生物聚合物。目前，由于ELM编程没有专门的会议，ELM的开发受到在该领域工作的学术和行业团队之间有限的发现、想法和创新交流的阻碍。一个主要的挑战是，这个新领域的参与者跨越了许多研究团体，因此建立的会议只聚集了ELM社区的一小部分。该基金支持两次会议，将ELM社区聚集在一起，交流想法、挑战和解决方案，推动该领域向前发展，目标是每年或每两年举办一次ELM会议系列。这笔拨款支持两次会议。第一个是与材料研究学会春季会议相邻的晚间会议，聚集与会者并讨论为期一天的夏季ELM研讨会的优先事项。第二次会议是一个为期一天的研讨会，将汇集在材料科学、工程、微生物学、合成生物学以及社会、法律和伦理考虑领域从事ELM研究的团队。欢迎学术界和工业界人士参加。研讨会将邀请演讲者，小型工作组和主持讨论，以确定优先研究领域，确定核心挑战和潜在解决方案，并确定这个新兴社区的需求。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Engineered Living Materials (ELMs) are an emerging class of materials that have additional or unique functionalities resulting from the inclusion of living cells on or within the material. ELMs are expected to provide improved sustainability in material development, manufacturing, and use. For instance, using living cells as (micro)factories would facilitate generation of desirable materials from sustainable inputs, such as the production of biopolymers from simple sugars or waste materials. Currently, the development of ELMs is hindered by limited exchange of findings, ideas, and innovations between academic and industry teams working in this area because ELM programming does not have a dedicated conference. A major challenge is that participants in this new field span many research communities, and thus established conferences only assemble small cross-sections of the ELM community. This grant supports two meetings to bring together ELM community to exchange ideas, challenges, and solutions that move the field forward with the goal of establishing an ELM conference series on an annual or biannual schedule.This grant supports two meetings. The first is an evening meeting adjacent to the Materials Research Society Spring conference to assemble attendees and discuss the priorities for the one-day summer ELM workshop. The second meeting is a one-day workshop which will bring together teams working in ELM research across the fields of materials science, engineering, microbiology, synthetic biology, as well as social, legal and ethical considerations. Academic and industry participants are expected. The workshop will feature invited speakers, small working groups, and moderated discussions to define priority research areas, identify central challenges and potential solutions, and define the needs of this emerging community.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.