Conference: 2023 NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Grantees Conference

自2001年以来，美国国家科学基金会的纳米科学与工程（NSF-NSE）受资助人会议每年举行一次，为期两天，汇集了来自学术界、政府和工业界的纳米科学和工程领域的教育工作者、研究人员和实验人员，重点介绍了由纳米技术资助的研究和教育活动的信息。2023年会议将于2023年12月7日至8日在弗吉尼亚州亚历山大市举行，并提供虚拟出席选项，将探讨可持续纳米技术解决生命科学挑战和纳米科学在生物技术中的应用这一及时主题。具体而言，它将提高对这一新兴全球问题的认识，并考虑解决这一挑战的前瞻性方向和突破性选择。会议将促进学术、政府和行业领袖在纳米技术领域的互动。会议材料的最终版本，例如录影主题、专题小组和海报介绍、专题小组讨论、摘要和个人简介，将作为会议记录。在活动结束后，全球观众可以访问http://www.nseresearch.org/2023/访问这些材料，以及以前活动的档案信息。关于纳米技术在生命科学中的重大挑战和潜在的融合解决方案的讨论将在活动期间促进创造性的跨学科对话和合作。此外，海报会议提供了演讲者和参与者之间一对一互动的机会。最后，该活动将确定和探索纳米技术和生物技术的新兴趋势；社会、伦理和经济影响；以及无障碍劳动力培训方面的考虑。这些集体观点将有助于学术研究人员、行业、政府和社区为有针对性的突破性解决方案和系统性的高影响力机会做好准备，并积极利用这些机会。本次会议的主要目标是促进在不同纳米技术领域的创新研究进展的传播，重点是纳米生物学，或纳米尺度的科学和工程的不同应用的生物现象，促进研究伙伴关系，并确定未来的研究方向。会议第一天将以“纳米生物技术和纳米生物制造”为主题，第二天将以“纳米生物医学、纳米神经科学和劳动力发展”为主题。主旨演讲、小组讨论和海报会议有助于促进大学和学术、工业、政府和国家实验室之间的互动。这些相互作用代表了朝着国家科学基金会、美国国家纳米技术倡议和21世纪纳米技术研究与发展法案的目标前进的重要一步。为了实现这些目标，2023纳米科学与工程资助会议将以主题演讲、小组演讲、小组讨论和海报为特色，突出纳米生物技术、纳米生物制造、纳米生物医学和纳米神经科学方面的远见和战略突破机会。具体的会议主题包括量子生物学和量子传感；合成生物学新进展；植物和农业系统中的纳米现象及其在生物经济中的应用多尺度和生物启发组装，即…nano-bio架构;基于细胞的分布式生物制造；纳米技术用于再生医学；生物打印技术;纳米医学在大流行病中的未来（以及靶向给药的作用）；纳米尺度的神经过程；以及纳米生物学研究界和（纳米）生物经济的教育和基础设施……每个主题演讲、小组演讲、小组讨论和海报环节都将为所有与会者提供培训机会，因为专家会议主持人将在广泛的纳米技术领域提供深入的内部和跨学科的见解。NSF资助的研究人员和NSF项目主任将主持小组讨论。此外，海报会议将促进与海报团队代表的深入对话，以及对会议演讲的进一步讨论。小组讨论的问题包括：在过去十年中，这些主题出现了哪些创新？推进这些领域的关键差距是什么？未来的机会是什么？这种共享的信息提供了丰富的知识，可以促进新的合作和融合的研究方向和机会。它还将使K-12、本科和研究生水平的纳米生物学相关材料的教学得到加强。活动结束后，全球观众可以访问http://www.nseresearch.org/2023/访问会议材料的最终版本，以及以前活动的档案信息。组织者将努力确保会议相关的出版物正确地承认NSF的支持。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。

Held annually since 2001, the National Science Foundation’s Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NSF-NSE) Grantees Conference is a two-day annual event that brings together educators, researchers, and experimentalists within nano science and engineering from academia, government, and industry to highlight information on the research and education activities funded by nanotechnology grants. The 2023 conference will be held in-person in Alexandria, Virginia, 7-8 December 2023, with a virtual attendance option, and will explore the timely topic of sustainable nanotechnology solutions to challenges in the life sciences and nanoscience applications in biotechnology. Specifically, it will raise awareness of this emerging global issue and consider visionary directions and breakthrough options for addressing this challenge. The conference will foster interactions among academic, government, and industry leaders across a diverse array of nanotechnology fields. Final versions of the conference materials, e.g., videotaped keynote, panel, and poster presentations, panel discussions, abstracts, and bios, will serve as conference proceedings. The global audience may access this material, following the event, at http://www.nseresearch.org/2023/, along with archival information from previous events. The discussions on grand challenges in and potential convergent solutions for nanotechnology in the life sciences will foster creative interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration during the event. Additionally, the poster sessions provide opportunities for one-on-one interactions between presenters and participants. Finally, this event will identify and explore emerging trends in nanotechnology and biotechnology; societal, ethical, and economic implications; and accessible workforce training considerations. These collective perspectives will help to enable academic researchers, industry, government, and communities prepare for and proactively capitalize on targeted breakthrough solutions and systemic high-impact opportunities. This conference’s primary goals are to promote dissemination of innovative research progress in diverse nanotechnology fields, with a focus on Nanobiology, or nanoscale science and engineering of biological phenomena across different applications, to facilitate research partnerships, and to identify future research directions. The first day of the conference will emphasize “Nanobiotechnology and Nano biomanufacturing”and the second day will focus on “Nanobiomedicine, nano-neuroscience, and workforce development.” Keynote speakers, panel discussions, and poster sessions serve to promote inter-university and academic, industry, government, and national-laboratory interactions. These interactions represent a vital step toward the advancement of the goals of the National Science Foundation, US National Nanotechnology Initiative, and the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act. To achieve these goals, the 2023 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Grantees conference will feature keynote and panel presentations, panel discussions, and posters that highlight visionary and strategic breakthrough opportunities in nanobiotechnology, nanobiomanufacturing, nanobiomedicine, and nanoneuroscience. Specific session topics include Quantum Biology and Quantum Sensing; Recent Breakthroughs in Synthetic Biology; Nanoscale phenomena in plants and agricultural systems, with applications on the bioeconomy; multi-scale and bioinspired assembly, i.e.. nano-bio architecture; cell-based and distributed biomanufacturing; Nanotechnology for regenerative medicine; bioprinting technologies; the future of nanomedicine in pandemics (and the role of targeted drug delivery); neurological processes at the nanoscale; and education and infrastructure for the nanobiology research community and (nano)bioeconomy.. Each keynote address, panel presentation, panel discussion, and poster session will serve as a training opportunity for all attendees, as the expert conference presenters will provide in-depth intra- and interdisciplinary insights across a broad array of nanotechnology fields. NSF-funded researchers and NSF Program Directors will moderate panel discussions. Additionally, the poster sessions will foster in-depth conversations with poster team representatives, as well as additional discussions of the Conference presentations. Questions addressed in the panels include: What innovations have arisen in these topics in the last decade? What are the critical gaps in advancing these areas? What are the opportunities for the future? This shared information provides a wealth of knowledge that can catalyze new collaborative and convergent research directions and opportunities. It also will enable an enhanced body of teaching nanobiology related materials at the K-12, undergraduate, and graduate levels. Following the event, the global audience may access final versions of the conference materials at http://www.nseresearch.org/2023/, along with archival information from previous events. The organizers will strive to ensure that conference related publications properly acknowledge NSF support.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.