Symposium on Biological & BioInspired Materials Assembly

描述（由申请人提供）：NIH的支持，要求支付参与者的费用为一个特殊的材料研究学会（MRS）专题讨论会，题为“生物和生物启发材料组装，”这将集中在研究的前沿新的生物材料的基础上DNA，蛋白质和脂质组件。这个为期3天的研讨会将在马萨诸塞州波士顿举行，作为材料研究学会2003年秋季会议的一部分。受邀演讲者小组是高度跨学科的，包括广泛的学术科学家（Angela Belcher，材料科学与工程，马萨诸塞州理工学院; William DeGrado，生物化学与生物物理，宾夕法尼亚大学;大卫林恩，化学，埃默里大学;菲利普梅瑟史密斯，生物医学工程，西北大学;马丁穆勒，生物化学，RWTH; Christof Niemeyer，生物化学，多特蒙德大学; Nadrian Seeman，化学，纽约大学; Samuel I. Stupp，材料科学与工程，化学和医学，西北大学; Gregory Tew，聚合物科学与工程，马萨诸塞州大学; Matthew Tirrell，化学工程，加州大学圣巴巴拉分校; Ulrich Wiesner，材料科学与工程，康奈尔大学; Shuguang Zhang，麻省理工学院生物医学工程中心）。12-14其他会谈将从提交的摘要中选择。受邀演讲者包括7名生物工程师和5名生物化学家和化学家，他们都直接研究生物和非生物系统自组装的仿生系统的发展。 本次研讨会的目标不仅是教育更广泛的材料研究界关于生物材料研究的重要性和潜力，而且还将材料科学家聚集在一起，无论如何，他们可能会参加这次会议，生物化学家，化学工程师和化学家，他们不太可能参加。本次研讨会，以及计划与之相关的会议晚宴（为演讲者），将促进思想交流和跨学科合作。一名发言者是女性，这反映出在该领域主要调查员一级的女性代表性普遍较低。三名组织者之一也是女性。鉴于许多发言者的“星星素质”和MRS会议与会者的多样性，希望研讨会的出席率将很高，研讨会将吸引更多的妇女和代表性不足的少数民族科学家进入该领域。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): NIH support is requested to defray participant costs for a special Materials Research Society (MRS) symposium entitled, "Biological and Bio-inspired Materials Assembly," which will focus on the cutting edge of research on novel biomaterials based on DNA, protein, and lipid assemblies. This 3-day symposium will be held in Boston, MA as part of the 2003 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society. The panel of invited speakers is highly interdisciplinary and includes a wide array of academic scientists (Angela Belcher, Materials Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; William DeGrado, Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania; David Lynn, Chemistry, Emory University; Phillip Messersmith, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University; Martin Moller, Biochemistry, RWTH; Christof Niemeyer, Biochemistry, University of Dortmund; Nadrian Seeman, Chemistry, New York University; Samuel I. Stupp, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, and Medicine, Northwestern University; Gregory Tew, Polymer Science & Engineering, University of Massachusetts; Matthew Tirrell, Chemical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara; Ulrich Wiesner, Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University; Shuguang Zhang, Center for Biomedical Engineering, MIT). 12-14 other talks will be chosen from submitted abstracts. The invited speakers include 7 bioengineers and 5 biochemists and chemists, all of whom direct research focused on the development of biomimetic systems for self-assembly of biological and non-biological systems. The goal of this symposium is not only to educate the broader materials research community about the importance and potential of biomaterials research, but also to bring together the materials scientists, who might have attended this meeting anyway, with biochemists, chemical engineers, and chemists, who would have been unlikely to attend. This symposium, and the planned conference dinner associated with it (for the speakers), will promote idea exchange and interdisciplinary collaboration. One speaker is female, reflective of the generally low female representation in this field at the principal investigator level. One of the three organizers is also female. Given the "star quality" of many of the speakers and the diversity of MRS meeting attendees, it is hoped that attendance at the symposium will be high and that the symposium will attract more women and under-represented minority scientists to the field.