Pacific Northwest Undergraduate Research Symposium on Organic Chemistry

会议内容（由申请人提供）：拟召开为期一天的有机化学领域区域研究研讨会，从最广泛的意义上解释，包括：生物化学、生物活性天然产物分子的全合成、合成方法的发展、有机金属化学、有机材料的制备和研究。目标参与者将是来自太平洋西北地区大学的高级本科生，他们在相关领域进行了重要的研究项目。研讨会的目的是为这些年轻科学家提供一个机会，以获得在专业会议式论坛上展示研究数据的宝贵经验，并激发和告知他们在有机化学领域和相关生物医学学科的潜在职业生涯中更广泛的兴趣。因此，该活动将有助于培养、支持和鼓励来自该国机会相对较少的地区的一批国家未来的科学和医学专业人员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A new one-day regional research symposium (entitled as above) is proposed focused on the field of organic chemistry, to be interpreted in its broadest sense, and including: biological chemistry, total synthesis of bioactive natural product molecules, synthetic methods development, organometallic chemistry, and preparation and study of organic materials. The targeted participants will be advanced undergraduate students from universities within the Pacific Northwest region, who have conducted significant research projects in a relevant area. The purpose of the symposium is to provide these young scientists with an opportunity to gain valuable experience in presenting research data at a professional conference-style forum, and to stimulate and inform their wider interests in potential careers in the organic chemistry field and allied biomedical disciplines. The event will thus serve to nurture, support, and encourage a cohort of the nation's future scientific and medical professionals from an area of the country with comparatively few opportunities for similar career developing activities. Places at the symposium will be strictly limited (to ca 20-25) such that the resulting small group atmosphere encourages significant interaction between participants. Furthermore, all student attendees will make a substantive presentation during the symposium, either a research poster or a lecture. The selection of participants will emphasize diversity (scientific and individual) and will be made on the basis of submitted abstracts (to be later compiled and distributed), with the best submissions being given priority for the available lecture slots. To conclude the scientific program, an eminent academic speaker will give a key-note lecture illustrating the interfacial nature of organic chemistry research and highlighting its relevance to the solution of problems in a wider context, and particularly in the realm of biology and medicine. NIGMS support is sought to facilitate wide participation in the symposium from the most talented undergraduate students from across the entire Pacific Northwest region by providing travel and accommodation awards for all selected attendees.