U.S.-Slovenia Workshop: Interdisciplinary Research and Education in Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering

该讲习班将汇集来自美国和斯洛文尼亚的工程师、科学家和学生，审查与化学品环境迁移有关的生命科学和物理科学界面的跨学科研究课题。组织者是詹姆斯·N。华盛顿州立大学的彼得森和马里博尔大学的安德烈·乌梅克。他们的总体目标是确定新的合作伙伴，并确定一个具有挑战性的美国-斯洛文尼亚未来的研究议程。研讨会的讨论应受益于美国参与者在环境化学，微生物学，水资源和废物系统方面的专业知识，以及斯洛文尼亚在污染物，毒理学，分子生态学，生物技术和生物多样性的生物和地质循环方面的优势。这一进程将通过审查将美国和斯洛文尼亚跨学科教育计划联系起来的互利方法得到进一步加强。预计研讨会的结果将突出后续国际研究和教育活动的新机会，这些活动可能为微生物学和生物膜工程等领域的桥接产生新的最终用途方法。这个跨学科研讨会实现了通过使美国和欧洲的专家能够联合收割机互补人才并在共同感兴趣和能力强的领域共享研究资源来推进科学知识的计划目标。更广泛的影响包括美国研究生的早期职业介绍给生物和环境工程社区的领先国际研究人员。

This workshop will bring together a diverse group of engineers, scientists, and students from the United States and Slovenia to examine interdisciplinary research topics at the interface of life sciences and physical sciences that pertain to environmental transport of chemicals. The organizers are James N. Petersen of Washington State University and Andrej Umek of the University of Maribor. Their overall goal is to identify new partners and define a challenging U.S.-Slovene research agenda for the future. Workshop discussions should benefit from U.S. participant expertise in environmental chemistry, microbiology, water resources and waste systems and Slovenian strengths in biological and geological cycling of contaminants, toxicology, molecular ecology, biotechnology, and biodiversity. The process will be further enhanced by examination of mutually beneficial approaches for linking U.S. and Slovene interdisciplinary education programs. Workshop results are expected to highlight new opportunities for follow-on international research and education activities that may yield novel end-use approaches for bridging fields such as microbiology and biofilm engineering. This interdisciplinary workshop fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling experts in the United States and Europe to combine complementary talents and share research resources in areas of strong mutual interest and competence. Broader impacts include early career introduction of U.S. graduate students to leading international researchers in the biological and environmental engineering communities.