Biotransport Symposium 2008 - Nano and multiscale frontiers in biological heat and mass transfer

0808738 Bischof该基金为纳米和多尺度生物传热传质前沿研讨会提供部分支持，该研讨会将于2008年6月25日至27日在佛罗里达的马可岛举行，作为ASME夏季生物工程会议的一部分。 本次会议的目的是刺激生物运输研究界，传统上专注于宏观问题，如血液灌注和热生物学，探索涉及多个长度尺度的挑战性问题的新领域。 关于会议的学术价值，一些不同的发言者将出现在这次研讨会上。 这些演讲者包括脂质-蛋白质相互作用，生物质转移，生物光子学以及细胞和组织水平运输的国际专家。 与会者将接触到这些和其他在生物工程会议上不经常讨论的主题。 本次研讨会建立在2004年NSF/NIH生物转运研讨会上，该研讨会对该社区产生了很大的影响，预计本次会议将产生进一步的合作和进步。会议的更广泛的影响包括将生物运输新兴领域的初级和高级研究人员聚集在一起，这有可能提高对生物运输机制的基本理解，从而改善人类健康和生活质量。 将提供一个教育部分，并将通过生物力学工程杂志的特刊进行传播。 NSF的资金将用于支持初级和/或代表性不足的教师，并部分抵消受邀演讲者的费用。

0808738BischofThis grant provides partial support for the Nano and Multiscale Frontiers in Biological Heat and Mass Transfer Symposium, which will be held as part of the ASME Summer Bioengineering Meeting on Marco Island, Florida, June 25 - 27, 2008. The purpose of this meeting is to stimulate the biotransport research community, which has traditionally focused on macroscale problems such as blood perfusion and thermal biology, to explore new areas involving challenging problems over multiple length scales. With respect to the intellectual merit of the conference, a number of diverse speakers will appear at this symposium. These speakers include international experts in lipid-protein interactions, biomass transfer, biophotonics, and cellular- and tissue-level transport. The attendees will be exposed to these and other topics that are not often addressed at bioengineering meetings. This symposium builds on a 2004 NSF/NIH biotransport workshop that has had a great impact on this community, and it is expected that further collaborations and advances will result from this meeting. The broader impacts of the conference include bringing together junior and senior researchers in the emerging field of biotransport, which has the potential to bring about improved fundamental understanding of biological transport mechanisms that could lead to improved human health and quality of life. An educational component will be provided, and dissemination will be enabled by a special issue of the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. The NSF funds will be used to support both junior and/or underrepresented faculty, and to partially offset the expenses of the invited speakers.