Conference Support for Biofunctional Architectures - Reversible Interactions and Surface Recognition Symposium; San Francisco, CA; Spring 2010

这一奖项由材料研究部的生物材料项目授予加州大学戴维斯分校，以提供部分支持，以支持研究生、博士后和年轻教职员工参加“生物功能建筑？可逆相互作用和表面识别研讨会”的研讨会。本次研讨会将作为美国化学学会春季会议的一部分，于2010年3月22日至24日在加利福尼亚州旧金山举行。会议的科学主题将包括：a)靶向和纳米技术的生物功能结构；b)可逆缔合聚合物薄膜；c)拴系配体-受体相互作用的动力学；以及d)生物分子在表面上的自组装。这次研讨会有望为迅速推进计算和实验工作提供知识基础，以阐明自然界中发现的生物材料的功能所涉及的结构和相互作用。目前的一个关键挑战是利用这些知识开发用于技术应用的生物模拟系统，如药物靶向、生物传感阵列、基于生物分子的设备、医学纳米技术以及创造具有超功能的新材料。会议的广泛影响是将来自美国和国外的学生、初级科学家和领先的研究人员聚集在一起，推进生物功能结构的知识库。此外，预计这次会议将在该领域现有和未来的研究人员之间建立互动和合作。为实现这一目标，将通过开放获取的在线期刊《生物界面》特刊，广泛传播研讨会期间介绍和讨论的科学信息。本期《焦点》特刊中的文章将在生物间期的正常审查过程和标准之后发表。

This award by the Biomaterials program in the Division of Materials Research to University of California Davis is to provide partial support for the attendance of graduate students, postdocs and young faculty members at a symposium on "Biofunctional Architectures ? Reversible Interactions and Surface Recognition Symposium." This symposium will be held as part of the American Chemical Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco, California from March 22 to 24, 2010. Scientific themes of the conference will include theoretical, computational modeling and experimental aspects on: a) Biofunctional architectures for targeting and nano-technology; b) Reversibly associating polymer thin-films; c) Dynamics of tethered ligand-receptor interactions; and d) Biomolecular self-assembly on surfaces. This symposium is expected to provide knowledge base for the rapid advancement of computational and experimental work towards elucidating the structures and interactions responsible for the functionality of biological materials found in nature. A key challenge now is to utilize this knowledge towards the development of bio-mimetic systems for technological applications such as drug targeting, biosensing-arrays, biomolecule based devices, medical nanotechnology, and the creation of new materials with ultra functionalities.Broader impact of the conference is to bring together students, junior scientists and leading researchers from USA and abroad to advance the knowledge base for biofucntional architectures. In addition, this conference is expected to create interactions and collaborations among current and future researchers in the field. Towards this goal, wide dissemination of the scientific information presented and discussed during the symposium will be accomplished through a special issue of Biointerphases, an open access online journal. Articles in this special issue "In Focus" will be after the normal review process and criteria of Biointerphases.