US-Mexican Workshop: Self-Assembly in Biology and Materials Science. An International Workshop on Current Problems in Complex Fluids; Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico; June 2010

该奖项支持由Mathias Lösche（卡内基梅隆大学）和Jaime Ruiz-Garcia （Autónoma de San Luis大学Potosí）联合组织的研究研讨会，以突出我们对生命科学中自组装过程的理解的最新进展，并确定从这些知识中得出的合成材料设计的含义。会议将在一个跨学科的环境中举行，重点是生物物理学和定量生物学之间的接口。一个重要的目标是为在这些领域工作的墨西哥和美国科学研究界之间建立和继续合作研究计划提供一个环境。研讨会将于2010年6月8日至11日在墨西哥瓦哈卡州的华图尔科举行。墨西哥科学机构CONACYT将为墨西哥与会者提供支持。本次研讨会将包括研究报告和讨论，重点关注以下与生物学相关的主题：核酸控制的超分子生物结构；胶体自组装在功能材料和膜和软物质的降维。它将促进不同群体的资深研究人员（在各自领域的领导者）和年轻研究人员（如来自美国和墨西哥的终身教职员工、博士后研究员和研究生）之间的交流和联系。在选择被邀请的与会者时，适当注意将一组研究人员聚集在一起，其中妇女和少数民族教员有充分的代表性。在选拔学生参加者方面也作出了类似的努力。该奖项由美国国家科学基金会材料研究部和国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。

This award supports a research workshop, organized jointly by Mathias Lösche (Carnegie Mellon University) and Jaime Ruiz-Garcia (Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí), to highlight recent progress in our understanding of self-assembly processes in the life sciences and to identify implications derived from this knowledge for design of synthetic materials. The meeting will take place in an interdisciplinary setting that focuses on the interface between biological physics and quantitative biology. An important goal is to provide an environment for the establishment and continuation of collaborative research initiatives between the Mexican and U.S. scientific research communities working in these areas. The workshop will be held in Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico, June 8 to 11, 2010. The Mexican science agency CONACYT will support the Mexican participants.This workshop will include research presentations and discussions focused on the following topics of relevance in biology: Supramolecular Biological Structures Controlled by Nucleic Acids; Colloidal Self-Assembly in Functional Materials and Membranes and Soft Matter in Reduced Dimensionality. It will foster communication and contacts between a diverse group of senior researchers, which are the leaders in their respective fields, and young researchers, such as tenure-track faculty, post-doctoral fellows and graduate students from the U.S. and Mexico. In the selection of invited attendees, proper attention has been paid to bringing together a group of researchers in which women and minority faculty members are well represented. Similar efforts are being made to the selection of student participants. This award is being jointly funded between the Division of Materials Research and the Office of International Science and Engineering of NSF.