Conference: Biosensors, Biochips and Micro/Nano-devices Symposium at IBE 2011 Annual Conference, March 2011, Atlanta, Georgia

智力价值：生物和化学物种的检测和量化是解决现代社会在许多领域面临的各种挑战的核心，例如生物医学诊断、医疗保健以及全球安全和安全，免受化学和生物威胁、病原体和潜在的恐怖袭击。近年来，包括生物芯片和微纳器件在内的基于生物传感器的技术发展迅速，以满足对小型化、易用设备的日益增长的需求，以实现对各种目标分子的快速、选择性和灵敏的检测，并具有广泛的应用前景。这次生物传感器、生物芯片和微/纳米器件研讨会旨在将生物传感器领域的科学家聚集在一起，他们致力于工程和生命科学的接口工作，讨论该领域的新发现、当前进展和未来前景。本次研讨会将包括四个会议：传感器和生物传感器、生物仪器和设备、生物-MEMS/NEMS和生物纳米技术。研讨会将特别鼓励本科生和研究生的参与，并鼓励学生以口头或海报的形式展示他们的研究成果。研讨会将加强来自不同学科(工程和科学)的未来科学家的渠道，并加强我们在新兴生物传感器领域对下一代科学家的科学培训。研讨会将在2011年3月3-5日在佐治亚州亚特兰大洛伊斯亚特兰大酒店举行的生物工程研究所(IBE)年会上举行。国际教育局(www.ibe.org)是一个专业组织，成立的目的是在各级促进对生物工程基础的广泛研究？从分子到有机体再到景观尺度。国际教育局正在通过以生物为灵感的工程学将工程学引入生命科学。由于生物传感器领域本质上是跨学科的，国际教育局年会是组织这次生物传感器、生物芯片和微/纳米器件研讨会的理想场所。通过国际教育局年会，与生物传感器技术直接相关的许多领域的工程师、科学家和技术人员将齐聚一堂，讨论生物传感器技术在食品安全、环境监测和生物医学诊断方面的最新进展和应用。与国际教育局的生物-商业联系会议合作，研讨会还将通过邀请当地初创公司的代表介绍各自将概念转化为商业成功的技术和战略，促进生物传感器领域的技术转让。广泛影响：国际教育局年会的研讨会将讨论新兴生物传感器技术的最新进展及其在生物工程受众中的工程和生命科学接口中的应用，并促进将新技术转化为商业实体。研讨会将特别为本科生和研究生提供展示他们的研究并与生物工程界的工程师、科学家、技术人员和教育工作者互动的机会，这将有助于将我们的学生塑造为未来的生物工程领导者。

Intellectual Merit: Detection and quantification of biological and chemical species are central to solving a wide variety of challenges faced by modern society in many areas, such as biomedical diagnostics, health care, and global safety and security from chemical and biological threats, pathogens, and potential terror attacks. Biosensor-based technology including biochips and micro/nano-devices are expending rapidly in recent years to meet the growing needs for miniaturized easy-to-use devices for achieving rapid, selective and sensitive detection of various target molecules for a wide range of applications. This Biosensor, Biochips and Micro/nano-Devices Symposium is to bring together scientists in the biosensor field who are working at the interface of engineering and life science to discuss new findings, current progresses, and future perspectives in the field. This symposium will include four sessions: Sensors and Biosensors, Bioinstrumentation and Devices, Bio-MEMS/NEMs, and Bio-Nanotechnology. The symposium will especially encourage undergraduate and graduate student participation, and encourage students to present their research work as oral or poster format. The symposium will enhance the pipeline of our future scientists from different disciplines (engineering and science) and enhance the scientific training of our next generation of scientists in the emerging biosensor fields. The majority of the proposed budget will be supporting students to attend the symposium.The Symposium will be organized at the Institute of Biological Engineering (IBE) Annual conference which will be held at the Loews Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, March 3-5, 2011. IBE (www.ibe.org) is a professional organization which was established to promote broad inquiry in the fundamentals of biological engineering at all levels? and from molecular to organism to landscape scales. IBE is bringing engineering to life science through biology-inspired engineering. As the Biosensor field by its nature is interdisciplinary, the IBE annual conference is an ideal place to organize this Biosensors, Biochips and Micro/nano- Devices Symposium. Through IBE annual meetings, engineers, scientists, and technologists in many areas directly related to biosensor technology will come together to discuss the latest progressand applications of biosensor technology in food safety, environment monitoring, andbiomedical diagnostics. Partnering with the Bio-business Nexus session at IBE, the symposium will also promote technology transfer in the biosensor areas by inviting representatives from local start-up companies to present their respective technologies and strategies for moving concepts to commercial success.Broad Impact: The symposium at IBE annual conference is to discuss current progress in emerging biosensor technologies and its applications in the interface of engineering and life science among a biological engineering audience, and to promote the transfer of new technologies into commercial entities. The symposium will especially provide undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to present their research and to interact with engineers, scientists, technologists and educators in the biological engineering community, which will help to shape our students as the future leaders in biological engineering.