2012 Bioinspired Materials GRC

ID：MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623)1205839 PI：奇尔科蒂，阿舒托什ORG：戈登研究会议标题：2012年生物灵感材料GRCINTELLECTUAL优点：请提供资金支持将于2012年6月24-29日在美国北卡罗来纳州戴维森学院举行的首届戈登生物灵感材料研究会议。生物启发材料这一新兴的跨学科领域专注于发展对天然材料的合成、定向自组装和分层组织的基本理解，并利用这种理解为不同的应用设计新的“生物启发”人造材料。这次会议由杜克大学的AShuosh Chilkoti和瑞士EPFL的Jeffrey Hubbell共同主持，源于两个认识：(1)生物灵感材料的研究呈爆炸式增长；(2)没有一个单独和独特的场所专门关注这一领域的研究成果。首届生物启发材料GRC的目标是通过一个尖端科学计划捕捉这一新兴领域的兴奋之情，该计划侧重于生物启发材料科学的基础研究以及源于这一基础研究的无数应用。更广泛的影响：GRC的影响是，它将促进新兴生物灵感材料领域新思想的跨学科培养，并将促进年轻科学家、未被充分代表的少数族裔科学家、初级教员和著名高级调查人员之间的互动。它将通过将一群不同的研究人员聚集在一个地点来做到这一点，这些研究人员在生物灵感材料领域有着共同的兴趣。希望通过为传播和交流成果和想法提供一个单一的场所来刺激这一研究领域的增长。最终的长期目标是通过两年一次的GRC创建一个具有凝聚力和互动性的学者社区，这将是该领域研究人员的首选。

ID: MPS/DMR/BMAT(7623) 1205839 PI: Chilkoti, Ashutosh ORG: Gordon Research ConferencesTitle: 2012 Bioinspired Materials GRCINTELLECTUAL MERIT: Funds are requested to support the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on Bioinspired Materials to be held June 24-29, 2012 at Davidson College, North Carolina, USA. The emerging, interdisciplinary field of Bioinspired Materials focuses on developing a fundamental understanding of the synthesis, directed self-assembly, and hierarchical organization of natural occurring materials, and uses this understanding to engineer new "bioinspired" artificial materials for diverse applications. This conference, co-chaired by Ashutosh Chilkoti (Duke University) and Jeffrey Hubbell (EPFL, Switzerland) was born from the twin realizations that: (1) there is an explosion of research in Bioinspired Materials; and yet (2) there is no single and unique venue that solely focuses on the dissemination of research in this field. The objective of the inaugural GRC on Bioinspired Materials is to capture the excitement of this burgeoning field by a cutting-edge scientific program that focuses on fundamental research in Bioinspired Materials Science and the myriad applications that stem from this fundamental research. BROADER IMPACTS: The impact of this GRC is that it will promote cross-disciplinary fertilization of new ideas in the emerging field of Bioinspired Materials and will promote interactions among young scientists, underrepresented minority scientists, junior faculty, and prominent senior investigators. It will do so by bringing together a diverse group of researchers at one venue who have common interests that span the field of Bioinspired Materials. The hope is to stimulate the growth of this area of research by providing a single venue for the dissemination and exchange of results and ideas. The ultimate, long-term goal is to create a cohesive and interactive community of scholars though a bi-yearly GRC that will be the first choice for researchers in this field.