Metabolic Engineering IX Conference, June 3-7, 2012, Biarritz, France

智力价值这项建议寻求国家科学基金会的资金，以支持将于2012年6月3日至7日在法国比亚里茨举行的“代谢工程IX：代谢工程和合成生物学”会议。新陈代谢工程会议是新陈代谢工程界的首要会议。第九届新陈代谢工程大会将继续成为分享过去两年该领域最新发展和成就的领先会议。代谢工程领域推动了工程学与生物科学的结合，合成生物学与代谢工程的结合产生了巨大的影响。新陈代谢工程会议是国际工程会议(原联合工程基金会会议计划)赞助的几个与生物技术有关的系列会议中的首批会议之一，始创于20年前，最初的标题是“重组DNA技术”。这是第一次明确关注重组DNA技术在工业过程微生物工程中的应用的会议。ECI主办的其他相关领域的会议主要集中在生物催化和生物过程(酶工程、生化工程、细胞培养工程)。这些会议在解决技术进步、工程研究和教育学术界和工业界后起之秀的当代问题方面发挥了重要作用。这种形式的设计是为了最大限度地增加互动并激发与会者之间的讨论。由于历届会议的声誉，来自许多国家的工业界和学术界的科学家和工程师超额订阅了会议。2010年的上一次会议是首次在亚洲举办的代谢工程会议，显示学术界的兴趣显著上升，近75%的非工业机构出席了会议，来自23个国家的274名与会者参加了会议。代谢工程IX将在系统生物学、合成生物学、生化工程、工具和方法、新兴技术、医疗保健、生物燃料、生物精炼、环境生物技术、微生物系统、哺乳动物系统、植物系统以及其他学科和应用领域举行会议。近年来，这些学科中的许多学科都有了快速的技术增长，这次会议的重点是整合最近的成果，以实现这种跨学科会议所激发的潜在协同作用。广泛影响这次国际会议的范围是聚集有影响力的知名研究人员、年轻的研究人员、工业研究人员和从业者以及研究生，以评估代谢工程在全球健康和可持续发展领域的贡献和未来的机会。除了全体报告、口头会议和海报会议之外，ME IX还将采用旨在确定工业需求以及代谢工程研究如何更好地满足这些需求的研讨会/教程。我们非常鼓励研究生和工业研究人员出席。对任职人数不足的群体将给予特别考虑。在缺乏这种支持的情况下，更少的美国学术科学家和研究生可能会参加并受益于与国际生物技术研究人员社区的互动。

Intellectual MeritThis proposal seeks funds from the National Science Foundation to support the conference "Metabolic Engineering IX: Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology" to be held from June 3-7, 2012 in Biarritz, France. The Metabolic Engineering conference serves as the premier meeting for the metabolic engineering community. The 9th Metabolic Engineering conference will continue to be a leading conference for sharing the state-of-the-art developments and achievements made in the field over the last two years. The field of Metabolic Engineering has driven the interface between engineering and biological sciences the integration of synthetic biology into metabolic engineering has made huge impact. This growth has helped enable a new field of commercial opportunity in established and new start up industries to commercialize green technologies born out of this cross fertilization of disciplines.1239374/ WhitedThe Metabolic Engineering Conference is one of the first among several conference series related to biotechnology sponsored by Engineering Conferences International (formerly United Engineering Foundation Conferences program) and started 20 years ago with the original title "recombinant DNA technology". It was the first conference with the explicit focus on the application of recombinant DNA technology to the engineering of microorganisms for industrial processes. The other conferences in related areas sponsored by ECI have focused on biocatalysis and bioprocess (Enzyme Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Cell Culture Engineering). These conferences have been instrumental in addressing issues contemporary to technological advancements, engineering research and to education of up and coming players, both in academia and industry. The format is designed to maximize interactions and to stimulate discussion among attendees. Because of the reputation of past conferences, scientists and engineers from industry and academia from many countries oversubscribe the conference. The last meeting in 2010, the first Metabolic Engineering meeting hosted in Asia, showed a marked upswing in interest in the academic community with almost 75% attending from non industrial institutions with a total attendance of 274 attendees from 23 countries. This proposal is seeking financial support to continue this quality of excellence.Metabolic Engineering IX will have sessions in the fields of systems biology, synthetic biology, biochemical engineering, tools and methods, and emerging techniques, healthcare, biofuel, biorefinery, environmental biotechnology, microbial system, mammalian system, plant system, and other disciplines and applications. Many of these disciplines have seen rapid growth in technology in the recent years and the focus of this conference is to integrate the recent achievements to realize the potential synergy that this interdisciplinary conference stimulates.Broader ImpactThe scope of this international conference is to bring together influential established researchers, young investigators, industrial researchers and practitioners, and graduate students to assess the contributions and future opportunities of metabolic engineering in the global areas of health and sustainability. In addition to plenary presentations, oral sessions, and poster sessions, ME IX will also employ workshops/tutorials that will aim to identify the needs of industry and how metabolic engineering research can better address these needs. Attendance by graduate students and industrial researchers is highly encouraged. Special consideration will be given to underrepresented groups. In the absence of this support, fewer US academic scientists and graduate students may attend and benefit from interactions with the international community of biotechnology researchers.