Conference: Undergraduate Opportunities at the UC System Wide Bioengineering Symposium, June 21 - June 23, 2012, Berkeley, CA

1243416/Head-Gordon加州大学全系统生物工程研讨会是加州大学的旗舰会议，也是唯一一次横跨加州大学所有十个校区的生物工程研讨会。研讨会通常有大约300名与会者，其中绝大多数是本科生。它为加州大学的学生提供了一个磨练他们的演讲技巧并接触到这个快速增长的领域的更广阔前景的理想机会。研讨会突出了加州大学在生物工程方面的所有优势，包括组织工程和再生医学、干细胞工程、生物材料、生物力学、微/纳米生物技术、成像、药物输送、系统生物学和生物信息学。为期三天的会议将于6月21日星期四下午至6月23日星期六在加州大学伯克利分校举行。所有会议将在校园内的两座主要生物工程建筑--斯坦利大厅和赫斯特矿业纪念馆举行。这将把会议活动设在生物工程系实验室、教室和教职员工办公室附近，以鼓励通过会议网络形成的自发演示和合作。参与者将住在附近的宿舍和伯克利当地的一家酒店，以进一步方便交往和临时认识。整个研讨会期间将提供联系机会，所有餐饮将在研讨会地点提供，以进一步促进这一目标。该计划发布在：http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/2012systemwide/.Intellectual MERIT。研讨会将以几个平行会议和广泛的海报会议为特色，口头报告选自加州大学所有十个校区的学生提交的摘要。评委将在研讨会的每一节中选出最佳论文和最佳海报奖的最佳学生陈述。除了来自加州大学校园的12位杰出演讲者(包括一些新的年轻教师，他们将重点介绍他们的新职业工作)，研讨会还将有三位世界知名生物工程师(Nancy Allbritton教授、Anthony Atala教授和Jay Keasling教授)的主题演讲，这将为学生提供一个极好的学习机会。组织者正在为许多年轻和成熟的女教员提供旅行支持，以展示她们的高质量研究，以及为15名URM研究生来到伯克利提供注册和旅行支持。PIs组织了职业发展午餐会，促进学生与学术和行业研究人员之间的积极对话，讨论生物工程领域的职业目标，并在午餐后参观加州大学伯克利分校的生物工程实验室。工程学院已经将学生和教师的多样性问题提升到了高度优先的地位，加州大学全系统生物工程会议提供了一个备受瞩目的机会来支持URM学生，并让他们参与伯克利的生物工程活动。

1243416/ Head-GordonThe UC System-wide Bioengineering Symposium is a flagship conference of the University of California and is the only bioengineering symposium that spans all ten UC campuses. The symposium typically reaches ~300 attendants, the large majority of whom are undergraduate students. It provides an ideal opportunity for UC students to hone their presentation skills and be exposed to the broader landscape of this rapidly growing field. The symposium highlights all of the UC's strengths in Bioengineering including tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, stem cell engineering, biomaterials, biomechanics, micro/nanobiotechnology, imaging, drug delivery, systems biology, and bioinformatics. The three-day conference will take place Thursday afternoon, June 21 through Saturday, June 23, on the UC Berkeley campus. All sessions will be held in the two primary Bioengineering buildings on campus, Stanley Hall and the Hearst Memorial Mining Building. This will situate the conference activities adjacent to Bioengineering Department laboratories, classrooms and faculty offices to encourage spontaneous demonstration and collaborations forged out of conference networking. Participants will be housed nearby at dormitories and a local Berkeley hotel to further facilitate mingling and casual acquaintances. Networking opportunities are provided throughout the symposium, and all meals will be offered at the symposium location to further facilitate this goal. The program is posted at: http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/2012systemwide/.Intellectual Merit. The symposium will feature several parallel sessions and extensive poster sessions, with oral presentations chosen from abstracts submitted by students from all ten UC campuses. Judges will select the best student presentations for the best paper and best poster awards in each session of the symposium. In addition to twelve distinguished speakers from the UC campuses (including some new young faculty who get to highlight their new career work), the symposium will feature keynote lectures by three world-renowned bioengineers (Prof. Nancy Allbritton, Prof. Anthony Atala, Prof. Jay Keasling), which will provide an excellent learning opportunity for the students.Broader Impact. The organizers are seeking travel support for many young as well as established women faculty to present their high quality research, as well as the registration and travel support for 15 URM graduate students to come to Berkeley. The PIs have organized a Career Development luncheon to foster an active dialogue between students and academic and industry researchers to discuss career goals in the field of Bioengineering, as well as an undergraduate tour through UC Berkeley Bioengineering labs after lunch. The College of Engineering has raised the issue of student and faculty diversity to a high priority, and the UC System-Wide Bioengineering Conference provides a high profile opportunity to support URM students and exposing them to Bioengineering activities at Berkeley.