Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar on the Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics: Microscale technology for advancing and translating discovery

该提案寻求资金用于支付与会者的部分旅费，该会议将于2015年5月30日至6月5日在佛蒙特州西多佛市举行，题为“戈登研究会议和戈登研究研讨会关于微流体的物理和化学：用于推进和转化发现的微型技术”。这次会议将提供一个独特的论坛和亲密的专业环境，以交流新想法，介绍和讨论未发表的成果，思辨讨论，以及与会者之间新的跨学科合作的机会。在过去的二十年里，微流控技术的进步已经影响到制造业(通过很好地控制小规模的平行反应和使用最少资源的专门制造)、分离技术、生物分析和自组装过程。在这次会议上，发言者将讨论他们在微流体和纳米流体系统领域的最新研究进展，这些系统的应用范围广泛，从基因组学到蛋白质组学，从纳米技术到化学合成到能源。本次会议的重点领域包括：1)水过滤和海水淡化，2)能源和碳管理，3)护理点诊断，4)密闭系统中的浓缩悬浮液，5)稀有细胞捕获和分析，6)单分子操作和分析，7)液滴微流控，8)微流控生物技术。

The proposal seeks funds to partially cover travel expenses for participants to the conference entitled, "Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar on the Physics and Chemistry of Microfluidics: Microscale technology for advancing and translating discovery" to be held in West Dover, VT, May 30-June 5, 2015. This conference will offer a unique forum and intimate professional setting for the exchange of new ideas, presentation and discussion of unpublished results, speculative discussions, and opportunities for newinterdisciplinary collaborations among attendees. In the past two decades, advances in microfluidic technologies have impacted manufacturing (with good control of parallel reactions in small scales and specialized manufacturing with the use of minimal resources), separations technologies, bioanalytics, and self assembly processes. In this conference, the speakers will discuss the very latest progress in their research in the area of microfluidic and nanofluidic systems for a wide variety of applications from genomics to proteomics to nanotechnology to chemical synthesis to energy. The areas of focus for this conference include the following: 1) Water filtration and desalination, 2) Energy and Carbon management, 3) Point-of-care diagnostics, 4) Concentrated suspensions in confined systems, 5) Rare cells capture and analysis, 6) Manipulation and analysis of single molecules, 7) Droplet microfluidics, 8) Microfluidic biotechnology.