WORKSHOP: Lorentz center workshop: Anisotropy and Shape in Biological Materials: From Structure to Functionality

非技术性：该奖项由材料研究部生物材料项目授予加州大学默塞德分校，以表彰出席2016年洛伦茨中心会议并在2016年5月23日至27日在荷兰莱顿洛伦茨中心举行的会议上展示最新科学发展的参与者的旅行支持。该奖项是由国际科学与工程办公室的全球风险基金共同设立的。该讲习班致力于将青年和资深科学家聚集在一起，讨论他们目前的研究，并与他们的同行建立非正式网络，促进来自不同国家和领域的科学家之间的合作和互动，这可能导致终身合作和科学成就。为了实现这一科学目标和更广泛的影响，组织者邀请了相当数量的早期职业教师和博士后以及资深科学家在会议上发言。拟议的旅行津贴将用于吸引来自美国的早期职业科学家，并鼓励女性物理和工程教师参加会议。让不同的科学家参加这种密集的互动会议将是一个极好的方式来刺激更广泛地参与尖端国际项目。技术：这次研讨会是关于可变形生物和生物启发材料，重点是各向异性对生物材料结构和功能属性的作用，特别是从形态的角度。尽管材料各向异性已被证明对组织工程结构的强度和功能有重要影响，但它作为生物材料总体设计的控制参数的作用仍有待评估。这就需要对可变形材料的科学有一个基本的洞察力，一方面受结构有序的限制，另一方面受生物活性的限制。该研讨会的目标是将顶尖的纯科学家和应用科学家(约25至55名参与者)聚集在一起，目的是将多个学科(物理、化学、生物和工程)联系起来，以了解各向异性变形材料的基本原理，并基于这些新概念开发应用程序。这些相互作用对于理解特定材料应如何设计成与生物实体“共生”，以及如何使生物材料的功能与其生物材料的功能相似至关重要。

Nontechnical:This award by the Biomaterials program in the Division of Materials Research to University of California, Merced is for the participant travel support to attend and present recent scientific developments at the 2016 Lorentz Center Meeting to be held at the Lorentz Center, in Leiden, the Netherlands from May 23rd-27th 2016. This award is cofounded by the Global Venture Funds in the Office of International Science and Engineering. This workshop is committed to in bringing young and senior scientists together, and to discuss their current research and builds informal networks with their peers fostering collaborations and interactions between scientists from different countries and fields that may lead to a lifetime of collaboration and scientific achievement. To fulfill this scientific goal and the broader impacts, the organizers have invited a significant number of early career faculty and postdocs as well as senior scientists to speak at the meeting. The proposed travel stipends will be used to bring early career scientists from the US, and to encourage the participation of female physics and engineering faculty at the meeting. Exposing a diverse mix of scientists to this kind of intensive interactive meeting will be an excellent way to stimulate broader participation in cutting edge international projects.Technical:This workshop is on deformable biological and bio-inspired materials, and will focus on the role of anisotropy on the structural and functional attributes of biomaterials, especially from a morphological point of view. Although material anisotropy has been demonstrated to have significant implications, on the strength and functioning of tissue engineered constructs, its role as a control parameter for designing biomaterials in general is yet to be assessed. This necessitates the need for a fundamental insight into the science of deformable materials bounded, on the one hand by structural ordering, and on the other hand by biological activity. The goal of this workshop is to bring together top class pure and applied scientists (about 25 to 55 participants) with the aim of interfacing multiple disciplines (physics, chemistry, biology and engineering) to understand the fundamentals of anisotropic deformable materials, and in tandem, develop applications based on these novel concepts. These interactions will be critical to generate an understanding of how particular materials should be designed to be "symbiotic" with biological entities and how to get similarity in functioning of biomaterials with their living counterparts.