Student and Postdoc Travel Support for International Workshop on Future trends in DNA-based nanotechnology

该奖项支持来自美国机构的学生和博士后学者参加2017年5月在德国德累斯顿马克斯普朗克复杂系统物理研究所举行的基于DNA的纳米技术（DNATEC 17）未来趋势国际研讨会。DNA已经发展成为一种“设计分子”，可以用来构建复杂的人工纳米结构，其精确度和复杂度通过传统的光刻技术不容易实现。DNA纳米技术已经-在工程背景下-成为采用基本生物学原理（如分子识别和自组装）进行先进材料合成的先驱领域。DNATEC 17旨在总结基于核酸的纳米技术的快速发展的跨学科领域的巨大进展，并通过将来自物理学，生物物理学，化学，生物学，计算机科学和材料科学不同领域的专家聚集在同一屋檐下，加强思想和理解的交流。在这个奖项的支持下，参加这个研讨会的学生和博士后将了解创造和发展健全的科学思想的过程。有一个独特的融合理论和实践的DNA为基础的纳米技术，从一系列的学科。跨学科是绝对根深蒂固的目标，这个车间。在DNATEC 17，年轻的学者将看到他们领域的领导者致力于产生最高质量的跨学科研究的想法。在会议开始的一整天的辅导将促进学生对来自各个领域的工作的理解。这个奖项将有助于通过鼓励学生参加，展示他们的工作，并与该领域的其他重要参与者互动，促进下一代分子设计师和分子程序员的发展。研讨会将：1。涵盖的方面包括结构DNA纳米技术，DNA为基础的机械，先进的成像技术，结构建模的核酸为基础的纳米结构以及DNA纳米技术的可编程分子电路，细胞内生物计算和合成生物学。2.解决了在不久的将来必须解决的基本科学问题，这些问题涉及到为复杂3D结构的高级装配创建新的设计规则，以及将后者成功转移到更适用的领域。该奖项将资助大约20名来自美国机构的优秀学生和博士后学者前往参加研讨会。通过参加DNATEC 17，来自美国机构的DNA纳米技术领域的学生和博士后学者将有机会向国际科学家展示他们的工作。这将促进他们与国际研究界的互动，并极大地促进美国机构的年轻科学家与其他国家科学家之间的合作，从而实现潜在的国际合作。

This award supports students and postdoctoral scholars from US Institutions to attend the International Workshop on Future Trends in DNA-based Nanotechnology (DNATEC17), which will take place in May 2017 at Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany. DNA has developed to be a "designer molecule" that can be used to construct complex artificial nanostructures with a precision and complexity not easily achievable by conventional lithographic techniques. DNA nanotechnology has - in an engineering context - become a pioneering field of employing basic biological principles such as molecular recognition and self-assembly for advanced materials synthesis. DNATEC17 aims at summarizing the enormous progress in the rapidly growing cross-disciplinary field of nucleic acid-based nanotechnology, and enhancing the exchange of ideas and understanding by bringing under the same roof experts from different fields of physics, biophysics, chemistry, biology, computer science and materials science. Supported by this award, students and postdocs attending this workshop will gain an understanding of the process of creating and developing sound scientific ideas. There is a unique blend of theory and practice in DNA-based nanotechnology, from a range of academic disciplines. Interdisciplinarity is absolutely engrained within the goals of this workshop. At DNATEC17, young scholars will see that the leaders in their field are devoted to the idea of producing the highest quality interdisciplinary research. A full day of tutorials at the beginning of the conference will facilitate students' understanding of work from a variety of fields.This award will help to foster the development of the next generation of molecular designers and molecular programmers, by encouraging students to attend, present their work, and interact with other important players in the field. The workshop will: 1. cover aspects including structural DNA nanotechnology, DNA-based machinery, advanced imaging techniques, structure modeling for nucleic acid-based nanostructures as well as DNA nanotechnology for programmable molecular circuitry, intracellular biocomputation and synthetic biology. 2. address basic scientific questions that have to be solved in near future and that are related to both the creation of novel designer rules for advanced assembly of complex 3D structures and the successful transfer of the latter into more applicative fields. Approximately 20 outstanding students and postdoctoral scholars from US institutions will be funded by this award to support their travel to the workshop.By attending DNATEC17, students and postdoctoral scholars from US Institution working in the field of DNA nanotechnology will have the opportunity to present their work to an audience of international scientists. This will facilitate their interaction with the international research community and greatly foster collaborations between the young scientists in US institution with scientists from other nations, leading to potential international collaborations.