Conference: GRC Bioelectronics: Probing, Manipulating and Understanding Cell-Materials Interfaces to Achieve Electrical Continuity; June 16-21, 2019; Andover, NH

2019年戈登生物电子学研究会议(GRC)-这是关于这一主题的第一次GRC-建立了一个跨学科研究人员社区。生物电子学是一个多学科的科学领域，它包括来自不同领域的研究人员，如生物化学、分子生物学、化学、物理、材料科学、医学、电气工程和合成生物学。这些领域的联系仍然很差，目前还没有一次会议将积极参与各种规模的生物电子技术开发的广泛研究人员聚集在一起。2019年GRC on BioElectronics促进了物理科学、工程和生物科学领域的新的跨学科合作，并提供了一个分享最新进展、交流重大挑战和建立合作以开发变革性生物电子技术的论坛。研究主题是多学科的，横跨物理科学和生物科学。这次会议包括研究生和博士后的参与。生物电子学进步的一个关键的、统一的元素是将生物分子、细胞和材料在一系列长度尺度上合并。该领域的基本问题包括了解生化途径中的电子流动，阐明合成系统和自然系统之间界面上的电子转移，以及利用先进材料和合成生物学建立设备和细胞之间电子和离子通信的有效途径。会议解决并确立了生物电子学领域的重大挑战，包括：(1)了解如何将生物/有机材料与合成材料，包括自然和合成光采集系统相结合，(2)寻找新的方法来控制和重新编程生物中的电子转移，以有针对性地完成纳米级合成，(3)实现读/写接口的专门性，(4)设计具有足够寿命和长期降解性的材料，以及(5)将这些知识转化为宏观现象和装置。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The 2019 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) in Bioelectronics - the first GRC on this topic - establishes a community of interdisciplinary researchers. Bioelectronics is a multi-disciplinary scientific area and it includes researchers from diverse fields, such as biochemistry, molecular biology, chemistry, physics, materials sciences, medicine, electrical engineering, and synthetic biology. These areas remain poorly connected, and there is no current meeting that brings together the broad spectrum of researchers actively involved in the development of Bioelectronics technologies across a range of length scales. The 2019 GRC on Bioelectronics fosters new interdisciplinary collaborations across the physical sciences, engineering, and biological sciences and provides a forum for sharing the latest advances, communicating grand challenges, and building collaborations to develop transformative bioelectronics technologies. Research topics are multi-disciplinary, spanning both the physical sciences and biological sciences The Conference includes the participation of graduate students and postdocs.A key, unifying element in the advancement of Bioelectronics is merging biomolecules, cells, and materials across a spectrum of length scales. Fundamental questions in the field include understanding electron flow in biochemical pathways, elucidating electron transfer at interfaces between synthetic and natural systems and establishing efficient pathways for electrical and ionic communication between devices and cells using advanced materials and synthetic biology. The meeting addresses and establishes grand challenges in the field of Bioelectronics including: (1) understanding how to integrate living/organic materials with synthetic materials, including natural and synthetic light harvesting systems, (2) finding new ways to control and re-program electron transfer in biology to accomplish nanoscale synthesis in a targeted manner, (3) achieving specificity in read/write interfaces, (4) designing materials with sufficient longevity and long-term degradability, and (5) translating this knowledge to macroscopic phenomena and devices.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.