Optogenetic Technologies and Applications

该奖项将支持早期职业研究人员参加将于2019年12月8日至10日在马萨诸塞州波士顿举行的光遗传技术与应用会议。该会议旨在通过将工程师和生命科学研究人员聚集在同一地点，促进合作、跨学科研究。会议设计为高度互动，有演讲、海报会议、小组讨论和非正式会议。会议分为光遗传学技术、生物医学中的光遗传学和光遗传学在生物工程中的应用。届时将有充足的机会分享最新的研究成果并建立网络。光遗传学是一项新兴技术，它允许研究人员利用光来控制已被修改为光敏的活细胞。光遗传学在研究、医学和工业方面具有巨大的应用潜力。光遗传技术与应用会议将展示在这一领域进行的新颖和前沿的研究。会议旨在为以下人员提供一个场所：(1)来自不同研究人员群体的科学报告，包括生物学家、化学家和工程师；(2)汇聚业界和学术界人士，展示不同的观点和方法，并鼓励潜在的合作；(3)鼓励代表本领域未来的研究生和博士后研究人员积极参与；(4)将科学家和工程师聚集在一起，讨论他们的学科和方法，并激发新的研究，以限制光遗传学在各个领域的发展；(5)来自代表性不足群体的科学家展示他们的研究并建立网络。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will support early career researcher attendance at the Optogenetic Technologies and Applications Conference, which will be held in Boston, MA on December 8-10 of 2019. The conference aims to promote collaborative, interdisciplinary research by bringing engineers and life science researchers together at the same venue. The conference is designed to be highly interactive, with talks, poster sessions, panel discussions and informal meetings. The conference is organized into sessions on optogenetic technologies, optogenetics in biomedicine and optogenetics in bioengineering. There will be ample opportunity for sharing the latest research results and for networking.Optogenetics is an emerging technique that allows researchers to use light in order to control living cells that have been modified to be light sensitive. Optogenetics has tremendous potential for use in research, medicine and industry. The Optogenetic Technologies and Applications Conference will be used to showcase the novel and cutting-edge research conducted in this field. The conference aims to provide a venue for the following: (1) scientific presentations from a diverse group of researchers, including biologists, chemists, and engineers; (2) bringing together members of industry and academia to showcase different perspectives and approaches, as well as to encourage potential collaborations; (3) encouraging active participation of graduate and post-doctoral researchers who represent the future of the field; (4) bringing scientists and engineers together to discuss their disciplines and approaches, and to motivate new research into barriers limiting the development of optogenetics in a variety of fields; (5) scientists who are from underrepresented groups to present their research and to network.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.