2020 SynCell Meeting

2018年，作为美国国家科学基金会十大创意的一部分，举办了一个关于建立合成细胞的研讨会(也被称为想法实验室)，以确定科学和工程前沿的项目，这些项目将使用合成方法从最初的原理构建细胞。已确定并资助了7个这样的项目，通过这项提议资助的会议将有助于将成功的团体聚集在一起，讨论它们自开始供资以来一年的进展情况。追求从无生命化学构建活细胞的目标为推进美国生物技术、生物医学和材料研究的生物制造提供了重要机会，并为参与该项目的学生和博士后提供了独特的教育和培训机会。会议将为美国科学家和生物工程师提供一个论坛，概述他们在创造由相反手性分子组成的细胞、构建人造神经元和构建无脂细胞等尖端合成生物学项目方面的最新工作。这次会议将为科学小组之间的研究想法交流和初级和高级科学家的网络机会留出时间。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。

In 2018, as part of NSF’s 10 Big Ideas, a workshop (also known as an Ideas lab) on ‘Building a Synthetic Cell’ was held to identify projects at the frontiers of science and engineering that would use synthetic approaches to build cells from first principals. Seven such projects were identified and funded and the meeting funded through this proposal will serve to bring the successful groups together to discuss their progress in the year since funding began. Pursuing the goal of building living cells from inanimate chemistry provides significant opportunities to advance US bio-manufacturing in biotechnology, biomedicine and materials research as well as providing a unique educational and training opportunity for students and post-docs involved in the projects.The meeting will provide a forum for US scientists and bio-engineers to outline their most recent work on creating cells comprised of molecules with opposite chirality, building artificial neurons and constructing cells without lipids among other cutting edge synthetic biology projects. The meeting will allow time for the exchange of research ideas between scientific groups and networking opportunities for both junior and senior scientists.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.