Engineered Living Materials

“工程生命材料”（ELM）作为材料科学，合成生物学和生物技术交叉的一门新科学学科正在迅速发展。ELMs改变了材料的生产、应用和处置方式。ELM依靠生物体的遗传编程来实现具有复杂功能的自生长材料。它们在建筑和包装材料以及纺织品方面提供创新，如集成传感器和执行器，燃料电池或智能药物仓库。ELM已列入美国的科学政策议程，大量资金正在推动创新。同样，关键的创新也来自中国和英国。然而，尽管在基础学科的强大能力，ELMs在很大程度上是未知领域在德国的科学景观。该研讨会针对早期职业科学家，旨在通过加速材料和生命科学博士研究人员和早期博士后之间的跨学科培训和交流，并通过支持该领域创新项目的直接实施，在德国启动ELM社区。早期职业科学家将获得ELM特定研究原理和技术的补充技能，他们将享受该领域受邀国际专家的研讨会演讲，他们将收到专家对自己研究想法的反馈以及高度创新领域的职业规划。有了这些技能，反馈，经验和网络，参与者将做好最佳准备，以开发和执行ELMs的创新研究。

„Engineered Living Materials“ (ELM) is rapidly growing as a new scientific discipline at the intersection of materials sciences, synthetic biology and biotechnology. ELMs change the paradigm of how materials are produced, applied and disposed of. ELMs rely on genetic programming of living organisms to achieve self-growing materials with complex functions. They provide innovation in construction and packaging materials and textiles, as integrated sensors and actuators, fuel cells or as smart drug depots. ELMs are on the science policy agenda in the U.S. with substantial funding fuelling ongoing innovations. Similarly, key innovations are coming from China and the UK. However, despite strong competences in underlying disciplines, ELMs are largely terra incognita in the German scientific landscape. This workshop for early career scientists aims at initiating an ELM community in Germany, by accelerating interdisciplinary training and exchange among doctoral researchers and early postdocs in materials and life sciences, and by supporting direct implementation of innovative projects in the field. The early career scientists will acquire complementary skills in ELM-specific research principles and techniques, they will enjoy seminar talks from invited international experts in the field, and they will receive feedback from experts to their own research ideas as well as career plans in a highly innovative field. With these skills, feedback, experience, and networking the participants will be optimally prepared to develop and perform innovative research on ELMs.