Capital Award: Quantification for frontier engineering

生物系统科学与工程是一个令人兴奋的新领域。它涵盖了合成生物学，其中工程原理应用于分子和细胞水平，设计新的代谢途径，材料和设备，通过管理大规模的生物系统，如支撑现代社会的废水处理系统。在这个庞大的规模范围内，高度精确的定量测量是基础-可靠的工程，必须能够测量正在设计的内容。测量精度越高，工程产品的效果和效率就越高。该奖项将用于购买高灵敏度，高精度的测量系统，该系统将允许量化合成，智能生物材料和细胞中的核酸，以及量化在大规模生物处理中驱动重要过程（例如污染物去除）的关键生物。该设备的应用将有助于开发更可靠，高效和可持续的新材料和工艺，并提高大型生物处理系统的效率，从而更有效地控制污染物并降低处理系统的能源需求。

Biological Systems Science and Engineering is an exciting new frontier. It spans Synthetic Biology where engineering principles are applied at the molecular and cellular level, to design new metabolic pathways, materials and devices, through to management of large scale biological systems such as wastewater treatments systems which underpin modern societies.Across this massive range of scales highly precise quantitative measurement is fundamental - to engineer reliably, it is essential to be able to measure what is being engineered. The greater the precision of the measurement, the more effective and efficient will be the engineered product. This award will be used to purchase high sensitivity, high precision measurement systems that will allow quantification of nucleic acids in synthetic, smart biological materials and cells as well as quantifying key organisms that drive important processes (e.g. pollutant removal) in large scale biological treatments. Application of the equipment will contribute to the development of more reliable, efficient and sustainable new materials and processes and improve the efficiency of large scale biological treatment systems leading to more effective control of pollutants and reduce the energy requirements of the treatments systems.