Symposium on Biological & BioInspired Materials Assembly

描述（由申请人提供）：NIH支持支付特殊材料研究学会（MRS）研讨会的参与者费用，题为“生物和生物启发材料组装”，该研讨会将重点关注基于DNA，蛋白质和脂质组装的新型生物材料的前沿研究。这个为期三天的研讨会将在马萨诸塞州波士顿举行，作为2003年材料研究学会秋季会议的一部分。邀请的演讲嘉宾是高度跨学科的，包括广泛的学术科学家（Angela Belcher，材料科学与工程，麻省理工学院，William降格，生物化学与生物物理学，宾夕法尼亚大学，David Lynn，化学，埃默里大学，Phillip Messersmith，生物医学工程，西北大学，Martin Moller，德国工业大学，Christof Niemeyer，多特蒙德大学，生物化学和生物化学）。纳德里安·西曼，化学，纽约大学；Samuel I. Stupp，西北大学材料科学与工程、化学和医学；Gregory Tew，高分子科学与工程，马萨诸塞大学；Matthew Tirrell，加州大学圣巴巴拉分校化学工程专业；Ulrich Wiesner，材料科学与工程，康奈尔大学；​将从提交的摘要中选择12-14个其他演讲。邀请的演讲者包括7名生物工程师和5名生物化学家和化学家，他们的研究重点都是生物和非生物系统自组装的仿生系统的发展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): NIH support is requested to defray participant costs for a special Materials Research Society (MRS) symposium entitled, "Biological and Bio-inspired Materials Assembly," which will focus on the cutting edge of research on novel biomaterials based on DNA, protein, and lipid assemblies. This 3-day symposium will be held in Boston, MA as part of the 2003 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society. The panel of invited speakers is highly interdisciplinary and includes a wide array of academic scientists (Angela Belcher, Materials Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; William DeGrado, Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania; David Lynn, Chemistry, Emory University; Phillip Messersmith, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University; Martin Moller, Biochemistry, RWTH; Christof Niemeyer, Biochemistry, University of Dortmund; Nadrian Seeman, Chemistry, New York University; Samuel I. Stupp, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, and Medicine, Northwestern University; Gregory Tew, Polymer Science & Engineering, University of Massachusetts; Matthew Tirrell, Chemical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara; Ulrich Wiesner, Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University; Shuguang Zhang, Center for Biomedical Engineering, MIT). 12-14 other talks will be chosen from submitted abstracts. The invited speakers include 7 bioengineers and 5 biochemists and chemists, all of whom direct research focused on the development of biomimetic systems for self-assembly of biological and non-biological systems. The goal of this symposium is not only to educate the broader materials research community about the importance and potential of biomaterials research, but also to bring together the materials scientists, who might have attended this meeting anyway, with biochemists, chemical engineers, and chemists, who would have been unlikely to attend. This symposium, and the planned conference dinner associated with it (for the speakers), will promote idea exchange and interdisciplinary collaboration. One speaker is female, reflective of the generally low female representation in this field at the principal investigator level. One of the three organizers is also female. Given the "star quality" of many of the speakers and the diversity of MRS meeting attendees, it is hoped that attendance at the symposium will be high and that the symposium will attract more women and under-represented minority scientists to the field.