Symposia on Bio-MEMS for Genomic and Proteomic Analysis

描述（由申请人提供）：美国国立卫生研究院要求为参加美国电泳学会（AES） 2005年年会的一系列专题讨论会的学生提供旅行资助，重点关注基因组和蛋白质组学分析领域的生物mem和微流控技术的进展。以前没有提供过这些领域的重点会议。该会议每年与美国化学工程师协会（AlChE）的年度会议同时举行，并独特地汇集了来自生物学，工程学和计算科学领域的各种研究人员。我们计划利用申请的资金进一步鼓励工程学科以外的人参加，首次为这些领域的研究生和博士后研究人员提供大约20个旅行资助。这些旅行资助将有助于(i)使广泛的研究人员受益于本次会议与会者可获得的技术内容和专业互动的交叉施肥，（ii）促进必要的跨学科合作，以实现下一代基因组和蛋白质组学分析技术的发展。（iii）鼓励由于旅行经费有限而通常无法派研究生参加会议的年轻研究员pi参加会议。这些旅费补助金还将使我们能够通过实现以下主要目标，大大提高这些专题讨论会的技术和专业内容：

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): NIH support is requested to provide student travel grant support for attendance of a series of symposia at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Electrophoresis Society (AES) focusing on advances in bio-MEM and microfluidic technology in the areas of genomic and proteomic analysis. Focused sessions in these areas have not been previously offered. This conference is held annually in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Institute for Chemical Engineers (AlChE), and uniquely brings together a diverse range of researchers from the fields of biology, engineering, and computational science. We plan to use the requested funds to further encourage attendance from those outside of engineering disciplines by, for the first time, offering approximately 20 travel grants to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers in these areas. These travel grants will be instrumental in (i) allowing a broad cross section of researchers to benefit from the cross-fertilization of technical content and professional interactions available to attendees at this meeting, (ii) catalyzing interdisciplinary collaborations necessary to enable the development of next-generation genomic and proteomic analysis technology, and (iii) encouraging participation by young investigator PIs who would not normally be able to send graduate students to the conference due to limited travel fund availability. These travel grants will also allow us to greatly enhance the technical and professional content of these symposia by accomplishing the following key objectives: 1. Enhance participation by the next generation of researchers involved in the development of bio-MEMS and microfluidic technologies for genomic and proteomic analysis, particularly women and under-represented minorities. 2. Strengthen the technical content of meeting programming. 3. Establish an NIH presence at the AES and AlChE meetings. NIH has not traditionally had a strong presence at this conference, and support of these symposia will be an important step in establishing and maintaining these interactions.