Protein Assembly in Materials, Biology and Medicine:Direct Impact on Biological N

描述（由申请人提供）：本次国际会议“材料、生物学和医学中的蛋白质组装：对生物纳米科学的直接影响”，讨论了蛋白质自组装在生物材料开发、生物过程和医学中的作用。自组装领域对几个广泛的研究领域做出了积极的贡献，并因此得到了显著的发展。然而，研究自组装系统的研究人员来自不同的学科，包括化学、生物学、工程、计算和医学，他们都从自己的角度研究自组装过程。本次会议将汇集材料科学、结构生物学、淀粉样蛋白疾病、蛋白质设计和物理化学方面的国际专家，他们都从自己独特的角度研究自组装。带来有助于生物材料研究的相互作用，特别是生物材料设计，审问生物材料的分析方法，以及分子组装的研究，我们认为这为新的生物材料概念提供了范例和工程原理。这次跨学科研讨会的目的是产生关于自组装的新观点和新想法，并对自组装发挥重要作用的多个领域产生直接影响。此外，这次会议将使美国核心科学家与这些领域的世界专家接触；不包括不经常前往美国的非美国科学家，也不包括美国参与者可能不认识的非美国科学家。我们期待在参加研讨会的各方之间开展跨越国际边界的多样化合作。这些非传统的合作将对材料科学、生物学和医学领域的许多尚未解决的问题产生突破性的见解，并将成为新创新技术发展的孵化器。会议的形式是小型和亲密的（约36名演讲者，其中11名是女性，8名早期职业科学家和3名助理教授），鼓励个人互动。除了主办方之外，超过50%的演讲者来自美国，其他演讲者来自日本、英国、以色列、法国、瑞典、德国、瑞士、希腊、印度和中国。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This international meeting, "Protein Assembly in Materials, Biology and Medicine: Direct Impact on Biological Nanosciences", addresses a global interest in the role that protein self assembly plays in biomaterials development, biological processes and medicine. The self-assembly field actively contributes to several broad research areas and as a result has undergone significant growth. However, researchers who study self-assembling systems come from very different disciplines ranging from chemistry, biology, engineering, computation and medicine, all studying self-assembly processes from their own perspective. This meeting will bring together international experts in materials science, structural biology, amyloid disease, protein design and physical chemistry, all who study self-assembly from their own distinct perspectives. Bringing interactions that can contribute to biomaterials research, specifically biomaterials design, analytical methods for interrogating biomaterials, and the study of molecular assemblies, that we feel provide paradigms and engineering principles for new biomaterials conception. The aim of this cross disciplinary workshop is to generate fresh perspectives and novel ideas pertaining to self-assembly with immediate impact on the multiple fields in which self-assembly plays an important role. In addition, this meeting will bring a core of United States scientists in contact with world experts in these areas; will not be non-US scientists who do not frequently travel to the US, and who might not be personally known by our US participants. We expect diverse collaborations across international boundaries to result among those participating in the workshop. These unconventional collaborations will produce breakthrough insights into many unsolved problems in materials science, biology and medicine and will become an incubator for the development of new innovative technologies. The meeting format is small and intimate (~about 36 speakers, eleven of which are females, 8 early career scientist and 3 assistant professors) encouraging personal interactions. In addition to the organizers, more than 50% of the speakers are from the US with other speakers invited from Japan, UK, Israel, France, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, India, and China.