US National Symposium on Frontiers in Biomechanics: Mechanics of Development

描述（由申请人提供）：将于2011年6月21日在宾夕法尼亚州法明顿举行的2011年夏季生物工程会议之前举行为期一天的发展机制研讨会。本次研讨会将是第三届美国国家生物力学前沿研讨会，由美国国家生物力学委员会（USNCB）主办。发育力学、合成生物学和组织工程等新兴领域激发了人们对发育的物理方面的兴趣，这是一个在过去二十年中基本上被忽视的话题。本次会议将汇集发育生物学家，生物工程师和生物药理学家，讨论这一新领域的最新进展，以及新的合作如何解决胚胎发育中的特定问题。本次会议的主要目的是（1）促进工程师和发育生物学家之间的合作;（2）激发工程师对胚胎发育的兴趣;（3）确定未来值得更多关注的发育生物学问题，特别是那些相对未知或未被工程界重视的问题。在这次会议上，发言者将讨论他们如何解决胚胎发育中的具体问题，以及他们认为未来研究的最重要领域。在这些主题上的扩展研究将极大地有益于我们社会的健康，例如，通过引导从胚胎到老年疾病的新疗法。 公共卫生相关性：对组织和器官发育的物理方面的研究可以为从胚胎到老年的各种疾病提供新的治疗方法。关于发展机制的研讨会将聚集领先的生物学家，生物工程师和生物药理学家，讨论这一领域的最新进展以及新的合作如何解决具体问题。本次会议建议将这三个领域的杰出研究人员和年轻研究人员聚集在一起，寻求新的合作和研究领域。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A one-day symposium on the Mechanics of Development will be held on June 21, 2011, immediately prior to the 2011 Summer Bioengineering Conference in Farmington, Pennsylvania. This symposium will be the Third US National Symposium on Frontiers in Biomechanics, which is sponsored by the US National Committee on Biomechanics (USNCB). The emerging fields of developmental mechanics, synthetic biology, and tissue engineering have stimulated increased interest in the physical aspects of development, a topic that has been largely ignored during the last two decades. This meeting will bring together developmental biologists, bioengineers, and biophysicists to discuss recent advances in this new field and how new collaborations can attack specific problems in embryonic development. The main objectives of this meeting are (1) to foster collaborations between engineers and developmental biologists; (2) to stimulate interest among engineers in embryonic development; and (3) to define problems in developmental biology that deserve more attention in the future, especially those problems that are relatively unknown or underappreciated by the engineering community. At this meeting, speakers will discuss how they attack specific problems in embryonic development, as well as what they feel are the most important areas for future study. Expanded research in these topics would greatly benefit the health of our society by leading, for example, to new treatments for diseases from the embryo to old age. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Research into the physical aspects of tissue and organ development can lead to new treatments for various diseases from the embryo to old age. The symposium on the Mechanics of Development will gather leading biologists, bioengineers, and biophysicists to discuss recent advances in this field and how new collaborations can attack specific problems. This meeting proposes to bring together both prominent researchers and young investigators from these three fields seeking new areas of collaboration and research.