Supporting Student and Diversity Involvement at the 2020 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference; Vail, Colorado; June 17-20 2020

支持学生和多元化参与 2020 年夏季生物力学、生物工程和生物运输会议；

• 批准号: 2017872
• 负责人: Jonathan Vande Geest
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2022-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2017872&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Supporting; Student; Diversity; Involvement; 2020

This award will provide support for the annual Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference (SB3C) in Vail, Colorado form June 17th - 20th of 2020. This conference will bring together current and future leaders across the broad fields of bioengineering and biology to promote state-of-the-art research, collaboration, and international scientific discourse. Sessions will span a broad range of topics including Cell & Tissue Engineering, Computational Biomechanics & Diagnostic Models, and Rehabilitation & Assistive Technologies. This year’s conference will place particular emphasis on mechanobiology, which studies how physical forces and changes in the mechanical properties of cells and tissues can alter the function of an organism. The primary objective of this award is to enable the participation of students and early career scientists in the 2020 SB3C, especially those from underrepresented groups. A secondary objective is to include supporting highly-qualified student researchers who write the most meritorious scientific abstracts in the Student Paper Competition. Finally, discussions at the conference will be captured by a professional science writer and disseminated via a published paper. This will be in addition to the publicly-available conference proceedings. Taken together, these activities will build a foundation for a more diverse professional bioengineering workforce. Offering merit-based diversity travel fellowships pay for conference registration costs for students (undergraduate and graduate), postdoctoral fellows, and early career scientists from underrepresented groups will broaden participation. All who receive these funds will participate in a novel Diversity Mentor-Mentee Event. This event will provide an environment where attendees can network, initiate long term mentoring relationships, and discuss challenging aspects of being successful researchers. Students who receive support as finalists or winners in the student paper competition can add this information to their resumes, and the competition provides an opportunity for students to develop as researchers and is a significant career boost, enhancing retention of the most talented students and providing role models for all student attendees. Finally, the creation of a scholarly publication synthesizing the state-of-the-art discussions on bridging mechanics and biology will provide a lasting, tangible record of contemporary discussions on the conference theme – “Mechanobiology: Linking physics, form and function”.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项将为 2020 年 6 月 17 日至 20 日在科罗拉多州韦尔举行的年度夏季生物力学、生物工程和生物转运会议 (SB3C) 提供支持。该会议将汇集生物工程和生物学广泛领域当前和未来的领导者，以促进最先进的研究、合作和国际科学讨论将涵盖广泛的主题，包括细胞和组织工程、计算生物力学和诊断模型，以及康复与辅助技术。今年的会议将特别强调机械生物学，该领域研究细胞和组织的物理力和机械特性的变化如何改变生物体的功能。该奖项的主要目的是让参与者能够参与。 2020 年 SB3C 的学生和早期职业科学家，特别是那些来自代表性不足的群体的第二个目标是支持在学生论文竞赛中撰写最有价值的科学摘要的高素质学生研究人员。会议上的内容将由专业科学作家记录，并通过公开发表的论文进行传播。总而言之，这些活动将为更加多元化的专业生物工程队伍奠定基础。基于多样性的旅行奖学金支付学生（本科生和研究生）、博士后研究员和来自代表性不足群体的早期职业科学家的会议注册费用，所有获得这些资金的人都将参加一个新颖的多样性导师学员。该活动将为与会者提供一个交流、建立长期指导关系并讨论成为成功研究人员的挑战性方面的环境，在学生论文竞赛中获得决赛入围者或获奖者支持的学生可以将此信息添加到他们的简历中，并且该竞赛为学生提供了发展成为研究人员的机会，并且对职业发展具有重要意义，可以提高最有才华的学生的保留率，并为所有学生参与者提供榜样。关于连接力学和生物学的艺术讨论将提供该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

The Elephant in the Cell: Nuclear Mechanics and Mechanobiology.

细胞中的大象：核力学和力学生物学。

• DOI: 10.1115/1.4053797
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of biomechanical engineering
• 作者: Jones,MichelleL;Dahl,KrisNoel;Lele,TanmayP;Conway,DanielE;Shenoy,Vivek;Ghosh,Soham;Szczesny,SpencerE
• 通讯作者: Szczesny,SpencerE