3rd AfroBiotech Conference

第三届非洲生物技术会议

• 批准号: 2152854
• 负责人: Erika Moore
• 金额: $ 2.61万
• 依托单位: American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-11-01 至 2022-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2152854&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: 3rd; AfroBiotech; Conference

The AfroBiotech conference will be held October 25-27, 2021 on a virtual platform owing to the continuing Covin-19 pandemic facing the world at present. The conference highlights the achievements of African Americans in biotechnology, inspires a new generation of diverse biotechnology professionals and identifies, communicates, and explores current advancements in various aspects of Biotechnology. This forum organizes African-American scientific talent from across the U.S. at a single event and provides a venue to inspire a new generation of diverse biotechnology professionals, for scientific presentations, for highlights on African American achievements in biotechnology, for participation of students and postdocs and for an interdisciplinary dialogue among professionals. A virtual platform that facilitates vibrant and highly interactive virtual events that include a poster session, Question and Answer discussions, and small group/one-on-one discussion has been chosen. The conference also provides specific forums for scientific presentations, posters, networking, extended discussions and presentations and is inclusive of early-career researchers, postdoctoral associates and graduate students.Although the field of biological engineering is rapidly expanding and integrating with the US and global economies the data show that African Americans continue to be underrepresented in this scientific area. There is also an increasing number of African Americans entering this scientific area but this growth is still insufficient to alleviate the under-representation in the field of biological engineering. This situation represents an opportunity for the community of African American biological engineers to organize itself to address current and future opportunities. The AfroBiotech conference creates a forum for African American biological engineers to become organized to focus on this growing opportunity and at the same time address advances and prospects in scientific areas pertinent to biological engineering. The conference has a diverse agenda that is inclusive of early-career and postdoctoral researchers as well as graduate students. The agenda accommodates sessions for networking and extended discussions.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.

Afrobiotech会议将于2021年10月25日至27日在一个虚拟平台上举行，这是由于目前持续的Covin-19大流行。该会议强调了非洲裔美国人在生物技术方面的成就，激发了新一代的不同生物技术专业人员，并识别，交流和探讨了生物技术各个方面的当前进步。该论坛在一项活动中组织了来自美国各地的非裔美国人科学才能，并提供了一个场所，以激发新一代不同的生物技术专业人员，进行科学演讲，以介绍生物技术领域的非裔美国人成就，以供学生和博士后的参与以及专业人士之间的跨学科对话。已经选择了一个虚拟平台，可促进充满活力且高度互动的虚拟事件，其中包括海报会话，问答讨论以及小组/一对一讨论。该会议还为科学演示，海报，网络，扩展讨论和演讲提供了特定的论坛，包括早期研究人员，博士后伙伴和研究生。进入这一科学领域的非裔美国人也越来越多，但这种增长仍然不足以减轻生物工程领域的人数不足。这种情况为非裔美国人生物工程师社区提供了一个机会，可以组织自己以解决当前和未来的机会。 Afrobobiotech会议为非裔美国人生物工程师建立了一个论坛，可以组织起来，专注于这一不断增长的机会，同时解决与生物工程有关的科学领域的进步和前景。会议的议程包括早期职业和博士后研究人员以及研究生。该议程可容纳网络和扩展讨论的会议。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评论标准来评估值得支持的。