Workshop: Developing Community in Engineered Living Materials; Bozeman, Montana; 13 July 2023

研讨会：工程生活材料社区发展；

• 批准号: 2325011
• 负责人: Chelsea Heveran
• 金额: $ 3.98万
• 依托单位: Montana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-06-01 至 2024-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2325011&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Developing; Community; Engineered; Living

Engineered Living Materials (ELMs) are an emerging class of materials that have additional or unique functionalities resulting from the inclusion of living cells on or within the material. ELMs are expected to provide improved sustainability in material development, manufacturing, and use. For instance, using living cells as (micro)factories would facilitate generation of desirable materials from sustainable inputs, such as the production of biopolymers from simple sugars or waste materials. Currently, the development of ELMs is hindered by limited exchange of findings, ideas, and innovations between academic and industry teams working in this area because ELM programming does not have a dedicated conference. A major challenge is that participants in this new field span many research communities, and thus established conferences only assemble small cross-sections of the ELM community. This grant supports two meetings to bring together ELM community to exchange ideas, challenges, and solutions that move the field forward with the goal of establishing an ELM conference series on an annual or biannual schedule.This grant supports two meetings. The first is an evening meeting adjacent to the Materials Research Society Spring conference to assemble attendees and discuss the priorities for the one-day summer ELM workshop. The second meeting is a one-day workshop which will bring together teams working in ELM research across the fields of materials science, engineering, microbiology, synthetic biology, as well as social, legal and ethical considerations. Academic and industry participants are expected. The workshop will feature invited speakers, small working groups, and moderated discussions to define priority research areas, identify central challenges and potential solutions, and define the needs of this emerging community.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.

工程活性材料 (ELM) 是一类新兴材料，由于材料表面或内部含有活细胞，因此具有额外或独特的功能。 ELM 有望提高材料开发、制造和使用的可持续性。例如，使用活细胞作为（微型）工厂将有助于从可持续投入中生产所需的材料，例如从简单的糖或废料中生产生物聚合物。目前，由于 ELM 编程没有专门的会议，因此该领域的学术和行业团队之间的发现、想法和创新交流有限，从而阻碍了 ELM 的发展。一个主要挑战是这个新领域的参与者跨越许多研究社区，因此建立的会议仅聚集了 ELM 社区的一小部分成员。这笔赠款支持两次会议，将 ELM 社区聚集在一起，交流想法、挑战和解决方案，推动该领域向前发展，目标是每年或每两年举办一次 ELM 会议系列。这笔赠款支持两次会议。第一个是与材料研究学会春季会议相邻的晚间会议，召集与会者并讨论为期一天的夏季 ELM 研讨会的优先事项。第二次会议是为期一天的研讨会，将汇集材料科学、工程、微生物学、合成生物学以及社会、法律和伦理考虑领域的 ELM 研究团队。预计学术界和行业参与者。该研讨会将邀请演讲者、小型工作组和主持讨论，以确定优先研究领域，确定核心挑战和潜在解决方案，并确定这个新兴社区的需求。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为值得通过以下方式获得支持：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。