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.

工程生活材料（ELMS）是一类新兴材料，由于在材料中或内部或内部包含活细胞而产生的其他或独特的功能。预计榆树将在材料开发，制造和使用方面提供改善的可持续性。例如，将活细胞用作（微型）工厂将有助于从可持续投入中产生理想的材料，例如从简单糖或废物材料中生产生物聚合物。目前，由于ELM编程没有专门的会议，因此在该领域工作的学术和行业团队之间的发现，想法和创新之间的有限交换来阻碍榆树的发展。一个主要的挑战是，这个新领域的参与者涵盖了许多研究社区，因此建立的会议仅组装了榆树社区的小横截面。这项赠款支持两次会议，将ELM社区汇集在一起​​，以交换前进的想法，挑战和解决方案，目的是建立在年度或一年一度的日程安排上建立ELM会议系列。这笔赠款支持两次会议。第一个是材料研究协会春季会议附近的晚间会议，以组建与会者，并讨论为期一天的夏季榆树研讨会的优先事项。第二次会议是一个为期一天的研讨会，该研讨会将召集在材料科学，工程，微生物学，合成生物学以及社会，法律和道德考虑方面的ELM研究中工作的团队。期望学术和行业参与者。该研讨会将包括受邀演讲者，小型工作组和调节讨论，以定义优先研究领域，确定核心挑战和潜在的解决方案，并定义了这个新兴社区的需求。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和更广泛影响的评估来通过评估来获得支持的值得的。