SynCell Ideas Lab 2019
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- 01 Feb 2019
Overview
Welcome to the SynCell Ideas Lab 2019 Website!
This Ideas Lab's theme is “Building a Synthetic Cell.” Ideas Labs are intensive workshops focused on finding innovative solutions to grand challenge problems. The ultimate aim of this Ideas Lab organized by the National Science Foundation is to facilitate the generation and execution of innovative research projects aimed at designing, fabricating, and validating synthetic cells that express specified phenotypes. The aspiration is that mixing researchers who have diverse scientific backgrounds will engender original thinking and innovative approaches that will transform our understanding of cellular processes, the molecular mechanisms that underscore the building and function of systems that reproduce life traits, the self-assembly of life-like systems, soft condensed matter, and the physics and chemistry of life that are needed to design and build cellular components, cells and multicell systems.
For a full description see the background reading section, or the full solicitation linked below.
This lab is supported by Solicitation 18-599
The NSF program officers supporting this project include:
| Name | Phone | |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Cunningham | chacunni@nsf.gov | (703) 292-2283 |
| Mitra Basu | mbasu@nsf.gov | (703) 292-8649 |
| Krastan B. Blagoev | kblagoev@nsf.gov | (703) 292-4666 |
| Ellen Carpenter | elcarpen@nsf.gov | (703) 292-5104 |
| Joseph T. Miller | jtmiller@nsf.gov | (703) 292-7214 |
| John Parker | joparker@nsf.gov | (703) 292 5034 |
| Steven W. Peretti | speretti@nsf.gov | (703) 292-7029 |
| Margaret Fraiser | mfraiser@nsf.gov | (703) 292-8172 |
Logistics Q&A
Dates: The Ideas Lab will be held from February 25th to March 1st of 2019.
Venue: The Airlie House will be hosting the lab. We'll be in the Federal Room.
You'll want to bring your laptop, or tablet these days, but you won't need it on the first day.
Also, we general keep things casual as far as dress code. Airlie is quite a beautiful setting, and there's a gym, so feel free to prepare to enjoy those.