GoingToMeet

The vision of the Biointerface Science GRCs is to bring together recent advances in materials science and molecular/cellular biology with sophisticated surface and interface analysis methods to develop experimental tools and theoretical models to describe bio-interface phenomena with physical concepts and rules that allow predictive, model-driven research, similar to the interfacial understanding that has been successfully developed for semiconductor and catalytic processes. A second, and equally important objective is to accelerate the rate at which new development in biomolecular design and engineering are brought into the domain of physical scientists, and conversely to educate biologists of the precision techniques that are now available to position, manipulate, and interrogate biomolecules at length scales from the single molecule upwards in two-and three dimensions. Together, this intellectual interplay will lead to a new paradigm in the way in which molecules are designed, studied, and exploited for the vast number of biotechnology applications in which "biomolecules meet surfaces".