__NOTOC__ The International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation, and Engineering (ISNSCE, pronounced like "essence") is a scientific society specializing in nanotechnology and DNA computing. It was started in 2004 by Nadrian Seeman, founder of the field of DNA nanotechnology. According to the society, its purpose is "to promote the study of the control of the arrangement of the atoms in matter, examine the principles that lead to such control, to develop tools and methods to increase such control, and to investigate the use of these principles for molecular computation, and for engineering on the finest possible scales."
ISNSCE sponsors two academic conferences each year: the first is Foundations of Nanoscience (FNANO), and the second is the International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Computation (DNA Computing). The FNANO conference has been held in Snowbird, Utah each year in April since 2004, and focuses on molecular self-assembly of nanoscale materials and devices. DNA Computing focuses on biomolecular computing and DNA nanotechnology, and has been held annually since 1995. The proceedings of DNA Computing were published as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series until 2019, and since 2020 have been published as part of the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics.
Awards ISNSCE sponsors two awards annually. The ISNSCE Nanoscience Prize recognizes research in any area of nanoscience, and has been presented at FNANO each year since 2007. The Tulip Award in DNA Computing is specific to the fields of biomolecular computing and molecular programming, and has been presented at the DNA Computing conference since 2000. ISNSCE also sponsors two student awards for papers presented at the DNA Computing conference each year.
The Tulip Award was first given at the sixth DNA Computing conference, in Leiden, the Netherlands, whose botanical garden is known as the birthplace of the tulip culture in the Netherlands.
In April 2015, ISNCSE established the Robert Dirks Molecular Programming Prize to recognize early-career scientists for molecular programming research. The award was established in memory of Dirks, who was one of the six fatalities of the February 2015 Valhalla train crash.
ISNSCE Nanoscience Prize
The following are recipients of the ISNSCE Nanoscience Prize:
YearAwardeeInstitution2008George M. WhitesidesHarvard University2009Paul AlivisatosUniversity of California, Berkeley2010James Fraser StoddartNorthwestern University2011Nadrian SeemanNew York University2012Cees DekkerDelft University of Technology2013Bartosz GrzybowskiNorthwestern University2014Makoto FujitaUniversity of Tokyo2015Paul RothemundCalifornia Institute of Technology2016Christoph GerberUniversity of Basel2017Angela BelcherMassachusetts Institute of Technology2019David LeighUniversity of Manchester2020Samuel I. StuppNorthwestern University
Tulip Award in DNA Computing
The following are recipients of the Tulip Award in DNA Computing:
YearAwardeeInstitutionRationale2000Erik WinfreeCalifornia Institute of Technology2001Laura LandweberPrinceton University2002Tom HeadBinghamton University2003Anne CondonUniversity of British Columbia2004Nadrian C. SeemanNew York University2005John H. ReifDuke University2006Paul RothemundCalifornia Institute of Technology2007Natasha JonoskaUniversity of South Florida"for her work in applications of automata and graph theory to DNA assembly"2008Masami HagiyaUniversity of Tokyo"for his important contributions to biomolecular computation"2009Bernard YurkeBoise State University"for his important contributions to DNA nanotechnology"2010Milan StojanovicColumbia University"for his important achievements in molecular computing using aptamers and ribozymes"2011Andrew TurberfieldUniversity of Oxford"for his continuous, often pioneering, research contributions (from the early days of DNA computing)"2012Luca CardelliMicrosoft Research"for his research contributions to theory and software for programming biomolecular systems... [which] has provided insight into the computational nature of biomolecular processes, in particular those of strand displacement devices, and has facilitated the design of new software tools."2013Hao YanArizona State UniversityYan LiuArizona State University2014David SoloveichikUniversity of California, San Francisco2015Lila KariUniversity of Western Ontario2016Friedrich SimmelTechnical University of Munich"for his contributions in advancing DNA-based networks and self-organization of DNA-based systems"2017Peng YinHarvard University"for his pioneering work developing the foundations and applications of programmable nucleic acid nanotechnology"2018William ShihHarvard University"for his innovative self-assembling DNA nanostructures and tools for advancing molecular biophysics and therapeutics"2019Lulu QianCalifornia Institute of Technology"for her elegant and beautiful approaches to programmable DNA origami tile self-assembly, and for laying the foundations for scalable DNA neural networks"2020Niles PierceCalifornia Institute of Technology
See also Kavli Prize in Nanoscience Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology IEEE Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology
References
External links International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation, and Engineering Foundations of Nanoscience conference International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming