Travel Support: 7th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications

该基金将为参加2011年5月27日至29日在中国长沙中南大学举行的生物信息学研究与应用国际研讨会的美国研究生、博士后学者和主讲人提供部分旅费支持。研讨会旨在汇集教师、学生、初级和高级研究人员，包括妇女和代表性不足群体的成员，为期三天的学术交流，讨论生物信息学和计算生物学各方面的最新进展及其应用。2011年研讨会的一个主要目标是促进中美研究人员之间的交流，特别是生命科学家、统计学家和计算机科学家在跨学科跨国合作中的参与。中国的参与将得到中国国家科学基金的支持（待批）。除了提供摘要外，技术计划还将包括教程，小组讨论和海报会议，并将邀请该领域杰出研究人员进行主题演讲。该项目将为具有互补专业知识的研究人员提供充分的交流机会，并在研讨会结束后促进中美在生物信息学研究各个领域的联合研究项目和科学合作，从比较基因组学和群体遗传学到结构预测和蛋白质-蛋白质相互作用网络。参加研讨会将特别有利于美国研究生和博士后学者，为他们提供重要的形成经验，并为他们成为该领域未来的领导者做好准备。

This grant will provide partial travel support for US graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and keynote speakers attending the International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications to be held on May 27-29, 2011 at Central South University in Changsha, China. The symposium aims to bring together faculty, students, junior and senior researchers, including women and members of underrepresented groups, for three days of scholarly communication on latest advances in all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology and their applications. A main objective of the 2011 symposium is to promote communication between researchers in the US and China and particularly engagement of life scientists, statisticians, and computer scientists in cross-disciplinary transnational collaborations. The Chinese participation will be supported by the National Science Foundation of China (pending approval).In addition to contributed abstracts, the technical program will include tutorials, panel discussions, and poster sessions, and will feature invited keynote talks by distinguished researchers in the field. The program will provide ample opportunities for interaction between researchers with complementary expertise and foster joint US-China research projects and scientific collaborations after the symposium in all areas of bioinformatics research, ranging from comparative genomics and population genetics to structure prediction and protein-protein interaction networks. Participation in the symposium will be particularly beneficial to US graduate students and post-doctoral scholars, by providing them with a critical formative experience and preparing them to become future leaders in the field.