Student and Postdoc Travel Support for DNA19

该奖项将资助将于2013年9月23-27日在亚利桑那州立大学举行的第19届DNA计算和分子编程国际会议(DNA19)的学生和博士后学者的旅费。这次会议强调了连接计算、生物学和纳米技术的主题，吸引了计算机科学、数学、化学、分子生物学和纳米技术领域的顶尖研究人员。这些基金的主要目的是为在会议上发表口头或海报演讲的学生和博士后学者提供帮助。遴选旅行奖获得者的过程旨在优先考虑妇女和代表性不足的少数群体，并支持高质量的研究报告。智力优势：DNA计算和分子编程会议的主题包括：构建纳米结构的分子折叠和自组装的控制；利用生物分子展示开关、门、设备和电路；分子马达和分子机器人；体外和体内的计算过程；容错和纠错研究；合成生物学和体外进化；分析、模拟和设计的软件工具；以及在工程、物理、化学、生物和医学中的一系列应用。这次会议讨论的科学发现最终将产生重要的新技术和新的纳米级制造技术，用于材料和设备，新的医学生物传感器和治疗，以及理解生物系统中的组织和复杂性的新模型。广泛的影响：旅行奖项将通过鼓励学生和博士后参加，展示他们的工作，并与该领域的其他重要参与者互动，帮助促进下一代分子程序员的发展。在DNA计算和分子编程会议上，来自一系列学术学科的理论和实践独特地融合在一起。参加这次会议将让学生和博士后了解创造和发展新的科学思想的过程。

This award will support student and postdoctoral scholar travel expenses for the 19th International Meeting on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming (DNA19), which will take place September 23-27, 2013 at Arizona State University. This conference emphasizes topics that bridge computation, biology, and nanotechnology and attracts top researchers in the fields of Computer Science, Mathematics, Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Nanotechnology. The primary purpose of these funds is to provide assistance to students and postdoctoral scholars who are delivering oral or poster presentations at the conference. The process of selecting the travel award recipients is intended to give priority to women and underrepresented minorities, in addition to supporting quality research presentations. Intellectual merit:The topics of the DNA computing and molecular programming conference include control of molecular folding and self-assembly to construct nanostructures; demonstration of switches, gates, devices, and circuits with biomolecules; molecular motors and molecular robotics; computational processes in vitro and in vivo; studies of fault tolerance and error correction; synthetic biology and in vitro evolution; software tools for analysis, simulation, and design; as well as a range of applications in engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine. Scientific discoveries discussed in this conference should eventually produce important new technologies and new nanoscale manufacturing techniques for materials and devices, new medical biosensor and therapeutics, and new models for understanding organization and complexity in biological systems.Broader impact:The travel awards will help to foster the development of the next generation of molecular programmers, by encouraging students and postdocs to attend, present their work, and interact with other important players in the field. There is a unique blend of theory and practice at DNA computing and molecular programming conferences, from a range of academic disciplines. Attending this conference will allow the students and postdocs to gain an understanding of the process of creating and developing novel scientific ideas.