ACM BCB 2014: Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

ACM BCB 2014：生物信息学和计算生物学会议

• 批准号: 1433589
• 负责人: Catherine Welsh
• 金额: $ 2.48万
• 依托单位: Rhodes College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-05-01 至 2015-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1433589&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ACM; BCB; 2014; Conference; Bioinformatics

The Annual ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology is the premier ACM conference in the areas of bioinformatics, computational biology, and biomedical informatics, and the main flagship conference of the ACM SIGBio. The ACM BCB conference is in its fifth year. The 2014 ACM BCB conference, to be held in Los Angeles, CA September 20-23, 2014, is aimed at providing a better platform to bridge important interdisciplinary research areas in computer science, mathematics, statistics, biology, bioinformatics and biomedicine, and broaden the participation from underrepresented groups. While the development of the synergy of the research on bioinformatics and computational biology has proven to be very difficult, it is particularly challenging for female and minority students. ACM BCB is dedicated to exploring and developing such synergies. ACM BCB 2014 is expected to be a large annual gathering of researchers and students in computer science, computer engineering, applied computing, biology, medicine, biophysical sciences and life sciences. It will assemble a spectrum of affiliated research workshops, keynote and tutorial lectures, and special interest research sessions into a coordinated research meeting. To promote broad participation in this event, we plan to continue in our ?women in bioinformatics? initiative, which was created to recruit and engage young female students and researchers in this interdisciplinary area. In continuing this initiative, we plan to invite a distinguished female scientist as a keynote speaker whose experience and success may inspire many students.The biggest beneficiaries of the conference will be the graduate students. Through their participation at the ACM BCB conference, graduate students will have great opportunities to meet distinguished researchers in the related fields, exchange ideas with other peers and foster more robust interdisciplinary research. Each supported student will participate in the PhD forum which will afford them an opportunity to interact with peers and mentors about their research. The travel supports requested will allow us to provide underrepresented minorities and female students with opportunities to meet the invited distinguished speakers, to present their own research ideas, to discuss any new research problems, and to foster new collaborations within a joint community of computational and biological researchers.

年度ACM国际生物信息学与计算生物学会议是生物信息学，计算生物学和生物医学信息学领域的首屈一指的ACM会议，以及ACM Sigbio的主要旗舰会议。 ACM BCB会议已在第五年。 2014年ACM BCB会议将于2014年9月20日至23日在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶举行，旨在提供一个更好的平台，以弥合计算机科学，数学，统计学，生物学，生物信息学和生物医学的重要跨学科研究领域，并扩大了未成年人数的参与。尽管事实证明，关于生物信息学和计算生物学研究的协同作用的发展非常困难，但对于女性和少数群体而言，这尤其具有挑战性。 ACM BCB致力于探索和开发此类协同作用。 ACM BCB 2014预计将是计算机科学，计算机工程，应用计算，生物学，医学，生物物理科学和生命科学领域的研究人员和学生的大型年度聚会。它将在协调的研究会议中组装一系列附属研究研讨会，主题演讲和教程讲座以及特殊兴趣研究会议。为了促进这一事件的广泛参与，我们计划继续从事生物信息学的女性？倡议是为了招募和吸引该跨学科领域的年轻女学生和研究人员而创建的倡议。在继续这项倡议时，我们计划邀请一位杰出的女科学家作为主题演讲者，其经验和成功可能会激发许多学生。会议的最大受益者将是研究生。通过参加ACM BCB会议，研究生将有很大的机会与相关领域的杰出研究人员见面，与其他同龄人交流思想，并促进更强大的跨学科研究。每个支持的学生将参加博士论坛，这将使他们有机会与同行和导师就他们的研究进行互动。所要求的旅行支持将使我们能够为代表性不足的少数民族和女学生提供机会，以与受邀的杰出演讲者见面，展示自己的研究思想，讨论任何新的研究问题，并在计算和生物学研究人员的共同社区中培养新的合作。