NSF Student Travel Grant for the 2018 International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA)

2018年第10届生物设计自动化国际研讨会（IWBDA）将于7月31日至8月3日在加州伯克利举行，将汇集来自电子设计自动化（使用计算机软件构建复杂电子产品的实践）和合成生物学（使用工程原理的新型生物系统的正向设计）的研究人员。IWBDA的目标是使生物学更容易、更健壮、更可靠、更可预测，从而解决生物学和医学方面的挑战，从而在疾病诊断、治疗和预防方面取得进展。该奖项为10名本科生和研究生提供旅费援助，以参加本次研讨会，展示研究成果，参加计算机编程竞赛，并与大型工业和学术研究人员社区建立联系。这些参与者将继续形成该领域未来的基础。具体来说，这些学生将在一个独特的环境中加入电子设计自动化和合成生物学的各种研究人员（120+），这在其他地方是不存在的。他们将在两天内参加12到15场技术讲座，两次邀请讲座，10到20张海报，多个小组讨论会议，以及一个特色的学生编程比赛（BDAthlon）。该奖金包括研讨会的注册费用以及部分旅行和住宿费用。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The 10th International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA) 2018 takes place in Berkeley California July 31st to August 3rd and will bring together researchers from electronic design automation (the practice of using computer software to build complex electronics) and synthetic biology (the forward design of novel biological systems using engineering principles). The goal of IWBDA is to make biology more easily, robustly, reliably, and predictably engineered and therefore, tackle challenges in biology and medicine, leading to advances in disease diagnosis, treatment and prevention. This award provides travel assistance for ten undergraduate and graduate students to attend this workshop to present research, participate in a computer programming competition, and network with a large community of industrial and academic researchers. These participants will go on to form the foundation of the field in the future. Specifically these students will join a wide variety of researchers (120+) from electronic design automation and synthetic biology in a unique context which does not exist elsewhere. They will have access to between twelve and fifteen technical talks over two days, two invited lectures, ten to twenty posters, multiple group discussion sessions, and a featured student programming competition (BDAthlon). This award covers the registration for the workshop as well as partial support for travel and housing.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.