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

2018年第十届国际生物设计自动化研讨会(IWBDA)将于7月31日至8月3日在加利福尼亚州伯克利举行，将汇集来自电子设计自动化(使用计算机软件建造复杂电子设备的实践)和合成生物学(使用工程原理进行新型生物系统的前向设计)的研究人员。IWBDA的目标是使生物学更容易、更强大、更可靠、更可预测地进行工程设计，从而应对生物学和医学方面的挑战，导致疾病诊断、治疗和预防方面的进步。该奖项为十名本科生和研究生提供旅行援助，让他们参加这个研讨会，展示研究成果，参加计算机编程竞赛，并与大量的工业界和学术界研究人员建立联系。这些参与者将继续成为未来该领域的基础。具体地说，这些学生将加入来自电子设计、自动化和合成生物学的各种各样的研究人员(120人)，在一个独特的背景下，这在其他地方是不存在的。他们将有机会在两天内参加12至15次技术讲座、2次特邀讲座、10至20张海报、多个小组讨论和一次特色学生编程竞赛(BDAthlon)。这一奖项包括研讨会的注册以及对旅行和住房的部分支持。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.