Student and Postdoc Travel Support for DNA28

该奖项为第28届DNA计算和分子编程国际会议（DNA28）提供学生旅费支持，该会议将于2022年8月8日至12日在新墨西哥大学阿尔伯克基举行。这种支持将使新一代的学生研究人员能够参加会议，展示他们的工作，向该领域的顶尖专家学习，并与其他机构的学生互动，培养一种全球科学探索社区的感觉。本次会议强调了计算、生物学和纳米技术之间的桥梁，并吸引了计算机科学、数学、化学、分子生物学和纳米技术领域的顶尖研究人员。主题范围包括分子折叠和自组装以构建纳米结构的控制；用生物分子演示开关、门、器件和电路；分子马达和分子机器人；体外和体内的计算过程；容错与纠错的研究；合成生物学与体外进化；DNA数据存储；用于分析、模拟和设计分子系统的软件工具；在工程，物理，化学，生物，特别是医学（包括细胞特异性，可编程，药物递送的智能治疗方法）中的一系列应用。会议组织者计划支持最多20名成功的学生申请者，他们要么是美国公民，要么是美国院校的学生。重点将放在那些学校资源不足，否则无法派他们参加会议的学生，以及在会议上展示研究成果的学生。会议组织者将在定期会议公告中邀请申请。一个由会议组织者和外部推荐人组成的多元化委员会将从收到的申请中进行选择。该奖项将提供注册、旅行和住宿方面的支持。这种支持的可用性将鼓励在分子计算研究中代表性不足的群体成员的参与，特别是那些在会议上发表口头或海报演讲的成员，以及那些无法负担得起参加这次会议的研究生和本科生。由于这是几年来计划的第一次面对面的DNA会议，这种支持对于使会议充满活力和多样化至关重要。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。

This award provides student travel support for the 28th International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming (DNA28), held at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, August 8-12, 2022. This support will enable a new generation of student researchers to attend the conference, present their work, learn from leading experts in the field, and interact with students at other institutions, fostering a sense of worldwide community of scientific enquiry. 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 scope of topics includes 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; DNA data storage; software tools for analysis, simulation, and design of molecular systems; a range of applications in engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, and especially medicine (including approaches to smart therapeutics with cell-specific, programmable, drug delivery).Conference organizers plan to support up to 20 successful student applicants, who are either US citizens or students at US institutions. Emphasis will be placed on students whose institutions are under-resourced and would otherwise not be able to send them to the conference, and students presenting their research results at the conference. Conference organizers will invite applications in regular conference announcements. A diverse committee of conference organizers and external referees will then make the selection from the received applications. The awards will provide support toward registration, travel, and accommodation. The availability of this support will encourage the participation of members of groups underrepresented in molecular computing research, especially those who are delivering oral or poster presentations at the conference, and graduate and undergraduate students who are otherwise unable to afford attending this conference. As this is the first in-person DNA conference planned for several years, this support will be vital to enable a vibrant and diverse conference.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.