Conference: Travel Grant for the 27th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2023)

RECOMB 是一个连接计算、数学和生物科学的国际科学会议。 RECOMB 系列会议成立于 1997 年，旨在为计算生物学的理论进展及其在分子生物学和医学中的应用提供一个科学论坛。 RECOMB 2023 年将是第 27 届年会，在土耳其伊斯坦布尔举行。 RECOMB 的特色是杰出科学家的主题演讲，以及计算生物学领域经过审阅的研究论文的演示、特别会议和海报会议。该项目要求为任何美国大学的学生会议参与者提供差旅支持，并优先考虑将展示论文或海报的研究生。总体而言，学生将接受前沿发展的教育，这将进一步推动计算生物学领域的研究方法和成果。学生和科学家将返回实验室，在推进自己的研究工作或开始研究因参加 RECOMB 而接触到的新领域时应用所学知识。美国国家科学基金会对该项目的投资将有助于进一步提高学生的职业生涯和我们国家在不断扩大的全球产业中的竞争力，并将通过训练有素的科学家的新发现使公众受益。这次会议和拟议的旅行奖学金将具有教育目的，为 10 名美国计算生物学学生创造独特的培训机会。授予的旅行奖学金将涵盖选定的学生演讲者团体的注册、酒店和旅行费用。将优先考虑那些拥有被接受在会议上进行口头报告的会议论文的学生，其次是那些对被接受的摘要进行海报展示的学生。会议主席将根据通过会议网站提交的申请信和评审员对所提交工作的评估来进行选择。将特别鼓励妇女、少数族裔和残疾人提出申请，以实现会议多样性并直接使不同群体受益。这笔赠款中要求的参与者支持费用将尽可能专门用于资助这三个代表性不足群体的学生的旅费，以增加他们获得培训机会的机会。通过参加 RECOMB 会议，学生将获得计算生物学的最新技能，该领域有潜力解开理解生命的秘密。该领域是一个充满活力、不断发展的行业，制药、农业、环境、消费品、生物技术、软件、硬件和服务公司对熟练的计算科学家的需求量很大。学生的参与对于该领域的发展和延续至关重要。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

RECOMB is an international scientific conference bridging the computational, mathematical, and biological sciences. The RECOMB conference series was founded in 1997 to provide a scientific forum for theoretical advances in computational biology and their applications in molecular biology and medicine. RECOMB 2023 will be the 27th Annual Meeting, held in Istanbul, Turkey. RECOMB features keynote talks by preeminent scientists, together with presentations of refereed research papers in computational biology, special sessions, and poster sessions. This project requests travel support for student conference participants from any US university, with priority going to graduate students who will be presenting paper or posters. Overall, students will be educated on cutting-edge developments that will further drive the research methods and results of the field of computational biology. Students and scientists will return to their labs to apply what they have learned as they advance their own research efforts or begin investigating new areas, they were exposed to because of attending RECOMB. NSF investment in this project will help further students’ careers and our nation’s competitiveness in an expanding, global industry, and will benefit the public through new discoveries made by highly trained scientists. The meeting and proposed travel fellowships will have value for educational purposes, creating a unique training opportunity for 10 U.S.-based students of computational biology. Awarded travel fellowships will cover registration, hotel, and travel costs for a selected group of student presenters. Preference will be given to students with proceedings papers that are accepted for oral presentation at the conference and secondarily to those making poster presentations of accepted abstracts. Selection will be made by the conference chairs based on letters of application submitted via the conference website and reviewers’ evaluations of the work to be presented. Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities will be especially encouraged to apply with the goal of achieving diversity at the meeting and directly benefitting diverse groups. As much as possible, participant support cost requested in this grant will be used specifically to fund the travel expenses of students from these three underrepresented groups to increase their access to training opportunities. By attending the RECOMB meeting, students will gain the latest skills in computational biology, the field that has the potential to unlock the secrets for understanding life. The field comprises a vibrant, growing industry, with skilled computational scientists in high demand at pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental, consumer products, biotech, software, hardware, and service companies. Students’ participation is vital for the growth and continuation of the field.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.