Conference: Travel Grant for Nona Works Fall 23 Hackathon

2023年第14届生物设计自动化国际研讨会（IWBDA）将于9月11日至9月15日在美国马萨诸塞州波士顿举行。该活动汇集了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前瞻性设计）的研究人员。IWBDA的目标是使生物学更容易，更强大，更可靠，更可预测地工程化，从而应对生物学和医学的挑战，从而推动疾病诊断，治疗和预防的进步。该奖项为10名本科生和研究生提供旅行援助，参加研讨会，展示研究成果，参加计算机编程竞赛，并与工业和学术研究人员的大型社区建立联系。预计这些参与者将继续在未来形成该领域的基础。该奖项支持学生参加9月11日至9月15日在美国马萨诸塞州波士顿举行的第14届生物设计自动化国际研讨会（IWBDA）2023。具体来说，这些学生加入了来自电子设计自动化和合成生物学的120多名研究人员，在其他地方不存在的独特背景下。他们可以在两天内参加12到15次技术讲座，两次特邀讲座，10到20张海报，多个小组讨论会和一个特色学生编程竞赛（BDathlon）。该奖项涵盖了研讨会的注册以及旅行和住房的部分支持。该奖项反映了NSF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 14th International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA) 2023 takes place in Boston, MA USA from September 11th to September 15th. The event brings 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 are expected to go on to form the foundation of the field in the future. This award supports students to attend The 14th International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA) 2023 which takes place in Boston, MA USA from September 11th to September 15th. Specifically, these students join more than 120 researchers from electronic design automation and synthetic biology in a unique context which does not exist elsewhere. They 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.