ISMB 2012 Conference Support for Students & Young Scientists

ISMB 2012 学生会议支持

• 批准号: 8317817
• 负责人: THERESA GAASTERLAND
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY/COMP BIOLOGY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-12 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8317817
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The 2012 Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in will be held in Long Beach, California, with 1,500-1,700 attendees, including 33-38% students/post doctoral researchers. ISMB brings together graduate students, post doctoral researchers, faculty, research staff and senior scientists of many different nationalities, all of whom are studying or working in computer science, molecular biology, mathematics or statistics. The conference brings biologists and computational scientists together to focus on research centered on actual biological problems rather than simply theoretical calculations. The combined focus on "intelligent systems" and actual biological data makes ISMB a highly relevant meeting, and many years of producing the event has resulted in a professionally organized and respected annual conference. The ISMB conference presents the latest research methods and results developed through the application of computer programming to the study of biological sciences, including advances in sequencing genomes that may lead to a better understanding of how, for instance, cells interact for the treatment of diseases such as cancer. Presentations may describe methods and advances associated with the analysis of existing biological literature, including benchmarking experiments, to create a better public understanding of scientific research reports. Overall, ISMB serves to educate attendees on the latest developments that will further drive the research methods and results of the field of computational biology. Students and scientists are able to return to their labs to appy what they have learned as they advance their own research efforts or begin investigating new areas they were exposed to as a result of attending ISMB. The scientific program for each ISMB meeting includes parallel presentation tracks of original research papers, highlights of recently published papers, special sessions focused on emerging topics, technology demos, late breaking research and poster presentations, an art in science exhibition, tutorial workshops, special interest group meetings and a student symposium organized by and for students. For ISMB 2011, 258 original research papers were submitted and 48 selected for the Proceedings Track, while 88 previously published papers were submitted and 38 selected for the Highlights Track. In all, over 225 talks were presented during the course of the 2011 conference, and similar numbers are anticipated for 2012. In all cases, submissions are rigorously reviewed, typically by three members of each track's committee before approval by the track chair, insuring the highest possible quality of work is presented. The specific areas represented in the conference vary each year depending on the areas that researchers find most interesting and innovative, and therefore submit as papers and proposals. This proposal seeks funding to assist students and junior researchers in attending the conference, thus exposing them to the latest research of their own areas as well as areas that may be new to them. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Bioinformatics is well established as an essential tool for understanding biological systems, largely driven by genomic sequence efforts due to the usefulness of genomic data in the quest to develop new and improved treatments for and prevention of disease is highly dependent on one's ability to electronically access and manipulate it. The Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference series directly addresses these questions by showcasing the latest advances in the field and exposing what's on the horizon of future discoveries, but is distinguished from many other events in computational biology or artificial intelligence by an insistence that the researchers work with real molecular biology data, not theoretical or toy examples. Although the cultures of computer science and biology are so disparate, ISMB bridges this cultural gap by providing a forum among biological conferences that features technical advances as they occur, which otherwise may be shunned until a firm experimental result is published.

描述（由申请人提供）：2012年的分子生物学智能系统（ISMB）会议将在加州的长滩举行，将有1，500 - 1，700名与会者，其中33-38%为学生/博士后研究人员。ISMB汇集了研究生，博士后研究人员，教师，研究人员和许多不同国籍的高级科学家，他们都在计算机科学，分子生物学，数学或统计学方面学习或工作。会议将生物学家和计算科学家聚集在一起，专注于以实际生物问题为中心的研究，而不仅仅是理论计算。对“智能系统”和实际生物数据的关注使ISMB成为一个高度相关的会议，多年来的活动已经成为一个专业组织和受人尊敬的年度会议。ISMB会议介绍了通过将计算机编程应用于生物科学研究而开发的最新研究方法和成果，包括基因组测序方面的进展，这些进展可能会导致更好地了解细胞如何相互作用以治疗癌症等疾病。报告可以介绍与分析现有生物学文献有关的方法和进展，包括基准实验，以使公众更好地了解科学研究报告。总的来说，ISMB致力于教育与会者了解最新的发展，这将进一步推动计算生物学领域的研究方法和结果。学生和科学家能够回到他们的实验室，应用他们所学到的，因为他们推进自己的研究工作或开始调查新的领域，他们接触到作为参加ISMB的结果。每个ISMB会议的科学计划包括原始研究论文的平行演示轨道，最近发表的论文的亮点，专注于新兴主题的特别会议，技术演示，最新突破的研究和海报演示，科学展览艺术，辅导研讨会，特殊兴趣小组会议和学生组织的学生研讨会。2011年ISMB共提交了258篇原创研究论文，其中48篇入选了Proceedings Track，88篇先前发表的论文被提交，38篇入选了Highlights Track。在2011年会议期间，共举办了225场讲座，预计2012年也将举办类似的讲座。在所有情况下，提交的作品都经过严格的审查，通常由每个赛道委员会的三名成员在赛道主席批准之前进行审查，以确保提交的作品质量最高。会议所代表的具体领域每年都有所不同，这取决于研究人员认为最有趣和最具创新性的领域，因此以论文和提案的形式提交。这项提案寻求资助，以协助学生和初级研究人员参加会议，从而使他们接触到自己领域的最新研究以及可能是新的领域。 公共卫生相关性：生物信息学是理解生物系统的重要工具，由于基因组数据在寻求开发新的和改进的疾病治疗和预防中的有用性，基因组测序工作在很大程度上受到基因组测序工作的推动，这高度依赖于人们以电子方式访问和操纵它的能力。会议系列通过展示该领域的最新进展和揭示未来发现的地平线上的东西，直接解决了这些问题，但与计算生物学或人工智能中的许多其他事件不同的是，研究人员坚持使用真实的分子生物学数据，而不是理论或玩具的例子。尽管计算机科学和生物学的文化是如此不同，ISMB通过在生物学会议之间提供一个论坛来弥合这种文化差距，这些会议在技术进步的同时出现，否则可能会被避开，直到发表一个确定的实验结果。