Conference: Travel award program for the 30th FEBS Congress and 9th Conference of IUBMB on the Protein World to be held July 2-7, 2005 in Budapest, Hungary

美国国际生物化学和分子生物学联盟全国委员会(IUBMB)与第30届FEBS大会和第九届IUBMB大会的组织者将合作组织一项旅行赠款计划，以帮助来自美国的顶级演讲者参加大会的旅行，以及通过竞争挑选的本科生和研究生水平的美国学生以及博士后研究员的旅行。这次大会的主题是“蛋白质世界”，将于2005年7月2日至7日在匈牙利布达佩斯举行。这笔旅行补助金为学生和青年科学家提供了一个在国际论坛上展示他们的研究的机会，他们中的大多数人没有这种旅行的机构资金。旅行补助计划还将为同意在大会上发言的知名科学家提供旅行支持。据估计，大会将吸引3000多名学生和科学家，因为大约有4300名预注册和2600名最终注册。20名美国本科生和研究生以及博士后研究员将获得1200美元的奖金。将向30名已被选为大会发言人的知名科学家提供800美元的奖励。这些学生和年轻科学家将由IUBMB美国全国委员会成员以竞争性方式选出。全国委员会将根据提交的摘要的科学价值对申请进行评估和排名。将特别注意吸纳妇女和来自传统代表性不足群体的受赠者。旅行补助计划的公告将于2005年4月刊登在社会通讯和网页上。智慧的优点：除了全体讲座和座谈会之外，大会组织者还组织了一项密集的公众意识计划，以帮助向公众传达主要主题和大会讲师。他们还创建了一个名为“科学是乐趣”的项目，提供展示科学信息的新颖方式。国际大会为研究人员提供了独特的经验，可以对他们的研究生涯产生持久的影响，包括国际合作的可能性。会议为科学家提供了一个论坛，让他们认识在相同和相关领域工作的外国同事，建立工作关系和终身科学互动。演讲者不仅有机会向多国听众介绍他们的研究成果，还有机会扩大他们的国际网络。通过这一旅行资助计划，年轻的研究人员将有机会听取国际著名科学家讨论包括蛋白质组学在内的生物化学和分子生物学的最新研究，并在非正式的环境下与他们互动。广泛的影响：IUBMB代表世界上70多个国家的生物化学家和分子生物学家，这些国家通过生化学会、国家研究理事会或科学院作为附着机构或相关附着机构属于该联盟。生物化学学会的四个区域集团FASBMB(非洲)、FAOBMB(亚洲和大洋洲)、FEBS(欧洲)和PABMB(美洲)也是IUBMB的区域联系组织。IUBMB和FEBS的这次联合大会将为科学家们提供关于包括发展中国家在内的国际上正在进行的研究以及世界范围内研究的影响的不同视角。这一旅行补助计划将产生的互动将促进国际合作和思想交流，导致科学进步，这是孤立的很难实现的。

The U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) and the organizers of the 30th FEBS Congress and the 9th Conference of the IUBMB will cooperate to organize a travel grant program to assist the travel of top speakers to the congress from the United States and the travel of competitively selected U.S. students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as, postdoctoral fellows. The congress, which covers the broad theme of the" Protein World," will take place July 2-7, 2005 in Budapest, Hungary. This travel grant provides students and young scientists, most of whom do not have the institutional funding for such travel, an opportunity to present their research in an international forum. The travel grant program will also provide travel support for established scientists who have agreed to speak at the congress. It is estimated that the congress will attract over 3,000 students and scientists as there are approximately 4,300 pre-registrants and 2,600 final registrants.Awards of $1,200 will be offered to 20 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral fellows. Awards of $800 will be provided for 30 established scientists who have already been selected as speakers for the congress. The students and young scientists will be competitively selected by members of the U.S. National Committee for the IUBMB. The national committee will evaluate and rank the applications based on scientific merit of the submitted abstract. Special attention will be paid to the inclusion of women and grantees from traditionally underrepresented groups. An announcement of the travel grant program will be placed in society newsletters and web pages in April 2005.Intellectual Merit: In additional to the plenary lectures and symposia, the congress organizers have put together an intensive public awareness program to help convey the main themes and congress lecturers to the public. They have also created a "Science is Fun" program to provide novel ways of presenting scientific information. International congresses provide investigators with a unique experience that can have a lasting impact on their research careers, including possibilities for international collaboration. The meeting provides a forum for scientists to meet foreign colleagues working in the same and related fields, leading to working relationships and lifelong scientific interactions. Speakers have the opportunity not only to present their research to a multinational audience, but also to expand their international networks. Through this travel grant program, young investigators will have the opportunity to listen to distinguished international scientists discuss the most current research in biochemistry and molecular biology, including proteomics, and to interact with them in an informal setting.Broader Impact: The IUBMB represents biochemists and molecular biologists in over 70 countries around the world that belong to the Union as Adhering Bodies or associated Adhering Bodies through biochemical societies, national research councils or academies of science. Four regional groupings of biochemical societies FASBMB (Africa), FAOBMB (Asia and Oceania), FEBS (Europe) and PABMB (the Americas) are also regional associated organizations of IUBMB. This joint congress of the IUBMB and FEBS will provide scientists with diverse perspectives on research being done internationally, including in developing countries, and the impact of research worldwide. The interactions that will result from this travel grant program will promote international cooperation and exchange of ideas, leading to scientific advances that would be difficult to achieve in isolation.