Student/Postdoc Poster Program and Travel Scholarships: The 6th Annual Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium at Lincoln, Nebraska; October 9-10, 2009

内布拉斯加州大学林肯分校获得了一笔资助，以支持学生和博士后参加将于2009年10月9日至10日在内布拉斯加州林肯市举行的第六届生物技术和生物信息学研讨会（BIOT-2009）。BIOT-2009将展示生物信息学和计算生物学以及生物技术方面的研究和开发活动，并促进这些领域未来的跨学科活动和研究。研讨会吸引了来自美国和世界各地的论文和贡献。会议将激发不同领域之间的多学科互动，包括计算机科学家与生物学和生物技术科学家之间的积极讨论。它将点燃本地区不同领域、不同国家以及学术界和工业界之间的合作。BIOT-2009为对生物信息学和生物技术研究感兴趣的学生和博士后提供了一个独特的机会。为了最大限度地提高受资助人员的利益，每个学生和博士后将在一个特别会议上展示他们的研究海报，并接受BIOT-2009项目委员会成员的评论。这项活动将为研究生和博士后提供一个论坛，让他们与该领域的主要研究人员讨论他们的研究，从而将他们融入社区。海报形式鼓励学生和博士后参与者开始与已有的研究人员建立融洽的关系。这种培养的努力应该会带来回报，在这个快速变化的研究领域更有效地指导他们。关于会议和学生参与的更多信息可以在http://www.biotconf.org/上找到。

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has been awarded a grant to support student and postdoctoral participation in the 6th Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT-2009) that will be held October 9-10, 2009 in Lincoln, Nebraska. BIOT-2009 will showcase research and development activities in bioinformatics and computational biology as well as biotechnology, and promote future interdisciplinary activity and research in these areas. The symposium attracts papers and contributions from all over the US and internationally. The conference will energize multidisciplinary interactions among different fields including active discussions between computer scientists and scientists from biology and biotechnology. It will ignite collaborations among different fields, among different states in this region, and between academia and industry. BIOT-2009 presents a unique opportunity for students and postdocs interested in research in bioinformatics and biotechnology. To maximize the benefit accruing to those supported, each student and postdoc will present a poster on their research at a special conference session that will receive comment from members of the BIOT-2009 program committee. This activity will integrate graduate students and postdocs into the community by providing them with a forum to talk to the leading researchers in the field about their research. The poster format encourages the student and postdoc participants to begin building a rapport with established researchers. This nurturing effort should pay dividends by more effectively guiding them in this rapidly changing research field. Additional information about the conference and student involvement can be found at http://www.biotconf.org/.