Travel Conference Grant Program for Transatlantic Joint Conference of the Society for Mathematical Biology and the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology

该项目为美国本科生和研究生、博士后研究员和初级教员提供支持，以参加数学生物学学会和欧洲数学与理论生物学学会的跨大西洋联合会议。会议将于2011年6月28日至7月2日在波兰克拉科夫举行。这次会议是一个论坛，供知名研究人员讨论和突出最新技术中存在的差距，并供初级教职员工和学生描述他们未来可以做出成功贡献的领域。会议还促进了生物系统的实验和理论研究的合作和发展，并使本科生和研究生、博士后研究人员和初级教员接触到数学和计算生物学的问题。这次跨大西洋联合会议还鼓励美国和欧洲的数学生物学家之间的科学交流和合作。会议的组织是专门为高级研究人员、初级教师和研究生之间的互动而举办的。海报会议在促进这种互动方面发挥了关键作用。此外，会议还有一个指导计划，旨在通过介绍具有相似研究兴趣的初级和高级科学家来改善出席会议的科学家的教育和专业体验。旅游会议获奖者参加会议指导计划，在那里他们有一个独特的机会，了解欧洲的科学研究和学术专业成长是如何发生的。

This project provides support for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty to participate in the Transatlantic Joint Conference of the Society for Mathematical Biology and the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology. The conference is being held in Kraków, Poland, June 28 - July 2, 2011. The meeting is a forum for established researchers to discuss and highlight existing gaps in the state of the art and for junior faculty and students to delineate areas where they can make successful contributions in the future. The conference also promotes collaboration and development of both experimental and theoretical studies of biological systems and to expose undergraduate and graduate student, postdoctoral researchers and junior faculty to problems in mathematical and computational biology. This joint transatlantic conference also encourages scientific exchange and collaboration between mathematical biologists in the U.S.A. and Europe.The conference is organized specifically to provide interactions between senior researchers, junior faculty, and graduate students. The poster session plays a key role in facilitating such interaction. In addition, the conference has a mentoring scheme that aims to improve the educational and professional experience of scientists at the conference by introducing junior and senior scientists with similar research interests. Travel Conference awardees participate in the conference mentoring program where they have a unique opportunity to learn how scientific research and academic professional growth occurs in Europe.