NSF Student Travel Grant for 2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine

该奖项将使来自美国教育机构的多达12名学生能够参加第12届电气和电子工程师协会(IEEE)国际生物信息学和生物医学会议(BIBM 2018)。这次会议是生物信息学和生物医学领域的主要研究会议之一。BIBM社区致力于建立一个国际平台，通过科学报告、主题演讲、研讨会和小组讨论促进多学科研究、教育和外联活动的经验分享。会议上分享的尖端研究将影响从农业和环境到制药和医学等多个领域的科学技术。由于国际旅行的费用很高，学生作者往往因为导师和机构的支持不足而无法参加会议，旅行补助金将极大地鼓励来自美国机构的学生，特别是代表不足和残疾的参与者参加会议。获奖学生将有机会介绍他们的研究，听取来自科学计划的演讲，包括主旨演讲和定期论文演讲者，该计划将突出以下七个主题：1.分子结构、功能和进化的生物信息学和计算生物学，2.计算系统生物学，3.下一代测序和高通量方法，4.化学信息学和药物基因组学，5.交叉计算方法和生物信息学基础设施，6.医学信息学和疾病生物信息学，以及7.保健信息学。这些主题旨在为研究协作提供广度、深度和协同效应。此外，为了促进关于研究、教育和推广机会和障碍的公开讨论，学生们将加入与大数据、可操作的人工智能和可消费的发现相关的主题的特别小组。评审团将涵盖年轻研究人员的机会，为早期职业研究人员提供提示，并鼓励共享信息学工具传播。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will enable up to 12 students from educational institutions in the US to attend the 12th Annual Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bio-medicine (BIBM 2018). The conference is one of the premier research conferences in bioinformatics and bio-medicine. The BIBM community strives to build an international platform to foster experience sharing of multi-disciplinary research, education, and outreach activities through scientific presentations, keynote speeches, and workshop and panel discussions. Cutting-edge research shared at the conference will impact the science and technology of many fields, from agricultural and environmental to pharmaceutical and medical sciences. Due to the high cost of international travel, which often precludes student authors from participation due to insufficient support from their mentors and institutions, the travel grants will greatly encourage students, especially under-represented and disabled participants, from US institutions to attend the meeting. The student awardees will have the opportunity to present their research, listen to talks, both keynotes and regular paper presenters, from the scientific program, which will highlight the following seven themes: 1. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology of Molecular Structure, Function and Evolution, 2. Computational Systems Biology, 3. Next Generation Sequencing and High-throughput Methods, 4. Cheminformatics and pharmacogenomics, 5. Cross-Cutting Computational Methods and Bioinformatics Infrastructure, 6. Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics of Disease, and 7. Healthcare Informatics. These themes are designed to provide breadth, depth and synergy for research collaboration. In addition, to foster open discussions about research, education, and outreach opportunities and barriers, the students will join special panels in topics related to Big Data, Actionable AI, and Consumerable Discoveries. The panels will cover opportunities for young investigators and provide tips to early career researchers and encourage the sharing of informatics tools dissemination.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.