Student Travel Support for ACM BCB 2018: Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics

该项目为参加8月29日至9月在华盛顿特区举行的生物信息学、计算生物学和健康信息学（ACMBCB）年度国际会议的学生（研究生、本科生和高中）提供旅行支持。2018年1月1日（http://acm-bcb.org/）ACMBCB2018旨在提供一个互动论坛，将计算机科学，数学，统计学与生物学和健康联系起来，并支持先进的研究，培训和推广。它汇集了世界各地的顶尖研究人员、教育工作者、从业者和学生，分享创新的生物和医学发现、新的信息学算法、新的计算工具，这些将推动生物和健康科学，并改善国民健康。它包括系统组织的活动，如全体主题演讲，研讨会，教程，研究口头会议，海报会议和小组讨论，来自不同学科的研究人员和从业者进行互动，讨论和合作。它将鼓励不同群体的学生，特别是未被充分代表的少数群体（女性、少数群体和残疾人）积极参与会议活动，发展ACM SIGBio社区，推动快速发展的跨学科教育和研究。作为本次颁奖活动的一部分，ACMBCB2018将组织一场学生论坛和“生物信息学中的女性”小组讨论，由资深学术和行业专家担任导师。这些导师将为参加会议的学生的研究提供反馈，并将分享他们在职业发展方面的个人经验和智慧。这些学生将写一篇简短的总结，报告他们在ACMBCB2018年的经历。总体而言，该项目将帮助学生获得知识，提高他们的知名度，并推动生物信息学，计算生物学和健康信息学的新进展。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project provides travel support for students (graduate, undergraduate, and high school) to attend ACM SIGBio (Associate Computing Machinery Special Interest Group in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics) annual International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACMBCB) in Washington DC during Aug. 29-Sept. 01, 2018 (http://acm-bcb.org/). ACMBCB2018 aims to provide an interactive forum that bridges computer science, mathematics, statistics, with biology and health, and to support advanced research, training, and outreach. It brings together top researchers, educators, practitioners, and students around the world to share innovative biological and medical discoveries, new informatics algorithms, new computational tools that will advance biological and health science, and improve national health. It consists of systematically organized activities such as plenary keynotes, workshops, tutorials, research oral sessions, poster sessions, and panels for researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to interact, to discuss, and to collaborate. It will encourage diverse groups of students, especially the underrepresented minority (women, minority, and disabled) to actively participate in conference activities, to grow ACM SIGBio community, and to advance the fast-growing interdisciplinary education and research. As part of this award activity, ACMBCB2018 will organize a Student Forum and "Women in Bioinformatics" panel with senior academic and industrial experts serving as the mentors. These mentors will provide feedback to attending students' research, and will share their personal experience and wisdom in career development. These students will write a short summary to report their ACMBCB2018 experience. Overall, the project will assist students in gaining knowledge, to improve their visibility and to advance novel advancements in bioinformatics, computational biology, and health informatics.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.