NSF Student Travel Grant for 2019 Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (GLBIO)

五大湖生物信息学会议（GLBIO）致力于提高整个北美五大湖地区的教育机会和研究基础设施，使该地区成为生物信息学和计算生物学的世界领导者。2019年，GLBIO将于5月19日至22日在麦迪逊的威斯康星州大学举行。第14届年会的一个重要目标是促进来自学术界、政府和工业界的计算和生命科学研究人员和教育工作者之间的长期合作关系。GLBIO提供了一个跨学科的论坛，分享科学信息，包括讨论方法，研究成果和教育经验有关的生物问题的计算调查。年会包括邀请主题演讲，从同行评审的论文或摘要提交，教程，研讨会，特别会议和海报展示中选择的口头演示。该旅行奖支持来自美国大学的学生参加GLBIO 2019。学生将接受前沿科学发展的教育，这些发展将推动生物信息学和计算生物学领域的未来发现。此外，他们将有机会以口头演讲或海报的形式展示他们的工作，或参加与大学或行业合作伙伴的招聘活动。通过帮助进一步的学生的职业生涯和培养跨学科的科学家，这个NSF学生旅行补助金将有利于美国的全球科学竞争力。历史上，超过一半的GLBIO与会者是学生，其中90%以上是美国人。通过这项NSF学生旅行补助金，GLBIO 2019将为20名学生与会者创造一个宝贵的培训机会，为他们提供参加会议的部分资金支持（作为会议注册，住宿和交通费用的组合）。特别关注的将是第一次参加会议的人谁不一定会在会议上介绍他们的工作，和学生谁将介绍他们的工作，对女性，本科或高中，代表性不足的少数民族，或残疾学生。学生旅费赠款的申请将征求如下。所有在会议上展示自己作品的学生都会收到电子邮件，让他们了解学生旅行补助金的机会。资助机会将通过会议公告在GLBIO 2019网站上进行广告宣传，并与代表性不足的学生团体和组织进行外联。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (GLBIO) strives to enhance educational opportunities and research infrastructure throughout the North American Great Lakes region, to make the region a world leader in bioinformatics and computational biology. In 2019, GLBIO will be held at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, during May 19-22. An important goal of the 14th edition of this annual conference is to foster long-term, collaborative relationships among computational and life science researchers and educators from academia, government, and industry. GLBIO provides an interdisciplinary forum for sharing scientific information, including discussing methods, research findings, and educational experiences regarding computational investigations of biological problems. The annual meeting includes invited keynote presentations, oral presentations selected from peer-reviewed full paper or abstract submissions, tutorials, workshops, special sessions, and poster presentations. This travel award supports student participation from US universities at GLBIO 2019. Students will be educated on cutting-edge scientific developments that will drive future discoveries in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology. Also, they will have opportunities to present their work as oral talks or posters, or to participate in recruiting events with universities or industry partners. By helping further students' careers and train interdisciplinary scientists, this NSF student travel grant will benefit global scientific competitiveness of the US.Historically, more than half of the GLBIO attendees have been students, over 90% of whom have been US-based. Through this NSF student travel grant, GLBIO 2019 will create a valuable training opportunity for 20 student attendees, by providing them with a partial funding support to attend the conference (as a combination of conference registration, lodging, and transportation costs). Special focus will be on first-time conference attendees who will not necessarily be presenting their work at the conference, and of the students who will be presenting their work, on female, undergraduate or high school, underrepresented minority, or disabled students. Applications for student travel grants will be solicited as follows. All students presenting their work at the conference will be sent emails making them aware of the student travel grant opportunity. The grant opportunity will be advertised on the GLBIO 2019 web site, via conference announcements, and outreach to under-represented student groups and organizations.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.