ISMB 2012 Conference Support for Students & Young Scientists

ISMB 2012 学生会议支持

• 批准号: 8317817
• 负责人: THERESA GAASTERLAND
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY/COMP BIOLOGY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-12 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8317817
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The 2012 Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in will be held in Long Beach, California, with 1,500-1,700 attendees, including 33-38% students/post doctoral researchers. ISMB brings together graduate students, post doctoral researchers, faculty, research staff and senior scientists of many different nationalities, all of whom are studying or working in computer science, molecular biology, mathematics or statistics. The conference brings biologists and computational scientists together to focus on research centered on actual biological problems rather than simply theoretical calculations. The combined focus on "intelligent systems" and actual biological data makes ISMB a highly relevant meeting, and many years of producing the event has resulted in a professionally organized and respected annual conference. The ISMB conference presents the latest research methods and results developed through the application of computer programming to the study of biological sciences, including advances in sequencing genomes that may lead to a better understanding of how, for instance, cells interact for the treatment of diseases such as cancer. Presentations may describe methods and advances associated with the analysis of existing biological literature, including benchmarking experiments, to create a better public understanding of scientific research reports. Overall, ISMB serves to educate attendees on the latest developments that will further drive the research methods and results of the field of computational biology. Students and scientists are able to return to their labs to appy what they have learned as they advance their own research efforts or begin investigating new areas they were exposed to as a result of attending ISMB. The scientific program for each ISMB meeting includes parallel presentation tracks of original research papers, highlights of recently published papers, special sessions focused on emerging topics, technology demos, late breaking research and poster presentations, an art in science exhibition, tutorial workshops, special interest group meetings and a student symposium organized by and for students. For ISMB 2011, 258 original research papers were submitted and 48 selected for the Proceedings Track, while 88 previously published papers were submitted and 38 selected for the Highlights Track. In all, over 225 talks were presented during the course of the 2011 conference, and similar numbers are anticipated for 2012. In all cases, submissions are rigorously reviewed, typically by three members of each track's committee before approval by the track chair, insuring the highest possible quality of work is presented. The specific areas represented in the conference vary each year depending on the areas that researchers find most interesting and innovative, and therefore submit as papers and proposals. This proposal seeks funding to assist students and junior researchers in attending the conference, thus exposing them to the latest research of their own areas as well as areas that may be new to them. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Bioinformatics is well established as an essential tool for understanding biological systems, largely driven by genomic sequence efforts due to the usefulness of genomic data in the quest to develop new and improved treatments for and prevention of disease is highly dependent on one's ability to electronically access and manipulate it. The Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference series directly addresses these questions by showcasing the latest advances in the field and exposing what's on the horizon of future discoveries, but is distinguished from many other events in computational biology or artificial intelligence by an insistence that the researchers work with real molecular biology data, not theoretical or toy examples. Although the cultures of computer science and biology are so disparate, ISMB bridges this cultural gap by providing a forum among biological conferences that features technical advances as they occur, which otherwise may be shunned until a firm experimental result is published.

描述（由申请人提供）：2012年分子生物学智能系统（ISMB）会议将在加利福尼亚州长滩举行，有1,500-1,700名与会者，其中包括33-38％的学生/邮政博士研究人员。 ISMB汇集了许多不同民族的研究生，博士研究人员，教职员工，研究人员和高级科学家，他们都在计算机科学，分子生物学，数学或统计学研究或工作。该会议将生物学家和计算科学家召集在一起，专注于以实际生物学问题为中心的研究，而不仅仅是理论计算。对“智能系统”和实际生物学数据的综合关注使ISMB成为了高度相关的会议，多年的活动导致了一个专业组织和受人尊敬的年度会议。 ISMB会议介绍了通过将计算机编程应用于生物科学研究的最新研究方法和结果，包括测序基因组的进步，这些基因组可能会更好地理解细胞在治疗诸如癌症等疾病的治疗方面如何相互作用。演示文稿可以描述与分析现有生物学文献（包括基准测试实验）相关的方法和进步，以对科学研究报告有更好的公众了解。总体而言，ISMB致力于教育与会者的最新发展，这将进一步推动计算生物学领域的研究方法和结果。学生和科学家能够返回实验室，以促进自己的研究工作，或者开始调查因参加ISMB而接触的新领域的知识。每次ISMB会议的科学计划都包括原始研究论文的平行演示曲目，最近发表的论文的亮点，专注于新兴主题的特别会议，技术演示，晚期爆发研究和海报演讲，科学展览的艺术，教程研讨会，教程研讨会，特殊兴趣小组会议，特别小组会议以及由学生和学生组织的学生。对于ISMB 2011，提交了258份原始研究论文，并选择了48篇诉讼曲目，而先前发表的论文则提交了88篇，并选择了38篇用于《亮点》曲目。总共在2011年会议期间发表了225次会谈，预计2012年会有类似的数字。在所有情况下，都会严格审查提交，通常由轨道主席批准之前由每个赛道委员会的三名成员进行审查，并确保提出最高的工作质量。会议中代表的特定领域每年因研究人员认为最有趣和创新的领域而有所不同，因此作为论文和建议。该提案寻求资金来帮助学生和初级研究人员参加会议，从而使他们了解自己领域的最新研究以及可能是新手的领域。 公共卫生相关性：生物信息学是理解生物系统的重要工具，这在很大程度上是由于基因组序列努力驱动的，这是由于基因组数据在寻求开发新的和改进的疾病治疗方法中的有用性高度取决于人们的电子访问和操作的能力。分子生物学的智能系统（ISMB）会议系列系列通过展示该领域的最新进展并揭示未来发现的最新进展，直接解决了这些问题，但与计算生物学或人工智能中的许多其他事件有关，通过坚持研究人员使用实际分子生物学数据，而不是理论上或玩具示例。尽管计算机科学和生物学的文化是如此不同，但ISMB通过在生物学会议中提供一个以技术进步为特色的生物会议中提供论坛，否则可以回避，直到发布坚定的实验结果。