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) 会议将于加利福尼亚州长滩举行，与会者人数为 1,500-1,700 人，其中 33-38% 为学生/博士后研究人员。 ISMB汇集了许多不同国籍的研究生、博士后研究人员、教师、研究人员和资深科学家，他们都在计算机科学、分子生物学、数学或统计学领域学习或工作。这次会议将生物学家和计算科学家聚集在一起，重点关注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”和实际生物数据的共同关注使 ISMB 成为一个高度相关的会议，多年来举办该活动已成为一次专业组织且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而开发的最新研究方法和成果，包括基因组测序方面的进展，这可能有助于更好地理解细胞如何相互作用以治疗疾病，例如作为癌症。演示文稿可以描述与现有生物学文献分析相关的方法和进展，包括基准实验，以使公众更好地理解科学研究报告。总体而言，ISMB 旨在向与会者介绍最新的发展，这将进一步推动计算生物学领域的研究方法和成果。学生和科学家能够返回实验室，在推进自己的研究工作时应用他们所学到的知识，或者开始调查他们因参加 ISMB 而接触到的新领域。每次 ISMB 会议的科学计划包括原创研究论文的并行展示、最近发表论文的亮点、专注于新兴主题的特别会议、技术演示、最新研究和海报演示、科学艺术展览、辅导研讨会、特别兴趣由学生组织并为学生组织的小组会议和学生研讨会。 ISMB 2011 共提交了 258 篇原创研究论文，其中 48 篇入选论文集，同时提交了 88 篇之前发表的论文，其中 38 篇入选亮点篇。 2011 年会议期间总共提出了超过 225 场演讲，预计 2012 年也会有类似数字。在所有情况下，提交的内容都会经过严格审查，通常由每个分会委员会的三名成员进行审查，然后再由分会主席批准，以确保提供尽可能高的工作质量。会议中代表的具体领域每年都会有所不同，具体取决于研究人员发现最有趣和最具创新性的领域，因此以论文和提案的形式提交。该提案寻求资金帮助学生和初级研究人员参加会议，从而让他们接触到自己领域以及对他们来说可能陌生的领域的最新研究。 公共卫生相关性：生物信息学已被广泛认为是理解生物系统的重要工具，这在很大程度上是由基因组测序工作驱动的，因为基因组数据在寻求开发新的和改进的疾病治疗和预防方面的有用性高度依赖于一个人的能力以电子方式访问和操纵它。分子生物学智能系统 (ISMB) 系列会议通过展示该领域的最新进展并揭示未来发现的内容来直接解决这些问题，但与计算生物学或人工智能中的许多其他活动不同的是，它坚持以下观点：研究人员使用真实的分子生物学数据，而不是理论或玩具示例。尽管计算机科学和生物学的文化如此不同，但 ISMB 通过在生物会议之间提供一个论坛来弥合这种文化差距，该论坛以技术进步为特色，否则在可靠的实验结果发表之前可能会被回避。