TRAVEL STIPENDS

12th Annual Genes, Brain and Behavior Meeting of IBANGS

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 12-16 May 2010

With the generous support of a grant from three institutes of the National Institutes of Health USA: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and National Institute of Mental Health, we are pleased to offer stipends in partial support of travel to attend the Twelth Annual Meeting of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society.

Travel Stipend Details:

       A limited number of stipends are available for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior faculty members who have held faculty rank for less than 5 years.

       Selection will be based on the abstract submitted with meeting registration; financial need will also be a consideration.  It is required that travel awardees present either an oral presentation or a poster at the meeting.  It is not necessary for the presentation to involve studies related to alcohol, but preference will be given to those engaged in alcohol research.

       From the Travel Awardees, four will be selected based on their proposed presentation at the meeting as the Outstanding Young Investigator Awardees.  Two students, one postdoctoral fellow, and one junior faculty member will be invited to present their work in a special oral presentation session at the meeting, and to prepare their presented work for peer-review in consideration for publication in Genes, Brain and Behavior (G2B).

Application Details:

       If you are not a member of IBANGS, consider becoming a member and taking advantage of reduced registration fees for the 2010 meeting.  For a description of additional membership benefits and to become a member please click here. 

       Register here  for the meeting and pay the appropriate registration fee.  The deadline for reduced early registration fees is March 1, 2010.

       Submit the following items, by March 1, 2010, to Mark Rutledge-Gorman, preferably by email in Word ( rutledgm@ohsu.edu ), or by FAX 503-721-1029 (voice 503-220-8262, extension 56653) or courier to VA Medical Center R&D 12, 3710 SW US Veterans Hospital Road, Portland Oregon USA 97239-2964:  1) an abstract (450 or fewer words), 2) a letter that includes your contact information and describes your eligibility (e.g., in what year of what Ph.D. or M.D. program, or postdoctoral status, general thesis topic, adviser’s name, year of holding faculty rank, etc.), how meeting attendance will further your career goals, why the work to be presented is deserving of recognition, a statement of financial need if relevant, 3) a curriculum vitae, and 4) a letter from your advisor or Chair confirming eligibility and/or need.

       The National Institutes of Health USA is committed to increasing the participation in science of under represented minorities and women, who are encouraged to apply.

Additional meeting program, venue, and lodging information is available here . 

For More Information Contact:

crabbe@ohsu.edu    John Crabbe, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA

rutledgm@ohsu.edu    Mark Rutledge-Gorman, Oregon Health & Science Univ, Portland, Oregon, USA

The International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society (IBANGS) meets annually to discuss the multidisciplinary fields of neurobehavioural genetics.