Travel Grants for Young scientists for Xenopus Conference 2008 at Germany

Young scientists are cordially invited to participate at the Conference. Travel grants for young scientists (diploma/master and PhD students and postdocs) are made possible. They are intended to partially cover travel expenses (excluding hotel, meals and registration fee) to a maximum of 70% depending on request. To receive a grant, you must register for the symposium. Only one application per laboratory will be accepted.

Application Process

To apply for a grant, send an email to the committee member Doris Wedlich:
doris.wedlich@zi2.uni-karlsruhe.de
with the subject line "Xenopus Conference 2008 Travel Grant".

The body of the message (or a attached pdf-file) should include:

• Your name (Family name, first name)
• Male or female
• Your date of birth
• Your status (diploma student, master student, doctoral student, postdoc)
• Your work address
• Your advisor's name
• Whether you are a autor or co-author of a submitted abstract (please give the title and author list of the paper as well) and wether you will be presenting the paper
• A brief statement from your supervisor how you would benefit from attending the conference and why it is important for you receiving a travel grant. You must attach this letter of recommendation as a pdf-file.

Application deadline for travel grants is May 10th, 2008.

The awardees are selected by the organizing committee and will be notified of the grant within 6-8 weeks after the deadline date. If you have any questions regarding the travel grant, please contact Doris Wedlich doris.wedlich

Website: http://www.uni-ulm.de/12thxenopus/index.html

Scienists from developing countries can seek support for conference attendance via the Nature Publishing Group Award scheme:
http://www.nature.com/npg_/community/npg_awards.html

The African Network of Scientific and Technological Institutions (ANSTI), has established the Conference of Vice-Chancellors, Deans of Science, Engineering and Technology (COVIDSET) as a forum for University leaders responsible for Science and Engineering Education to meet and dialogue on strategic issues in Science and Engineering Education. COVIDSET is a forum both for the exchange of ideas and experiences as well for the sensitization of University Leaders on trends in science and engineering education in the region and globally.

Date: 5 - 27 Sept. 2007
Johannesburg,
South Africa

International Symposium on Organic Chemistry, Sofia 2006

Topic: Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry

Keywords: Synthesis, Spectroscopy, Reaction mechanisms, Natural products, Catalysis

Date: 09-12 December 2006, Sofia, Bulgaria, Europe

Web Site http://organic2006.innoslab.com/

The symposium is intended to cover large variety of Organic Chemistry problems as synthesis, natural products, relations to biochemical, pharmaceutical and medical problems, coordination compounds, various spectral techniques, computational modeling and design, investigation of reactivity, reaction mechanism, catalysis, hi-tech applications, etc. The program will include invited lectures, and contributed oral or poster presentations from the participants.

19th Nordic Structural Chemistry Meeting

Topic: Material Sciences, Biochemistry

Date: 08-11 January 2007, Spåtind, Norway, Europe

Web Site: http://www.kjemi.uio.no/nsm19/

The scientific program will cover all important aspects of crystallography from materials science to protein structure. Particularly young scientists are invited to attend and present their work in front of a small, interested and friendly audience.
The above Internet site will provide you with the necessary information about registration, traveling and lodging, the conference programme and more.

15th International Conference on Organic Process Research & Development

Topic: Organic Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry,

Date: 08-10 January 2007, San Diego, USA, North America

Web Site: http://scientificupdate.co.uk/conferences/oprdus/index.php

This 3 day conference brings together chemists and engineers from all parts of the world to discuss issues related to synthetic route design, development and optimisation and the scale-up of these processes. The invited speakers have been selected to emphasise their company's approach to these issues with detailed case studies.

GLOBE 2008 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
March 12-14, 2008

Join 2,000 delegates from over 70 countries in Vancouver, Canada from March 12 th to March 14 th , 2008 to explore the issues that lie at the heart of sustainable development and environmental management. Conference delegates from around the world involved in the business of the environment will convene at GLOBE 2008 to discuss the most recent developments in corporate sustainability, energy and the environment, finance and sustainabilit, climate change and sustainable cities. The conference will feature leading environment and energy luminaries, ensuring timely environmental and sustainability issues receive the attention and expertise they clearly demand.

For more information visit the conference website:
http://www.globe2008.ca/

January 28-31, 2007 - ENVIRONMENT 2007 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The 4th Major International Exhibition and Conference to be held at the Abu Dhabi International Exhibition Center, from 28 - 31 January 2007, under the patronage of the UAE President, His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The focus of this prestigious event will be on Air, Energy, Water, and Waste, providing an ideal platform to promote products and services that relate to these very important elements.

For more information visit the conference website:
http://www.ee-uae.com/

10th International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) Conference, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, May 21-25 2007.
Supported by IUBMB-Sigma-Aldrich fellowships and the Brazilian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SBBq)
The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) and Brazilian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SBBq) are proud to announce the Young Scientist Forum, which will be held during the 10th IUBMB Conference in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, a joint event with the 36th Annual SBBq Meeting, also sponsored by the Panamerican Association for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (PABMB).
This Forum will offer extensive opportunities for young scientists from all over the world to share and exchange scientific experience, present their work at a high scientific level and interact with international senior scientists. Selected young scientists will have the opportunity to present their findings orally, and will receive substantial financial aid in order to assure their participation in the conference.
Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as post-doctoral trainees and young researchers under the age of 35 are encouraged to apply for support within the Young Scientist Forum. Young scientists of any nationality and from all fields of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology are eligible.
Successful applicants will receive:
1. Up to US$ 1000 contribution toward travel costs to Salvador
2. Complimentary accommodation during the Conference
3. Free registration
4. An invitation to present their work orally during the Conference
5. An award certificate
Application Procedures
Required Documents:
1. Young Scientist Forum application form
2. An abstract (up to 250 words) of the work to be presented
3. A brief curriculum vitae (not more than three pages)
4. A motivation letter briefly describing the reasons why the applicant would benefit from attending the meeting.
Documents, in doc format, must be by sent to the SBBq office (sbbq@iq.usp.br) by December 21, 2006.
A scientific committee will evaluate applications, and awardees will be notified in January 2007, by e-mail. Scientific merit is a prerequisite for selection. To enable young scientists from many countries to participate, some consideration will also be given to nationality, to the locality where the young scientist is currently working, and to gender.
Please do not submit an abstract to the main conference before the young scientist awardees are announced. The selected young scientists will be automatically registered in the conference. All applicants who are not selected for the young scientist forum will be encouraged to submit their work to the conference after the selection process.
For further information, please contact:
Alicia J. Kowaltowski, coordinator of the Young Scientist Forum
c/o. Cynthia S. Bando
Secretariat of 10th IUBMB Conference and 36th Annual SBBq Meeting
Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 748, bloco 3 superior, sala 0367, 05508-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
e-mail: sbbq@iq.usp.br Phone/Fax: +55 11 3815-5798 www.sbbq.org.br/iubmb2007

Support for Young Scientists
We plan to offer special arrangements for about 50 young scientists from former socialist countries in Europe and from developing countries worldwide. Pending funding by a foundation, this will include stipends for travel and accommodation, a fee waiver and participation in a pre-conference workshop. Young scientists from the following countries are, in principle, eligible for reduced fees upon application:

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo-Brazzaville, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Dem. Rep. Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Samoa, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, St. Vincent, Suriname, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Yemen.

Furthermore, our Meet-the-Scientist Event will give young researchers the opportunity to present themselves to outstanding experts in their field and discuss their research as well as their professional plans. Besides Invited Speakers and Invited Symposium Chairs, we will ask a selected group of regular authors of conference contributions to be also available for this event. As another means to foster intergenerational exchange in the field, we plan some kind of consultation talks regarding career issues between young researchers and experienced senior scientists. Last, but not least, we would like to strengthen international co-operation of young researchers by compiling special poster sessions for several areas of developmental research.

We are glad to announce that we have received limited funding for young scholars from countries as mentioned above.

Applicants are supposed to submit an abstract for the conference via the abstract submission system on this homepage. In addition, they should send an application for financial support via regular mail to:

PD Dr. Matthias Reitzle
Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
Department of Developmental Psychology
Am Steiger 3/1
D-07743 Jena
Germany
The application must include:

an application letter
the submitted abstract
a short CV
a detailed estimate of the travelling costs from a travel agent
We will give preference to young scientist who have already achieved a PhD and are in the early stages of their career (no more than 5 to 7 years post PhD). Depending on the country, however, really advanced graduate students (PhD candidates) may also be eligible.