ANZSCDB Grants

For support of State and Local Cell & Developmental Biology Meetings, ANZSCDB will provide $250/meeting in advance to facilitate the organization and running of up to two state/local meetings per year.

In addition, for one of these meetings we will provide an additional sum (to a maximum of $750) towards the expenses of an invited interstate speaker. One such meeting per year per state will be funded.

Thus, up to $1250 is available to each state per annum to support state/local activities.  As a condition of this support, the ANZSCDB should be acknowledged in promotional material for the meeting and at the meeting (e.g. in flyer announcing meeting, brochure at meeting, slide at meeting, on website).
 
Who is eligible?
Applications are open to organizers of these meetings as long as they become members of ANZSCDB. Preference is given to financial members of the ANZSCDB. All supported meetings will have at least one Society member on the organizing committee.
 
How do you apply?
Applications for this support will consist of a letter detailing the meeting title, location, approximate date and some proposed speakers. A notice with details of the meeting will be provided to the Society which will be distributed by the local organizers as well as the Society via its email network and website.  Applicants should also indicate in their application other likely sources of financial assistance that would ensure the success of the meeting.

Applications can be forwarded at any time to the President and should be submitted well in advance of the proposed meeting.

What does your Society require of you?
Upon completion of the supported meeting, the applicant will submit a short report of the meeting for publication in the Society's newsletter.

ANZSCDB - supporting local Cell & Developmental Biology

ComBio Awards for best Poster and Oral Presentations

• The Toshiya Yamada Early Career Award - value $500*
  
• The Keith Dixon Prize in Developmental Biology - value $350
  
• The David Walsh Student Prize - value $350
  
• ANZSCDB Cell Biology Student Poster Prize – value $350
  

Eligibility

All Postdoc and Student members who submit abstracts as presenting author at COMBIO are eligible for these awards. All presenting authors are encouraged to indicate on their abstract submission form that they would be prepared to give an ORAL presentation, although this is not obligatory for award eligibility.

Judging

Recipients are selected during the course of the meeting by a judges consisting of senior Society members who attend each presentation and evaluate the quality of the presentation, the contribution from each presenter and their understanding of, and ability to answer questions about their topic.

The awards are announced and presented at the closing ceremony of the COMBIO meeting.
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ComBio Student Travel Awards

• Two competitive awards are offered annually to Student members.
• Award is determined on a pro-rata basis by the distance required to travel to the meeting.
• Applications from Student members should be in the form of a justification (½ page maximum).
• Applications should be sent to the Secretary, ANZSCDB by August 3, 2009

Each year the Society provides four awards of up to $500 each to enable student members to visit another lab in Australia/New Zealand to carry out collaborative work or learn a new technique that might not be available in their own institution.

• Four awards of up to $500 annually
  
• Applications from interested students should be sent to the President, ANZSCDB
  
• Include an outline of proposed research activities for the duration of the visit (max 1 page), as well as the anticipated cost of travel and accommodation