Travel Fellowship Deadline FAST approaching!! Travel Fellowships for the 12th Annual Ecological Genomics Symposium
The Ecological Genomics Institute (ecogen.ksu.edu) at Kansas State University has funds to support student and postdoc travel fellowships to attend the 12th Annual Ecological Genomics Symposium (ecogen.ksu.edu/symp2014) in Kansas City from October 31st to November 2nd 2014. International students are eligible for these fellowships. TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS. The fellowships are supported by the American Genetics Association with the goal of increasing the cultural and scientific diversity of the young scientists at the symposium. AGA- sponsored students and post-docs will receive a free 3-year student membership in the AGA. Membership provides eligibility to compete for awards and participate in Council elections, a Journal of Heredity subscription and access to the entire 100-year Journal archive. Your application packet must include each of the following: 1. A title and abstract for a poster to be presented by the applicant. 2. A short CV/resume. Please include your gender and race and ethnicity for AGA reporting. 3. A paragraph on why you are interested in attending the symposium. 4. A brief letter of recommendation from your advisor submitted under separate cover. The letter should be sent to jenniferrho...@ksu.edu by Monday, September 15, 2014. Complete application (items 1 to 4) should be submitted as a single pdf document to jenniferrho...@ksu.edu. The deadline for submission is Monday, September 15, 2014 For questions about the application contact Michael Herman at mher...@ksu.edu or 785-532-6741 The 12th Ecological Genomics Symposium will feature an outstanding lineup of speakers that will discuss their latest research results: Zach Cheviron, University of Illinois, Evolutionary and functional genomics of high-altitude adaptation in deer mice Cassandra Extavour, Harvard University, Using Drosophilid flies to understand how the development of reproductive capacity may be influenced by ecological niche Felicity Jones, Max Planck Institute, Tübingen, Germany, Molecular mechanisms of adaptive divergence and speciation in threespine sticklebacks. Catherine Linnen, University of Kentucky, From mice to mutations: Genetic basis of adaptive coloration in Peromyscus Michael Lynch, Indiana University, Moving population-genomics forward: 5000 Daphnia pulex genomes Sean Place, Sonoma State University, Comparative transcriptomics: An alternative approach to conservation in the Southern Ocean Jesse Poland, Kansas State University, High-throughput genotype and phenotype analysis of agriculture ecosystems John Stinchcombe, University of Toronto, Ecology and genomics of life history adaptation in introduced Arabidopsis populations Alex Wilson, University of Miami, Metabolic and developmental integration of the obligate intracellular symbionts of sap feeding insects POSTER SESSIONS: A poster sessions will be held on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. Poster topics should be related to the field of Ecological Genomics. A LIMITED NUMBER OF SUBMITTED POSTER ABSTRACTS WILL BE SELECTED FOR ORAL PRESENTATIONS.
