Postdoctoral Travel Grants Program

A postdoctoral program to support travel to academic and professional meetings

Please note: The application deadline is November 2, 2009.

The Postdoctoral Travel Grant Program is designed to provide modest stipend support (up to $1000) for current postdocs attending or presenting at professional or academic meetings between January 1 and June 30, 2010. The program is offered in two cycles annually. Eligibility is limited to Harvard University postdoctoral fellows, including FAS, HSPH, the Cambridge professional schools and HMS/HSDM quad postdocs. (Postdoctoral fellows whose primary affiliations are with teaching hospitals are not eligible for this program.) Postdocs applying for short-term dependent care may also apply for the Postdoctoral Travel Grant Program.

The program is competitive, and in this cycle 10-12 awards will be made. Applications will be reviewed by a panel of faculty and administrators, and selection will be based on the description of current research activities, how attendance at the meeting will enhance professional goals, and evidence of support from the principal investigator/research sponsor (or other research mentor).

The application form with instructions (in .pdf format) is here. The form may be filled out on your desktop and printed. Complete applications should be delivered to Holyoke Center 835, or mailed to: Office for Postdoctoral Affairs; 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 835; Cambridge, MA 02138.

Congratulations to Spring 2009 Postdoctoral Travel Grant Recipients

Patrick Allard, HMS Genetics, 17th International C. elegans Meeting

(Berkley, CA)

Alexander Bradley, FAS Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, the 19th V.M. Goldschmidt conference (Davos, Switzerland)

Rebecca Case, HMS Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, 2009 Gordon Conference on Applied and Environmental Biology (South Hadley, MA)

Charalambos Charalambous, HGSE, 33rd Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Yeonseung Chung, HSPH Biostatistics, 1st Institute of Mathematical Statistics Asia Pacific Rim Meeting (Seoul, Korea)

Adam Hock, FAS Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Organometallic Chemistry Gordon Research Conference (Newport, RI)

Jennifer Smith Kennedy, HMS Pathology, DNA Tumor Virus Meeting 2009 (Oxford, United Kingdom)

John Loveless, FAS Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2009 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (San Francisco, CA)

Rafael Luna, HMS Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, EMBO Conference Series on Protein Synthesis and Translational Control (Heidelberg, Germany)

Nathalie Nagalingum, FAS Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Botany and Mycology 2009 (Snowbird, UT)

Sarit Smolikov, HMS Genetics, 17th International C. elegans Meeting

(Berkley, CA)

Nicholas Tosca, FAS Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, XIV International Clay Conference (Castellaneta Marina, Italy)

Congratulations to Fall 2008 Postdoctoral Travel Grant Recipients

Arnaud Chastanet, FAS Molecular and Cellular Biology, Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction (Cuernavaca, Mexico)

Shantiy Deemyad, FAS Physics, Study of Matter at Extreme Conditions (Miami)

Daniel Dillon, FAS Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience Society (San Francisco)

Roberto Maldonado, HMS Pathology, Keystone Symposium on Dentric Cells (Banff, Canada)

John Mason, FAS Physics, International Workshop on Supersymmetry and Supersymmetry Breaking (Durham, UK)

Luke Matthews, FAS Anthropology, American Association of Physical Anthropologists (Chicago)

Sheng Meng, FAS Physics, American Chemical Society (Salt Lake City)

Izhar Neder, FAS Physics, Mesoscopic and Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (Chernogolovka, Russia)

Emily O'Dell, FAS Humanities Center, Seminars in Near and Middle Eastern Studies (Tehran, Iran)

Chris Organ, FAS Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Society for the Study of Evolution (Moscow, Idaho)

Cesar Rodriguez, FAS Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Southwest Quantum Information and Technology (Seattle)

Noah Whiteman , FAS Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Plant and Animal Genomes (San Diego)