Genomics Grants

Pasteur Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships

Fellowship Program Deadline

For the current Call for Applicants, dossiers must be received by September 17, 2010.

Fellowship candidates who respond to the September call for applicants will be notified in November 2010 and must begin the fellowship by June 1, 2011. (Applicants who responded to the February 2010 call for applicants will be notified in April 2010; recipients must begin the fellowship by December 1, 2010.)

Thanks to the generosity of our U.S. donors, and in particular with the pace-setting support of the Florence Gould Foundation, the Pasteur Foundation administers this fellowship program to bring U.S. postdoctoral researchers to work in any one of the 130+ Institut Pasteur laboratories in Paris. Guided by the institute's administration, which seeks to develop international scientific exchanges to ensure the vitality of Institut Pasteur labs, this program is open to American citizens who are not already in France and who have received their PhD degree within the last five years.

The three-year fellowship package is $70,000 annually: $55,000 fellowship plus $15,000 bench fees to support the research.

The first step is to identify a host laboratory at the institute to sponsor your application. For a list of Institut Pasteur laboratories, please visit http://www.pasteur.fr/ip/easysite/go/03b-000010-011/

Pasteur Foundation
420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 1654
New York, New York 10170

Phone: 212.599.2050
Email: PasteurUS@aol.com

"Genetics is one of the most far-reaching of the sciences with its potential to alleviate human suffering."

Peter Gruber, Chairman
The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation

The Genetics Prize is presented to a leading scientist, or up to three, in recognition of groundbreaking contributions to any realm of genetics research.

The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation established and awarded its first Genetics Prize in 2001. This year of monumental accomplishment in genetics research, with the successful sequencing of the human genome, was a particularly auspicious time to launch the world's first major international prize devoted specifically to achievements in the realm of genetics research.

Created 135 years after Gregor Mendel discovered laws of heredity that implied the existence of genetic factors, the Genetics Prize is awarded under the guidance of an international advisory board of distinguished genetics scientists.

Beginning in 2001, the Prize – a gold medal and unrestricted $500,000 cash award – has been awarded for fundamental insights in the field of genetics. These may include original discoveries in genetic function, regulation, transmission, and variation, as well as in genomic organization.

Only candidates who have been officially nominated on a fully completed nomination form will be considered for a Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation International Prize. All nominations materials must be submitted in English, and self-nominations are not accepted. The Chair of each Selection Advisory Board ensures that nominations are of sufficient caliber to merit consideration prior to the meeting of the Board. If a nomination passes the Chair's review, it remains active for three years unless the nominee is selected to receive the prize or is voted off by the Board. After the third year of eligibility, further consideration of a nomination requires that it be resubmitted.

December 15, 2010: Close 2011 Nominations for all Gruber International Prizes

Contact Us

The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
PO Box 502820
St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. 00805

Tel. +1 340-775-4430
Fax +1 340-775-4433

Email: info@gruberprizes.org

Conference Student Scholarships: HIV Evolution, Genomics, and Pathogenesis

Scholarship Deadline: November 22, 2010 (Midnight US Mountain Standard Time)

Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of HIV pathogenesis relies on understanding the complex interplay between the virus and its host. Increasingly, the field is relying on the power of comparative studies of similar viruses in other species, and on whole genome analyses to elucidate which pathways are critical. The use of evolutionary analyses of both host and virus is also providing novel insights into viral transmission and innate immune responses. This Keystone Symposia meeting will use diverse disciplines to promote further insights into the dynamic interplay between the virus and the host in areas of pathogenesis, mucosal biology, the roles of viral and host genes, and viral latency. Understanding these issues is critical for the design and development of an effective vaccine and the next generation of antiviral agents.

Keystone Symposia is offering scholarships to students and post-docs this conference season. These scholarships, of up to $1000 each, are to be used to help defray the expenses associated with conference attendance, including air (on a U.S. air carrier), ground transportation and lodging costs. Receipts will be required to receive reimbursement.

Abstracts submitted for poster presentation will be used as the basis for awarding the scholarships. Conference organizers will select the scholarship recipients based on the quality of science of the abstract and the relevance of the abstract to the conference topic. Only one application per abstract is accepted.

Keystone Symposia
221 Summit Place #272
PO Box 1630
Silverthorne, CO 80498
www.keystonesymposia.org

Financial Assistance / Student Scholarships
Phone: +1 (800) 253-0685 or
Ksenia Shambarger - +1 (970) 262-1230 extension 140
Fax: +1 (970) 262-0311

Conference Student Scholarships: Functional Consequences of Structural Variation in the Genome

Scholarship Deadline: September 14, 2010 (Midnight US Mountain Standard Time)

Sequencing of genomes has led to the discovery of a spectrum of both small-scale and large-scale genetic variation among individuals. Changes in copy-number and genome structural variation are common in most mammalian species and affect a wide range of phenotypic traits. The goal of this symposium will be to explore the relative impact of structural variation to common and rare human genetic diseases; discuss our understanding of ‘normal’ patterns of structural variation and its origin based on examining additional human genomes using new sequencing technologies; explore the extent of intraspecific variation in other organisms and their importance in phenotypic traits; and discuss the adaptive importance of this form of variation during the evolution of mammalian species.

Keystone Symposia is offering scholarships to students and post-docs this conference season. These scholarships, of up to $1000 each, are to be used to help defray the expenses associated with conference attendance, including air (on a U.S. air carrier), ground transportation and lodging costs. Receipts will be required to receive reimbursement.

Abstracts submitted for poster presentation will be used as the basis for awarding the scholarships. Conference organizers will select the scholarship recipients based on the quality of science of the abstract and the relevance of the abstract to the conference topic. Only one application per abstract is accepted.

Keystone Symposia
221 Summit Place #272
PO Box 1630
Silverthorne, CO 80498
www.keystonesymposia.org

Financial Assistance / Student Scholarships
Phone: +1 (800) 253-0685 or
Ksenia Shambarger - +1 (970) 262-1230 extension 140
Fax: +1 (970) 262-0311

Conference Student Scholarships: Omics Meets Cell Biology

Scholarship Deadline: January 6, 2011 (Midnight US Mountain Standard Time)

Whole genome sequencing has become widespread and modern biologists currently access exponentially growing lists of genomes from organisms covering all three domains of life. This has fundamentally changed the way scientists address biological questions. A spectacular flourishing of technologies allows for global interrogation of gene activity and function and ever more comprehensive measurement of cellular macromolecules. These Omics approaches are still in full expansion but already increasingly contribute to the editing and annotation of systems-level networks charting physical and functional links between all cellular components. Nevertheless, an important challenge resides in the interpretation and integration of the data within the context of the whole physiology of a cell. We are for example, still learning and developing the bioinformatic tools to store and integrate different types of datasets. Emerging biochemical and chemical approaches contribute chemical tools and affinity reagents to systematically interrogate or perturb macromolecules within a cell. Live-cell imaging and quantitative microscopy have also moved large-scale allowing unprecedented phenotypic analysis. This conference will bring together the leading experts representing Omics technologies, cell biology, chemical-genetics, and bioinformatics to discuss and present these latest developments.

Keystone Symposia is offering scholarships to students and post-docs this conference season. These scholarships, of up to $1000 each, are to be used to help defray the expenses associated with conference attendance, including air (on a U.S. air carrier), ground transportation and lodging costs. Receipts will be required to receive reimbursement.

Abstracts submitted for poster presentation will be used as the basis for awarding the scholarships. Conference organizers will select the scholarship recipients based on the quality of science of the abstract and the relevance of the abstract to the conference topic. Only one application per abstract is accepted.

Keystone Symposia
221 Summit Place #272
PO Box 1630
Silverthorne, CO 80498
www.keystonesymposia.org

Financial Assistance / Student Scholarships
Phone: +1 (800) 253-0685 or
Ksenia Shambarger - +1 (970) 262-1230 extension 140
Fax: +1 (970) 262-0311

Conference Student Scholarships: Genomic Instability and DNA Repair

Scholarship Deadline: September 30, 2010 (Midnight US Mountain Standard Time)

The maintenance of genomic integrity following DNA damage depends on the coordination of DNA repair, cell cycle progression, transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation and apoptosis. The integrity of the DNA damage response pathways plays a critical role in human health. This meeting will present the most recent advance in the field and reveal how a complex network of signaling transduction pathways are involved in DNA damage response. The topics include early detection of DNA lesions, DNA damage checkpoint control, DNA repair, genotoxic damage in cancer stem cells, modulation of DNA damage signaling by microRNAs, systems biology approaches to DNA damage and the use of cutting edge technologies in the study of DNA damage responses.

Keystone Symposia is offering scholarships to students and post-docs this conference season. These scholarships, of up to $1000 each, are to be used to help defray the expenses associated with conference attendance, including air (on a U.S. air carrier), ground transportation and lodging costs. Receipts will be required to receive reimbursement.

Abstracts submitted for poster presentation will be used as the basis for awarding the scholarships. Conference organizers will select the scholarship recipients based on the quality of science of the abstract and the relevance of the abstract to the conference topic. Only one application per abstract is accepted.

Keystone Symposia
221 Summit Place #272
PO Box 1630
Silverthorne, CO 80498
www.keystonesymposia.org

Financial Assistance / Student Scholarships
Phone: +1 (800) 253-0685 or
Ksenia Shambarger - +1 (970) 262-1230 extension 140
Fax: +1 (970) 262-0311