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MERIT BURSARIES FOR PARTICIPATION AT COMBIO2008 The ARC-NZ Research Network for Vegetation Function offers up to five Merit Bursaries to HDR/ECR (Higher Degree by Research students and Early Career Researchers) to support attendance and participation at COMBIO2008 in Canberra, 21-25 September 2008 COMBIO is a joint meeting of Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), Australian Society of Plant Scientists (ASPS), and Australia and New Zealand Society for Cellular and Developmental Biology. The Vegetation Function Network is organizing sessions “Plants from Genes to Geoscience” on Tuesday 23rd Sept (provisional program below). The purpose of the Bursaries is to help ECR-HDR contribute to discussion in these sessions. Awardees are encouraged to attend the remainder of COMBIO also, and to offer a talk or poster in other sessions. Bursaries will support airfare from hometown in Australia plus up to $730 towards registration and accommodation (see below for explanation). Eligibility and conditions: enrolment as HDR at an Australian university, or Early Career Researcher under ARC definition (less than 5 years since PhD) and making career in Australia. After the meeting you will be required to write a brief (1 page) account of research opportunities you see arising. Application deadline for bursaries is 9th June 2008 (this is so you can meet the 20th June deadline for earlybird registration at COMBIO). Send applications to vegadmin@bio.mq.edu.au. A selection committee will choose among applications and notify you by 11th June. Applications should include CV, publications list, academic record or other indicators of research potential. If your current or future research interests have potential for contributing to the discussion sessions at COMBIO or to future working groups of the Network, please explain (max 1 page). Please include email and phone numbers of two academic referees we could contact. EXPLANATION ABOUT FINANCIAL SUPPORT: A bursary of airfare to Canberra plus up to $730 is calculated to cover one day’s registration plus two nights accommodation. Day registration is $290 for members of ASBMB or ASPS, or $380 for non-members. Since membership costs about $100, it is worth joining one or other of the societies. This leaves $250 to cover two nights accommodation. You are certainly encouraged to stay for the whole of the COMBIO meeting, and the funding we offer here will go a long way towards covering costs for the whole meeting, especially if you can economize on accommodation. PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE, COMBIO2008, Tuesday 23 September Speakers will describe highlights of activity in working groups of the ARC-NZ Research Network for Vegetation Function. The aim of these sessions is to identify new research possibilities that bridge between different activities. Structured discussion will elicit ideas from participants as well as from speakers. Chairs: Mark Westoby, Adrienne Nicotra, Marilyn Ball 1600-1620 Stephen Simpson (U Sydney) Herbivory and plants
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