Call for Nominations: Promega Biotechnology Research Award
Honors outstanding contributions to the application of biotechnology through fundamental microbiological research and development. Eligibility: A nomination can be a single exceptionally significant achievement or the aggregate of a number of exemplary achievements. Award: A cash prize of $5,000, a commemorative piece, and travel to the ASM General Meeting where the laureate will deliver the Promega Biotechnology Research Award lecture. Deadline: July 1. Nominations: Nominations will be considered without updating for three years. Self-nominations, co-nominations, and more than one nominati...
Source: ScanGrants feed - February 11, 2014 Category: Research Authors: American Society for Microbiology Source Type: funding
Call for Nominations: American Society for Microbiology Lifetime Achievement Award
ASM's premier award for sustained contributions to the microbiological sciences. Eligibility: The nominee must be a mature scientist, active or retired, from any relevant area of microbiology. Award: A cash prize of $20,000, a commemorative piece, and travel to the ASM General Meeting where the laureate delivers the Abbott-ASM Lifetime Achievement Award lecture. Deadline: July 1. Nominations: Nominations will be considered without updating for three years. Self-nominations and more than one nomination per nominee will not be accepted. Only one nominating form and two supporting forms ar...
Source: ScanGrants feed - February 11, 2014 Category: Research Authors: American Society for Microbiology Source Type: funding
Call for Nominations: Scherago-Rubin Award
Recognizes an outstanding, bench-level clinical microbiologist. The award was established by the late Sally Jo Rubin, an active member of ASM's Clinical Microbiology Division, in honor of her grandfather, Professor Morris Scherago. Eligibility: The nominee must be a non-doctoral-level clinical microbiologist involved primarily in routine diagnostic work, rather than in research, who has distinguished himself or herself with excellent performance in the clinical laboratory. Award: A framed certificate and a cash prize of $2,000 to defray costs of attending the ASM General Meeting where the award is ...
Source: ScanGrants feed - February 11, 2014 Category: Research Authors: American Society for Microbiology Source Type: funding
Call for Nominations: Cubist-ICAAC Award
ASM's premier award honoring outstanding accomplishment in antimicrobial research. Eligibility: The nominee must be actively engaged in research involving development of new agents, investigation of antimicrobial action or resistance to antimicrobial agents, and/or the pharmacology, toxicology or clinical use of those agents. The nominee must not have served on the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) Program Committee within the past two years. Award: A cash prize of $10,000, a commemorative piece, and travel to ICAAC where the laureate will deliver the Cubist-I...
Source: ScanGrants feed - February 11, 2014 Category: Research Authors: American Society for Microbiology Source Type: funding
Call for Nominations: Gen-Probe Joseph Public Health Award
Honors a distinguished microbiologist who has exhibited exemplary leadership and service in the field of public health. This award has been established in memory of J. Mehsen Joseph, Ph.D., who dedicated his life toward the advancement of both microbiology and public health. Eligibility: The nominee must be a microbiologist identified with public health. The recipient will be recognized for significant achievements in integrating the science of microbiology into the practice of public health and for promoting the importance of linking these two disciplines. Award: A cash prize of $2,500, a commemorativ...
Source: ScanGrants feed - February 11, 2014 Category: Research Authors: American Society for Microbiology Source Type: funding
Call for Nominations: bioMérieux Sonnenwirth Award for Leadership in Clinical Microbiology
Call for Nominations: bioMérieux Sonnenwirth Award for Leadership in Clinical Microbiology Given in memory of Alexander Sonnenwirth, Ph.D., this award recognizes a distinguished microbiologist for the promotion of innovation in clinical laboratory science, dedication to ASM, and the advancement of clinical microbiology as a profession. Eligibility: The nominee must be a microbiologist identified with clinical microbiology. Award: A cash prize of $2,000, a commemorative piece, and travel to the ASM General Meeting where the laureate will deliver the bioMérieux Sonnenwirth Award lecture. ...
Source: ScanGrants feed - February 11, 2014 Category: Research Authors: American Society for Microbiology Source Type: funding
Call for Nominations: BD Award for Research in Clinical Microbiology
Honors a distinguished scientist for research accomplishments that form the foundation for important applications in clinical microbiology. Eligibility: The nominee must be a distinguished clinical microbiologist. Award: A cash prize of $2,000, a commemorative piece, and travel to the ASM General Meeting where the laureate will deliver the BD Award lecture. Deadline: July 1. Nominations: Nominations will be considered without updating for three years. Self-nominations and more than one nomination per nominee will not be accepted. Only one nominating form and two supporting forms are accepte...
Source: ScanGrants feed - February 11, 2014 Category: Research Authors: American Society for Microbiology Source Type: funding
Call for Nominations: United States Federation for Culture Collections/J. Roger Porter Award
This award recognizes outstanding efforts by a scientist who has demonstrated the importance of microbial biodiversity through sustained curatorial or stewardship activities for a major resource used by the scientific community. It honors the memory of Dr. Porter and his remarkable contributions to science. Eligibility: The nominee will have greatly aided other scientists by demonstrating the fundamentals of culture collections and related resources and the rich biodiversity that such collections preserve. These resources may include collections of cells or microorganisms, databases or tools, or major referenc...
Source: ScanGrants feed - February 11, 2014 Category: Research Authors: United States Federation for Culture Collections/American Society for Microbiology Source Type: funding
Call for Nominations: Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Young Investigator Award
Honors outstanding laboratory research in clinical microbiology or antimicrobial agents and is intended to further the career development of a young clinical scientist and promote awareness of clinical microbiology as a career. Eligibility: The nominee should be conducting outstanding research in clinical microbiology, automation in clinical laboratories, development of novel antimicrobial agents, mechanisms of action of antimicrobial agents or mechanisms of resistance to antimicrobial agents. The nominee must be no more than five years beyond completion of postdoctoral research training in microbiology, infec...
Source: ScanGrants feed - February 11, 2014 Category: Research Authors: American Society for Microbiology Source Type: funding
Call for Nominations: Merck Irving S. Sigal Memorial Awards
Recognize and award excellence in basic research in medical microbiology and infectious diseases. The awards are presented in memory of Irving S. Sigal, who was instrumental in the early discovery of therapies to treat HIV/AIDS. Eligibility: The nominee must be no more than five years beyond completion of postdoctoral research training in microbiology or infectious diseases at the time of the nomination deadline. Award: A cash prize of $3,000 and a commemorative piece. Up to two awards may be given each year at the ASM General Meeting where they are presented. Deadline: July 1. Nominations: N...
Source: ScanGrants feed - February 11, 2014 Category: Research Authors: American Society for Microbiology Source Type: funding
University of California, San Diego Amgen Scholars Program
The UCSD Amgen Scholars Program is a 10-week, full-time research experience for undergraduates, supported by the Amgen Foundation. Program objectives Provide students with the skills to become research scholars Stimulate students' serious consideration of graduate study Increase learning and networking opportunities for students committed to pursuing either a professional or academic research career in biological sciences or bioengineering. Program dates and deadlines 2014 program dates: June 23, 2014 through August 29, 2014 2014 program application deadline: February 3, 2014, 11:59 p.m...
Source: ScanGrants feed - January 16, 2014 Category: Research Authors: University of California, San Diego/Amgen Source Type: funding
Research Experience for Undergraduates in Genomics and Computational Biology at the University of Georgia
Program Format: Hands-on research in Genomics and Computational Biology will bring participants recruited nationally from underrepresented groups to the University of Georgia campus for 10 weeks in the Summer of 2014. The first weeks involve lab safety training, learning to keep a lab notebook, participating in a sequence of group Genomics labs in the mornings, Computational labs in the afternoons, and Genomics lectures that will correspond with both the Genomics & Computational Biology labs. Group posters from these labs will be prepared by the participants and presented at the ending poster session. ...
Source: ScanGrants feed - January 15, 2014 Category: Research Authors: University of Georgia Source Type: funding
Research Experience for Undergraduates in Physiology and Neurobiology at the University of Connecticut
Submit complete application packet by March 14, 2014. Funded by the National Science Foundation Applications are now being accepted for the Summer 2014 program. The NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates site in Physiology and Neurobiology at the University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT) offers paid summer research opportunities in the areas of renal and muscle physiology; developmental neurobiology, synaptic plasticity and neural circuits; and other areas in molecular and cell biology, microbiology and immunology. Interested students, especially underrepresented minorities, veterans, first-generat...
Source: ScanGrants feed - January 15, 2014 Category: Research Authors: University of Connecticut Source Type: funding
Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates in Microbiology at the University of Iowa
The application deadline is February 15, 2014. Goals of the Program The REU in Microbiology at The University of Iowa seeks to foster the careers of the next generation of microbiologists. We do this by providing an intensive 10-week research experience for bright and ambitious undergraduates who are considering a PhD in microbiology or an allied discipline. We hope that this experience will encourage students to pursue a career in basic science and give them the skills they need to succeed in that career path. The focus of the program is a hands-on research project conducted under the guidance of faculty and ...
Source: ScanGrants feed - January 15, 2014 Category: Research Authors: University of Iowa Source Type: funding
Microbiology Research Experience for Undergraduates at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Undergraduate students are invited to participate in a 10-week summer research program in environmental microbiology. Students will collaborate with faculty mentors in developing and carrying out hypothesis-based projects on microorganisms from diverse habitats such as hot springs, the deep terrestrial subsurface, hypersaline lakes, arid soils, and ephemeral water sources. Students may also choose to explore the mechanisms of magnetotaxis, sporulation, soil-forming processes, microbial adaptation to stressful and non-host environments, or the dynamics between primary producers and consumers. At the conclusion of the p...
Source: ScanGrants feed - January 14, 2014 Category: Research Authors: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Source Type: funding
