In the second round of applications for 2017, Sabrina Florencia Mansilla, Richard Lindsay and Margarita Calvo have been selected by eLife Senior Editors to receive travel grants, based on the quality of the eLife papers they put forward for consideration.
The subjects covered in this round were Cell Biology, Developmental Biology and Stem Cells, Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Disease, Cancer Biology, Genes and Chromosomes, Genomics and Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, Plant Biology, and Neuroscience. We received over 48 applications for this round and have four more rounds and 13 grants available to award before the final deadline.
The grants of up to $1,000 each will allow the winners to travel to attend a meeting of their choice and present their work, helping them to get exposure and gain recognition among leading scientists in their fields.
Sabrina Florencia Mansilla from Buenos Aires, Argentina, will travel to the 2nd DNA Replication as a Source of DNA Damage Conference in Rome, Italy. There, she’ll present her work on DNA damage response (DDR) and the role alternative polymerase iota (pol iota) has in checkpoint activation.
Richard Lindsay from the University of Exeter, UK, will attend the 2017 European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) Congress in Groningen, the Netherlands. His research using rice blast fungus countered the common theory that reducing the virulence of individuals within a pathogen population will reduce the overall virulence, rendering disease less severe, and showed instead that this can have devastating consequences.
Travelling from Santiago, Chile, Margarita Calvo will be speaking at two workshops at the 6th International Congress on Neuropathic Pain in Gothenburg, Sweden. In the first, she’ll discuss her work on altered potassium channel distribution and composition in myelinated axons, and how they suppress hyperexcitability following injury. In the second, she’ll cover epidermolysis bullosa and the painful small fibre neuropathy it causes.
Applications are still open for our next rounds of travel grants. You can find out more and apply here. You’ll also find full details of our terms and conditions here.
