Fellowships

CABANA FELLOWSHIPS

The GCRF-funded CABANA project is offering registration waiver fellowships to attend the main conference ISCB-LA SoIBio BioNetMX 2020 Symposium, including the LASCS2020.

  • Applications via this link.
  • More information can be found here.

 

 

LA-SCS2020 FELLOWSHIPS

The LA-SCS2020 organization is also offering fellowships for this event, which are of two types:

1. Fellowships for speakers: all participants who present a talk or poster at LA-SCS2020 are eligible to apply for a fellowship.

2. Fellowship for attendees: all the people who want to attend this event but have demonstrable financial barriers can apply to this fellowship.

 

TO CONSIDER:

- Applying for a fellowship does not guarantee that you will receive funding. All applications will be evaluated by the organising team.

- If you require a fellowship to attend the symposium, please do not register before you have been notified that your application has been approved. You will receive a registration code if the evaluation is successful.

- Fellowship funding only cover your expenses for LA-SCS2020 registration. These fellowships cannot cover any ISCB-LA SOIBIO BioNetMX 2020 expenses.

- You do not need to be a member of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) to receive this fellowship.

 

ELEGIBILITY

1. Fellowships for speakers: 

This fellowship provides awardee with free registration to LA-SCS2020. To be eligible for this type of fellowship, you must:

- Submit an abstract to LA-SCS2020.

- Be a speaker (poster/talk).

- Be associated with a university or a research institute as an undergraduate student, Master's student, Ph.D.student, or Post-doctoral researcher.

2. Fellowship for attendees

All the students (undergraduate and graduate) or Post-doctoral researcher interested to attend this event but have a demonstrated financial need are eligible for this fellowship.

 

HOW TO APPLY

To apply for LA-SCS2020 fellowships send us an email with the documents listed below attached as a single PDF file to lascs@iscbsc.org, before October 16th, 2020 (23:59 Bogotá Time UTC-5):

1. For speakers:

Send the following documents, with the subject "SURNAME-FIRSTNAME - LA-SCS2020 FELLOWSHIPS FOR SPEAKERS APPLICATION":

- Title of your submitted abstract.

- Curriculum vitae (CV).

- A motivation letter explaining why it is important for you to attend the symposium, your financial circumstances, and why you need this fellowship to attend LA-SCS2020 2020 virtually (max 300 words).

2. For attendees:

Send the following documents, with the subject "SURNAME-FIRSTNAME - LA-SCS2020 FELLOWSHIPS FOR ATTENDEES APPLICATION”:

- Curriculum Vitae (CV).

- A motivation letter explaining why it is important for you to attend the symposium, your financial circumstances, and why you need this fellowship to attend LA-SCS2020 2020 virtually (max 300 words).

 

NOTIFICATION

Applicants will be notified no later than October 19th, 2020 of the fellowship award.

 

CONTACTS

Questions regarding fellowships should be addressed to lascs@iscbsc.org

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