International Travel for Students and Postdocs to attend ISDCI-11 in Prague, June 28-July 4, 2009.

学生和博士后参加 2009 年 6 月 28 日至 7 月 4 日在布拉格举行的 ISDCI-11 的国际旅行。

• 批准号: 0905197
• 负责人: L Courtney Smith
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: George Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-01 至 2010-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0905197&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Travel; Students; Postdocs; attend

L. Courtney Smith, PI; Martin Flajnik, Co-PIIOS-0905197International Travel for Students and Postdocs to attend ISDCI-11 in PragueFunding will be used to support international travel support for students and postdocs in US laboratories to attend the 11th Congress of the International Society of Developmental and Comparative Immunology (ISDCI-11) to be held in Prague, Czech Republic, from June 28 to July 4, 2009. These funds will be important for several reasons. 1) The budget for the Society alone for the previous two meetings (2003, 2006) was not enough to provide significant travel bursaries for students and postdocs. Travel costs are expected to be increased for the Congress in Prague. 2) Because funding for research in the US is difficult to obtain, it is expected that fewer numbers of students and postdocs will have access to travel support from research grants. 3) NSF funding for students and postdocs in US labs will enable the Society to shift some of their funds to support students from other countries. Overall, this will aid all students and enable more to attend, which will benefit the students and post docs, and will benefit the Society through the influx of new ideas and new members.Students and postdocs who have attended ISDCI meetings in the past have benefited in a number of important ways. These included: 1) the experience of presenting their data at an international meeting for the first time, 2) the opportunity to meet and talk to other scientists with common interests in comparative immunology, 3) the opportunity to receive feedback on their research from leaders in the field, 4) the opportunity to meet their future mentors and collaborators, 5) the opportunity to experience the Society and to participate in this collegial and supportive community of scientists. These benefits will be available to students and postdocs at Prague.The attendance by students and postdocs at the ISDCI meetings brings significant benefits to the Society. 1) Often, students and postdocs decide while at the ISDCI meetings to remain in the field of comparative immunology. This increases the membership in the Society. 2) The younger scientists are often those who bring to the Society new ideas and new approaches for tackling hard scientific problems. This injection of new results maintains vibrant research progress by all members of the Society. 3) Attendance by students at the Congress provides opportunities for the full members of the Society to identify future postdocs to work in their labs. 4) It is quite possible, that some of the students supported to attend ISDCI-11 may be the ISDCI officers of the future. For example, the current ISDCI Secretary of Education (the PI) received funding as a postdoc to attend the 5th ISDCI Congress in Portland OR in 1991.

L. Courtney Smith，PI； Martin Flajnik，Co-PIIOS-0905197学生和博士后参加布拉格 ISDCI-11 的国际旅行资金将用于支持美国实验室的学生和博士后参加 2009 年 6 月 28 日至 7 月 4 日在捷克共和国布拉格举行的国际发育和比较免疫学学会第 11 届大会 (ISDCI-11) 的国际旅行。 出于多种原因，资金很重要。 1) 仅协会前两次会议（2003年、2006年）的预算不足以为学生和博士后提供大量的旅行助学金。 布拉格大会的差旅费用预计将增加。 2) 由于美国的研究经费很难获得，预计获得研究资助的旅费支持的学生和博士后数量将会减少。 3）国家科学基金会为美国实验室的学生和博士后提供的资助将使该学会能够将部分资金用于支持其他国家的学生。 总体而言，这将帮助所有学生并让更多人参加，这将使学生和博士后受益，并将通过新思想和新成员的涌入使学会受益。过去参加过 ISDCI 会议的学生和博士后在许多重要方面受益。 其中包括：1）首次在国际会议上展示数据的经历，2）有机会与其他对比较免疫学有共同兴趣的科学家会面和交谈，3）有机会从该领域的领导者那里获得有关他们研究的反馈，4）有机会会见他们未来的导师和合作者，5）有机会体验协会并参与这个由科学家组成的学术和支持性社区。 这些好处将提供给布拉格的学生和博士后。学生和博士后参加 ISDCI 会议给协会带来了显着的好处。 1) 通常，学生和博士后在 ISDCI 会议上决定留在比较免疫学领域。 这增加了协会的会员数量。 2) 年轻的科学家往往是那些为学会带来解决科学难题的新想法和新方法的人。 新成果的注入使学会所有成员的研究进展保持活力。 3) 学生参加大会为学会的正式成员提供了确定未来在其实验室工作的博士后的机会。 4) 很有可能，一些受支持参加 ISDCI-11 的学生可能是未来的 ISDCI 官员。 例如，现任 ISDCI 教育部长 (PI) 获得博士后资助，参加 1991 年在俄勒冈州波特兰举行的第五届 ISDCI 大会。