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In
addition to the ES Sponsored Participants at international
conferences featuring DNA methylation, the ES is beginning
a ES Travel Fellowship Program, with up to 2 graduate student
or postdoctoral awardees per year. Information about these
programs will be sent to all ES members when the competition for these awards is to
be held. (See Conditions below)
Contact
Marc Mass,
the Chairman of the ES Travel Fellowship Award Committee
for details.
Dr.
Marc J. Mass
Biochemistry and Pathobiology Branch,
MD-68
Environmental Carcinogenesis Division
U.S. EPA Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
Tel: 919 541 3514, Fax: 919 541 0694
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This
is a new award program starting in fiscal year '99 - '00 for travel
fellowships for graduate students and post docs who are ES members
to learn from or promote collaboration with ES scientists in other
labs. The program will be maintained as long as sufficient funds
are available in the ES accounts to leave a sizeable balance and
cover general ES expenses, including the ES secretary, odds-and-end
expenses, and the ES Sponsored Participants at DNA methylation
conferences (especially, the FASEB Biological Methylation Conference).
The availability of funds will be determined by the Officers of
the DMS, in whom fiscal authority for the Society is invested.
The new travel fellowship fund will cover part of the travel and
accommodation costs for a visit of at least one week by a ES graduate
student or postdoc to the laboratory of another ES member to learn
techniques helpful to his/her research.
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Assuming
that the Officers approve the expenditure and qualified candidates
apply for the award, every 6 months there will be one fellowship
granted of up to either $400 (intracontinental visit) or $700 (overseas
visit).
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Both
the graduate student or postdoc awardee and the mentor in the lab
being visited must be current members of the DMS.
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This
award must be matched by a 30% contribution to the travel/accommodation
costs by one of the labs involved.
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Travel
and accommodation (lodging only) must be at economy prices, with
copies of receipts sent to the ES Treasurer (Martin Marinus).
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The
financial award will be made after the awardee submits to a member
of the Board a News-and-Views report on a recently published article
or a general minireview on the DNA (or RNA) methylation field of
investigation of the same type required for ES Sponsored Participants
at DNA methylation conferences.
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The
acceptance of an award of financial support from ES funds involves
an obligation to provide a considerable service to the general membership
of the DMS. A 500-1000 word minireview of a paper (with News-and-Views
type of commentary) or of a subfield within an area of nucleic acid
methylation is required for the receipt of such awards. The minireview
should not highlight the awardee's own lab's work, although, this
may, of course, be mentioned in the minireview. The minireview may
focus on the area of research in the lab being visited. This minireview
should be submitted to the ES Travel Fellowship Awards Committee
after designation of the award or after the sponsored visit of the
awardee to the other ES lab. A member of the Awards Committee will
edit (or find another more suitable Board Member to edit) the minireview
as necessary for ES distribution and coordinate the phased distribution
of these minireviews via the ES EM network with the ES Board member
in charge of scheduling minireviews and News-and-Views articles on
our network (currently Wolfgang Schulz). |
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The
application will consist of a biographical sketch and a one-page
write-up of the research project and the importance of the proposed
lab visitation to the student/postdoc's research.
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The
ES Travel Fellowship Award Committee, a subcommittee of the ES Board,
will select the awardees and supervise the awards. |
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Melanie Ehrlich
Human Genetics/SL31
Tulane Medical School
1430 Tulane Ave.
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