IFS Ken Haynes Travel award 2024 - Call For Applicants

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Are you a student/post-doc/researcher/ECR planning to attend a summer conference? The Ken Haynes award can not only help cover the travel/accommodation costs, but if awarded, bolsters your academic CV.

At the Irish Fungal Society 2018 AGM, the members agreed to establish a new travel award that was to be named in memory of Prof. Ken Haynes, who sadly passed away in March 2018.

The award will support early career researchers to attend an international meeting. The value of the award will be up to €500 to support expenses incurred (e.g. registration and travel) to attend such meeting. Up to two awards will be made per annum, depending on the society’s finances.

To apply for the 2024 IFS Ken Haynes Travel Award, the application form is here.

Applicants must pass the following criteria:
• Must be a Post-doc or PhD student engaged in mycological research
• Have attended at least one IFS meeting
• Priority will be given to those who have presented or contributed to a previous IFS
meeting
• Have an abstract accepted for presentation in the said meeting (applications can be
made with acceptance still pending).

To apply, the applicant must provide the following details (on this form) :
• The names and dates of the meeting to be attended.
• Submit the abstract to be presented at the meeting.
• Submit a short statement about the importance of the meeting to their career.
• The above should be submitted to the IFS secretary Dr Edel Hyland by 31st January 2024

Applicants will be asked to submit a short meeting report for publication on the IFS website
after the meeting as well as proof of payments (invoice or receipts).

To see the awardees of the 2023 travel award, click here.

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    The Journal of Fungi is a PubMed indexed open access journal.

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