Scientific Meetings and Conferences

Conference Announcements are for symposia held yearly. Please go the webpage for full details on abstract submission and deadlines.

Northeast Scientific Training Programs Retreat

NEST

March 4-6 2016

Biomedical Science Careers Student Conference April 1-2 2016

Harvard Medical School

New England Science Symposium 

April 3, 2016

New England Regional SACNAS Meeting @ UMass Boston

April 9. 2016

Annual Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference

 @ UMass Amherst 

April 22, 2016

Emory University Graduate School STEM 

Research and Career Symposium

Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference

International Symposium on Minority Health and 

Health Disparities Symposium

SACNAS

October 29-31 2015
Held in Washington DC

ABRCMS

November 11-14 2015

Held in Seattle Washington

Looking for Ways to Pay for your Travel to Conferences?

There are travel awards available!

Travel award opportunities for conferences:

MARC and professional societies opportunities (national conferences):

http://www.faseb.org/MARC-and-Professional-Development/Travel-Awards.aspx

List of meetings:

http://www.faseb.org/MARC-and-Professional-Development/Travel-Awards/Eligible-Meetings---Conferences.aspx

Gordon Conferences (national):

http://www.grc.org/diversity.aspx?page=2

Conference list:

http://www.grc.org/meetings.aspx?year=2014

Keystone Meetings (national):

http://www.keystonesymposia.org/index.cfm?e=Web.Account.URM.Apply

Conference list:

http://www.keystonesymposia.org/index.cfm?e=Web.Meeting.List&tab1

Scientific Societies

Endocrine Society:

https://www.endocrine.org/awards/endo-travel-awards/flare-endo-travel

American Association of Cancer Research:

http://www.aacr.org/home/scientists/travel-grants/minority-scholar-awards.aspx

American Society of Microbiology:

http://www.asm.org/index.php/travel-grants-2

American Society of Cell Biology:

http://www.ascb.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=875&Itemid=361

American Society of Plant Biologists:

http://rta.aspb.org/

Botanical Society of America:

http://www.botany.org/awards_grants/detail/PLANTS.php

American Physiological Society:

http://www.the-aps.org/MTF

Society for Neurosciences:

http://www.sfn.org/Awards-and-Funding/Individual-Prizes-and-Fellowships/Travel-Awards/Undergraduate-Student-Travel-Awards

American Chemical Society:

http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/awards/other/diversity.html

And:

http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding-and-awards/awards/other/diversity/acs-award-recognizing-underrepresented-minorities-in-chemistry-f.html

Society for the Study of Reproduction:

http://www.ssr.org/TravelFellowships.shtml#Burroughs

International Society for Computational Biology:

http://www.iscb.org/iscb-conferences

http://www.iscb.org/ismb2014

(they usually have travel awards, check site later)

Undergraduate Conferences

Council for Undergraduate Research (National Conference):

http://www.cur.org/governance/divisions/biology_student_travel_awards/

Emerging Researchers Conference:

http://www.emerging-researchers.org/travel-awards/

ABRCMS (national meeting):

 http://www.emerging-researchers.org/travel-awards/

SACNAS (national meeting):

http://sacnas.org/events/national-conf/travel-scholarships

There are many others, use Google search: “minority conference travel awards”

http://www.gs.emory.edu/about/special/stem_rc_symposium.html