FEMS-ASM Mäkelä-Cassell Travel Award for Early Career Researchers
The FEMS-ASM Mäkelä-Cassell Award supports the reciprocal exchange of one member from each organisation to present his/her research at the other organisation’s main conference. It has been designed to benefit early career researchers from both organisations by giving them the opportunity to present their work overseas and experience the best of microbiology in the partner country.
These awards are to support travel and living costs of the grantee only, at maximum amounting to EUR 4,000.
Application is open until 24 January 2025, 11:59 PM CET and is part of the Abstract Application.
ASM Applicants
The American Society of Microbiology (ASM) will select the member attending the biannual FEMS MICRO Milan 2025: Congress & Exhibition and the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) will select the member attending ASM Microbe. The awardee will be selected from applicants whose abstract has been accepted.
Apply
Applications are now open. An application can only be made after submitting an abstract via the FEMS MICRO Milan 2025 submission portal.
ELIGIBILITY
Applicants for the award should:
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be a microbiologist active in research and be a current PhD (or equivalent) student or recipient of PhD within the past five years
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be a member of the American Society of Microbiology
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be the first author of an accepted abstract for FEMS MICRO Milan 2025: Congress & Exhibition
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attend the FEMS MICRO Milan 2025: Congress & Exhibition and be a registered participant
NOTE
Abstract submitters that apply for the FEMS-ASM Mäkelä-Cassell Travel Award for Early Career Researchers should hold off registering for the Congress until they receive their Grant notification.
QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions, please email FEMS@parthen.nl
Past Winners of the Mäkelä-Cassell Awards
- 2024 – ASM-FEMS Mäkelä-Cassell Awardee | Laura Catón, University of Cambridge. UK
- 2023 – FEMS-ASM Mäkelä-Cassell Awardee | Paul Solis-Reyes, Western University, London, Canada
- 2022 – ASM-FEMS Mäkelä-Cassell Awardee | Laura Glendinning, PhD, Core Scientist (Research Fellow) in Genetics and Genomics at the University of Edinburgh
- 2021 – FEMS-ASM Mäkelä-Cassell Awardee | Suparna Mitra, University Academic Fellow at the Leeds Institute of Medical Research
- 2020 – ASM-FEMS Mäkelä-Cassell Awardee | Azul Zurzoli, PhD Research Student at the University of Dundee
- 2019 – FEMS-ASM Mäkelä-Cassell Awardee | Valerie de Anda, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, USA
- 2018 – ASM-FEMS Mäkelä-Cassell Awardee | Mohd Zulkifli Salleh, Graduate Teaching Assistant at University of Manchester, UK
- 2017 – FEMS-ASM Mäkelä-Cassell Awardee | Kana Morinaga
- 2016 – ASM-FEMS Mäkelä-Cassell Awardee | Ajijur Rahman
- 2015 – FEMS-ASM Mäkelä-Cassell Awardee | Ember Morrissey
- 2014 – ASM-FEMS Mäkelä-Cassell Awardee | Francesca Turroni
- 2013 – FEMS-ASM Mäkelä-Cassell Awardee | Clayton Caswell
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