FEMS-ASM Mäkelä-Cassell Travel Award for Early Career Scientists
The FEMS-ASM Award supports the reciprocal exchange of one member from each organization to present his/her research at the other organization’s main conference. It has been designed to benefit early career scientists from both organizations by giving them the opportunity to present their work overseas and experience the best of microbiology in the partner country.
ASM will select the member attending the biannual FEMS Congress and FEMS will select the member attending the ASM General Meeting occurring in intermittent years when no FEMS Congress is held.
These awards are to support travel and living costs of the grantee only.
FEMS Applicants
FEMS will select the member attending the ASM General Meeting occurring in 2022. Applicants should be microbiologists active in research and be current PhD (or equivalent) student or recipient of PhD within the past five years*. They should be members of a FEMS Member Society.
*periods of maternity/paternity leave, special leave or illness do not count toward this definition
ASM Applicants
ASM will select the member attending the FEMS Congress occurring in 2023. Applicants should be microbiologists active in research and be current PhD (or equivalent) student or recipient of PhD within the past five years. They should be members of ASM.
Apply
Submit an abstract and travel award application via the abstract submission site for the meeting. Include the following documents when submitting:
- Name and FEMS Membership number;
- CV, including list of publications;
- Signed endorsement form
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Past Winners of the Mäkelä-Cassell Awards
2021
FEMS-ASM Mäkelä-Cassell Award Awardee | Suparna Mitra, University Academic Fellow at the Leeds Institute of Medical Research
2020
ASM-FEMS Mäkelä-Cassell Award Awardee | Azul Zurzoli, PhD Research Student at the University of Dundee
2019
FEMS-ASM Mäkelä-Cassell Award Awardee | Valerie de Anda, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, USA
2018
ASM-FEMS Mäkelä-Cassell Award Awardee | Mohd Zulkifli Salleh, Graduate Teaching Assistant at University of Manchester, UK
2017
FEMS-ASM Mäkelä-Cassell Award Awardee | Kana Morinaga
2016
ASM-FEMS Mäkelä-Cassell Award Awardee | Ajijur Rahman
2015
FEMS-ASM Mäkelä-Cassell Award Awardee | Ember Morrissey
2014
ASM-FEMS Mäkelä-Cassell Award Awardee | Francesca Turroni
2013
FEMS-ASM Mäkelä-Cassell Award Awardee | Clayton Caswell
This Thematic Issue from FEMS Yeast Research comprises papers published in the past year by attendees at the ICY15/ICYGMB30 conference. These comprise original articles, reviews and perspective pieces. At the time of the conference ~15 articles have already been published with more in-train. The call for papers has been extended to 30th September for submission of original research papers by an attendee at the conference (presenting or corresponding author). As the yeast community journal, it is appropriate that FEMS Yeast Research is publishing this special issue to mark the first joint congress between these two large (and overlapping) yeast communities.
