Application for Funding Assistance
Deadline: March 31, 2009
Awardees will be notified by 04/15/2009. Applications received after March 31, 2009 will be funded on a first-come-first-served basis until funds run out.

These workshops are open to members of the research community. Funds of up to $850 each are available to assist 15 researchers to attend the Oomycete Bioinformatics Workshop. For participants outside the United States of America, funding can only cover accommodations. We strongly encourage applications from students, postdocs and junior faculty, especially those who are minorities, or are from undergraduate institutions and/or are from EPSCoR states or are from overseas countries that do not have established research funding infrastructures.

Application Procedure

Applications should be no more than one-page long. The application should do the following:

• Describe your research interests
• Explain how the training will strengthen your research.
• Describe how you will extend the training to other researchers at your home institution.

In addition, provide no more than a one-page vita.

Send applications to:

Trudy Torto-Alalibo
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Washington Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0477
Email: trudy@vbi.vt.edu
Tel: 540-231-3572
Fax: 540-231-2606

For email submission, applications may be pasted into the text of the email, or attached as PDF or MS Word documents. It is the applicant's responsibility to ensure that the files are readable. Email submission prior to the deadline is encouraged in case problems with unreadable files occur.

Irrespective of the method of submission, applications must be received before midnight March 31, 2009 US Eastern Standard Time. Applications received after the deadline will be considered only if there are funds available after all applications received before the deadline have been evaluated. Incomplete applications will not be evaluated. Awardees will be notified by 04/15/2009.