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Meetings grants, 2007


MORPH meeting grants support conference participation for students (graduate and undergraduate), and postdoctorals who wish to attend a MORPH sponsored symposium or symposia related to the goals of MORPH. This year, MORPH is supporting travel to the 2007 Plant Biology and Botanty Joint Congress from July 7-11 in Chicago. The Joint Congress includes the American Fern Society (AFS), the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) the American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) and the Botanical Society of America (BSA).

This meeting grant is for students (undergraduate and graduate), and postdoctorals at U.S. universities only.

Funding amount: MORPH RCN is able to fund awardees at $250 per grant.


Awardees: requirements to receive a 2007 MORPH Joint Congress Meeting Grant

  1. Submission of a signed W9 form (US citizens and resident aliens) or W8 form (non-US citizens).
    These forms maybe downloaded here: W9 and W8.
  2. Attendance at the 2007 Plant Biology and Botany Joint Congress.
  3. attendance at two or more of the listed symposia and minisymposia (below).
  4. Submission of a brief report providing feedback to the MORPH RCN on the value of each symposium, downloadable here. Note: if you do not have Adobe Acrobat Professional, any information you enter into the text fields will not be saved. You must print the form and return it to us by fax or mail.
  5. Submission of the original version of all appropriate receipts and/or requests for reimbursement.

Please contact Rob Baker with any questions or concerns regarding the reimbursement process .

Eligible Symposia and Minisymposia

Major Joint Congress Symposium
  1. Evolutionary Development (Organizer: Michael Zanis)
    Speakers:
      Peter Endress
      William Friedman
      Mitsyasu Hasebe
      Neelima Sinha
Societal and Sectional Symposia
  1. Evolution of Flower Development: From Phenotypes to Genes (Organizer: Veronica S. Di Stilio)
    Speakers:
      Quentin Cronk
      Veronica Di Stilio
      Lena Hileman
      Elena Kramer
      Cathie Martin
      Jill Preston
      Paula Rudall
      Gunter Theissen
      Sabine Zachgo
  2. Emerging Model Species for Developmental, Evolutionary and Functional Analyses (Organizers: Pamela Diggle and Elena Kramer)
    Speakers:
      Sinead Drea
      Tom Gerats
      Andrew Groover
      Scott Hodges
      Simon Malcomber
      Ralph S. Quatrano
      Teemu H. Teeri
      Esther van der Knaap
      John H. Willis
  3. Molecules to Morphology: Developing an Understanding of Plant Evolution through Time (organizers: Gar Rothwell and Sarah Wyatt)
    Speakers:
      Todd Cooke
      Quentin Cronk
      Patricia Gensel
      Gar Rothwell
      Heather Sanders
      Sarah Wyatt
  4. The functional significance of leaf shape variation - towards a consensus from gene to community (organizer: Carl Schlichting)
    Speakers:
      Cynthia Jones
      Nancy Dengler
      William Smith
      Hirokazu Tsukaya
      Kevin Boyce
      Stefan Gleissberg
      Dana Royer
      Nicolas Langlade
      Adrienne Nicotra
      Andrea Leigh
Minisymposia
  1. Vegetative Development (Chair: Kenneth Birnbaum)
    Speakers:
      Kenneth Birnbaum
      Mengjuan Guo
      Jeanne Harris
      M. van Lijsebettens
  2. Evolution of Development and Physiology (Chair: Karen Renzaglia)
    Speakers:
      Aldwing Anterola
      Veronica Di Stilio
      Kevin Folta
      David Smyth
How to apply

To apply, submit a one-page letter in .pdf format indicating the reason for interest in attending these symposia, the specific symposia that will be attended, and including a single paragraph describing your research program or research interests. Students should provide contact information (name, email address and phone number) for a professor with whom they have worked closely.

All application materials must be emailed as attached .pdf documents to William (Ned) Friedman, ned@colorado.edu. Each application should be no more than one page in length.

Questions

For further questions contact William (Ned) Friedman, ned@colorado.edu.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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