IISAGE Travel Award

Each semester, IISAGE will award two – three postdoctoral fellows and/or graduate student members with short-term travel fellowships between our 11 participating laboratories for cross-disciplinary training. These visits provide IISAGE trainees with the opportunity to learn a new method not currently available at their home institution, network with fellow IISAGE faculty, and build new collaborations with trainees outside their institutions.

This award will support up to $3,500 in traveling expenses (airfare/accommodations) for each recipient. Recipients will be reimbursed for the cost of ground transportation to and from their host laboratory.

*In order to be reimbursed, recipients are required to register as a vendor with UAB.

  • Samantha Bock (MSU) visiting Marquette University where she learned how to perform skeletochronology with Ryan Cook.
  • Eric Randolph (UAB) visiting MSU where he was trained to perform a mitochondrial stress test.
  • Yifei Fang (Cornell) visiting Brown University where she learned machine learning techniques.

Note: Ground transportation does not refer to travel from your current location to the lab. It covers costs for Ubers, Lyft’s, or taxis between the airport and your hotel, as well as between the hotel and the lab.

ELIGIBILITY.

To be eligible to apply for the lab travel award, the applicant must meet the following criteria:

  • Be enrolled in a graduate or post-doctoral degree program. Students who graduate before the end of the lab visit period are not eligible to participate.
  • Be currently working on a research project funded by the IISAGE grant.

HOW TO APPLY.

Please submit award applications to Dr. Ashley Webb (awebb@buckinstitute.org) and Dr. Ritambhara Singh (ritambhara@brown.edu) via email using the subject title: “IISAGE Trainee Fellowship (Applicant’s Full Name and Institution)”.

Please include the following in your application package:

  • A completed application form
  • A short, 200-word statement of purpose (pasted into the application form) addressing the following questions:
    1. Which host lab do you plan to visit?
    2. How will the training in this host’s lab complement or enhance your current training?
    3. What skills will you learn from the host lab?
    4. What are the potential outcomes (research paper, poster, section of a thesis) do you expect from your tenure in the host lab?
  • A budget justification worksheet of traveling costs signed by your lab PI. Please use the following Budget Justification Worksheet template.

Application packages must be completed and received by 11:59 PM Central Time on Monday, February 3rd, 2025.

PLEASE READ THE INFORMATION BELOW

  • All flights/hotel rooms will be booked by the program manager from UAB. If you receive the award, you will be required to complete a “Travel Information” form that flights/hotel rooms are booked in accordance to your preferences.
  • Your estimated visit dates must be at least one month after the recipient announcement date (see announcement date below). This is too ensure the program manager has enough to book your travel in a timely manner.
  • Incomplete application packages or ineligible applicants will not be considered.
  • Recipients are encouraged to meet with both the host PI and their current PI to discuss the details of their visit. It is important the recipient understands the lab expectations and any additional guidelines they need to follow before they visit the host lab.
  • If you apply during the spring, you can select summer dates to travel. We understand that trainees may be more available during the summer semester.

If you are an IISAGE postdoc or graduate student interested in receiving this award, please visit www.iisage.org/team for more information on the host lab you are interested in visiting. For more details on the specific skills they have to offer, please email Jordan at jfavors7@uab.edu.

KEY DATES.

DateEvent
December 30th, 2024Applications Open
February 3rd, 2025Application Deadline
February 17th, 2025 Recipients Announced

Questions?

For additional information about this award, please direct your questions to our program manager Jordan Favors.

Jordan Favors
Program Manager – IISAGE
Phone: (205) 975-0170
Email: jfavors7@uab.edu