Weeding the Gems

GARNet Bursary to attend SEB/INDEPTH Symposium on Chromatin Domains

The Society of Experimental Biology and the COST Action ‘Impact of Nuclear Domains On Gene Expression and Plant Traits (INDEPTH)’ are organising an exciting symposium entitled ‘Impact of chromatin domains on plant phenotypes’. This will take place in beautiful El Escorial, close to Madrid, Spain. The meeting kicks off with dinner on Sunday December 8^th and ends at lunchtime on Wednesday 11^th.

http://www.sebiology.org/events/event/impact-of-chromatin-domains-on-plant-phenotypes 

A perfect pre-holiday opportunity to travel to Spain!

Thanks to fantastic support from SEB, INDEPTH and the Journal of Experimental Biology the meeting costs are only £100 for early career SEB members!

There are over 20 places available on the schedule for talks given by people who have submitted abstracts for the meeting. In addition there are two poster sessions alongside the opportunity to give short talks to introduce those posters.

To encourage UK-based researchers to attend the meeting GARNet are offering 4x£250 travel grants for researchers (within 10 years of undergraduate) to help their travel, registration and accommodation.

Application forms can be found here and should be returned to Geraint Parry by October 1^st.

The abstract submission deadline on the SEB website is October 3^rd.

If you have any questions about this then please contact Geraint Parry.