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It also helps to raise the profile of successful applicants.</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/development-pathway-independence/">Find out more</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>October 2024 – Grant funding round dates for 2025 announced</h4> <p>We are excited to announce we have released the funding round dates for all of our <a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/">Grants</a>:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/scientific-meeting-grants/">Scientific Meeting Grants</a> to help finance a range of charitable activities including (but not limited to) meetings, workshops, and conferences in the fields relevant to our journals.</li> <li>As part of The Company of Biologists’ Sustainability Initiative we offer grants from our <a href="https://www.biologists.com/sustainability-hub/sustainability-initiative/grants/">Fund for Innovations in Sustainable Conferencing</a> to support innovative ideas that enable biologists to collaborate productively while minimising their impact on the environment</li> <li><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/travelling-fellowships/">Travelling Fellowships</a> for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories</li> <li><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/dmm-conference-travel-grants/">DMM Conference Travel Grants</a> are aimed at early-career researchers wanting to attend scientific meetings, conferences, workshops and training courses relating to the <a href="https://journals.biologists.com/dmm/pages/aims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">areas of research covered by the journal</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-focalplane-training-grants/">JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants</a> for early-career researchers working in an area covered by <a href="https://journals.biologists.com/jcs/pages/aims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JCS</a>, who would like to attend a microscopy training course.</li> <li><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/kickstart-travel-grants/">Research Partnership Kickstart Travel Grant</a>s aim to support junior faculty staff to travel to another institution to initiate a <strong>new</strong> research collaboration and develop, write and submit a major grant application for collaborative research</li> <li><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/ecr-visiting-fellowships/">ECR Visiting Fellowships</a> provide funding to junior faculty staff to attract an early-career researcher to undertake a defined research project in their lab for one to three months.</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/">Find out more</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block"> <h4>October 2024 – Scientific Meeting Grants awarded to organisers of 52 events in 17 countries</h4> <p><span class="ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak" dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/scientific-meeting-grants/">Scientific Meeting Grants</a> were awarded to organisers of 52 events across the world in 17 different countries including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, the UK and the USA. <a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/scientific-meeting-grants/">Scientific Meeting Grants</a> are available to help finance a range of charitable activities including (but not limited to) meetings, workshops, and conferences in the fields relevant to our journals in order to encourage and support scientific interaction.</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/scientific-meeting-grants/">Find out more</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>October 2024 – JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants awarded to five recipients</h4> <p>We are delighted to have awarded our second round of <a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-focalplane-training-grants/">JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants</a> to five early-career researchers who will be attending microscopy training courses over the coming months. Look out for their posts on <a href="https://focalplane.biologists.com/">FocalPlane</a> to discover more about the researchers and the courses that they are attending!</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-focalplane-training-grants/">Find out more</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>September 2024 – Travelling Fellowships awarded to 32 recipients</h4> <p>In September, 32 applicants were awarded <a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/travelling-fellowships/">Travelling Fellowships</a> from four of our journals – <a href="http://dev.biologists.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Development</a>, <a href="http://jcs.biologists.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Journal of Cell Science</a>, <a href="http://jeb.biologists.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Journal of Experimental Biology</a> and<em> </em><a href="http://dmm.biologists.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Disease Models & Mechanisms</a>. Graduate students and post-doctoral researchers will be undertaking collaborative visits to other laboratories in 15 different countries.</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/travelling-fellowships/">Find out more</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>July 2024 – Get an inside look into a successful, sustainable conference: new blog</h4> <p>A <a href="https://www.biologists.com/sustainability-hub/sustainable-conferencing-initiative/grants/">Sustainable Conferencing Grant</a> was awarded to Chrissy Hammond (University of Bristol) and her co-organisers Lizzie Lawrence, Joanna Moss, Nikki Stevenson and Rabia Sevil for their event <a href="https://bsmb.ac.uk/meetings/dynamic-matrix-mechanics-ageing-and-repair/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Dynamic matrix: mechanics, ageing and repair Conference</a>, a British Society for Matrix Biology (BSMB) meeting, our team were delighted to be welcomed at this event to have an inside look at the sustainable practices put into action.</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/stories/get-an-inside-look-into-a-successful-sustainable-conference/">Read the blog</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>July 2024 – New JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants awarded to four recipients</h4> <p>We are delighted to have awarded our first <a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-focalplane-training-grants/">JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants</a> to four early-career researchers who will be attending microscopy training courses over the coming months. Look out for their posts on <a href="https://focalplane.biologists.com/">FocalPlane</a> to discover more about the researchers and the courses that they are attending!</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-focalplane-training-grants/">Find out more</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>July 2024 – Journal of Experimental Biology’s ECR Visiting Fellowship awarded to one recipient</h4> <p>A <a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/ecr-visiting-fellowships/">Journal of Experimental Biology’s ECR Visiting Fellowship</a> was awarded to a recipient in Canada in July 2024. <a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/ecr-visiting-fellowships/">ECR Visiting Fellowships</a> – launched as part of <a href="https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/100">Journal of Experimental Biology’s centenary celebrations</a> – provide funding to junior faculty staff (e.g. Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Group Leader, Principal Investigator) to attract an early-career researcher (e.g. graduate student or post-doctoral researcher) to undertake a defined research project in their lab for one to three months.</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/ecr-visiting-fellowships/">Find out more</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>July 2024 – Journal of Experimental Biology’s Research Partnership Kickstart Travel Grants awarded to three recipients</h4> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/kickstart-travel-grants/">Journal of Experimental Biology’s Research Partnership Kickstart Travel Grants</a> were awarded to recipients in the United Kingdom and the United States in July 2024. <a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/kickstart-travel-grants/">Research Partnership Kickstart Travel Grants</a> – launched as part of <a href="https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/100">Journal of Experimental Biology’s centenary celebrations</a> – aim to support junior faculty staff (e.g. Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Group Leader, Principal Investigator) to travel to another institution (University, Research Centre, Non-Governmental Organisation or Industry Partner Organisation) for up to seven days to initiate a new research collaboration and develop, write and submit a major grant application for collaborative research.</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/kickstart-travel-grants/">Find out more</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block"> <h4>May 2024 – Scientific Meeting Grants awarded to organisers of 54 events in 20 countries</h4> <p><span class="ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak" dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/scientific-meeting-grants/">Scientific Meeting Grants</a> were awarded to organisers of 54 events across the world in 20 different countries including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, the UK and the USA. <a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/scientific-meeting-grants/">Scientific Meeting Grants</a> are available to help finance a range of charitable activities including (but not limited to) meetings, workshops, and conferences in the fields relevant to our journals in order to encourage and support scientific interaction.</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/scientific-meeting-grants/">Find out more</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>May 2024 – New JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants</h4> <p>We are excited to launch our new <a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-focalplane-training-grants/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JCS-FocalPlane Training Grants</a>. Early-career researchers in cell biology can apply for grants of up to £1,000 to support their attendance at microscopy courses, including bioimage analysis courses. These training grants can be used to cover the registration fees, accommodation and/or travel costs and are designed to support those who wouldn’t otherwise have sufficient funding to attend.</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/jcs-focalplane-training-grants/">Find out more</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block"> <h4>May 2024 – Grants awarded to organisers of 13 events in nine countries</h4> <p><span class="ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak" dir="ltr">Grants from the <a href="https://www.biologists.com/sustainability-hub/sustainability-initiative/grants/">Fund for Innovations in Sustainable Conferencing</a> were awarded to organisers of events in Argentina, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, India, The Netherlands, Portugal, the UK and the USA.</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/sustainability-hub/sustainable-conferencing-initiative/events/">See the latest events funded through our Fund for Innovations in Sustainable Conferencing</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>March 2024 – Travelling Fellowship from Development: new blog</h4> <p>To explore the protective role of isoprene in plant roots, Manuel Bellucci, a PhD student in the Department of Science and Technology for Sustainable Development and the Campus Bio-Medico of the University of Rome (Italy), used a <a href="https://www.biologists.com/travelling-fellowships/">Travelling Fellowship</a> from <a href="https://www.biologists.com/development">Development</a> to visit the Sharkey lab the Plant Resilience Institute of Michigan State University (MI, USA).</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/stories/going-belowground-exploring-the-protective-role-of-isoprene-in-plant-roots-at-the-sharkey-lab/">Read the blog</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>March 2024 – Development’s Pathway to Independence programme: our 2024 PI fellows</h4> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/development-pathway-independence/">Development’s Pathway to Independence programme</a> supports researchers active in developmental biology, stem cells or regeneration as they transition from postdoc to principal investigator. Following a successful pilot year in 2023, we are delighted to announce our second cohort of Pathway to Independence (PI) fellows.</p> <p><a href="https://journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pifellows2024">Find out more</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block"> <h4>March 2024 – Grants awarded to organisers of 24 events in 13 countries</h4> <p><span class="ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak" dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.biologists.com/sustainability-hub/sustainable-conferencing-initiative/grants/">Grants</a> were awarded to organisers of the following events in Argentina, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the USA.</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/sustainability-hub/sustainable-conferencing-initiative/events/">See the latest events funded through our Fund for Innovations in Sustainable Conferencing</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>January 2024 – Journal of Experimental Biology’s ECR Visiting Fellowships awarded to two recipients</h4> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/ecr-visiting-fellowships/">Journal of Experimental Biology’s ECR Visiting Fellowships</a> were awarded to recipients in Australia and Canada in January 2024. <a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/ecr-visiting-fellowships/">ECR Visiting Fellowships</a> – launched as part of <a href="https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/100">Journal of Experimental Biology’s centenary celebrations</a> – provide funding to junior faculty staff (e.g. Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Group Leader, Principal Investigator) to attract an early-career researcher (e.g. graduate student or post-doctoral researcher) to undertake a defined research project in their lab for one to three months.</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/ecr-visiting-fellowships/">Find out more</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>January 2024 – Journal of Experimental Biology’s Research Partnership Kickstart Travel Grants awarded to four recipients</h4> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/kickstart-travel-grants/">Journal of Experimental Biology’s Research Partnership Kickstart Travel Grants</a> were awarded to recipients in Sweden and the United States in January 2024. <a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/kickstart-travel-grants/">Research Partnership Kickstart Travel Grants</a> – launched as part of <a href="https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/pages/100">Journal of Experimental Biology’s centenary celebrations</a> – aim to support junior faculty staff (e.g. Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Group Leader, Principal Investigator) to travel to another institution (University, Research Centre, Non-Governmental Organisation or Industry Partner Organisation) for up to seven days to initiate a new research collaboration and develop, write and submit a major grant application for collaborative research.</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/kickstart-travel-grants/">Find out more</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>November 2023 – Sustainable Conferencing Grants awarded to organisers of 20 events in 13 countries</h4> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/sustainability-hub/sustainable-conferencing-initiative/events/">Sustainable Conferencing Grants</a> were awarded to organisers of events in Austria, Azerbaijan, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the UK and the USA.</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/sustainability-hub/sustainable-conferencing-initiative/events/">See the latest events funded through our Sustainable Conferencing Grants</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>October 2023 – Travelling Fellowship from Journal of Cell Science: new blog</h4> <p>Yitong Xu, a graduate student at Duke University in the USA, used a <a href="https://www.biologists.com/travelling-fellowships/">Travelling Fellowship</a> from <a href="https://www.biologists.com/journal-of-cell-science/" rel="noopener">Journal of Cell Science</a> to visit Dr Thomas Mueller-Reichert’s lab at the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) in Germany, to conduct cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) observations of the <em>Drosophila</em> spindle.</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/stories/microtubule-cryo-em-at-technische-universitat-dresden/">Read the blog</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>September 2023 – Sustainable Conferencing Grants: new blog</h4> <p>A <a href="https://www.biologists.com/sustainability-hub/sustainable-conferencing-initiative/grants/">Sustainable Conferencing Grant</a> was awarded to Dr Serena Stanga who came up with a solution that combined technology with alternative travelling, and which led to a reduction in the travel carbon footprint for her symposium at the 20th National Congress of the Italian Society for Neuroscience.</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/stories/sustainable-transport/">Read the blog</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>September 2023 – Travelling Fellowship from Development: new blog</h4> <p>To develop her understanding of tissue regeneration, Grace Holmes, a master’s student from the Royal Veterinary College in the UK, used a <a href="https://www.biologists.com/travelling-fellowships/">Travelling Fellowship</a> from <a href="https://www.biologists.com/development">Development</a> to visit the Echeverri lab at the Marine Biological Laboratory in the USA.</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/stories/exploring-regeneration-in-woods-hole-massachusetts/">Read the blog</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>September 2023 – Sustainable Conferencing Grants awarded to organisers of 11 events in eight countries</h4> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/sustainability-hub/sustainable-conferencing-initiative/grants/">Sustainable Conferencing Grants</a> were awarded to organisers of events in Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Chile, France, India, Poland and the UK.</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/sustainability-hub/sustainable-conferencing-initiative/events/">See the latest events funded through our Sustainable Conferencing Grants</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>August 2023 – Travelling Fellowship from Journal of Experimental Biology: new blog</h4> <p>To develop her own understanding of neural mapping, Federica Pizzulli, a PhD student from the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Italy, used a <a href="https://www.biologists.com/travelling-fellowships/">Travelling Fellowship</a> from <a href="https://www.biologists.com/journal-of-experimental-biology/">Journal of Experimental Biology</a> to visit the Seuntjens lab at KU Leuven, Belgium. The lab was the first to adapt in-situ Hybridization Chain Reaction (HCR) to <em>Octopus vulgaris</em>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/stories/mapping-neuromodulator-expression-in-octopus-vulgaris-travelling-fellowship-from-journal-of-experimental-biology/">Read the blog</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>August 2023 – Disease Models & Mechanisms Conference Travel Grant: new blog</h4> <div> <p>Darshan Mehta, a PhD student studying the mechanisms behind skin cancer at the Tata Memorial Centre Kharghar in India used a <a href="https://www.biologists.com/grants/dmm-conference-travel-grants/">DMM Conference Travel Grant</a> to go to the 2023 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Stem Cells and Cancer – a meeting to explore cutting-edge research in the fields of cell biology and cancer.</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/stories/exploring-skin-cancer-molecular-mechanisms/">Read the blog</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>August 2023 – Sustainable Conferencing Grants awarded to organisers of two events in two countries</h4> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/sustainability-hub/sustainable-conferencing-initiative/grants/">Sustainable Conferencing Grants</a> were awarded to organisers of events in India and Poland.</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/sustainability-hub/sustainable-conferencing-initiative/events/">See the latest events funded through our Sustainable Conferencing Grants</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>July 2023 – Travelling Fellowship from Journal of Experimental Biology: new blog</h4> <div> <p>Rocío Soledad Pazos, a postdoc from the National University of La Plata in Argentina, used a <a href="https://www.biologists.com/travelling-fellowships/">Travelling Fellowship</a> from <a href="https://www.biologists.com/journal-of-experimental-biology/">Journal of Experimental Biology</a> to visit the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) in Belgium where she was able to investigate the impact of leachates on the environment.</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/stories/a-travelling-fellowship-to-explore-ecotoxicology-pvc-and-the-sea/">Read the blog</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>June 2023 – Travelling Fellowship from Development: new blog</h4> <p>Anja Bühler from the University of Trento in Italy used a <a href="https://www.biologists.com/travelling-fellowships/">Travelling Fellowship</a> from <a href="https://www.biologists.com/development">Development </a>to visit the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany to study the impact of brain asymmetry on behaviour in Medaka (Oryzias latipes).</p> <p><a href="https://www.biologists.com/stories/linking-diverged-gene-expression-inside-complex-neuronal-circuits-with-behavioural-traits-of-medaka/">Read the blog</a></p> </div> <div class="white-block ui-sortable-handle"> <h4>May 2023 – Sustainable Conferencing 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