This application seeks funds to provide merit-based awards for undergraduate, ? graduate and post-doctoral students attending MGED9 (Seattle, Washington, ? September 2006) and MGED10 (Brisbane, Australia, August 2007) Meetings. ? These conferences are organized by the Microarray Gene Expression Database ? (MGED) Society and have convened every year since 1999 at sites in North ? America, Europe and Asia. Eligible candidates for the MGED Student ? Scholarship will be undergraduate, graduate students or post-graduate fellows ? who are presenting authors of abstracts submitted by the submission deadlines ? of July 1, 2006 (for MGED9) or June 1, 2007 (for MGED10). Students will ? identify themselves while using the on-line registration form at the MGED ? meeting website (http://mgedmeeting.org). All student abstracts will be judged by ? a review committee to identify the most meritorious candidates. Students and ? their advisors will be notified of the receipt of the award prior to August 1, 2006 ? (for MGED9) or July 1, 2006 (for MGED10). Awards are planned to be $500 per ? recipient for MGED9 and $750 per recipient for MGED10 (due to the anticipation ? that average travel costs to Brisbane, Australia will be higher than to Seattle, ? Washington). ? ? Biomedical research is rapidly evolving largely due to the application of highthroughput ? technologies. MGED meetings, hosted by the Microarray Gene ? Expression Data Society, facilitate the understanding, sharing and use of such ? large-scale biomedical data sets to further biomedical knowledge. The student ? stipends proposed in this application will encourage and increase the ? participation of undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students at MGED ? meetings and thereby help train the next generation of biomedical researchers to ? take full advantage of new and emerging technologies. ? ? ?
