MBS Postdoc Association

The MBS Postdoc Organization seeks to foster the UT science postdoctoral community by hosting monthly events to meet and mingle.  Postdocs from other CNS departments are more than welcome to attend.

Contact Stephen Jones or Renee Fleeman for more information.  For meeting and event annoucements, please subscribe to the MBS postdoc list-serv (mbspostdoc@utlists.utexas.edu) on UT Lists.

MBS Postdoc Travel Award

MBS has established a Travel Award to enable postdocs to present their work at research meetings, conferences, and symposia. **On hold due to COVID-19.**

The award will provide reimbursement for registration and travel expenses of up to $2,000 to postdocs presenting their research at meetings. Travel awardees will be selected by a faculty committee. Awardees will acknowledge the MBS Travel Award in their poster or oral presentations and agree to present their work at poster sessions during the MBS retreat. Awardees will also provide a complete accounting of all the resources received towards their attendance at the meeting.

Eligibility

Any postdoc in MBS planning to present their work at a conference is eligible to apply for this award. Travel dates much occur while an active postdoc appointment is held within the department. Postdocs are eligible to be awarded once per academic year. Due to a limited budget, priority will be given to those that haven't received an award in the last two academic years.

Materials to be submitted with the application

1. Travel award application form, which will include: a proposal indicating the meeting they plan to attend, the reason for and significance of the meeting, and the amount of support requested to cover travel and registration expenses.
2. Copy of the abstract that will be submitted for the meeting. 
3. CV including list of publications (include conference abstracts).

Deadlines

There are three deadlines per academic year.

**TBD**

Instructions for submission

**On hold due to COVID-19.**

Reimbursement mechanism

If a travel grant is awarded, please route the request for travel authorization (RTA) through MBS (Molecular Biosciences-Travel (00171)) so that the award will become accessible for direct charging or reimbursement. For more information on the RTA process see: https://molecularbiosci.utexas.edu/resources/travel

In some cases, it may be possible to arrange for a cash advance to allow payments of costs that occur significantly before expected reimbursement. For questions, please contact: MBS_EA@austin.utexas.edu. 

Application: MBS_postdoc_Travel_Award_Application_Form.docx