Student members of ASPS may apply in advance for a travel award to attend IPMB2024, if presenting their research as either a poster or talk. Applications are due Friday 5 April 2024 to the Hon. Treasurer of ASPS: Mark Waters (mark.waters@uwa.edu.au). The IPMB2024 earlybird registration and abstract submission also close on 5 April 2024.
Funds are set aside each year by ASPS to sponsor student travel to our annual conference (or affiliated conferences) and to contribute to student professional development in plant science. This year, we are funding travel to IPMB2024 in Cairns (24-28 June).
Applicants are encouraged to apply for ASPS student travel grants so that they can use the ASPS funding to assist in leverage of additional funding. Support will vary from year to year depending on the Society finances, meeting location, and the number of applications. The Treasurer will apply a formula in calculating individual entitlements, taking these factors into account. Student members are eligible to receive a maximum of two student travel awards during their ASPS student membership years.
It is a requirement that applicants and their supervisor must be current financial members of ASPS. The applicant must have access to an Australian bank account to receive electronic payments.
Funding is contingent on presentation of a poster or an oral presentation at the conference you receive funds to attend and submission of a 250 word report with picture to our Society newsletter Phytogen.
IPMB2024 organising committee is also offering a limited number of travel grants. Please note that you can only be awarded EITHER an ASPS award OR an IPMB2024 award. Please do not apply for both. Bear in mind that applications for IPMB travel awards will be open to delegates from around the world and likely awarded based on need, whereas ASPS awards are only available to current ASPS student members.
Successful applicants will be notified one month after the deadline. The application form for a Student Travel Grant can be downloaded HERE.
Congratulations to those awarded an ASPS travel grant to travel to IPMB 2024:
| Full name | Institution |
| Samuel Nix | ANU |
| Ejiro Evivie | ANU |
| Suyan Yee | ANU |
| Muhammad Mahmood | ANU |
| Sonali Koundal | UWS |
| Happy Singh | UWS |
| Juel Datta | QUT |
| Zuba Ahmed | QUT |
| Dale Leech | UQ |
| Saber Sohrabi | UoA |
| Sara Jalali | UoA |
| Guilherme (Yoshi) Yoshikawa | UoA |
| Reyhaneh Ebrahimi Khaksefidi | UoA |
| Hanh Vo | UTas |
| Jordyn Coutts | Monash |
| Alicia Quinn | Monash |
| Anna Phillipova | UoM |
| Rana Alqusumi | UWA |
| Jiaren Yao | UWA |
| Linh Ton | UWA |
Past ASPS student travel award recipients are listed HERE.