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The
Benefits of Supporting Young Investigators at International Conferences
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We served on the National
Organizing Committee for IUPS 2005. In response to a request from us, the
Society for Integrative and Comparative Physiology (SICB) contributed
$10,000 earmarked for one of the comparative physiology symposia and for
travel support for young investigators. We are pleased to report that one of
the people supported by the IUPS 2005 travel money is a young postdoctoral
fellow from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is very grateful for the
opportunity that she was given to attend the meeting in San Diego, where she
presented two posters on her research. During her poster presentations, she
discussed her research with another young woman from Germany working on a
similar project but in different species of fish. They have exchanged
techniques and remain in contact about a potential collaboration. Another
example of the benefits of encouraging our young scientists to participate
in the IUPS Congress is a strong research collaboration now underway which
was initiated at the San Diego meeting between a graduate student from
Oregon and an assistant professor from the University of Florida. Although
their individual studies are on organisms from very different habitats, the
questions overlap. We look forward to hearing about the results. These
contacts and collaborations will benefit all of the individuals, and travel
funds from IUPS 2005 and SICB were the catalyst. |