FEMS Affiliates Letter August 2017 (special issue) - Page 6

GRANTS COrner
FEMS 2017 Congress
grantees Post on our
Opportunities Board!
7th Congress of European Microbiologists: 9-13 July 2017, Valencia, Spain Do you want to promote your event,
job, funding or interesting projects on
our website to the wider microbiology
community?
This year, we provided 224 grants for European and non-European early
career scientists to support their attendance at FEMS 2017. By investing in
microbiologists, we seek to actively encourage and advance the future of
microbiology. Here’s what some of our Congress grantees had to say about
FEMS 2017.
Doganhan Er - Turkey
“This grant has helped me come to the Congress and it
allows me to discuss microbiology with microbiologists
all over the world and helps me promote my work with
other poster presenters especially. I had previously taken
a Meeting Attendance grant for an ESCMID meeting in
2014 in Spain and this is my second meeting helped by
FEMS and it’s great. I have been to two international
conferences and I have come both times because of
FEMS.”
Ina Gajic – Serbia
“This is my first time at a FEMS Congress and I’m very
excited to be surrounded by all these posters and
research. Without this grant, I wouldn’t be able to come to
all this. I’m very grateful.”
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Opportunities
Dasel Mulwa Kaindi – Kenya
“I wanted to gain exposure to new technologies and
network with others and seek collaboration opportunities;
without them, we are not able to work.”
You can do this on our Opportunities Board!
Here you can find FEMS-sponsored events and funding,
as well as many other exciting jobs, events, courses,
resources and funding opportunities from the microbiology
community.
Adding your opportunity on our Opportunities Board
is easy! All you have to do is register for a free FEMS
account and follow our Contributor Guide and video
guide to create and share your opportunity to the wider
microbiology community on our website.
Obinna Ezeokoli – South Africa
“The grant has helped me to showcase my work and is an
opportunity to meet scientists in the field and to give me
new ideas.”
Trang Phan – The Netherlands
“I’ve been listening to many talks and I’ve been inspired.”
Carmen Lopez-Joven – Chile
“I wanted to come because of the topics here.”
AUGUST 2017