Student Research Grant Opportunity with Genetics Society of AustralAsia

[Tiffanie Nelson]

Hi all,

Please see below an opportunity for two student research grants for sequencing and library preparation being offered by the Genetics Society of AustralAsia. 

One grant is for students based in Australia, and one for students based in Aotearoa or other Asia-Pacific countries.

Further details and conditions of the grants are listed below. 

Warm regards,

Tiff

Tiff Nelson, PhD
Community Engagement
Australian BioCommons

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From: GSA Secretariat <g...@asnevents.net.au>
Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 12:00 PM
To: Camilla Whittington <camilla.w...@sydney.edu.au>
Subject: Apply for a Genetics Society of AustralAsia student research grant

 

Call for applications

We are delighted to announce that the annual Genetics Society of AustralAsia (GSA) student research grants have now expanded to TWO grants, doubling the likelihood of success! These grants provide an opportunity for postgraduate students to win some free sequencing and library construction. Please forward this information to students.

 

The student winner will receive an Illumina NovaSeq 6000 S1 300-cycle flowcell (up to 1.6B reads/480Gb data) and library construction (choose either WGS prep of up to 24 samples OR Total RNA-seq of up to 16 samples OR mRNA-seq of up to 24 samples), valued at ~$15,000.

 

We have two grants available, generously supported by Illumina, The Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics (Australia) and by AgResearch (New Zealand), along with GenomNZ from AgResearch:

 

-students based in Australia can apply for The Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics Illumina Award

-students based in Aotearoa or other Asia-Pacific countries can apply for The AgResearch Illumina Award

 

Applicants must be a current member of GSA and must be enrolled in a postgraduate degree at an institution in the Australasian region.

 

Applications for the grant are due by 5pm AEDT on 30th November 2023.

 

The application form and further information can be found here.

 

If not currently a member, it would be advisable to apply for our reduced rate student membership as soon as possible.

 

Note the requirement that DNA/RNA samples or libraries must be submitted to the relevant sequencing centre and pass quality check before 1st March 2024. 

 

Regards,

 

GSA Secretariat

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