Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting - 2025

Edmonton, Canada




Landahl and CRM Travel Grant:



To apply for the Landahl and CRM Travel Grant, the applicant will need to:

  1. Submit an application
  2. Obtain a Letter of Support from their academic advisor

Submit Landahl and CRM Travel Grant Application

Submit Letter of Support



Deadlines

Landahl and CRM Travel Grant Application is due: March 16th, 2025
Faculty Support Letter is due: March 30th, 2025
Notification of Award: April 16th, 2025

Questions?

Contact landahl@smb.org


About

Over the years, The Society has provided the editor of the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology with discretionary funds for secretarial and office expenses. When Herbert Landahl was editor-in-chief of the Bulletin, his wife, Evelyn, served as his secretary. Instead of taking a salary, she donated the funds ($35,000) to the Society in 1981. A decision was made by the elected Board of Directors to recognize the funds as a separate endowment and use the interest generated by the funds to provide travel support to graduate students and early career scientists to attend the Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology, thus called the Landahl Travel Award.

We are proud to announce a partnership with the Centre de recherches mathematiques (CRM, Centre for Mathematics Research) in Montreal, Canada!! The CRM-SMB partnership includes a new CRM-SMB travel award which will support travel to the SMB Annual Meeting. Applications coincide with applications to the SMB Landahl Travel Awards.


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Eligibility

  • Applicants must be members of the Society at the time funds are requested.
  • Preference will be given to applicants who have been members of the Society for at least a year preceding the time of application, or whose advisors have been members for at least a year.
  • Preference will also be given to applicants who are presenting a paper or poster at the meeting and those who did not receive a travel grant from the Society the previous year.
  • Preference will be given to applicants in the following priority order: (i) graduate students, (ii) post-doctoral fellows, (iii) non-tenured junior faculty, who do not have sufficient travel funds from other sources, such as grants, (iv) undergraduates, (v) senior scientists with insufficient travel funds, and (vi) non-society members who join at the time of application.
  • Funding is also available for senior scientists living in countries with limited resources, and scientists with limited access to financial resources to fund attendance to meetings.
Travel award recipients are expected to sign up for the mentoring program in order to optimize their conference experience. It is also customary for recipients of the travel grants to contribute to the meeting by helping at the Society for Mathematical Biology Booth.





Organizers
  • Jay Newby, University of Alberta
  • Hao Wang, University of Alberta



Organizing committee
  • Thomas Hillen, University of Alberta
  • Dan Coombs, University of British Columbia
  • Mark Lewis, University of Victoria
  • Wylie Stroberg, University of Alberta
  • Gerda de Vries, University of Alberta
  • Ruth Baker, University of Oxford
  • Amber Smith, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
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  • Jeffrey West
Scientific committee
  • Ruth Baker, University of Oxford
  • Mark Lewis, University of Victoria
  • Frederick R Adler, University of Utah
  • Jennifer Flegg, University of Melbourne
  • Jana Gevertz, The College of New Jersey
  • Jude Kong, University of Toronto
  • Kathleen Wilkie, Toronto Metropolitan University
  • Wylie Stroberg, University of Alberta
  • Jay Newby, University of Alberta




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