A new program has been created to help ABRF Associates with limited access to travel funds attend ABRF '98: Meeting the New Tomorrow; Technical Challenges of Characterizing Complex Systems, to be held in San Diego, March 22-24, 1998. A travel award fund of $10,000 has been established jointly by the ABRF and Perkin Elmer, Applied Biosystems Division. A committee will be formed to review applications. The award is intended primarily for scientific staff in resource laboratories. However, facility directors will be considered in special circumstances such as those from very small laboratories or laboratories located outside of North America. Students or postdoctoral fellows directly associated with the mission of member laboratories may also apply. Details of the review process will be announced later and applications for support will require a letter of justification from the laboratory director. In most cases, only partial support will be awarded with the hope that these funds can be used as a seed to request the remainder of the travel funds from home institutions, or to supplement funds so that more laboratory members may travel.
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