Travel Scholarships
Travel Scholarships are offered to trainees (students or postdocs) to participate in the IMGC.
The International Mammalian Genome Society Scholarships support meeting costs for students and postdocs. The scholarships will cover the cost of registration and a twin (shared) room at the Center Hotel Arnarhvoll (about a 3 minute walk from the conference venue) for five nights.
To be eligible:
You must be a current IMGS member (memberships are complimentary; and as of 2025 are included in your conference registration).
You must have an abstract selected for a poster or talk.
To apply for the 39th IMGC in Reykjavik, Iceland (April 7-10, 2026)
A) Send an email to imgsgeneral@gmail.com before January 7, 2026 containing:
1-Your name
2-Your contact information (Institution, address, email address)
3-Whether you are a Student or Post doc
4-Whether you identify as a Underrepresented Groups (URGS).
5-Whether you identify as Male, Female, or Other.
6-Your supervisor/lab head’s name and email address
7-A copy of your abstract
B) Submit your abstract through imgs.org before January 7, 2026.
C) Register for the meeting at imgs.org before January 7, 2026.
Please use the registration option “For invited speakers or Scholarship applicants”. If you are not awarded a scholarship, IMGS will invoice you for your registration fee.
A maximum of one IMGS scholarship (or equivalent if split) will be awarded per lab.
Funding for student scholarships is made possible in part by 2R13HG002394 from NHGRI, NIEHS, NIDA, NIH-OD, NIAID, and NICHD at NIH.