Poster Awards

ABRF Poster Awards, sponsored by Waters Corporation

Waters Corporation is sponsoring prizes for the four best posters presented at ABRF 2009.  The ABRF Education Committee will review all poster abstracts submitted to the meeting and select a limited number of candidates for award consideration.  Lead authors of the candidate posters will be invited to give a short (10 minute) presentation of their poster to the Education Committee on Sunday, February 8, 2009.  The authors of the four posters judged to be the best will receive the Waters Corporation sponsored awards at the Poster Award Session on Tuesday, February 10, 2009.

ABRF Student/Post-Doc Poster Awards

The ABRF will award full conference registration waivers for up to ten students or post docs who present posters at the ABRF 2009 meeting.  The ABRF 2009 Organizing Committee and the ABRF Education Committee will review applications for these awards and select the awardees.

To be eligible for this award:

(1) The poster must highlight research that was made possible through collaboration with a core facility.  (2) The student or post doc must be the presenting author of the poster.  (3) The student or post doc must register for the meeting using the online registration form.  If a poster award is given, the registration cost will be waived and any registration payment received will be cancelled or returned.  (4) The abstract must be submitted using the on-line abstract submission form before the abstract submission deadline of November 14, 2008.

To apply for consideration of this award, please send the following:

(1) A copy of the poster abstract that was submitted using the on-line abstract submission form.  (2) A letter of recommendation from the director of the core facility at which the work was carried out.  (3) A letter from the applicant’s adviser that confirms the applicant’s student or post doc status and a statement confirming that the applicant’s travel and lodging expenses will be covered. 

The poster abstract copy, recommendation letter and adviser statement should be e-mailed in PDF format to abrf@courtesyassoc.com, or faxed to (202) 331-0111, to the attention of Chezka Solon. 

Recipients of the ABRF Student/Post-Doc Poster Awards will be acknowledged during the Research Poster Session on Sunday, February 8, 2009.