Registration includes:
- Course registration
- Course material
- Accomodation
- Lunches, dinner, coffee breaks
- Transportation cards
- Welcome dinner, group excursion, social events
Payment
The selected participants will receive an email with the acceptance letter together with information and details regarding the payment procedure on 22th June 2022. Payments will be made through bank transfer.
Selection criteria
Selection will be based on the CVs and motivation letters of the applications, with the aims of favouring (1) early stage researchers (i.e., PhD students and postdocs), (2) balanced geographical origin with an emphasis on countries and institutions where genomic expertise is currently scarce, (3) gender balance. Applicants who demonstrate in their motivation letter that knowledge of genome assembly and downstream analyses is important for their short-term research and/or career plans will be favoured. Multiple applications from the same group are discouraged - instead, we expect participants to share with the other members of their groups the knowledge and know-how they will have acquired during the course.
A working knowledge of the shell environment will be required by the beginning of the course but is not a prerequisite for selection - selected applicants with no prior knowledge of command line tools should get acquainted with the shell environments by following the online tutorial prior to arriving in Brussels.
Abstract guidelines
In order to facilitate interactions between participants, the course will start with a poster session on the first day and the posters will remain on display in the breakout room throughout the course. Posters should provide a general overview of each participant’s present research, with abstracts less than 300 words in length.
Poster specifications
Maximum poster size (A0 format) - 841 mm (width) x 1189 mm (height). A passport-style photograph of the presenting participant should be included in the upper-left corner of each poster.
Travel Grants and Registration Fee Waivers
A limited number of travel grants and registration fee waivers are available for participants.
Applicants do not need to apply separately for these but should indicate on the registration form if they wish to be considered.
Selection of awardees is handled directly by the organizers. Priority is given to participants of any nationality working in laboratories in Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey, as well as from EMBC Associate Member States Chile, India, Singapore and Taiwan. More information is available on the EMBO Travel Grants' page.
Child care grant
EMBO Courses and Workshops offers grants to offset additional child care costs incurred by participants or speakers when participating at any EMBO Courses and Workshop funded meeting. Eligible costs include fees for a caregiver or child-care facility, travel costs for a caregiver, or travel costs for taking the child to the meeting etc. Please indicate on the registration form whether you would like to be considered for the grant. Please also describe how you intend to use the child care grant and specify the sum that you will need.
