New opportunities

1. Research Training School Opportunity for PhD students: Spend three months in Gothenburg, autumn 2008 in "Thematic semester in systems Biology at Chalmers University of Technology". For further information please check this website. See separate announcement in this pdf-file

2. Fellowships in Gothenburg: We have available for PhD students from EU and affiliated countries a number of fellowships to stay in Gothenburg and work with an experimental or theoretical systems biology group for at least three and no more than six months. These fellowships could therefore include free participation in the ICSB2008 conference AND/OR also participation in the International Course in Yeast Systems Biology (ICYSB) June 2-19, also in Gothenburg. For information please contact

Application for support

ICSB2008 will be able to support the attendance of a number of PhD-students and post-docs (up to two years after graduating as PhD) under the following conditions:
1. You must have registered for the conference.
2. You must have submitted an abstract for poster or oral presentation as presenting author.

To apply you need to send an e-mail to the organisers () with the following attachment (one single pdf file with the name “firstname_lastname_year of birth.pdf?)

• a max 1/2 page justification why support is needed to attend the conference and present the abstract
• a max 1/2 page description of the project
• a brief recommendation of the head of the research group
• a document confirming the status (PhD student or post-doc 24 months after graduation at the time of the conference)
• the submitted abstract.

• no support granted (in case you choose to cancel your attendance your registration fee will be refunded)
• support level 1 granted (in which case your registration fee will be returned, but you will need to finance your travel and accommodation yourself)
• support level 2 granted (in which case your registration fee will be refunded and you will receive a fixed amount to support travel and accommodation. This amount should cover (most of) the travel costs BUT NOT the accommodation costs, which you will have to finance yourself).