The Center for Neural Circuit Mapping will be granting travel awards for our 2025 conference. These travel awards aim to facilitate participation from a broad spectrum of scientists, ensuring a broad exchange of ideas and fostering collaborations across disciplines. Successful applicants will receive funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses OR conference registration fees. We believe that diverse perspectives enhance the scientific dialogue communications, and we look forward to welcoming a attendees from diverse backgrounds.
For our 2025 Conference, we plan on offering two types of conference support awards:
Conference Support Travel Award
Whom: Young investigators of underrepresented groups from outside Southern California
Number of awards: 10
Value: up to $1,400 for airline and/or hotel.
Conference Registration Fee Wavier
Whom: Junior faculty, postdocs, and graduate students, undergraduate students and laboratory staff of under-represented groups at UCI and other minority-serving or less research-intensive institutions in Southern California.
Number of awards: 15
Value: $324
Submissions will be selected based on the applicant’s statement explaining the reasons for applying for this travel award, scientific merit (via abstract) and financial needs with considerations for inclusiveness and diversity.
Deadline: April 30, 2025
Applicants selected by May 20, 2025
Applicants must accept offer by June 1, 2025
Contact cncm@uci.edu for more details.