OPEN CALL TO SUPPORT PHD STUDENTS MOVING TO AN OUTSIDE LABORATORY FOR SHORT INTERNSHIP
PhD students who will move for a short term internship (3-9 months) to a laboratory outside their own country may apply to get a travel support ranging from a minimum of 500 € to a maximum of 2500 €. The amount of such supports will be evaluated by the Sphingolipid Club staff, depending on the stage duration and the country selected. For the next year the call is open and has no deadline.
The applicant, who should be an active junior Member of the Club for the current year, must send an email to info@sphingolipidclub.com, indicating the length and the starting date of the stage, and adding:
a) a letter signed by his/her PhD mentor, certificating his/her status as a PhD student,
b) a letter of acceptance of the head of the hosting laboratory,
c) a short CV, with a minimum of two publications, including posters, or oral presentations at international Meetings.
The acceptance of the travel award and the relative amount will be communicated by the Sphingolipid Club not later that one month after having received the applicant email. For further information, address your enquiries to info@sphingolipidclub.com. The official announcement will be soon posted on our website, at www.sphingolipidclub.com, but the call is open since now.
AWARDS AT THE XVI SPHINGOLIPID CLUB MEETING, SUPETAR, BRAČ, CROATIA, SEPT 22-26, 2026
- AWARDS FOR THE BEST SLC ORAL PRESENTATIONS (400 €):
NASSRI ABDOUSH, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany – Differential effects of ceramide chain length on alcohol consumption and behavioral phenotypes in mice
CAMILLO MORANO, University of Milan, Milan, Italy – Sphingolipidomics of women with anorexia nervosa and obesity: signatures at opposite ends of energy balance
HENRIK NURMI, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland – The glycolipid transfer protein GLTP as a modulator of COPII vesicle export from the ER and of cellular GSL homeostasis
- AWARDS FOR THE BEST SLC POSTER PRESENTATIONS (300 €):
FRANCESCA LOZZI, IRRCS, Rome, Italy – Sphingolipid remodeling induced by α-synuclein in human epidermal equivalents: exploring novel peripheral biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease
ELODIE LASSALLETTE, ENVT, Toulouse, France – Comparative interest of different biomarkers of fumonisins in feed
- AWARDS FOR THE BEST ESN ORAL PRESENTATIONS (500 €):
LINDA MONTAVOCI, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK – sponsorized by ESN – Modelling genetic defects in sphingolipid biosynthesis using CRISPR-Cas9-edited HEK-293T cells
ADRIANA LIPOVČIĆ, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia – sponsorized by ESN – Glycosphingolipid mapping reveals a unique ganglioside signature of murine cortical mitochondria
- AWARD FOR THE BEST ESN POSTER PRESENTATIONS (400 €):
MICHELLE KOSTER, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands – sponsorized by ESN – Microglial ceramide transport shapes cognition: characterization of a microglial CERT knock-out model
- AWARD FOR THE BEST ESN POSTER PRESENTATIONS (400 €):
MATTEO PRISINZANO, University of Florence, Florence, Italy – sponsorized by SELVITA – Beyond the brain: sphingosine 1-phosphate dysregulation and skeletal muscle impairment in Huntington’s disease
PREVIOUS AWARDS
Awards at the XV Sphingolipid Club Meeting, Erlangen, Germany, Sept 3-7, 2024
Awards for the best oral presentations (500 €):
LINDA MONTAVOCI, University of Milan, Italy – sponsorized by Lipotype
ANGEL GAUDIOSO, Centro Biologia Molecular S. Ochoa, Madrid, Spain – sponsorized by Cayman Chemicals
SUSANA MESEN-PORRAS, University of San José, Costa Rica – sponsorized by Cayman Chemicals
Award for the best poster presentation (300 €):
SHRUTI NAIK, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany – sponsorized by Lipotype
JURY COMPOSITION, Carmen Garcia Ruiz, Liubov Kalinichenko, Davide Capoferri, José Fernandez-Checa
Awards at the 2023 FASEB SRC Lysophospholipid and Related Mediators Conference, Melbourne, FL, USA, July 9-13, 2023
The Sphingolipid Club has sponsorized two travel grants for young participants to the 2023 FASEB SRC Lysophospholipid and Related Mediators Conference, Melbourne, FL, USA, July 9-13, 2023.
ONORINA L. MANZO, Weill Cornell Medical College, USA (500 €)
NATHALIE SCHRÖDER, the Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany (300 €)
Awards at the XIV Sphingolipid Club Meeting, Pozzilli, Italy, Sept 7-11, 2022
PhD students and young Postdocs who received a travel grant:
Sumaiya Afsar, Shah Alam, Davide Capoferri , Federico Fiorani, Marzia Corli, Carine Dufau, Camillo Morano, Gloria Grelle, Ondreji Kovac, Bisera Stepanovska, Roxana Manaila, Luisa Volk, Trushnal Waghmare, Duyen Tran, Isabelle Seidita, Tristan Martineau, Angel Gaudioso, Liubov Kalinichenko, Anna Kovilakath, Giuseppe Pepe, Caterina Giovagnoni, Valentine Yolander, Salvatore Fioriniello, Daan Van Kruining, Tanes Imamura de Lima and Alix Pierron.
Mark Kester Award
(one supported by the Sphingolipid Club, one supported by Myles Cabot Laboratory)
HUI-MING LIN (500 €), Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia
LORRY CARRIE (500 €), University of Toulouse, France
Antonio Delgado Award
ESSA M. SAIED (500 €), University of Berlin, Germany
Participation to the 2021 FASEB Lysophospholipid and Related Mediators Conference, held online, July 13-15, 2021
YULIYA FAKHR (300 €), University of Alberta, Canada
BISERA STEPANOVSKA TANTUROVSKA (300 €), University of Bern, Switzerland
Lina Obeid Awards
JOHANNES MORSTEIN (1000 €), New York University, USA.
SHAH ALAM (1000 €), University of Bonn, Germany.
Shimon Gatt Awards
(two supported by the Sphingolipid Club, one supported by Myles Cabot Laboratory):
VALENTINA VOZELLA (1000 €), University of California Irvine, USA
LIUBOV KALINICHENKO (1000 €), Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
MICHAEL PULKOSKI (1000 €), Stanford University, USA
Participation to the 2019 FASEB SRC “The Lysophospholipid and Related Mediators”, Lisbon, Portugal, July 28-August 2, 2019
HIRA NIAZI (best short talk, 500 €), INSERM U970, Paris, France
VALENTINE YOLANDER (best poster, 300 €), Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
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