Deadline: 15 June 2006 BioC2006 Conference Scholarship Program for the BioC2006 Conference, Seattle, Aug 3-4 2006. Four scholarships will be offered through auspices of Affymetrix, Inc., the American Statistical Association Section on Statistical Computing, and the Bioconductor Foundation of N.A., Inc. 1) two $500 travel scholarships for student-contributors 2) $500 travel scholarship for a developer-contributor 3) $1000 travel scholarship for an international student-contributor Scholarships will be awarded in the form of reimbursements for documented travel/lodging expenses up to amount of award. Winners will also be exempt from payment of conference registration fees. Applications for scholarship support take the form of an essay of at most 250 words describing the relevance of Bioconductor and the BioC2006 conference to the applicant's research. Applications must be provided on a single page in PDF or RTF format with indication of name, e-mail address, scholarship track (student-contributor, developer-contributor, international student-contributor), text of essay, word count. Applications must be e-mailed to biocworkshop at fhcrc.org Applications must be received by 15 June 2006 to be considered. Decisions will be made by a subgroup of the Bioconductor Core developers, and will be announced in early July. Judges' decisions are final. For detailed information on the conference, see https://cobra.fhcrc.org/BioC2006 --- Vince Carey, PhD Assoc. Prof Med (Biostatistics) Harvard Medical School Channing Laboratory - ph 6175252265 fa 6177311541 181 Longwood Ave Boston MA 02115 USA stvjc at channing.harvard.edu