Travel Grant
The SSM provides travel grants for young member scientists.
Scientific Meeting Grant
The SSM supports the organisation of scientific meeting.
For details, download the SSM financial support guidelines.
Applications will usually be discussed at one of the next committee meeting which are held four times a year.
Scientific Meeting Grants Reports
2024
SSM-ICCMg Award
Congratulations to Shixu He from the University of Copenhagen for winning the 2024 SSM-ICCMg Award for his research on the impact of a common sucrase-isomaltase loss of function variant on the gut microbiome of Greenlandic Inuit.
The ICCMg prize is jointly supported by the SSM and the ICCMg, during the annual meeting (www.clinicalmetagenomics.org)
Pr Etienne RUPPE, Pr Jacques SCHRENZEL, Dr Shixu HE, and Dr Vladimir LAZAREVIC
2022
Zürich Mycology Symposium 2022- Online, 21st of January 2022 and Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 10th of June 2022
2019
European Workshop on Bacterial Protein Toxins, Davos – Switzerland, 22-26 June 2019
Marine Particles and Phycospheres, Ascona, Switzerland, 19-23 May 2019
Travel Grants Reports
2024
Ellen-Aleksandra Svorjova, Viruses of Microbes 2024, Cairns, Australia 15 -19 July 2024
2023
Franziska Solger, International conference "Microbiology 2023", Würzburg, Germany, 20 September 2023 to 22 September 2023
Nuria Bosch-Guiteras, 31° International Conference on Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology (ICYGMB31), Florence- Italy, 20 August- 25 August 2023
Gregory Mathez ,Scientific exchange in the laboratory of Prof. Andrea Brancale, Prague, 30 March to 30 June 2023
Srinithi Purshothaman, ECCMID conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 15th-18th April 2023
Hanna Marti, Chlamydia Basic Research Society (CBRS), Omaha, Nebraska, USA, 20th-23rd March 2023
Jordan Costafrolaz, EMBO Workshop on Bacterial Morphogenesis, Survival and Virulence: Dynamic Genomes & Envelopes, Goa, India: 6th -10th February 2023
Noémie Matthey , EMBO Workshop on Bacterial Morphogenesis, Survival and Virulence: Dynamic Genomes & Envelopes, Goa, India: 6th -10th February 2023
2022
Simone Vormittag,The 10th International Conference on Legionella,Yokohama, Japan: 20-24 September 2022
Sarah Michaelis,The 10th International Conference on Legionella,Yokohama, Japan: 20-24 September 2022
Lukas Probst, American Society of Virology (ASV) 41st Annual Meeting, Madison, WI, USA, 15-20 July 2022
Matthias Licheri, American Society of Virology (ASV) 41st Annual Meeting, Madison, WI, USA, 15-20 July 2022
Laura Laloli, American Society of Virology (ASV) 41st Annual Meeting, Madison, WI, USA, 15-20 July 2022
Mitra Gultom, American Society of Virology (ASV) 41st Annual Meeting, Madison, WI, USA, 15-20 July 2022
Gregory Mathez, 35th International Conference of Antiviral Research, Seattle, 21st – 25th March 2022
2021
MAFFEI Enea, Research internship in the group of Prof. Lars Hestbjerg Hansen, Copenhagen University, Denmark, 7th August - 18th September 2021
2020
MC CALLIN Shawna, Phages for Global Health’s 2020 East African Phage Workshop, Dar es Salaa, Tanzania,12-25th January, 2020
2019
VITALE Alessandra, Bacterial Morphogenesis, Survival and Virulence Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 24-28 November 2019
VALLET Simon, Bacterial Morphogenesis, Survival and Virulence Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 24-28 November 2019
ETTER Danai, Workshop on Staphylococcal Genetics and Metabolism , Nebraska, USA; 7.-13.July 2019
ZUMSTEIN Michael Thomas, TransCon2019, Ascona, Switzerland; 28 April- 3 May 2019
ARUANNO Marion, 29th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 13 - 16 April 2019
SCHERLER Aurélie, 9th Chlamydia Basic Research Society Meeting, Seattle, USA, 18- 21 March 2019
BAYRAMOVA Firuza, 9th Chlamydia Basic Research Society Meeting, Seattle, USA, 18- 21 March 2019
2018
DUNNE Matthew, 26th International ICFMH Conference - FoodMicro 2018, Berlin, Germany, 3-6 September 2018
2017
DELARZE Eric, 7th Advanced Lecture course on Human Fungal Pathogens, France, 13-19 May 2017
FILIPPIDOU Sevasti, 19th International Conference on Bacilli & Gram-Positive Bacteria Berlin, 11 -15t June 2017
2016
MUELLER Linda, 2nd ASM Conference on Experimental Microbial Evolution, Washington, 04 -07 11 August 2016
FACCIO Greta, 8th European Meeting on OxiZymes, Netherlands, 03-06 July 2016
DELABY Marie, 1st "EMBO" conference on "Bacterial morphogenesis, survival and virulence : Regulation in 4D, India, 27 Nov- 01 Dec 2016
MATTHEY Noémie, EMBO Conference on bacterial morphongenesis, survival and virulence : regulation in 4D, India, 27 Nov- 01 Dec 2016
Ellen-Aleksandra Svorjova, Viruses of Microbes 2024, Cairns, Australia 15 -19 July 2024
2023
Franziska Solger, International conference "Microbiology 2023", Würzburg, Germany, 20 September 2023 to 22 September 2023
Nuria Bosch-Guiteras, 31° International Conference on Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology (ICYGMB31), Florence- Italy, 20 August- 25 August 2023
Gregory Mathez ,Scientific exchange in the laboratory of Prof. Andrea Brancale, Prague, 30 March to 30 June 2023
Srinithi Purshothaman, ECCMID conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 15th-18th April 2023
Hanna Marti, Chlamydia Basic Research Society (CBRS), Omaha, Nebraska, USA, 20th-23rd March 2023
Jordan Costafrolaz, EMBO Workshop on Bacterial Morphogenesis, Survival and Virulence: Dynamic Genomes & Envelopes, Goa, India: 6th -10th February 2023
Noémie Matthey , EMBO Workshop on Bacterial Morphogenesis, Survival and Virulence: Dynamic Genomes & Envelopes, Goa, India: 6th -10th February 2023
2022
Simone Vormittag,The 10th International Conference on Legionella,Yokohama, Japan: 20-24 September 2022
Sarah Michaelis,The 10th International Conference on Legionella,Yokohama, Japan: 20-24 September 2022
Lukas Probst, American Society of Virology (ASV) 41st Annual Meeting, Madison, WI, USA, 15-20 July 2022
Matthias Licheri, American Society of Virology (ASV) 41st Annual Meeting, Madison, WI, USA, 15-20 July 2022
Laura Laloli, American Society of Virology (ASV) 41st Annual Meeting, Madison, WI, USA, 15-20 July 2022
Mitra Gultom, American Society of Virology (ASV) 41st Annual Meeting, Madison, WI, USA, 15-20 July 2022
Gregory Mathez, 35th International Conference of Antiviral Research, Seattle, 21st – 25th March 2022
2021
MAFFEI Enea, Research internship in the group of Prof. Lars Hestbjerg Hansen, Copenhagen University, Denmark, 7th August - 18th September 2021
2020
MC CALLIN Shawna, Phages for Global Health’s 2020 East African Phage Workshop, Dar es Salaa, Tanzania,12-25th January, 2020
2019
VITALE Alessandra, Bacterial Morphogenesis, Survival and Virulence Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 24-28 November 2019
VALLET Simon, Bacterial Morphogenesis, Survival and Virulence Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 24-28 November 2019
ETTER Danai, Workshop on Staphylococcal Genetics and Metabolism , Nebraska, USA; 7.-13.July 2019
ZUMSTEIN Michael Thomas, TransCon2019, Ascona, Switzerland; 28 April- 3 May 2019
ARUANNO Marion, 29th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 13 - 16 April 2019
SCHERLER Aurélie, 9th Chlamydia Basic Research Society Meeting, Seattle, USA, 18- 21 March 2019
BAYRAMOVA Firuza, 9th Chlamydia Basic Research Society Meeting, Seattle, USA, 18- 21 March 2019
2018
DUNNE Matthew, 26th International ICFMH Conference - FoodMicro 2018, Berlin, Germany, 3-6 September 2018
2017
DELARZE Eric, 7th Advanced Lecture course on Human Fungal Pathogens, France, 13-19 May 2017
FILIPPIDOU Sevasti, 19th International Conference on Bacilli & Gram-Positive Bacteria Berlin, 11 -15t June 2017
2016
MUELLER Linda, 2nd ASM Conference on Experimental Microbial Evolution, Washington, 04 -07 11 August 2016
FACCIO Greta, 8th European Meeting on OxiZymes, Netherlands, 03-06 July 2016
DELABY Marie, 1st "EMBO" conference on "Bacterial morphogenesis, survival and virulence : Regulation in 4D, India, 27 Nov- 01 Dec 2016
MATTHEY Noémie, EMBO Conference on bacterial morphongenesis, survival and virulence : regulation in 4D, India, 27 Nov- 01 Dec 2016
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