Funding Opportunities
3CPG provides various small-to-medium-sized grants to further research and education in comparative and population genomics at Cornell. In general, funding is open to faculty members of the Center and their labs, but is competitive, with proposals being reviewed by a committee of other Center faculty members. Specific funding opportunities include:
Priming Grants
Grants of $5,000 to $20,000 are awarded to provide initial support for new research projects, with the goal of enabling longer-term funding from external sources. The program particularly emphasizes collaborative projects and support for data collection through Cornell's Core Facilities. (More details.) Next Deadline will be announced in February 2012 (Deadline later in the winter or early spring).
3CPG Fellowships
Fellowships are granted each year for graduate students or postdoctoral associates working with members of the Center. The award can be from 1-2 academic semesters or a full year, and can cover stipend, health insurance, and (in the case of graduate students) tuition. Applicants must be nominated by 3CPG Faculty Members. The 2009-2010 Fellows were named in Summer 2009. The 2010-2011 Fellows were named in August 2010. (More details on the application requirements). Next Deadline will be announced in February 2012 (Deadline later in the winter or early spring).
Travel Grants
Funds are available to support travel by students, postdocs, or faculty members to individual scientific meetings. Availability will be decided in February 2012. More details
Infrastructure Grants
Limited funding is available to address critical infrastructural needs related to the core 3CPG mission of advancing comparative and population genomics at Cornell. Proposals are sought that serve multiple members of the 3CPG community, and ideally that leverage existing infrastructural resources on campus. Examples include shared disk storage for large databases or data sets of interest to multiple investigators; shared workstations or servers to support next- generation sequence analysis by multiple groups; access to computer clusters or other high-performance computing resources; improved tools or resources for DNA sequencing or genotyping; or shared infrastructure for sample collection or storage. (More details). Next Deadline will be in February 2012 (Deadline later in the winter or early spring).