Award & Funding Opportunities

Funding For ICAR

ICAR 2025- Ghent, organized by Belgian colleagues

NAASC is pleased to announce the selection of these 12 US plant biologist awardees!

Category 1: Early Career Travel Awards

  1. Laura Martins Salk Inst.

  2. Prashanth Ramachandran Stanford University

  3. Omar Hasannin Auburn University

  4. Junghyun Kim The University of Texas at Austin

  5. Ryan Kenneally UC Berkeley

  6. Julie Law Salk Inst.

  7. Bastiaan Bargmann Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

Category 2: Mentored Networking Cohort Awards

  1. Bladimir Xavier Rodriguez Hernandez Colorado State University

  2. Byron Rusnak Cornell University

  3. Ryan Martinez Univ. WI-Madison

  4. Hannah Davis NCSU

  5. Catherine Freed Univ. WI-Madison

ICAR 2025 questions? please contact the ICAR organizers (which are not NAASC this year):

Go to the ICAR website and scroll down to “Contact Geraint Parry about ICAR 2025”

Awardee Requirements

  • Awardees must present their work at ICAR (talk or poster)

  • By 28 February, 2023: Awardees must register and submit their abstract directly to ICAR 2023 (submitting your abstract for the award application does not fulfill this requirement)

  • Failure to present your work at ICAR forfeits your award

  • Awardees must submit a short meeting report (as part of a blog post) and complete a short survey after ICAR

  • Awards given as reimbursements

  • Awardees will sign an award offer noting these requirements sent by NAASC