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Representing GEP at a Conference

Conference Attendance Questions​

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Travel Support for Conference Attendance​

The IPERT grant contains support for conference attendance for GEP faculty and students.
  • For the 2025–2026 academic year, there is up to $2,500 per faculty member available for up to six faculty members to attend a national conference to represent the GEP with a presentation/poster and recruit potential new members.
  • There is also up to $750 per person available for up to 20 students and faculty to attend regional conferences to present on GEP student research projects.
  • If you would like to take advantage of these resources please contact Laura Reed to discuss.

Pre-Conference Form

GEP faculty planning to attend and/or present about GEP (or have their students do so) at a conference or workshop should fill out this form.

Post-Conference Form

GEP faculty who attended and/or presented about GEP (or had their students do so) should complete this form. At the end of this form, you will have the opportunity to upload presentation materials (posters, PowerPoint presentations, etc.), and pictures from the event.
If your students presented their GEP work at a conference, please ask them for permission to share their posters and presentations with the GEP. The student posters and presentations might be used to promote the GEP and used by future grant applications. If the students agree to share their work, please use the Post-Conference Form to upload their posters and presentations.

Conference Presenter Guidelines

The GEP would like to have presenters at the following conferences:
  • Community College Undergraduate Research Initiative (CCURI)
  • National Meeting for the Council on Undergraduate Research (NCUR)
  • Association of College and University Biology Educators (ACUBE)
  • Southeast Regional Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (SERP)
  • Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Awards (IRACDA)
If the conference offers a workshop option, consider this option for a higher-impact presentation opportunity. For larger-sized workshops, consider whether an additional person (faculty, staff, or student) is needed to assist with the presentation.
Authors and co-authors are all people presenting at the conference plus relevant people (listed below) and the GEP Program Director, Laura K. Reed. Depending on the data being presented, the individuals listed below are suggested co-authors for GEP projects in the following areas:
  • Advanced Research Lab: Logan Cohen
  • Assessment (Faculty/GEP community): Sean Gehrke, Anya L. Goodman
  • Assessment (Student): David Lopatto
  • Assessment (Virtual TAs): Christine M. Pribbenow
  • Insulin Signaling Pathway Project: Laura K. Reed
  • microPublications and TinyPubs: Laura K. Reed, Logan Cohen
  • Parasitoid Wasps Project: Nathan T. Mortimer
  • Puerto Rican Parrot Project: Juan Carlos Martinez-Cruzado, Alondra Díaz Lameiro, Don Paetkau
  • Sexual Development Pathway Project: Brian Schwartz, Kellie Agrimson
  • Tamarisk Beetle: Amanda Stahlke, Zeynep Özsoy
It is important that all co-authors read, review, and approve the abstract prior to submission.
Students do not need permission to present their own work at conferences. Furthermore, GEP central staff should not be co-authors on the student presentation unless one of them was heavily involved with the student’s project in particular; that staff member would then have to approve the abstract before it was submitted.
The following should be included in the acknowledgements sections of posters and presentations regarding funding for GEP projects:
The [poster/presentation/etc.] is based upon work supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number R25GM160660 to Laura K. Reed (LKR) and the Genomics Education Partnership (GEP). The data presented here was generated in part with support from the NIGMS of the NIH under award number R25GM130517 and the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant No. 1915544 to LKR and the GEP. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of the NIH or the NSF.
Shorter version: The GEP is currently supported by NIH IPERT-R25GM160660. The data presented here was generated in part with support from NIH IPERT-R25GM130517 and NSF IUSE-1915544.
For assistance with copyediting, formatting, resizing, graphics, etc. contact GEP Staffer Wilson Leung.
  • Page Last Updated: November 26, 2025