{"id":1085,"date":"2023-06-08T13:58:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T13:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/phages\/?page_id=1085"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:34:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:34:58","slug":"conference-waviers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/phages\/awards-prizes\/conference-waviers\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEED-BASED REGISTRATION WAIVERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the cost of registration presents a financial hardship, you may be eligible for a need-based registration waiver\u2014ensuring that everyone has access to participate, regardless of financial circumstances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CAREGIVER GRANTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are pleased to provide a limited number of caregiver grants to help attendees of the 2026 Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Conference toward dependent-care expenses that they will incur by attending the conference. Thanks to generous support from our sponsors, we are piloting a program to offset extra costs incurred by caregivers (such as parents or individuals providing elder care). Any conference registrant is eligible, although priority will be given to early- to mid- career researchers and those submitting abstracts.<\/p>\n<p>Applications may be submitted at any time, but note that those submitted by June 16, 2026 will receive a decision by June 23, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uwmadison.eventsair.com\/phages26\/waiver\/Site\/Register\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Begin application here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEED-BASED REGISTRATION WAIVERS If the cost of registration presents a financial hardship, you may be eligible for a need-based registration waiver\u2014ensuring that everyone has access to participate, regardless of financial circumstances. CAREGIVER GRANTS We are pleased to provide a limited number of caregiver grants to help attendees of the 2026 Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":60,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1085","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/phages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/phages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/phages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/phages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/phages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/phages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/phages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1085\/revisions\/1513"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/phages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.union.wisc.edu\/phages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}