Travel Grants

The SSM provides travel grants for young member scientists.
To be considered for discussion by the SSM committee, travel grant applications have to be submitted in advance regarding the planned event.
The application date should be prior to the SSM Committee meeting and the event date should be after the SSM committee meeting.
SSM Committee Meeting 2026 dates: February 5th, May 7-8, August 25, November 24

For all details and to know more how to apply please refer to the Grant Rules.

Margaux Crézé, Keystone Symposia Human Microbiome: From Models and Mechanism to Medicine, Canada , January 19-22, 2026

Simon Yersin, Keystone Symposia Human Microbiome: From Models and Mechanism to Medicine, Canada , January 19-22, 2026

Arpita Sahoo, Single Domain Antibodies Conference 2025, the Netherlands, September 29 to October 1, 2025

Emma Alessandri, International Fungal Biology Conference, Greece, September 27-30, 2025

Dorentina Humolli, The New Microbiology EMBO-FEBS Summer Course, Greece,  September 3-11, 2025

Sebastian Bernauer, The New Microbiology EMBO-FEBS Summer Course, Greece,  September 3-11, 2025

Yanna Piccini, 13th European Mucosal Immunology Group Meeting (EMIG), Germany,  July 21-23, 2025

Yannik Heyer, 13th European Mucosal Immunology Group Meeting (EMIG), Germany,  July 21-23, 2025

Alina Baltensperger, Summer School on Emerging Viral Infections, University of Hong Kong, July 13-19, 2025

Pia Stauffer, EMBO FEBS, France, May 26-30, 2025

Camille Schmid, EMBO FEBS, France, May 26-30, 2025

Karen Stevers, 9th European congress of Virology, Croatia, April 27-30, 2025

Marco Gabrielli, Gordon Research Conference on the Microbiology of the Built Environment, USA, June 22-27, 2025

Anna Simona Rieder, ESCMID Global Congress, Vienna, 12-15th April 2025 

Joanne Braunweiler, T4SS conference 2025, Nancy, France, February 17-20, 2025

Maren Ketterer, T4SS conference 2025, Nancy, France, February 17-20, 2025

Enrique Rayo, 20th International Conference on Infectious Diseases,Cape Town, South Africa, 3rd-6th December 2024 

Ellen-Aleksandra Svorjova, Viruses of Microbes 2024, Cairns, Australia 15 -19 July 2024 

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

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

MAFFEI Enea, Research internship in the group of Prof. Lars Hestbjerg Hansen, Copenhagen University, Denmark, 7th August – 18th September 2021

MC CALLIN Shawna, Phages for Global Health’s 2020 East African Phage Workshop, Dar es Salaa, Tanzania,12-25th January, 2020

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

DUNNE Matthew, 26th International ICFMH Conference – FoodMicro 2018, Berlin, Germany, 3-6 September 2018

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

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