SESSION TYPES

  • PLENARY SESSION. There will be eight plenary talks by guest speakers. Go to the Invited Speakers page to learn more about these talks.
  • SYMPOSIUM SESSION. These sessions are composed of 3–4 thematically-related oral presentations. The length of individual presentations is 20 minutes (15 min plus 5 min for questions) and symposia will be allowed a total of 60–80 minutes. You will need to submit a 250-word overall symposium abstract in addition to 200-word abstracts for each presentation. Note: there may be more space for 3-talk than 4-talk sessions.
  • GENERAL SESSION. These sessions are composed of stand-alone, 20-minute oral presentations (including questions). When possible, we will group presentations together by themes. You will need to submit a 200-word abstract describing your submission.
  • POSTER SESSION. The Poster Session will take place on Thursday, June 30, 2016. You will need to submit a 200-word abstract describing your submission. Posters should be no more that 4’ wide and 4’tall

DEADLINES. Abstracts must be submitted by March 1, 2016. For all submissions, authors should indicate their preference for an oral or a poster presentation. All abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Abstracts that do not meet professional standards will be rejected. First authors will be notified of the status of their submissions by e-mail by April 1, 2016.

SYMPOSIA GUIDELINES. The Program Committee encourages interested parties to organize and submit high-quality symposia. These sessions should address topics that are current, of interest to the general membership, and include participants from several institutions (i.e., please avoid submitting a symposium proposal comprised of similar presentations involving people from the same lab working on the same general research program). Symposia should consist of a series of three or four thematically-related 20-minute presentations. The symposium proposal consists of an overall abstract, a timetable with titles and names of authors of presentations, and the presentation abstracts.

ABSTRACT GUIDELINES. As the abstracts will be published and may be cited, they should summarize your work so that your study can be understood without additional information.

AWARDS. There are three ($500 US) awards that submissions may be eligible for: the NEW INVESTIGATOR award, the POST-DOCTORAL award, and the POSTER award. All poster submissions will automatically be considered for the poster award.

New Investigator Competition Eligibility. Individuals who are currently enrolled in a graduate program or anticipate receiving their PhD in 2016 are eligible to enter the New Investigator Competition. To be considered for the competition, your submission must be entered for an oral presentation, you must be the first author (if the paper is multi-authored), and you must submit a written manuscript by March 1, 2016, to Catherine_Salmon@redlands.edu with the subject line “New Investigator Competition Submission”. A committee will select the top three submissions for New Investigator Award consideration and all three will present their papers in a special session on Friday July 1, 2016.

Post-Doctoral Competition Eligibility. Individuals who completed a PhD within the past 5 years are eligible to enter the Post Doctoral Competition. To be considered for the competition, your submission must be entered for an oral presentation, you must be the first author (if the paper is multi-authored), and you must submit a written manuscript by March 1, 2016, to Catherine_Salmon@redlands.edu with the subject line “Post- Doctoral Competition Submission”. A committee will select the top three submissions for Post-Doctoral Award consideration and all three will present their papers in a special session on Friday July 1, 2016.

Note: We will not send out reminders for authors to submit their manuscripts. Anyone who wants to be considered for the award must submit his/her manuscript by the deadline.

GENERAL SUBMISSION NOTE: Each individual is allowed to submit one abstract for oral presentation (Talk) and one abstract for presentation as a Poster. Not all Talks will able to be accommodated. Therefore, you may specify that if your Talk is not accepted, then you would like to present it as a poster. If your Talk is accepted as a Poster and you have submitted a Poster, then you will have to choose which you would like to present, as individuals will be allowed to present only one Poster.

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