Registration, submission of Abstracts
from Monday, 2 June, 2008
Deadline for receipt of Abstracts
Friday, 16 January, 2009
Notification of Abstracts Acceptance
Friday, 27 February, 2009
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION INFORMATION
All abstracts including free paper presentations & posters may be submitted electronically from June 2, 2008 using online submission system accessible from the above link. Abstracts may only be submitted in electronic form in three types: 1. Oral presentation 2. Poster presentation 3. Video presentation.
Abstracts submitted in email or hardcopies will not be accepted.
Authors will be able to draft the abstracts online and may return to the site to
edit the texts of the abstracts if necessary. Authors are free to finalize their
texts and submit their abstracts at any time before January 16, 2009. No changes
can be made after this deadline.
Abstract acceptance and program scheduling will be communicated to the corresponding
author’s e-mail address. Abstracts submitted through this web site will receive
immediate confirmation electronically. If you do not receive a confirmation within
24 hours it means that we did not receive your abstract.
Important note; The author or any researcher from the group must register
for the congress at the time of, or prior to, abstract submission. Otherwise abstract
submission of the group will not be accepted. Abstract presenter must register for
the congress.
The final decision of acceptance will be taken by the Organizing Committee once
all abstracts have been assessed.
If you are unable to submit your abstract or encounter any problems at any point
in the abstract submission process, please contact Website Administration by sending
e-mail to
lookus@lookus.net or +90
216 372 66 44.
Pease note the poster size:
Width: 70 cm
Height: 100 cm
All poster presentations will be exhibited for the hours 09:00 – 17:00, on the date
and in the sequence number approved by the Scientific Committee. All poster presentations
must be collected from the discussion area at 17:00.
AWARDS
Prizes will be awarded in four categories:
(1) Best Oral Presentation Award (top 5)
(2) ESTES Award 2009
(3) Best Poster Award (top 5)
(4) Young Scientists Award
Prizes are only awarded to nominees registered for the Congress.
To receive an application form please contact:
SYMCON PCO
Mrs. Pelin Soydas
Project Manager
e-mail:
psoydas@symcon.com.tr or
t +90 (555) 658 88 06
Ms. Ayca Yenigun
Project Supervisor
e-mail:
ayenigun@symcon.com.tr
or t +90 (554) 332 45 55
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Please read the Abstract Submission Guidelines before submitting your abstract.
- Abstracts must be submitted and presented in English.
- The abstract must not exceed 200 words. (not including author information and title)
- The title should not be capitalized. Only first letter in Capitals.
- An author cannot submit more than 2 abstracts as the presenting author.
- The presenting author name should be selected as Presenter.
- The abstract should ideally adhere to the following format with some flexibility
for "commentary" type abstracts:
- Introduction and objectives;
- Methods;
- Results
- Conclusions
- 3 keywords describing the abstract
- Sources of financial funding for the research/project should be specified by the
authors.
- Use standart abbreviations. Place unusual abbreviations in parentheses ( ) after
the full word, the first time they appear.
- Figures or tables in abstracts will not be accepted.
- Abstracts will not be re-typed or corrected once they are submitted. Re-submission
of corrected or updated abstracts is not permitted.
- It is the author's responsibility to submit the abstract in perfect order with no
errors in spelling or grammar.
- Abstracts not received in proper format will not be considered by the Scientific
Committee.
- Authors must disclose any potential conflict of interest for this research.