INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRESENTATIONS


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Language
The official language of oral and poster presentations at the meeting is English.

Abstracts
All oral and poster communicators are requested to submit an English-written abstract for publication in the program booklet. Deadline for submission is April 1, 2000. 
The abstract can only be submitted electronically either as attachment to an e-mail or send by s-mail on a floppy disk (MS-DOS-format). The secretariat can only handle files in MS-Word and Wordperfect MS-DOS format, not in Mac format. As attachment, it should be e-mailed to the registration secretariat on the address enmeeting@hetnet.nl. When presented on floppy disc, it can be s-mailed to Ms. Tini Eikelboom, Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Meibergdreef 33, 1105 AZ Amsterdam ZO, The Netherlands. Confirmation of receipt of your abstract follows immediately after proper import by the registration secretariat.  
      
Lay-out of the abstracts should be as follow: title in capitals, presenting author in italics, single, double, etc. asterisk(s) for various collaborating groups, no dots following abbreviations, body text not exceeding 300 words and at the bottom your name and affiliation (and poster session of choice if you are a poster presenter).
      
Example:

THE INFLUENCE OF EXCERCISE ON FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY OF SPINAL CORD INJURED RATS
KN Aag, J Rottenstoe*, FTJ Alcord**
Dept of  Neuroregeneration, Univ of Leiden, Leiden, *Orthopedic Clinic, AZL, Leiden, **Dept of Anatomy, Free University, Brussels, B

The failure of  significant spontaneous recovery following .............. text should not exceed 300 words.
      
Karin N. Aag, Department of Neuroregeneration, University of Leiden, Postbus 2000, 2000 NO Leiden, t 071 12345678, e-mail knaag@leidenuniv.nl
poster neuro

Note that the body text of your abstract should not exceed 300 words, otherwise it will be published in truncated form. For abstracts of poster presentations it is important to mark the poster session of choice: Endocrinology or Neuroscience, respectively on Monday June 5 or Wednesday June 7.

Oral presentations
Oral presentation times are either 15, 30 or 45 min, all including discussion time. Presentation times are indicated between brackets on the program pages. The moderator of your session will help you keep the presentation within the allotted time frame.
In all lecture rooms, slide and overhead projectors are available, and projection is taken care of by a (student) projectionist. If you wish to use a video apparatus or a beamer for projection, please mail your request to the meeting secretariat enmeeting@hetnet.nl. The organizers will then contact you to see if this can be arranged. 
All speakers are kindly requested  to place their slides in the projection turret prior to their session and to check the sequence and position of the slides. Facilities to view your slides will be available in a slide control room. The name-tagged turret should then be handed over to the projection assistant in the meeting room.

Poster presentations 
The poster session Endocrinology will be held  on Monday June 5 between 12.45 and 14.45 h (during which lunch will be served). Posters can be mounted from 09.30 h onwards, and have to be removed before Tuesday June 6 12.30 h.
The poster session Neurosciences is scheduled on Wednesday June 7 between 10.30 and 12.00 h. These posters can be mounted on Tuesday June 6 from 12.30 h onwards, and have to be removed before the end of the meeting. 
Poster boards are sized 100 cm wide x 120 cm high. Posters have to be mounted using drawing pins, which are available at the poster session site. 

Poster awards
For both the Endocrinology and Neuroscience poster session two poster awards are available. Poster selection committees appointed by respectively the Netherlands Society for Endocrinology and the Dutch Neurofederation will announce the winners in Poster Award ceremonies on respectively Monday and Wednesday afternoon.


language | abstracts | oral presentations | poster presentations | poster awards