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Call for Abstracts

The deadline for abstract submission is November 25th, 2008.
Authors will be notified by December 15th, 2008 whether their abstracts has been accepted, and they will
be informed at the same time about the date, time and form of their presentation. The final programme will
be published on the meeting website.
The Scientific Commitee reserves the right to make the final decision concerning form of presentation but
authors are asked to indicate their preference.

At the meeting

There will be facilities for you to view and edit your presentation in the Slide Center Room. Presenter are
asked to checked their Power Point presentations to the Slide Center Room at least two hours before the
session (or the day before for morning session). Your presentations will then be trasferred to the central server.
All presentation will be deleted from the server at the end of the meeting unless otherwise request.

Slide content and design

Disclosure
If the research was supported by a pharmaceutical company you must indicate the company’s role in analysing the data or preparing the slides.

1. Material on slides must be of an adequate size to be seen clerly by all delegates
2. It is recommended thet each slide contains no more then seven lines of next and no more than seven words per line.
3. If showing graphs, tables or charts:
- Do not make them too crowded
- Complex figures should be broken up into series
- Limit the number of captions
- Use rounded figures
 4. As a rough guide, we suggest you allow no more than two slides per minute of your talk
5. Slides are easier to read when there is a high contract between the next and the background

Organising your Poster

Disclosure
If the research was supported by a pharmaceutical company you must indicate the company's role in analysing the data or preparing the poster.

Title: The title of your submitted abstract
Authors: Who was involved and their affiliations
Introduction: A statement about the aims and objectives of the study
Methods: A description of the methodology that you have adopted, including any assumptions
Results: Include examples of the main results of the study
Conclusions: List the main findings and your thoughts about how the work could be progressed furthertop