CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The Organising Committee invites submission of abstracts to be presented at the 5th Australian Microarray Conference.

You must be a registered delegate to submit an abstract for consideration for the program. Go to registration page

Authors who nominate for an oral presentation should note that the Organising Committee will attempt to comply with your request, but cannot guarantee a successful outcome to all. Speakers will be advised on the outcome of their abstract(s) by early August

Key Conference Topics

Awards

Students are actively encouraged to attend this conference and to join AMATA. Towards this goal, the following awards will be available to conference participants

AMATA Student Bursaries

AMATA have donated funds enabling the award of five bursaries of $300 each. All student applicants must be a presenting first author on an abstract for poster or oral presentation, must be a student at the time of registering for the conference, and must be members of AMATA. The bursaries are intended for students who otherwise could not afford to attend after exclusion of all other possible institutional/group assistance schemes. To qualify for a bursary, please tick the box on the registration form, provide a letter to the conference secretariat explaining your circumstances and provide evidence of student status (eg – letter from supervisor stating you have student status at the time of registration). If you need confirmation of award of a bursary before registering, you must submit the application no later than 24th June, and will receive notification by 1st July. You may also send a bursary application at the time of registering. The award will be made at the conference in the form of a cheque made payable to the recipient.

Student Poster/Talk Awards

Two awards of $275 each, donated by Agilent Technologies, and 3 mini-ipods, donated by CSIRO Bioinformatics, will be judged by the sponsors and visiting international speakers following a review of all displayed posters and talks.

AMATA Young Investigator Award

The AMATA Young Investigator Award of $1000 will be open to all investigators who are less than 35 years old of age, or within 5 years of obtaining a doctorial postgraduate degree, and are members of AMATA. The award will be judged on the scientific merit of the presentation irrespective of the mode of presentation. To nominate for consideration for the award, please ensure that you meet the criteria by including your date birth on the registration form and ticking the appropriate box.

Instructions for Submission

Abstracts must be received by 8th July 2005

  1. Please use Arial font; 10 pts
  2. List the author(s) name(s), institution(s), city and state underneath the abstract title. Where more than one author, please underline the presenting author.
  3. The abstract text should be typed single-spaced and should be no more than 300 words.
  4. Abstracts must be submitted in Microsoft Word or equivalent when emailing an attachment.
  5. Please indicate your preference for oral presentation or poster presentation.
  6. Posters are to be no greater than 1 metre x 1 metre in size and will be presented on Velcro receptive boards.

You must be a registered delegate to submit an abstract for consideration for the program

Abstracts may be submitted in two ways:

  1. Preferred method: Submit abstracts on the Conference Website according to the instructions below. Please ensure that relevant details are entered, including author’s name, presenting author, contact address, fax, email and the preferred type of presentation.
  2. Abstracts may be forwarded through the mail. Abstracts must be typed to publication standard, as indicated under “Instructions for Submission”. The original copy must be forwarded along with a copy of the abstract on disk in Microsoft Word or equivalent.
    Send to:
    Microarray Conference,
    C/ - SAPMEA Conventions,
    68 Greenhill Road,
    WAYVILLE SA 5034

Abstracts will be published in the Conference Handbook.

Online Submission

Submitting your proposal online is a two part process.

Part 1: Please enter your contact details and other information using the form below, so that these details may be added to our database.

Part 2: You must then also e-mail your proposal to us as an attached Word document, using the mail button at the bottom of the page.

Please rename your document in the form yoursurname_proposal.doc before attaching it.

Personal Details:

Title:
First Name:
Last name:
Organisation:
Position:
Address:
Address (cont):
City
State
Postcode
Phone number
Fax number
Email Address

Names of Authors or Presenters:
Principal Author/Presenter Surname:
Other Authors/Presenters:

PRESENTATION:

Title

PRESENTATION OPTIONS

Type of Presentation:

Authors who nominate for an oral presentation should note that the Organising Committee will attempt to comply with your request, but cannot guarantee a successful outcome to all.

YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD

I wish this presentation to be considered for the AMTA Young Investigator Awards

AMTA STUDENT BURSARIES

I wish to be considered for an AMTA Student Bursary

Important

When you have submitted your form, and seen the message that your form information has been sent, use the BACK button of your browser to return to this page to send your abstract.

Click Here to create a new mail message, then attach your proposal as a Word doc named in the form yoursurname_proposal.doc.

 

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