Abstract Submission Guidlines
Deadline November 15, 2007

We encourage all conference attendees to submit an abstract describing their own research. The investigators submitting the top three abstracts reviewed by the Scientific Committee will be invited to deliver a 10 minute oral presentation to the entire conference, while the remainder of the investigators will present their accepted abstracts as posters. The overall best abstract submitted will be awarded the 3rd Advances Against Aspergillosis Scientific Investigator Award, while the best judged abstract from a young investigator will be awarded the 3rd Advances Against Aspergillosis Young Investigator Award. Each winner will receive an award plaque as well as a $500 prize.

There will be two dedicated poster sessions with drinks and snacks where half of the posters will be viewed during each session so as to maximize the number of interested scientists who can visit each poster. As in previous years, there will be teams of senior scientists assigned to specifically visit each poster so that all those who present a poster will have the opportunity to discuss their work. This will provide graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior investigators with an opportunity to showcase their research and to interact with more senior investigators.

Full-time students and post-doctoral fellows will be considered for a limited number of travel scholarships. These will be awarded on the basis of scientific merit, based on the abstracts that are submitted.

Abstracts will be accepted up to November 15, 2007 and all submitters will be notified of their abstract acceptance status by December 5, 2007.  Specific poster dimensions and date and time allotted for viewing will be forwarded by the conference planner in December, 2007.

Please click here to submit your abstract online.

Type the title of the abstract in CAPITAL LETTERS. List all authors immediately following the title. Place an asterisk before the name of the presenter, and list institutional affiliations following the list of authors. Abstracts should be a maximum of 400 words, single-spaced and left justified, and should abide by the following format: Purpose, Methods, Results, Conclusions.

Abstracts accepted for the meeting will be published in the future 3rd Advances Against Aspergillosis Conference Proceedings supplement.

Competition: Cases for Meet-the-Professor  (Dr. George Sarosi)

We are soliciting interesting cases to be presented to Dr. Sarosi in his Meet-the-Professor session.  These can be clinical cases on any aspect of aspergillosis in humans that present a diagnostic or management issue, or both.  They can be presented as “unknowns” (Stump-the-Professor), or as complete cases that would allow discussion and commentary.  Cases that would elicit audience participation and input are especially desired.  The competition is open to all, including students, physicians in training and physicians in practice.  The cases selected will be chosen by the Scientific Committee.  As an incentive, the submitters of the cases selected will receive free registration for the meeting, a ticket for themselves and an accompanying person to the social event, and their name will be listed in the official program as a case presenter under the Meet-the-Professor session, the case summary will be listed in the abstract book with their name, and the submitter may be listed as a co-author of the summary of the Meet-the-Professor session that will appear in the published Supplement arising from the meeting. These incentives are not mutually exclusive with any scholarships applied for and won, and can be combined with any scholarship awarded to you, and any overlap can be transferred to a colleague.

Encourage your colleagues to apply for this competition.  To apply, submit a synopsis of the case you propose to present (limit one page summary) to Dr. David Stevens or Dr. Larry Mirels at stevens@stanford.edu by November 15, 2007.

It has come to our notice that the time required for acquiring a US immigration visa to enter the US is now in excess of 3 months, and may be as long as 4 months. If you are planning to attend the meeting, and need a visa, we will offer a rapid acceptance process of abstracts to facilitate your visa application. All abstracts will still go through the same rigorous scientific review, only expedited. Please submit your abstract online as soon as you can (we will accept a single modified abstract up to the abstract deadline). Please also send an e-mail to cfeather@ucsd.edu requesting a letter of acceptance for your visa, with your name and address and title of your abstract. This will be processed rapidly.

An alternative approach for those not planning on sending an abstract, but who would like to attend (which may be less reliable in term of getting a visa) is to e-mail either Dr. Denning (ddenning@manchester.ac.uk) or Dr. Steinbach (stein022@mc.duke.edu) requesting a letter of support. Your e-mail should contain your name, title, work address and any detail on your interest in Aspergillus or aspergillosis that can be pasted into the body of a support letter (e.g. working on Aspergillus for my PhD, treating many patients with aspergillosis, providing a clinical diagnostic service for patients infected with Aspergillus, etc). As a conference we will do all that we can to facilitate your attendance.