Posters Guidelines and Instructions
There will be 2 poster sessions. Session 1 is on Thursday, February 4th, from 7:00 – 9:00 PM, and Session 2 is on Saturday, February 6th, from 12:30 – 2:00 PM. Posters that are assigned an odd number will present on Thursday evening during the Welcome Reception. Posters assigned an even number will present during lunch on Saturday. We ask that you stand by your poster during your assigned session.
Successful poster presentations are those that achieve both coverage and clarity. The Congress poster sessions will provide a more intimate forum of exchange, facilitating informal discussions between authors and the attendees. Ideally, a well-constructed poster will be self-explanatory and free the author from answering obvious questions so that the focus is on the discussion between author and attendee.
Competition: Cases for Meet-the-Professor
We are soliciting interesting cases to be presented at the 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. 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 at stevens@stanford.edu by November 27, 2009.
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.
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