Call for Abstracts

You are invited to submit an abstract for an oral or poster presentation in one of the session topics listed below. All abstracts from registered delegates will be accepted, space permitting.

We encourage students in the early stages of their research to present posters.

Abstracts will only be accepted from registered delegates. Please register when submitting your abstract.

The deadline for early registration and abstract submission is 1 May 2008.

Oral Presentations

Please prepare your oral presentation to be delivered using Microsoft PowerPoint on a computer running a Microsoft Windows operating system.

Posters

Please design posters with maximum dimensions 110 cm X 110 cm.

Session Topics

Please choose a maximum of two preferred session topics per submission and list these in order of preference when submitting your abstract (below).

• Teaching genetics and evolution
  
• Cytogenetics
  
• Molecular genetics
  
• Gene expression
  
• Microbial genetics
  
• Immunogenetics
  
• Developmental genetics
  
• Behavioural genetics
  
• Animal models of human genetic diseases
  
• Comparative genomics
  
• Bioinformatics
  
• Quantitative genetics
  
• Population and evolutionary genetics
  
• Rates of evolution
  
• Molecular systematics and biogeography
  

Abstracts

Your abstract should be submitted as a Microsoft Word file and must contain 200 words or less. Please follow the example given here in formatting your abstract.