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Program Information
All abstracts will be accepted electronically via the World Wide Web. The site will open for abstract submissions beginning on or about Friday, September 26, 2003. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Monday, November 17, 2003, at 12:00 midnight on Monday night, U.S. East Coast time. Revisions may be made until Wednesday, November 19. Late abstracts may be submitted from Tuesday, November 25, 2003, until Monday, March 1, 2004. Submission of late abstracts must be via the late abstract submission program on the Conference Web site. If accepted, these abstracts will not appear in the program and abstracts volume but will be printed in the program addendum distributed at the meeting. Accepted late abstracts will be assigned poster presentations and given space at the back of the poster area, rather than in the requested area of interest.
Platform and poster presentation assignments will be posted at the Drosophila Conference Web site on or around Monday, January 12, 2004. Just before this site opens, authors will be sent an e-mail reminder to go to the site for platform and poster presentation assignments. Individual notifications by written letter or by e-mail will not be sent unless specifically requested. Send such requests to Marsha Ryan at: mryan@genetics-gsa.org
The entire contents of the program and abstracts volume, including the text of all abstracts, will be available at the GSA Drosophila Conference Web site in early February 2004. All registrants receive one copy of the program and abstracts volume. Extra copies will be sold at the Conference for $15 each. Please see the Registration section for additional details.
The Conference Abstract Search and Program Planner, available at the GSA Drosophila Conference Web site on or about February 23, 2004, enable the user to search (by keyword, author and abstract title), view and print all abstracts. The program will also permit the user to select abstracts of interest to create a day-by-day, session-by-session personal Conference itinerary. Please direct any questions about this program to Krista Koziol, GSA publications manager at kkoziol@genetics-gsa.org
We are delighted to announce that the following individuals will be among those giving plenary talks at the Conference:
The program committee will select a subset of abstracts for platform presentations, basing their selections on several criteria, including research area, scientific impact and laboratory representation. Authors of abstracts should indicate their preference for either a platform or a poster presentation by marking the appropriate field on the Web abstract submission form. Note, however, that the program committee will determine the final designation of platform or poster presentations. Because platform presentation requests far exceed available presentation slots (only 10-15% of all abstracts received can be accommodated in platform sessions), authors should be prepared to present a poster if their abstract is not selected for a platform presentation. Each platform presentation will be limited to a 12- minute presentation, with an additional 3 minutes for questions and discussion. To fairly accommodate the large number of requests for platform presentations, authors presenting a talk in a platform session may not present the same work in a workshop. Any author offered positions in both forums is expected to decline or withdraw from one.
The majority of the submitted abstracts will be scheduled as posters. Poster presenters WILL BE REQUIRED to attend their posters for multiple sessions. The poster area will be open 24 hours a day beginning at 5:00 pm, Wednesday, March 24, until Saturday evening, March 27, in the lower level Exhibition Hall of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. Posters may be mounted on boards beginning at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, March 24, and must be removed by 10:00 am on Sunday, March 28.
Rooms and times have been reserved for the presentation of workshops on Saturday evening. Individuals interested in organizing a workshop should contact the Conference chairs by October 1, 2003. At that time, workshop organizers should provide a preliminary format. Authors presenting a talk in a workshop may not present the same work in a platform session.
Standard equipment provided without request in each plenary, workshop and platform session room includes an LCD data projector, a lectern, a laser pointer and a microphone. All presentations should be made using PowerPoint or similar computer-generated slides. All authors selected for platform presentations who plan to make a computer-generated presentation are required to: 1. Complete a platform presenter PowerPoint information form; and 2. Load and test their computer-generated presentation in the Speaker Ready Room at the conference on the day before their assigned platform session, according to the IT specialist's instructions. Further details will be posted at the abstract assignment notification Web site. As in the past, each platform presenter will be given 12 minutes for presentation and an additional 3 minutes for questions and discussion.
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Abstract Submission