PROGRAM INFORMATION
Abstract Submission
All abstracts will be accepted electronically via the online abstract submission website.
The site will open for abstract submissions beginning on or about Monday, October 3, 2005.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is Monday, November 21, 2005, at 12:00 PM (midnight) United States East Coast time. Revisions may be made until Friday, November 25.
Late abstracts may be submitted from Thursday, December 1, 2005, until Friday, March 3, 2006. 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. These abstracts will not be considered for platform presentation.
Author Presentation Notifications
Platform and poster presentation assignments will be posted at the Drosophila Conference Web site http://www.drosophila-conf.org/ on or around Monday, January 23, 2006. Just before this site opens, authors will be sent an e-mail reminder to visit 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 Toney Vogel at tvogel@genetics-gsa.org.
Program and Abstracts Volume
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 on or about March 1, 2006.
All registrants receive one copy of the Program and Abstracts Volume when they arrive at the conference. Extra copies will be sold at the Conference for $15 each. Please see the Registration section for additional details.
Abstract Search and Program Planner
The Conference Abstract Search and Program Planner, available at the GSA Drosophila Conference Web site http://www.drosophila-conf.org/ on or about March 1, 2006, enables 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.
Plenary Speakers
We are delighted to announce that the following individuals will be among those giving plenary talks:
Barry Dickson
Leslie Vosshall
Marek Mlodzik
Leslie Griffith
Garry Karpen
Manfred Frasch
Gero Miesenbock
Chuck Langley
Sean Carroll
Richard Mann
Bill Chia
Larry Sandler Memorial Lecture
The Larry Sandler Memorial Lectureship was established in recognition of Dr. Larry Sandler's many contributions to Drosophila genetics and his dedication to the training of Drosophila biologists. The recipient of the 18th Larry Sandler Award for the most outstanding Ph.D. dissertation submitted this year will lecture at 8:15 PM on Wednesday evening, March 29. Click here for information on nominating candidates for this award.
Platform Sessions
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.
Poster Sessions
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 29, until Saturday evening, April 1, in the Grand Ballroom C-L of the Hilton Americas - Houston. Posters may be mounted on boards beginning at 5:00 PM on Wednesday, March 29, and must be removed by 10:00 AM on Sunday, April 2.
Poster Session Awards
Awards will be given for the best poster presentations. First place ($500), second place ($300) and third place ($200) prizes will be given to students or postdocs judged to have the best posters. Both scientific merit and clarity of presentation will be taken into account. This competition is open only to students and postdocs; PI's are not eligible.
Workshops
Rooms and times have been reserved for the presentation of workshops on Friday afternoon and Saturday evening. Individuals interested in organizing a workshop should contact the Conference chairs by October 1, 2005. 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.
Audio-Visual Equipment
Standard equipment provided without request in each plenary, workshop and platform session room includes an LCD data projector, a laser pointer and a microphone. All presentations should be made using PowerPoint or similar computer-generated slides.
All authors selected for platform presentations are required to:
- Complete a platform presenter PowerPoint information form; and
- Load and test their computer-generated presentation in the Speaker Ready Room at the meeting the day before their assigned platform session. 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.
