The Scientific Committee invites the submission of abstracts to be considered for poster presentation. Authors are requested to send their abstract by e-mail by May 15, 2010 to the following address:

chloe.xilinas@seronosymposia.org

Submission procedure
Abstracts must be written in English. Abstracts should be 1 page in length and include the title of the presentation, the author’s names, the name of the institution, the city and country.

The abstract should be structured with an

• Introduction: informative and short;
• Material and Methods: indicating the location, number and type of human subjects, non-human species or material being studied, the principal procedures, assays, tests or treatments performed;
• Results: confirming or refuting the hypothesis, supported by statistics if appropriate;
• Conclusions: stating the major new findings of the study and specifying what these findings add to what is known already.

Abbreviations can be used after defining them first.

The use of graphs, tables and images is strongly discouraged.

Abstract title: do not use capital letters and do not indent. The title should reflect the contents and should be no longer than 150 characters.

Authors: list the authors with initials first, followed by family name (i.e. B. Jones; J. Smith; and A. Simpson). Include the affiliation. Do not include professional titles or degrees.

Font: use font Times New Roman, size 12, and line spacing 1.5.

The Scientific Committee will review the submitted abstracts and choose the best abstracts for a poster session at the meeting and for publication on the congress abstract book to be distributed on-site to all participants.

Topic choice
Authors are urged to carefully consider the list of topics, before indicating the single most appropriate topic for their abstract.