To: Those who are interested in the Molecular Medicine Day (members and non-members).
Registration and submission of abstracts for the Molecular Medicine Day

Dear Colleagues,

The 14th Molecular Medicine Day will be held on Thursday 4th of March 2010. This Annual Day will feature oral presentations and posters presented by PhD-students, Postdocs and Research Technicians of all the departments of the Research School. This event gives a very good overview of the variety of research being conducted at the different departments. There will also be a keynote session.
This year the keynote lecture will be given by Dr. Eric Schadt, Chief Scientific Officer of Pacific Biosciences, and PI at Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, WA, USA, on: “An Integrative Biology Approach to Reverse Engineering Living Systems” (preliminary title).
The day ends with drinks and a dinner (free!). The location of the meeting is Congress Centre and Hotel Restaurant Engels next to Rotterdam Central station.

Hereby we invite all PhD-students, Postdocs and Research Technicians from the Postgraduate School Molecular Medicine, to register for this day and to submit an abstract for either a poster or an oral presentation. As always we try to show the variety of research topics of the School during both oral and poster presentations.

Deadline abstract submission
Your abstract can only be submitted via this website: http://www.molmed.nl. The deadline for abstract submission is: Wednesday 20 January 2010.
From all the submitted abstracts, 14 will be selected for oral presentation of which approx. 10 will be from PhD students and 4 from Postdocs and Research Technicians.

Deadline registration without abstract
Registrations without abstract can be done until 26 February 2010, and only via this website: http://www.molmed.nl.

Please read the below-mentioned carefully before submitting your abstract!

PREPARATION OF THE ABSTRACT

• Abstracts should contain a maximum of 3000 characters for the whole text including all the spaces (which is about 450 words). We use a standard abstract format of four paragraphs with separate headings.
• Please only insert text, NO HEADINGS, because these are made automatically.
• Do NOT USE hard returns at the end of the lines.
• Your TITLE in CAPITAL LETTERS should give a clear indication of the research and refer to the actual content of the abstract.
• Avoid non-standard abbreviations in the title.
• Please indicate a suitable topic for your abstract (i.e. infectious diseases, immunology etc.)
• If you use any non-standard text in your abstract (e.g. Greek alphabet, symbols or superscript), please notify us per email as well (to: molmed@erasmusmc.nl).

ADDITIONAL: Authors/affiliations/headings/keywords/research themes

• For each author of your abstract, type the first name followed by his or her initials and surname. Underline the name of the presenting author. Use a new line to specify the name of the department(s) and institute(s) of the various authors.
• The abstract content has a maximum of 3000 characters including spaces. For the abstract content, use the four headings of the format on the website: (1) Introduction; (2) Materials & methods; (3) Results; (4) Discussion & conclusion. Add 5 keywords at the end.
• Indicate which sub-theme of the Molecular Medicine School suits best the research, based on the four main themes of the school:
  • Endocrinology & Aging;
  • Hematopoiesis & Lymphopoiesis;
  • Solid Tumours;
  • Infections & Host Responses.
• Indicate whether you are a PhD student, Postdoc, Research technician, etc.
• Indicate at the bottom of your abstract whether you prefer an oral or a poster presentation, and if you will allow us to publish your abstract on the website of the school as well.

Registration with abstract
PLEASE NOTE THAT REGISTRATION AND SUBMISSION OF AN ABSTRACT MUST BE DONE AT THE SAME TIME. If you registered first without an abstract, and you want to submit an abstract later, YOU WILL HAVE TO REGISTER AGAIN ENTIRELY BUT THIS TIME WITH YOUR ABSTRACT. We will then need to cancel your first registration without the abstract. So, please try to avoid this!

PREPARATION OF THE POSTER: (Please read this carefully!)

• Write your poster in English.
• The poster size should be A-0 (118,90x84,10 cm in portrait).
• We will plan a poster walk with poster presentations by everyone who has a poster. Please be present during this poster walk to present your poster and the underlying research.
  
  

If you may have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact us.
Otherwise, we hope to see you all the 14th Mol Med Day of 4 March at Congress Centre Engels!

With best regards,
The Molecular Medicine Day Organising Committee

To be reached at:
molmed@erasmusmc.nl
Room Ae-4.13
PO Box 2040
3000 CA Rotterdam
Tel.: 010-70 38053

Contact:
Frank van Vliet
Managing Director Molecular Medicine