Congress delegates are cordially invited to submit abstracts of their scientific work for presentation as a free communication at 4th EUROPEAN CONGRESS of VIROLOGY. Each registered delegate is entitled to submit a maximum of 1 abstract as presenting author. The presenting author of an abstract must register and pay for the Congress before submitting the abstract. Any further presented abstract will be subject to an additional fee of 100 euro.
Abstracts can be submitted on all fields of General Medicine, Clinical Veterinary, Plant Virology. A specified topic list can be found hereafter. Presentation of free communications is predominantly by poster. A limited number of abstracts will be selected for an oral presentation in the congress symposia. Authors wishing to compete for these oral communication slots should mark the appropriate field on the on-line abstract submission form. Properly submitted abstracts will be sent to experts for review and selection for oral communication.

General requirements

The text must be clear, concise and written in proper English;
The content must not have been previously published in academic journals.
Abstracts should highlight results.
Abstracts should be structured and include:

Title and affiliations
A brief introduction stating the purpose of the investigation and its relevance
A brief description of experimental approaches
results
conclusions
the word count of the body of the abstract as generated by the MS-Word/extra/word count feature.

Abstracts may be no longer than 250 words (Title, Authors’ names and affiliations excluded).

Abstracts must be prepared as Word documents

GENERAL INFORMATION

Deadline for receipt

Abstracts must be submitted within 1st December 2009, 18:30 Milan time.
Anyway, earlier submission of abstracts is welcome.

Confirmation of receipt

Receipt of the abstracts will be acknowledged by numbered e-mail immediately after submission.

Notification

Authors will be notified of selection as oral communication or poster of their abstracts by 20th January 2010.

Registration

The presenting author of an abstract must register and pay for the Congress no later than 1st December 2009. If payment is not received by this deadline the submitted abstract will not be evaluated by the scientific committee.
Each registered delegate is entitled to submit a maximum of 1 abstract as presenting author. Any further presented abstract will be subject to an additional fee of 100 euro.

Abstract publication

Titles of all accepted abstracts will be published in the Final Program of the Congress.
Texts will be printed in electronic format which will be distributed onsite.

HOW TO PREPARE AND SEND AN ABSTRACT

It is important to carefully follow the instructions indicated below. Incorrectly prepared abstracts cannot be processed.
IMPORTANT: Do not send an abstract more than once!

Abstracts can be submitted by the Internet only using the on line web form.
Abstracts must be prepared offline in advance since you will be asked to upload a complete file at step 2 of the online abstracts submission procedure.
Abstracts may be no longer than 250 words (Title, Authors’ names and affiliations excluded).
Abstracts must be prepared as Word documents as follows:

Word version: MS Word for Windows version 2000 (.doc)
Font: Arial
Font dimension: 8pt
Symbols:

"Symbol" font can be accepted if enclosed as follows ONLY: select "Symbol" from the "Insert" menu. Then select "Arial" or, if Arial is not provided, "Normal text" in the "Type of font" box. You can now look for your symbol and insert it in your abstract. IMPORTANT: if the symbol is selected from any other Font type, it will be turned into an unidentified sign when printed out. For a final check, please select all the text of your abstract ("Select all" from the "Edit" menu) and check if the Font box shows "Arial" font. If not, it means that you have included a font different from "Arial". In this last case, please check your abstract and identify where the different font has been used. This font must be replaced by an "Arial" symbol font.

Tables and figures: tables and figures are not allowed
Title: the title should be brief and specific; please do not use abbreviations. Use bold font and capital letters.
Body of the abstract: the body of the abstract should not exceed 250 words, (approximately 1500 characters, spaces included). Please note that the word and characters count of the BODY of the abstract does not include title, authors’ names and affiliations. The text must be left justified and single-spaced. Paragraphs and indentations must be avoided. “Background”, “Methods”, “Results” and “Conclusions” must start on a new line (see “Model abstract”).
Authors: authors’ names must be written in plain font. Authors’ name must start with the initial(s) to be followed by the second names. The author presenting the abstract at the congress must be underlined. Each author must indicate department, institution, town and country (no country abbreviation before postal code). Please indicate the E-mail address of the corresponding author at the end (see “Model abstract”). In case of more than one affiliation, it is necessary to add superscript numbers to each author name and precede each affiliation with the corresponding superscript number. NB: run on and do not start a new line with a new affiliation!
Abbreviations: use standard abbreviations only. When you use non-standard abbreviations, spell out the full word at first mentioning and insert the abbreviation in parentheses. Then use the abbreviation consistently.

Abstract authors are asked to indicate a first and a second choice of the most suitable topic for presentation of their work. They will also be asked to select whether they prefer to submit a poster or an oral presentation.

The list of Topics is the following:

Epidemiology and evolution
Viral infections in transplant recipients and pregnancy
Parvovirus B19
Viral gastroenteritis
Diagnostics and Molecular Typing
Antivirals and resistance
Emerging viruses
Zoonoses
Respiratory viruses and infections - Negative strand RNA viruses
RNA Viruses
Retroviruses (HTLV)
HIV
Hepatitis Viruses
DNA Viruses - Papilloma viruses - Poxviruses ADENO
Herpesviruses
Virus structure, assembly and exit
Viral glycoproteins, receptors and entry
Virus-host interactions
Transcription, siRNA and miRNA
Plant viruses
Systems biology of viruses
Intrinsic and innate immunity and pathogenesis
Adaptive immunity and immune prevention
Viral persistence immune evasion
Viral oncology - Oncolytic viruses - Viral vectors and gene therapy
Endogenous retroviruses, neurovirology, and diseases and pararetroviruses

Click here to download the Model Abstract

For answers to any specific questions, contact the Organising Secretariat MZ CONGRESSI:
Fax: +39-026686699 - E-mail: posters@eurovirology2010.org

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