Travel Awards and Abstract Submission
TRAVEL AWARDS
The NIDDK will provide a small number of travel awards (to assist in offsetting travel costs) that will be available to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers/fellows who present abstracts.
If you would like to apply for a travel award, please include a short cover letter containing a brief biographical sketch along with your abstract, and indicate whether you would prefer to present your work as a talk, poster, or both. Recipients will be notified by October 17, 2008, on selections and travel award winners.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Abstracts will be reviewed and selected for the poster session by the organizing committee. The abstract submission deadline is October 3, 2008.
Please follow the instructions below to submit an abstract for consideration:
- To submit your abstract, send it via email to Ms. Maria Smith at msmith@scgcorp.com with, “Oxalate Homeostasis Meeting” in the subject line; attach your abstract as an MS Word document to the email, along with any comments, by October 3, 2008.
- Include the title, all authors (presenting author should be clearly underlined), department affiliation, university, city, state/province, country, Zip Code/postal code. Please type the abstract title in bold font, Title Case Letters.
- The abstract should include a statement of the problem, purpose, methods, results, next steps, and conclusions (sufficient experimental detail to assess the relevance of the work). Please acknowledge appropriate funding sources for your research.
- Abstracts should be limited to one page.
Students and postdoctoral researchers/fellows are encouraged to attend this workshop. Presenters for short talks and travel award recipients will be chosen from among submitted abstracts on the basis of the quality and significance of the research.
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