Venue
The meeting will be held at the main plenary halls and in the foyer of the Irchel Campus (see the link below for instructions).
University of Zurich
Campus Irchel
Winterthurerstrasse 190
8057 Zurich
The campus is easily accessible by public transportation (tram lines 7, 9, 10 and 14).
A car park is available on the campus.
Abstract Submission
Speakers selected from abstracts will be informed until the 10th of January, 2017!
Abstract submission deadline (extended): 12 December 2016
General registration deadline without poster: 9 January 2017
Poster size is A0 (portrait format, height 120 cm, width 90 cm).
A special session will be dedicated to poster presentations on Thursday, 2nd of February from 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm, accompanied by snacks and music. In 2017, posters will be grouped in poster islands and will be displayed back to back with 7 other posters in the Lichthof foyer area throughout the entire conference.
Poster submission is only possible after confirmed registration through our website (register here). Please write your poster abstracts in English. Be careful with special characters, no copy-editing will be done after submission. The maximum abstract length is 250 words. All abstracts must be submitted via the online abstract submission system, incomplete submissions will not be considered.
Accepted abstracts will be published electronically but only abstract titles and authors will be printed in the final program book.
Abstracts submitted for posters may be selected for short oral presentations (approx. 15min) as part of each symposium or for flash talks (5 min) by a scientific committee. If you do not wish to be selected for an oral presentation, please indicate in the appropriate checkbox on the abstract submission form.
If you do not wish to be selected for an oral presentation, please let us know after registration with a short mail to: info@ls2.ch
If you are selected for an oral presentation, you will be contacted with further details by the society organizing the symposium.
Poster Prize
Selected LS² sections and guest societies will award poster prizes for outstanding research in their respective fields.
The poster award session will take place on Friday, 3rd of February, from 4.30 pm to 5.15 pm in the main plenary hall.
Organising Committee
Contact Information
Event Organizers:
LS² – Life Sciences Switzerland
House of Academies
Laupenstrasse 7
CH- 3008 Bern
Organizing Committee:
Didier Picard (University of Geneva), Chairman of the LS2 Annual Meeting 2017
Carolin von Schoultz, Scientific Officer LS2
Contact Info and Postal Address:
LS² – Life Sciences Switzerland
University of Zurich
Institute of Molecular Life Sciences
Winterthurerstrasse 190
8057 Zürich
info@ls2.ch