Abstract Submission & Poster Prizes

LS2 Annual Meeting 2018

Metabolism & Signaling in the Life Sciences

12 – 13 February 2018
Amphipôle/Amphimax, University of Lausanne (UNIL)

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Abstract Submission & Poster Prizes

Final Floor Plan with poster locations

Please find the location of your poster on the plan below.

Update January 15, 2018: Please note that upon multiple requests, the full abstracts will NOT be published on this website, nor sent to participants before. The abstract titles, authors & affiliations can be found on  https://annual-meeting.ls2.ch/program in the pdf of the Meeting Booklet, which will be printed and distributed on-site. Full abstracts are only shown on the posters itself.

 

+++ All presenters chosen from abstracts have been informed by email on December 22, 2017. All abstract submissions are eligible to present a poster at the meeting (including the ones that in addition have been chosen for a talk) +++

  • The poster size is A0 (portrait format, height 120 cm, width 90 cm).
  • A special session will be dedicated to poster presentations on Thursday, February 12, 2018 from 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm, accompanied by a big Apéro, starting right after the Science Crowdfunding event.
  • Based on the success during the 2017 edition, posters will be grouped in poster islands and will be displayed throughout the entire conference.
  • Poster submission is only possible after confirmed registration through our website
  • The language for the poster abstracts is 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.

  • Abstracts submitted for posters may be selected for oral presentations (approx. 15min) or for flash talks (5 min) by the chairs of the symposia. 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 are selected for an oral presentation, you have already been contacted in December 2017.

  • Update 15 January 2018: Please note that upon multiple requests, the full abstracts will NOT be published on this website, nor sent to participants before. The abstract titles, authors & affiliations can be found on  https://annual-meeting.ls2.ch/program in the pdf of the Meeting Booklet, which will be printed and distributed on-site. Full abstracts are only shown on the posters itself.

Poster Prizes

Selected LS2 sections and partner/guest societies will award poster prizes for outstanding research in their respective fields:

Submitted abstracts, in case they fit the field of research, automatically enter the competition for the following poster prizes:

  • The “Swiss Young Cell Biologist of the Year”, awarded by the LS2 section MCB, which consists of a free registration to the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) Meeting 2018, Dec 8-12, 2018, San Diego, CA and 1400 CHF of travel support to the meeting!

  • The Journal of General Virology (JGV) poster prize to a young virologist

  • The Physiology Poster prize, awarded by the LS2 section Physiology and realized by the Physiology department of UNIGE

  • The Swiss Society for Experimental Pharmacology (SSEP) will offer a poster prize of 500 CHF 
  • The Autophagy poster prize, sponsored by "Cells", the Open Access Journal by MDPI. This prize includes a free publication of a manuscript in "Cells" in 2018 (that is equal to 550 CHF)

The poster award session will take place on Friday, 13rd of February, from 4.30 pm to 5.15 pm in the Amphimax main plenary hall.