Abstract Submission

1. Requirement for Presenter
2. How to Submit Abstracts Online
3. Presentation type
4. Young Presenters Award

1.Requirement for Presenter

1. Membership of the Japanese Society for Developmental Biologists or the Japan Society for Cell Biology is required. If you are a non-member, please complete membership application procedure beforehand.
   ※Except appointed speakers for Joint Keynote Symposium and Symposia.
2. You can be a presenter for only one paper through whole programs. However, you can be a co-author for other papers.

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2.How to Submit Abstracts Online

1.How to submit

Click “Abstract Submission” button shown at the bottom of this page and enter necessary information.
In the process of your abstract submission, you are required to enter your registration ID. If you do not register yet, please complete registration procedure for participation first.

2. Online Submission System

Your abstract is submitted via UMIN system. If you have any questions regarding the system, please refer to the FAQ page in the UMIN system.

Necessary information:

• Choose “Apply（Non-PI only）” or “Do not apply（PI / Others (who don't want to be a candidate for Young Presenters Award)” at the [Qualification for JSDB 45th & JSCB 64th Young Presenters Award for Excellent Poster/Oral Presentation] on the Abstract Submission page.
• Choose “D” for Developmental Biology or “C” for Cell Biology at the [Fields]. If your presentation relates both “D” and “C”, or if you are not sure about which field your presentation belongs, you may choose either “D” or “C” which you think is more appropriate.

3. Membership ID

Membership ID of presenter will be required. If you forget it, please contact the society secretariat you belong.
If you are a non-menber for Joint Keynote Symposium/Symposium, please input 「11」.

4. Languages

Title, author(s), affiliation(s), and abstract body must be entered in English. All presentations must be made in English as well.
However, only oral presentations of Joint Young Scientist Session (Day 0) will be made in Japanese.

5. Length of Abstract

Abstract body should be written in English. Also, it is required to be less than 2,315 one-byte characters including title, author(s), affiliation(s), and body.

6. Abstract Submission ID / Password

Please keep your abstract submission ID and password. You will need both of them when you need to make corrections to submitted information and abstract body. Please note that corrections can not be made after the deadline.

7. Confirmation Notice of Abstract Submission

Notice will be sent to you by email when you complete abstract submission successfully.
Please check your email box after the submission. If you do not receive the notice, you may have registered wrong email address or the abstract submission may not have been completed successfully.
In this case, please log in to check your registered email address and make corrections if it is necessary.
Please start over the abstract submission if your submission has not been completed successfully.

8. Edit / Withdrawal of Submitted Abstracts

You can edit / withdraw submitted abstracts via online with abstract submission ID and password only during the open period. You will receive the notice of edit / withdrawal by email when completed too.
No edit / withdrawal is acceptable after the deadline.

9. Notice of Acceptance / Rejection

Notice will be sent to you by email in early April, 2012. We recommend you to register mail address other than free mail address. The notice may not be sent to you successfully if you register free mail address.

10. Alphabetical notation of authors’ names

On the author index page, names of authors will be shown in alphabetical order by alphabetical notation of authors’ names which you enter at abstract submission.
The names of one author cannot be shown consecutively in the index page, if the alphabetical notions of her / his name are entered differently.

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3. Presentation type

Submitted abstracts for poster presentation are evaluated by the program committee and are selected for the platform presentation in the following 1)～4) presentation types.

1) Joint Workshop
2) Poster Flash Talk
3) Workshop
4) Joint Young Scientist Session (Japanese)
5) Poster Presentation

1） Joint Workshop

Joint workshop is a special session held in a large auditorium in order to promote active discussion between cell biologists and developmental biologists. Twenty-four of 15 minutes talks will be selected. Also, Young Presenters Award for Excellent Oral Presentation will be awarded to 4 excellent presentations which attract many scientists.

2） Poster Flash Talk

The papers which are regrettably not selected for Joint Workshop but selected at the second-selection, will be presented as Short Talk.
This is a five-minutes talk for presenting essential background and key finding of a poster. As this Poste Flash Talk is scheduled right after Joint Keynote Symposium in the same room, this will be the great opportunity to make an appeal to them. The presenters of Poster Flash Talk are selected from the abstracts which are submitted to “Joint Workshop” by the program committee.

3） Workshop

Poster abstracts are selected for regular Workshop talks.　Those who submit to “Workshop” should choose your research fields as 1st choice and 2nd choice from Workshop / Poster Topics in the online abstract submission system. Please refer the list of Workshop / Poster Topics below.

4） Joint Young Scientist Session (Japanese)

Young Japanese scientists submitting poster abstracts are able to apply for presentation in this session. FIfty-four of 10 minutes talks will be selected for oral presentation. Selected abstracts will be presented as both oral presentation in Japanese (Day 0) and poster presentation in English (Day 1).
Note that those who submit to "Joint Young Scientist Session" are NOT able to apply for other oral presentations including the Joint Workshop (Day1), and other Workshops (Day 2-3).

5） Poster Presentation

Presenters(*1) are expected to make poster presentation.
*1 Except appointed speakers for Plenary Lecture, Joint Keynote Symposium and Symposia.
Poster and poster presentation must be made all in English.

～The list of Workshop / Poster Topics～

00. Joint Poster Session at Day 1

01. Evolution / Diversity / Early development / Morphogen

02. Regeneration / Gametogenesis / Stem cells

03. Organogenesis / Body axis formation

04. Systems biology

05. Intracellular trafficking / Organelles / Life of Proteins

06. High-technology and Bioimaging

07. Signal transduction / Cell proliferation / Differentiation / Cell death / Cell nucleus / Chromosome

08. Cell polarity / Cytoskeletons / Cell migration / Cell motility

09. Multicellular construction and Morphogenesis

10. Gene expression and Epigenetics

11. Cell-Cell interaction / Cell adhesion / Extracellular matrix

12. Neural function and development

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4. Young Presenters Award

Young Presenters Award will be given to excellent oral and poster presentations made by young scientists on Day 1.

1） Young Presenters Award for Excellent Oral Presentation

Young Presenters Award will be given to 4 excellent oral presentations made by young scientists at Joint Workshop which attract many scientists. Please see the explanation of Joint Workshop for the details of application.

2） Young Presenters Award for Excellent Poster Presentation

Among young scientists presenting posters at Day 1, Young Presenters Award will be given to those who make excellent poster presentations, which attract many scientists beyond the fields of research. Those who wish to be a candidate for this award should choose “Apply（Non-PI only）” for entry at the [Qualification for JSDB 45th & JSCB 64th Young Presenters Award for Excellent Poster/Oral Presentation] on the online abstract submission system.

Click the button below for Young Presenters Award for Excellent Presentation in Japanese.

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