Information

Registration

Registrations will be open from 7 July 2014 until 20 October 2014.

The registration fee covers coffee breaks, 1 dinner on Friday (28 November), 1 lunch on Saturday (29 November), and a room for 1 night (including breakfast) at the NH Parma; city tax at € 2.00 per night per person is not included and must be paid at check out by each participant. The available packages are indicated below.

*Available exclusively to participants from Parma; please contact the organisers to make this option available during the payment procedure in your personal myCBDC2014 page.

**VAT exempt.

If, to benefit from the reduced rate, you plan to apply for membership, please remember that you must do so strictly before 6 October 2014. Applications for membership that reach the ABCD after that date will be normally processed, but you will not be able to benefit from the reduced fee for this meeting. For details on memberships, visit the ABCD website.

Registration fee payments received after the deadline will be subject to a late payment charge of 30 EUR, which will be added to the total cost.

NB: The payment date is considered as the date in which payment is credited to the ABCD account (not when the payment procedure is initiated; please take this into account, especially if your payment is being processed by your administration).

Payment

Upon registration, a confirmation e-mail is sent to you; this message contains, amongst other information, a reference code. Please do not process your payment without this reference code—thank you for your cooperation.

Payment is possible by credit card or bank transfer. Further details about the payment procedure are available through your personal myCBDC2014 page.

Cancellations and refunds

Cancellations with a refund request must be sent by e-mail to the secretariat and must be accompanied by a valid justification. Refunds will be decided case by case by the organising secretariat. If accepted, cancellations within 24 October 2014 will be refunded fully, minus an administrative charge of 30 EUR; cancellations within 31 October 2014 will be refunded only by 50% of the total package price; no refunds will be provided after 31 October 2014.

Abstracts

Abstracts are accepted exclusively online either during registration or, after registration, through your personal myCBDC2014 page (you will need to register to have access to the latter).

Only one abstract per participant is allowed. The abstract should be submitted by the presenting author only.

Abstracts guidelines:

• the title must start in uppercase and continue in lowercase, except for conventional terms (ATP, DNA, NFκB, etc). Example:
  This title is written correctly
  This Title is Not Properly Written
  ALSO THIS TITLE IS WRONG
• if more than one author, underline your name (the presenting author, in whatever position you appear in the author list) and use commas to separate the names; do not use 'and' before the last author. The presenting author's first name(s) and surname should be written in full; for all other authors, write first name(s) as initials and surname in full. If more than one affiliation, use sequential superscript numbers to identify each institution. Example:
  M. Rossi¹, J. Doe², F. Bloggs^{1,2
  1}Dept Biomembranes, Golgi & Veratti Univ., Pavia, Italy
  ²Dept Bioblast Analyses, Altmann Univ., Leipzig, Germany
• the abstract text must be no longer than 2000 characters, spaces included (which is roughly equivalent to 250 words).

The abstract submission deadline is 20 October 2014. The organisers will then review the received abstracts and select oral presentations.

Fellowship

To help towards meeting expenses, the ABCD provides fellowships to young scientists (under 35 years of age at the start of the meeting), who are junior or regular ABCD members (with the 2014 membership paid). The request for this fellowship is made during the registration procedure. Please note that candidates will be evaluated only after payment of the registration fee.

Posters

The poster's maximum size is A0 (84,1 x 118,9 cm; width x height).

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Posters should be taken down within the beginning of the lunch on Saturday, 29 November. Posters left behind will be removed and discarded by the venue personnel.