Inland Empire Stem cell consortium
Symposium Submission Guidelines
Abstracts are due by September 28, 2018
To submit your abstract, please send to:
[email protected]
Symposium Submission Guidelines
Abstracts are due by September 28, 2018
To submit your abstract, please send to:
[email protected]
Abstracts:
Abstracts should be 300 words or less, excluding the title, authors and their affiliations (use an asterisk to indicate the presenting author).
The annual research symposium is an interdisciplinary meeting where researchers from various fields will evaluate your work. When writing your abstract for this meeting, please consider the following guidelines:
Posters:
Please limit the size of your poster to a maximum of 48” x 72”. You may use a poster that you presented at another conference. However, if that poster includes an abstract that does not match the one you submitted for this meeting, you should print a copy of the new abstract and pin it next to your poster.
Judging: Students will be judged based on both abstract and poster presentation. It is essential that the student, not the mentor, write the abstract because it is the student that is being judged.
Abstract and Poster Criteria:
Each reviewer will receive copies of the abstracts prior to the day of the meeting. The judges will read the abstracts before the meeting. Abstracts and posters will be assessed based on the following criteria:
The student must be present at the assigned time of judging. The extent of student contribution will be considered in selection of winners.
Abstracts should be 300 words or less, excluding the title, authors and their affiliations (use an asterisk to indicate the presenting author).
The annual research symposium is an interdisciplinary meeting where researchers from various fields will evaluate your work. When writing your abstract for this meeting, please consider the following guidelines:
- What background information will someone outside your field need to understand your work and the nature of the problem you are trying to solve?
- Does your abstract contain a clearly defined hypothesis or goal?
- What results were obtained and what methods were used to obtain them?
- What conclusions can be drawn from the data?
- What is the significance of your findings and their impact on the field?
- Is your abstract written in clear, concise, and easy to understand English?
- Try to use active verbs (e.g., discover, impair, allow) instead of inactive nouns (e.g., discovery, impairment, allowance) that can make your prose obscure. Also try to avoid wordiness and jargon. If you need to use field-specific technical jargon, explain it.
Posters:
Please limit the size of your poster to a maximum of 48” x 72”. You may use a poster that you presented at another conference. However, if that poster includes an abstract that does not match the one you submitted for this meeting, you should print a copy of the new abstract and pin it next to your poster.
Judging: Students will be judged based on both abstract and poster presentation. It is essential that the student, not the mentor, write the abstract because it is the student that is being judged.
Abstract and Poster Criteria:
Each reviewer will receive copies of the abstracts prior to the day of the meeting. The judges will read the abstracts before the meeting. Abstracts and posters will be assessed based on the following criteria:
- Clarity of the abstract: 10%
- Hypothesis or clearly defined question: 5%
- Innovation/significance of research: 15%
- Approach/Methods: 10%
- Visual impact/organization: 15%
- Results/science: 25%
- Clarity of the presentation/ability to present poster data: 10%
- Ability to respond to question/understanding of the project: 10%
The student must be present at the assigned time of judging. The extent of student contribution will be considered in selection of winners.