IAB
2013 Abstract submission
Abstracts:
Deadline for submission of
abstracts: 15th June 2013
The format is specified
below, please also see example provided
Please indicate at the top
of your abstract whether it is intended as an "Oral" presentation or
a "Poster" presentation and
whether you are a student
Please indicate when
submitting your abstract, which of the following broad categories you feel your
presentation best fits: 1) Bryophyte phylogeny and systematics, 2) Museums,
Botanic Gardens and bryophyte conservation in the 21st Century, 3) Bryophyte
ecology and biogeography, 4) Bryophyte biology, 5) Tropical bryology or
5) Bryophytes and climate change.
Presentations outside these categories will also be considered.
Abstract submission
Submit the abstract as a Word document to: j.wilbraham@nhm.ac.uk/s.pressel@nhm.ac.uk by 15 June 2013. Queries can be submitted to the same address. The document should be single spaced, Times New Roman and font size 12.
Submit the abstract as a Word document to: j.wilbraham@nhm.ac.uk/s.pressel@nhm.ac.uk by 15 June 2013. Queries can be submitted to the same address. The document should be single spaced, Times New Roman and font size 12.
Abstract format
Abstract not to exceed 300 words.
Abstract not to exceed 300 words.
1.
Oral/poster: Designate whether the abstract is
intended for an oral or a poster presentation.
A blank line should follow this information.
2.
Title: Lower case, bold. It should be concise
and informative. A blank line should follow the title.
3.
Author(s): Lower case bold. Initials before
surname and without full stop and spaces. Underline the presenting author's
name. Commas between names and "and" before last author. A blank line
should follow the author names.
4.
Address(es)
of authors: Lower case,
italics. If more than one address, give number in superscript followed by
address. See example. A blank line should follow the addresses.
5.
Text: No indents. Separate paragraphs with a
blank line. No references in abstract. No pictures or graphs in abstracts.
Please indicate word count at end of abstract.
6.
Formatting: Do not use special spacing or tabs.
Make sure that the font for all text apart from special symbols is Times Roman
12 pt.
Abstracts which do not
confirm to the guidelines will be returned to the authors for editing.
Abstract example
An example of a correctly formatted abstract is presented below:
An example of a correctly formatted abstract is presented below:
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Oral presentation – Bryophyte biology. I am a PhD student at the Natural History
Museum, London
Key land plant innovations in the bryophyte
clade: considerations of homology and function
S Pressel1, JG Duckett1, KS Renzaglia2 and M
Bidartondo3
1Life
Sciences, Plants Division, the Natural History Museum, London, UK; 2Plant
Biology Department, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA; 3Imperial
College London and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew TW9 3DS, UK
Bryophytes
are the closest living relatives to the first land plants. In this seminar we will address major
questions pertaining to homology and function of some of the key innovations
that drove plant terrestrialization:
stomata, intercellular spaces and fungal associations, in the bryophyte
clade.
Our data
on the physiology, anatomy and development of bryophyte stomata and those of
the subtending intercellular spaces, although not confirming nor negating their
likely homology with the same in tracheophytes, strongly suggest a different
function. We will argue that the lack of
active regulation coupled to striking anatomical and developmental features
favours an ancestral role for bryophyte stomata in sporophyte dehiscence
leading to spore dispersal rather than gaseous exchange. We will conclude with a brief overview of
bryophyte fungal symbioses.
Our latest
discovery that an early fungal lineage,
the Mucoromycotina, are widespread in
primitive liverworts, hornworts and lycophytes
challenges the long held paradigm
that Glomeromycota formed the ancestral land plant-fungal symbioses and
suggests that ancient terrestrial plants
relied on a more versatile and wider repertoire of fungi than hitherto
assumed. [Word count: 175]
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Presentations
Instructions for
posters
1.
Maximum
size: Portrait A0 Width 841mm and Height 1189mm.
2.
Include
your name and affiliation on the poster. A small photograph would aid in
identification of the presenting author.
3.
Poster
must remain on the poster boards for the entire duration of the conference and
should be erected and removed by yourself.
Instructions for paper
presentations
A computer (PC) will be
provided. If your PowerPoint presentation was created on a Mac, we recommend
that you save it as a pdf file – to avoid possible changes when uploading onto
a PC.
1.
Oral
presentations will take the form of platform papers.
2.
15-20
minutes will be allocated for the presentation (excluding key note
presentations – 30-40 minutes) followed by 5 minutes for discussion. The exact length of the presentation will
depend on demand and will be communicated to you as soon as the conference
programme is finalised.
3.
Digital
presentations should be submitted as a MS PowerPoint presentation.
4.
Presentations
should not be larger than 25 MB.
5.
Presentations
can be saved either onto a flash disk or onto a CD. If saved onto a CD, save
your presentation on CD-R and NOT CD-RW DISCS. When writing your CD, ensure
that it is readable on all CD drives. To be on the safe side duplicate your CD;
some CD drives and written CDs simply don't communicate with each other! If
using a flash disk, please make sure that standard Windows XP systems can
access the flash drive without additional drivers being required.
Could someone please explain the following: "Oral presentations will take the form of platform papers"? Thank you.
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