Abstract Information - Abstracts are due Monday, April 7th, 2008

To submit an abstract, please click here.

Abstracts will appear on the Web and in the program and abstracts volume exactly as submitted, i.e., no corrections, additions, revisions or deletions will be made. Only the submitting author may make revisions and corrections via the Web abstract submission program. The organizing committee cannot make revisions. All revisions must be made no later than the revision deadline on Monday, April 7, 2008. Please proof your text carefully before submitting.

Because platform presentation requests far exceed platform presentation slots, authors should be prepared to present a poster if their abstract is not selected for a platform presentation.

Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts

To submit an abstract, follow the instructions for Web submission. Submissions must be completed before midnight on Monday, April 7, 2008.

Shortly before the abstract assignment Web site opens around Monday, May 12, 2008, authors will be sent an e-mail reminder to check the Conference Web site for platform and poster assignments. Individual notification letters will not be sent. It is the responsibility of each author to check the Web site to ascertain the assignment to poster or platform presentation.

Instructions for Submitting Abstracts

STEP 1: Select Poster or Oral presentation.

STEP 2: Select a session topic area (01-11) from the list below. Select the area that best defines the session in which you would like to be included. Insert the number in the appropriate field on the Web abstract submission form.

STEP 3: Select a keyword from the keyword list below and enter it in the appropriate place on the Web abstract submission form. You may choose only a keyword listed under the same number as the session topic area you select. Do not use a keyword from another session topic area.

If you do not see a keyword that is appropriate for your abstract under the session topic you chose, please choose "other" as a keyword and fill in a keyword that fits your research best.

Posters will be grouped by the eleven session topic areas listed below. Within these topics, posters will be ordered by keywords, in an effort to group related abstracts together within session topic areas.

Platform session topic areas will adhere as closely as possible to the session topic areas above, but are subject to modification based on the relative distribution of specific research areas in the pool of submitted abstracts.

Keywords

01 Mitosis, Cell Cycle & Cytokinesis

1. actin assembly & dynamics
2. cell growth
3. centrosome
4. cell cycle
5. cytokinesis
6. kinetochores and cohesion
7. membrane dynamics
8. mitosis
9. spindles and motors
10. other

02 Cell Biology:  Organelles, Cells & Tissues

1. anatomy
2. cell fusion
3. cell size
4. cytoskeleton
5. ER & Golgi
6. general cell biology
7. hypodermis
8. lysosome
9. membrane dynamics
10. microfilaments and microtubules
11. microscopy techniques & advances
12. mitochondria
13. muscle development
14. muscle function
15. nucleus
16. plasma membrane dynamics
17. tissue organization
18. other

03 Cell Adhesion & Migration

1. cell junctions and adhesion
2. cell migration
3. distal tip cell migration
4. extracellular matrix
5. nuclear migration
6. signals and pathways
7. other

04 Polarity & Cell Fate Determination:  Embryonic

1. embryogenesis:  cell fate
2. embryogenesis: pattern formation
3. signals & cues
4. spindle orientation
5. other

05 Polarity & Cell Fate Determination: Post-embryonic

1. excretory cell
2. pharynx
3. post-embryonic:  cell fate
4. post-embryonic:  pattern formation
5. signals & cues
6. uterus
7. vulva
8. other

06 Morphogenesis

1. antereo-posterior axis formation
2. gastrulation
3. general developmental
4. organogenesis
5. tissue
6. vulva
7. other

07 Sex Determination, Gametogenesis & Meiosis

1. dosage compensation
2. sex determination
3. germ cell development
4. oogenesis
5. spermatogenesis
6. chromosome pairing and synapsis
7. recombination
8. meiosis
9. sex specific traits and molecules
10. other

08 Germline

1. chromatin and remodeling complexes
2. distal tip cell
3. fertilization
4. gonad development & morphogenesis
5. P granules
6. sperm-egg interactions
7. transition from oocyte to zygote
8. stem cells
9. other

09  Evolution of Development

1. evolution and development
2. genome evolution
3. phylogenetics
4. population variation
5. quantitative traits
6. sex determination & evolution
7. morphogenesis
8. timing/heterochrony
9. pattern formation
10. convergent evolution
11. gene expression
12. other

10  Microevolution & Evolutionary Genomics

1. speciation
2. mutation rate
3. gene families
4. gene duplication
5. gene expression
6. genome size
7. intron evolution
8. transposons
9. repetitive DNA
10. neutral evolution
11. other

11 Cell Death

1. apoptosis
2. non-apoptotic cell death
3. activation and execution
4. specification
5. germline cell death
6. phagocytosis & phagosome maturation
7. cell corpse engulfment
8. stress response
9. necrosis
10. other

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Abstract Submission:  Monday, April 7, 2008 11:59 pm Eastern Standard Time. Platform and poster notification assignments will be posted at the Meeting website on or around, Monday, May 12, 2008

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