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Neural Control and Autonomic
Regulation
GUIDELINES FOR PROPOSING FEATURED TOPICS AND SYMPOSIA FOR THE
EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY MEETING
Programming for the EB meeting is entirely in the hands of the sections. It
is our responsibility to ensure that we have high quality programming. This
is your opportunity to organize a great program around your primary research
interest. NCAR will likely program 3-4 Featured Topic sessions and one
Symposium for each EB meeting.
FEATURED TOPICS:
Other than symposia, Featured Topic (FT) sessions will be the ONLY venue at
the Experimental Biology (EB) meeting for oral presentation of research
data. FT sessions will replace slide sessions to provide a mechanism for
more thematically related oral presentations. Research presentations will
be selected for FT’s from abstracts submitted for the EB meeting. Although
many FT’s will be comprised of standard 10 min talks, the format of the
session is quite flexible. For example, presentations could be 20 min
instead of 10 min, or, an introductory 30 min overview lecture followed by
several 10 min talks, or, perhaps a summary of the field and future
directions at the end. The only information required to propose a FT
is 1) a title for the session, 2) a 1-3 sentence abstract, and 3) a list of
1-3 "anchor" speakers who would be appropriate for the session.
If your FT is selected for support by the NCAR steering committee, the
information you provide will be published in the “Call for Abstracts”
booklet for the EB meeting and a programming number will be assigned to your
FT so that other investigators can designate their abstract for presentation
in your FT. All abstracts selected for inclusion in the FT will also be
programmed into separate poster sessions.
Successful FT’s will require some work by the chairperson and anchor
speakers. Specifically, they should contact colleagues in their research
area, inform them of the FT, and encourage them to submit abstracts to the
EB meeting for possible inclusion in the FT. This is called “seeding the
session”. Organizers of successful FT’s generally have confirmed anchor
speakers and at least some verbal assurance from 4-6 investigators
(including the organizer and anchor speakers) that they intend to submit an
abstract that would be appropriate for the proposed FT. What DOESN’T work,
is to propose a topic, a couple of unconfirmed anchor speakers, and then
wait to see who submits abstracts. Some limited funds ($500-$1000) are
available to support each FT. These funds are typically used for partial
support of meeting related expenses (e.g. registration fee reimbursement)
for the organizer, junior investigators, anchor speakers, etc.
SYMPOSIA:
Symposia are a "bigger deal" than are Featured Topics. Accordingly, more
information, including the complete program for the symposium is required.
This information should include: 1) Symposium title, 2) Organizer(s)/Chairperson(s),
3) Abstract of symposium, 4) Length of symposium (not to exceed 2 hr), 5)
Most recent symposium or conference where this topic was discussed, 6) List
of participants including: a) current position and description of
expertise of each participant, b) whether participation of speakers has been
confirmed, c) title of their presentation d) length of presentation, e)
length of discussion afterwards, 7) APS sections other than NCAR that might
be interested in co-sponsoring the proposed symposium. APS and NCAR support
the inclusion of women, minorities and younger investigators in symposium
and featured topic proposals. $4000 will be available from APS to support
each symposium.
A symposium proposal form can be downloaded in PDF format from the APS
website at:
http://www.the-aps.org/meetings/
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