ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS
Poster Abstract Submission Deadline CLOSED: Friday 31 May 2024
Oral Abstract Submission Deadline CLOSED: 29 February 2024
Submit your abstract for either an oral or poster presentation! Select both to be considered for either.
Your abstract is to be 250 words, and images are not accepted. The word count does NOT include your title, authoring or cited references.
During your submission, apply for an award.
Travel Awards are available to support the attendance of early career plant scientists who are in financial need. Applications are open to undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career faculty (up to ten years post-PhD Award). Successful applicants will be notified prior to the meeting. Funding will be provided, by direct bank transfer, post Congress after being contacted by the Conference organisers.
Notifications for application outcomes have been distributed.
During your submission, select a plant science theme that best suits your abstract:
Abiotic challenges
Applied technologies
Biotic interactions
Cell biology
Development
Evolution
Genome regulation
Large scale biology
Photosynthesis
Plant biochemistry
Signalling and transport
Teaching in plant sciences
BEFORE YOU START
Ensure you use one of the following browsers: INTERNET EXPLORER (v11 or newer) MOZILLA FIREFOX (v44 or newer) SAFARI (v5 or newer) GOOGLE CHROME
Mac Users: if you have trouble submitting your abstract, try submitting from a PC. If you are still have issues, please contact the secretariat.
Mozilla Users: the security policy in Mozilla often prevents pasting from your clipboard without using the menu commands. You can still cut and paste your abstract into the submission, but you may have to use the menu command rather than ‘control v’ shortcut.
Ensure your abstract text is less than 250 words as the system will not accept submissions over this limit. The word count does NOT include your title, authoring or cited references
Have your abstract open on your own computer to enable you to cut and paste it into the submission system.
SUBMISSION STEPS
Select the presentation type
Provide some keywords to assist in categorisation of your abstract
Enter the title of your abstract. Please type the title in sentence case (that is lowercase with only the first letter or the first word in capitals) and without any punctuation. A correctly formatted example follows: Title of my presentation for the conference
Enter the name of all authors and their organisations and indicate the presenting author by ticking the relevant box.
Type or cut and paste the text of your abstract/synopsis into the relevant field. Please ensure the abstract is no more than 300 words. (Does not include title, authoring or cited references)
Preview your abstract, make any changes required and finalise your submission and return to your dashboard
You will receive an email confirmation that your abstract has been successfully submitted. Please check your email junk file in case it has been captured there.
Should you wish to make any changes to your abstract after you have submitted it, please log onto your online registration dashboard. Click on the “View Submission” then “Preview/edit abstract”.
****Please note you will only be able to make changes to your abstract until the submission deadline, after which any changes should be sent to Maryanne Mackinlay
REVIEW COMMITTEE
The Conference Committee will review all submissions before selecting the presentations which will be included in the Conference program.
ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION
Once the reviewing has been completed the conference organisers will notify abstract presenters of their acceptance. Specific presentation instructions will be included in the notification.