Guidelines for Abstract Submission
1) Deadline for submitting abstracts is February 17, 2012.
2) Each person may be first author on only one abstract, but co-author on any number.
3) Whenever possible, type your abstract in a Word document, using a standard 11 point font. If you cannot submit a Word file, then type the abstract in the body of an email.
4) Submit your abstract by emailing the Word file (or if necessary sending the email with embedded abstract) to: primategenomics2012@hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu. In the text of your email, indicate your preference for oral or poster presentation. Please type “PG2012 abstract submission” in the subject line.
5) If you wish to be considered for a Young Investigator Travel award, please state that in the text of the email message. Investigators who are currently Postdoctoral Scientists or the equivalent, or who are faculty but less than 6 years past receipt of their terminal degree, are eligible for the Young Investigator Travel awards. These awards will provide partial support for airfare and hotel accommodations.
6) Start your abstract with the title. On a new line, type the full names of all authors. Indicate the institutional affiliation for each author by superscripted number. Please underline the name of the person who will present the talk or poster.
7) List the institutional affiliations by number below the list of authors.
8) Type the body of the abstract as one continuous paragraph. The total length of the body of the abstract can be no more than 300 words.
9) Acknowledgment of funding can be included as the last sentence of the body of the abstract (optional). If such acknowledgment of funding is included, it will be counted as part of the 300 word length limit.
Example abstract
Identification and characterization of a novel family of repetitive elements in the genome of the black-and-white colobus (Colobus guereza).
Robin E. Taylor1, Colin R. Adams2, Xiang Yu3 and Rachel Davidson1
1Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 2Univ. of Montana School of Medicine, Billings, MT; 3Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
Colobine primates are a major branch within the Old World monkeys that have received little attention from researchers in genetics or comparative genomics. The goal of this study was to survey the genome of the black-and-white colobus monkey (Colobus guereza) for novel families of highly repetitive sequences. We used Illumina Hi-Seq methods to perform whole genome sequencing on six captive-born black-and-white colobus from ……...
