Call for Young Investigator Symposia Proposals for 36th MidWinter Meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology
February 16-20, 2013 Baltimore, Maryland
Due Date: Sunday, July 1, 2012
To submit you proposal electronically go to:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Young_Investigator_Symposia_Proposals
What is a Young Investigator Symposium?
The Young Investigator Symposium, similar to the nanosymposia offered at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting, is an exciting opportunity for young investigators to organize a podium session at the ARO. Talks are given from the platform every 15 minutes with 10-12 minutes of presentation followed by questions. The key differences between a regular podium session and a Young Investigator Symposium are:
Proposed and organized by the participants rather than by the program committee
Restricted to junior investigators: Assistant Professors, Faculty < 5 years, and Post-docs
The talks are thematically related, not just a collection of presentations.
A minimum of 5 topically related talks are required to create a session.
To promote diversity, no more than two presentations from any one lab should be included
How do the submitted symposia abstracts differ from normally submitted ARO abstracts?
The abstracts submitted as part of a Young Investigator Symposium will not differ in any way from abstracts normally submitted for the annual meeting, but an earlier submission will allow us to designate these presentations as a Young Investigator Symposium. If your symposium is accepted you will still be required to submit your abstract through the ARO website at the normal time but we will specially designate these abstracts after submission so they are grouped together. If your symposia proposal is not accepted you will still be able to submit your individual abstracts through the normal ARO submission process.
If you have any additional questions, please contact Dr. Larry Lustig, Program Committee Chair at: llustig@ohns.ucsf.edu.
