Information

• Registrations & Costs
• Payment
• Pre-Congress Meeting
• Abstracts
• Accommodation
• Social dinner

• Online registrations are open from 10 April 2017 to 28 July 2017. To process your registration, you must complete the online form in the registration page.

  The deadline for early bird registration is 14 July 2017.

  Registration fees

  	Early bird registration (until 14 July 2017)	Late registration (until 28 July 2017)
  *If you wish to apply for ABCD membership (regular or junior) to benefit from a reduced rate, please remember that you must do so at least 2 (business) days before the payment deadline. Applications for membership that reach the ABCD later will be normally processed, but you will not be able to benefit from a reduced fee for this meeting. For details on ABCD memberships, please visit the ABCD website. **VAT-exempt transactions pursuant to art.4 DPR 633/72. ***The registration price for these participants includes VAT. N.B. §For undergraduate students, confirmation of your student status must be sent to the ABCD Treasurer at: tesoriere@abcd-it.org. Failure to send such a confirmation will incur the payment of the full fee.
  Junior ABCD member*	€ 100**	€ 150**
  Full ABCD member*	€ 150**	€ 200**
  Undergraduate student§	€ 100***	€ 100***
  Other participant	€ 280***	€ 330***

  The registration fee entitles participants to the following:

  • Access to all scientific sessions and poster viewing (including Pre-Congress Meeting for those accepted)
  • Congress kit
  • Coffee breaks, 2 lunches (22 and 23 September), and 2 buffet dinners (21 and 22 September), plus dinner on Wednesday, 20 September, for participants of the Pre-Congress Meeting

  Social dinner

  The social dinner is not included in the fee and costs 30 EUR (+VAT for non members). If you wish to attend the dinner, please select it during the registration procedure.

   

• Payment procedure

  The early bird discount applies to payments received until 14 July 2017. Registrations will remain open until 28 July 2017 at the regular price. N.B. Payments must be received within each deadline indicated (if you are paying by bank transfer or through your administration, please ensure that it is initiated in due time).

  Payment is possible by credit card or bank transfer. Further details about the payment procedure is available through your personal myABCD page.

  N.B. Before processing the payment, please determine wheter you have specific billing requirements.

  Please decide to whom your registration costs must be billed to and make sure that you have all the required information: address, VAT number or fiscal code (codice fiscale, for Italians only), etc.

  Electronic invoicing for Italian public administrations (only for non ABCD members!)

  If the invoice has to be issued to an office of the Italian public administration (e.g. your Department, your University, etc), you need to follow the procedure for electronic invoicing: in this case, before proceeding with the payment, contact the ABCD secretariat at segreteria@abcd-it.org to receive further instructions.

  Payment must be made by the public administration/institution upon receiving the electronic invoice issued by the ABCD and before the payment deadline; please take administrative delays into account.

  Cancellations and refunds

  Cancellations with a refund request must be sent by e-mail to the organising secretariat and must be accompanied by a valid justification. Refunds will be decided case by case by the organisers. If accepted, cancellations within 28 July 2017 will be refunded fully, minus an administrative charge of 30 EUR; no refunds will be provided after 28 July 2017.

   

• Pre-Congress Meeting

  The Congress registration fee (see Registrations & Costs) covers the attendance of the Pre-Congress Meeting for those accepted; dinner on Wednesday, 21 September, is also included. To apply, you must be a post-doc or a Ph.D. student and be under 35 years of age at the start of the congress. You must indicate your intention to participate during the registration procedure.

  Participants accepted to the pre-Congress Meeting will be notified and will receive a travel fellowship of 150 EUR to help defray from their lodging and travelling costs. N.B. To be eligible for the fellowship, the participant must have already paid the corresponding registration fee.

  Details about eligibility to participate in the Pre-Congress Meeting can be found here.

• Guidelines for Abstracts

  

  Abstracts are accepted exclusively through this website, either during registration or, after registration, through your personal myABCD page (you will need to register to have access to the latter).

  The abstract submission deadline is 14 July 2017. The organisers will then review the received abstracts for oral or poster presentations. All submitted abstracts will be discarded if payment is not received by 28 July 2017.

  Only registered participants can submit an abstract and each registered participant may submit a maximum of one abstract. Abstracts should be submitted by the presenting author only.

  Format

  • The title must start in uppercase and continue in lowercase, except for conventional terms (ATP, DNA, NFκB, etc). Example:
       This title is written correctly
       This Title is Not Properly Written
       ALSO THIS TITLE IS WRONG
  • If more than one author, underline your name (the presenting author, in whatever position you appear in the author list) and use commas to separate the names; do not use 'and' before the last author. The presenting author's first name(s) and surname should be written in full; for all other authors, write first name(s) as initials and surname in full. If more than one affiliation, use sequential superscript numbers to identify each institution. Example:
       Mario Rossi¹, J. Doe², F. Bloggs^{1,2
       1}Dept Biomembranes, Golgi & Veratti Univ., Pavia, Italy
       ²Dept Bioblast Analyses, Altmann Univ., Leipzig, Germany
  • The abstract text must be no longer than 2000 characters, spaces included (which is roughly equivalent to 250 words).

   

• Accommodation

  For reservations, in the cases where a reservation form is provided, please download it and send it to the corresponding hotel (within the specific deadline!); if a specific reservation form is not provided, simply contact the hotel directly specifying "ABCD 2017".

  A shuttle service between Novotel Bologna Fiera, Hotel Michelino, and Living Place Hotel and the congress venue will be provided for congress participants. If you wish to benefit from this service, you need to send an email to abcd.2017@azuleon.org within Friday, 8 September.

  

  Double room single use: € 90.00
  Double room: € 112.00
  (The rates are per room, per day and include breakfast; city tax is not included)
  For reservations, please use this form
  Deadline: 15/07/2017

  

  Double room single use: € 90.00
  Double room: € 112.00
  (The rates are per room, per day and include breakfast; city tax is not included)
  For reservations, please use this form
  Deadline: 15/07/2017

  

  Double room single use: € 95.00
  Double room: € 115.00
  (The rates are per room, per day and include breakfast; city tax is not included)
  For reservations, please use this form
  Deadline: 15/07/2017

  

  Double room single use: € 80.00
  Double room: € 105.00
  (The rates are per room, per day and include breakfast; city tax is not included)
  For reservations, please use this form
  Deadline: 15/07/2017

  

  Double room single use: € 85.00
  Double room: € 105.00
  (The rates are per room, per day and include breakfast; city tax is not included)
  For reservations, please use this form
  Deadline: 15/07/2017

   

   

• Social dinner

  The social dinner will be held at Palazzo Isolani, in Bologna city centre (Corte Isolani 8/a), on 23 September at 20:30.

  

  

   

  Palazzo Isolani is a beautiful and historical building in the heart of Bologna's medieval centre. It looks onto the splendid Piazza delle Sette Chiese (Seven Churches) and is very close to the famous Due Torri (Two Towers). Along with other buildings in the area, it is still privately owned by the Cavazza Isolani family. The seventeenth-century rooms on the ground floor are richly frescoed, decorated with damask tapestries and furnished with original furniture and paintings. These include portraits of the Isolani and the family of the famous King of Naples, Gioacchino Murat, to whom the Isolani became related in the early nineteenth century.