Call for Abstracts

Participants are invited to submit abstracts. Abstracts will be reviewed for acceptance on their scientific merit and should be clearly written. Please follow the IOBC Guidelines exactly. At the following website you will find instructions and a link to a sample manuscript http://iobc-wprs.org/pub/index.html

Presenters are invited to submit abstracts on any aspects of IPM of olives. Kindly specify if you would prefer an oral or poster presentation. The authors will be informed in due time whether their abstract/s have been accepted, and whether for oral or poster presentation. Inclusion of abstracts in the scientific program is dependent on payment of registration fees.

Students who plan to attend the meeting may be eligible to receive partial funding of their registration fee. Students in need of funds towards registration costs will be required to give an oral presentation at the meeting and send a paper to the Bulletin. For more information, please contact the Convenor of the WG (Dr. Dionyssios Perdikis at dperdikis@aua.gr)

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: 15 December 2010

Abstracts must be submitted in English and sent as an email attachment to the local organizer and the convenor of the WG:
phyllisw@volcani.agri.gov.il (cc: dperdikis@aua.gr)

Guidelines for oral presentations
Invited speakers are limited to 40 minutes (35 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and discussions). All other oral presentations are limited to 15 minutes for each presenter (12 minutes for presentation and 3 minutes for questions and discussions). Chairpersons will keep the schedule on time.

Please load your presentations to the meeting's computer at your earliest convenience (and not later than during the break prior to you presentation session). Loading of presentations during the sessions will not be possible.

Oral presentations must be compatible to Microsoft PowerPoint. Symposium laptop PCs are installed with Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 and 2007 (both PPT and PPTX formats are acceptable). Please do not use green background with red letters or vice versa, color blind individuals cannot distinguish between lettering and background.

Please have your presentation file saved under the your family name to a USB flash memory or CD. To guarantee a smooth transition between presentations, please review your presentation on the meeting's computer. Please note that it will not be possible for presenters to connect their own PC to the projection system in the lecture room.

Guidelines for poster presentations
Size: 120 cm (height) X 90 cm (width)

Setup: All posters will be displayed on the designated poster boards throughout the entire meeting (Monday, May 16, noon through Wednesday, May 18, 18:00).

Presentations: At least one of the authors is expected to be at the assigned poster during the designated poster presentation hours.

Paper submission for the IOBC Bulletin:
The IOBC/WPRS "Bulletins" are a well established series of relatively fast issued working papers in a systematic format. Bulletins are proceedings of Working and Study Group meetings and Commission activities. This publication is an important support to the Working Groups of WPRS. The IOBC/WPRS Members have online access to the full content of all recent Bulletins.

As has been done in previous meetings of our WG, contributions will be published in the IOBC Bulletin after the meeting. They should be short contributions of scientific or technical information that is not intended to interfere or compete with publications of data in journals. For preparation of your contribution(s) please follow the instructions to the authors of IOBC/WPRS (http://www.iobc-wprs.org/pub/index.html). You can also download the "Bulletin Manuscript" as MS WORD document (DOC, 38 KB) (http://www.iobc-wprs.org/pub/bulletins/bulletin_manuscript.doc)

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Papers should be sent to the Convenor of the WG (Dr Dionyssios Perdikis, dperdikis@aua.gr) no later than the end of the Meeting (20 May 2011).