Information

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

• The deadline for early bird registration is 22 July 2019.

  Registration fees

  	Early bird registration (until 22 July 2019)	Late registration (until 28 August 2019)
  *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 1 (business) day 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*	€ 150**	€ 200**
  Full ABCD member*	€ 200**	€ 250**
  Other participant	€ 350***	€ 400***
  Undergraduate student§	€ 150***	€ 200***

  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 (20 and 21 September), and 2 buffet dinners (19 and 20 September), plus dinner on Wednesday, 18 September, for participants of the Pre-Congress Meeting

  Social dinner

  The social dinner is not included in the fee and costs 40 EUR for ABCD members and 55 EUR (VAT included) for not 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 22 July 2019. Registrations will remain open until 28 August 2019 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. Normally, invoices or receipts (for VAT exempt payments) will be issued and sent to participants after payment.

  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.

  ABCD will be unable to modify invoice, should the details provided be incorrect or outdated.

  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 for PA (Pubblica Amministrazione): 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 August 2019 will be refunded fully, minus an administrative charge of 30 EUR; no refunds will be provided after 28 August 2019.

   

• Pre-Congress Meeting

  The Congress registration fee (see Registrations & Costs) covers the attendance of the Pre-Congress Meeting for those accepted; dinner on Wednesday, 18 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.

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

   

• Guidelines for Abstracts

  

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

  The abstract submission deadline is 22 July 2019. 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 29 July 2019.

  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 2019".

  A shuttle service between Best Western Plus Tower Hotel Bologna, 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.2019@azuleon.org within Wednesday, 4 September.

  

  Double room single use: € 100.00
  Double room: € 122.00
  (The rates are per room, per day and include breakfast; city tax is not included)
  For reservations, please use this form
  Deadline: 15/07/2019

  

  Double room single use: € 95.00
  Double room: € 117.00
  Triple room; € 137.00
  (The rates are per room, per day and include breakfast; city tax is not included)
  For reservations, please use this form
  Deadline: 15/07/2019

  

  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: 15/07/2019

  

  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: 15/07/2019

  

  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: 15/07/2019

  

  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: 15/07/2019

   

• Social dinner

  The social dinner will be held at Salotto Boschi, in Bologna city centre (Via Castiglione 33), on 21 September at 20:30. Access to the dinner is reserved to participants who signed up for this option during their registration.