Janet Meakin Poor Symposium

Joseph Regenstein, Jr. School of the Chicago Botanic Garden

Global Plant Conservation Science and
Outreach Symposium

A Janet Meakin Poor Research Symposium

Friday, October 2, 2009
9 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Presented in partnership between:

LOGO: Regenstein School

Register to attend the symposium

Anyone interested in presenting at this symposium must submit an abstract to the Program Chair before AUGUST 28, 2009 deadline. Posters should be no larger than 30" x 40". The Program Committee reserves the right to reject submissions because of program constraints. Authors will be notified in early September regarding acceptance of their poster.

Submit a presentation/poster application online.

Click here to email your abstract.

Submission of abstracts

Each entry must be submitted electronically and include:

• Presentation Application
• Abstract (in the following format):

Title (Underlined and ending with a period).
Author*¹ and Author² (presenter marked with asterisk)
Address¹ email and phone number
Address² email and phone number

Underline the abstract title. List the full names of the author(s). If there are multiple authors, superscripts should be used to identify the authors with their affiliations and addresses. The name of the presenter should be marked with an asterisk and the email and phone number included with the address. Skip one line between the header and the abstract. Abstracts should be descriptive and concise with no more than 300 words. Include an introduction, objectives, methods, results, and conclusions in the abstract. Also include up to five keywords. The scientific name, in italics, should be used the first time an organism is mentioned. Use Times or a similar font, 12 point size, with one-inch margins.