ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
The TFOS Governing Board welcomes the submission of abstracts to this International Conference. All abstracts, except those from Travel Award applicants, should be submitted no later than June 15, 2010. Abstracts will be selected for either an oral or poster presentation by the Organization & Program Committee. First authors will be notified of the form of their presentation by August 1, 2010.

Young investigators applying for a Travel Award (see below) should have submitted their Conference abstract by April 15, 2010. Winners will be notified by June 1, 2010.

ABSTRACT INSTRUCTIONS

1) Each abstract must be written in English. The abstract limit (including title, authors, institutions, line, text & sponsors) will be 2,350 characters with spaces. Such a limit should permit approximately 345 words and 2,000 characters without spaces, with Times New Roman, in 12 point font, singled –spaced.
2) The title of the abstract must be typed with capital letters and the name of the presenting authors must be underlines.
3) The text is to be structured according to the following layout: a) Objective: describe the main aim of the study b) Method: include the description of applied methods, data collection procedures and statistical tests used c) Result: they must be documented with enough detail to justify conclusion; d) Conclusion: describe briefly implication deriving from results obtained.
4) Do NOT include figures.
5) Disclose commercial relationships and identify grant support at the bottom of the abstract.

• If you have submitted your abstract correctly you will receive a confirmation email in 24 hours. Otherwise please submit again, or contact rose@tearfilm.org

• Please don't forget to include the Confirmation Code at the bottom of this Abstract Page.

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ABSTRACT SELECTION AND ASSIGNMENT
Members of the Organization & Program Committee will review all abstracts submitted by registered participants and will assign these abstracts for either oral or poster presentations. A Committee Representative will notify participants of the type (oral or poster), date and time of their presentation by August 1, 2010.

ORAL AND POSTER FORMAT
Conference Oral and Poster Session Formats: Scientific platform sessions will be introduced by 'state of the art,' keynote addresses and followed by a series of oral presentations. Keynote and selected speakers will be allotted between 10 to 20 minutes for their presentations in the platform sessions. Questions from the audience will be addressed during a 5 minute discussion period at the end of each talk. Oral presentations in the "Poster Discussion" sessions will be allotted 2 minutes and questions from the audience will be addressed during a 2 minute discussion period at the end of each talk. Given that the time of these oral "poster" presentations is limited, we ask each presenter to focus on the hypothesis, results and conclusions of his/her research (and to use a maximum of 3 PowerPoint slides).

Conference room facilities will include projection capability for PowerPoint slides, a computer to control slides from the podium and a laser pointer. PowerPoint presentations may be given to the audiovisual technicians during the registration period at the Firenze Fiera Palazzo dei Congressi (i.e. Florence Congress & Exhibition Center, 1:00 to 5:00 PM on Wednesday, September 22, 2010) or between 7:00 AM to 7:45 AM on the day of presentation. 

For poster presentations, poster board dimensions will be 100 cm HIGH x 200 cm WIDE and pins will be made available. Detailed instructions (e.g. location) for presentation will be provided during registration at the Congress Center. Posters will be displayed from 7:00 AM to approximately 7:00 PM. On their designated day "poster" presenters are requested to be in attendance at the times listed in the scientific program.

TRAVEL AWARDS
Florence 2010 Conference Travel Award Program

The purpose of this Award Program is to provide partial travel support to at least 15 young investigators, who demonstrate significant achievements in the field of tear film and ocular surface research. The amount of the Award will be $1,000 (USD; European applicants) or $2,000 (USD; non-European applicants). The Award will be accompanied by a waiver of the registration and banquet fees, and a complimentary TFOS Membership.

To apply for this Award an applicant must be the abstract's first author, as well as a student, and a postdoctoral fellow, or an individual under the age of 35 years. In addition, the applicant must submit an abstract by April 15, 2010. If an applicant submits more than one abstract, he/she needs to identify the abstract to be considered by the Travel Awards Committee for consideration for a Travel Award (only one abstract will be considered per applicant). If the applicant's abstract is accepted, his/her abstract will be evaluated by members of the Travel Award Committee. The applicant must be present at the Conference to be eligible for a grant. Winners will be notified by June 1, 2010, and they will be announced at the Conference.

If an applicant does not win an award, that individual must register for the Conference by June 15, 2010, in order to have their abstract considered for presentation. If you have any questions about this program, please contact Rose Sullivan at rose@tearfilm.org.

 
 
 
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