Abstracts should describe novel unpublished work. The abstract should be no longer than 250 words using Times New Roman 12-point font. The title of the abstract should be written in bold capital letters.  Regular Times New Roman 12-point font should be used for the authors names and affiliation. If necessary, the citations of published papers should be provided explicitly in the body of the abstract.

Please save your abstract as a word document using the author’s last name and submit to pierre@biol.sc.edu.

All abstracts will be reviewed by a scientific committee and authors of the accepted abstracts will be notified before December 15, 2006.

All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings booklet.

Important Dates:

Deadline for abstract submission (oral presentation):
December 1, 2006

Deadline for abstract submission (poster presentation):
December 15, 2006

Deadline for registration: December 15, 2006