Registrations open: 9 January 2024

Registration & Abstract submission deadline: 16 February 2024

Payment deadline: 19 February 2024

The registration fee includes 4 coffee breaks, 1 lunch (on 26 March) and 2 dinners (on 25 and 26 March), and accommodation (including breakfast) from 25 to 27 March (two nights) at the venue Hotel. Room availability is limited and participants are strongly encouraged to register as soon as possible and choose the double room package (if overbooked, registrations will be closed). Those interested in a triple room should contact the organisers . The costs are indicated below.

	Double room package	Single room package	No-room package*
*Available exclusively to participants from Bologna; please contact the organisers to make this option available during the payment procedure in your personal myDOTT2024 area. **VAT-exempt transactions pursuant to art.4 DPR 633/72. ***VAT included.
ABCD/SIBBM members	€ 360**	€ 410**	€ 290**
Other participants	€ 460***	€ 510***	€ 370***

If, to benefit from the reduced rate, you plan to apply for a membership, please remember that you must do so strictly before 14 February 2024. Applications for membership that reach the ABCD or the SIBBM after that date will be normally processed, but you will not be able to benefit from the reduced fee for this meeting. For details on memberships, visit the ABCD website and SIBBM website.

Payment is possible by credit card or bank transfer. Further details about the payment procedure is available through your personal myDOTT2024 area. Normally, invoices or receipts (for VAT exempt payments) will be issued and sent to participants after payment.

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ABCD will be unable to modify the invoice should the details provided be incorrect or outdated.

Electronic invoicing for Italian public administrations (only for non ABCD or SIBBM members!)

If you are a member of the ABCD or the SIBBM, this section does not apply to you!

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.

Cancellation policy

Cancellations with a refund request must be sent by e-mail to the secretariat and must be accompanied by a valid justification. Refunds will be decided case by case by the organising secretariat. If accepted, cancellations by 23 February 2024 will be refunded fully; no refunds will be provided after 23 February 2024.

Abstracts are accepted exclusively through this website, through your personal myDOTT2024 area; you will need to to have an account to have access to the latter.

Only one abstract per participant is allowed. The abstract should be submitted by the presenting author only.

The abstract submission deadline is 16 February 2024. The organisers will then review the received abstracts for oral or poster presentations.

Abstracts guidelines:

• Title. 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
• Authorship. If more than one author (but only in that case), underline your name (the presenting author, in whatever position you appear in the author list) and use commas to separate the author names; do not use 'and' before the last author. Write your name and surname in full; for any other authors use initial(s) for the first name(s) followed by the surname. If more than one affiliation (but only in that case), 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
• Abstract text. Keep the abstract text to within 2000 characters, spaces included (which is roughly equivalent to 250 words).

Posters

Poster presenters are required to be available for discussion during their assigned session. Odd-numbered posters are pesented in the first session, on Monday (25 March) at 16:30-19:30, while even-numbered ones during the second session, on Tuesday (26 March) at 15:00. Please visit the Programme page for the list of posters.

All posters should stay up for the entire duration of the meeting, independently of the session to which they have been assigned. You are expected to have your poster up the latest by 16:30 of Monday, 25 March. Posters should be taken down at the end of the last poster session on Tuesday, 26 March, the latest before dinner. Posters left behind will be removed and discarded by the venue personnel.

When preparing your poster please remember that the poster's maximum size is A0 (841 x 1189 mm; width x height).

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The ABCD and SIBBM will award travel grants, covering part of the registration fee, to a number of participants. To be eligible, the following conditions must be met:

• be a member or a junior member of the ABCD or of the SIBBM;
• be less than 35 years old at the start of the meeting.

You may apply for the travel grant during the registration procedure. The number of travel grants assigned will depend on the number of requests.

N.B. To be eligible for the fellowship, the participant must have already paid the corresponding registration fee.