Call for Posters

Share your research on nutrition, physical activity, obesity, and cancer by presenting a poster at the 2019 AICR Research Conference. All posters must be related to cancer, with a focus on food, nutrition, physical activity, or body weight.

Steps and Instructions:

1. Important Dates and Deadlines

   POSTER ABSTRACTS

   Monday, March 18, 2019

   Deadline for poster abstract submission

   Monday, April 8, 2019

   Notification of acceptance status sent to poster presenters

   Monday, April 22, 2019

   Deadline for poster presenters to register for both days of the conference, guaranteeing their spot in a poster session.

   
   

2. Submission Fees

   Fee: Poster abstract submission fee (with or without scholarship application): $50

   Poster abstracts must be submitted through our online abstract submission service. A non-refundable processing fee of $50 will be charged for each abstract submission. Abstracts must be paid for electronically and in full at the time of submission.

3. Poster Abstract Submission Guidelines

   SUBMISSION DEADLINE:March 4, 2019

   Click here to download a PDF version of the Poster Submission Guidelines.

   • All posters must be related to cancer, with a focus on food, nutrition, physical activity, or body weight.
   • Abstracts must be submitted electronically along with the full contact information of the presenting author.
   • While a presenter may be a co-author on more than one paper, only one poster abstract per poster presenter is permitted.
   • Abstracts must be submitted plain text format (.txt/html) in the free form field provided. Text may be entered manually or copied and pasted from an existing abstract.

   Presenter Contact Information: If you are submitting a poster on behalf of someone else, please be sure to note the difference in these two fields:

   • Submitter's E-mail: the e-mail address provided when beginning a submission and is the e-mail address for all notifications regarding the submission process itself i.e., started, completed, withdrawn and payment.
   
   
   • Poster Presenter's Full Contact Information: the e-mail address provided in the "Author" step of the submission will be the e-mail address used for notification of poster acceptance status.

   Poster Award: If you are a post-doctoral scholar, you may elect to have your poster entered in the John A. Milner poster competition. Only applicants who will be in a post-doctoral position at the time of the conference are eligible for the competition. You must indicate during the poster abstract submission process that you would like your poster to be considered. Posters will be judged during the poster sessions at the conference and poster prizes of $500 will be awarded during the closing plenary session.

   Oral Presentations: A limited number of spaces are available for presenters to give oral presentations at the conference. Chosen presenters will be notified of their acceptance prior to the conference and will be provided with an honorarium. In order to be eligible, the presenter must submit a poster abstract through the poster submission site.

   Poster Sessions: There will be two poster sessions: Session I will take place Wednesday, May 15 from 5:00pm-7:00pm and Session II will take place Thursday, May 16 from 5:00pm-7:00pm.
   Please note: poster presenters may not choose which poster session they will be in.

   AICR will assign presenters to their session based on topic. To help us assign your poster to the best session, please select the most appropriate topic category.

4. Poster Abstract Content and Formatting Guidelines

   Title

   The title should be in sentence case with no full stop at the end, e.g.:

   Beneficial effects of fish oil consumption on colorectal caner

   Conflict of Interest

   Please disclose any conflicts of interest when prompted during the "Title" step. If there is no conflict please state, "None"

   Funding

   AICR requires full disclosure of all relevant sources of funding in relation to poster abstracts. Use a semicolon (;) to separate each funding source. If there are no relevant sources of funding please state "None"

   Authors

   AICR has a strict limit of one poster per presenting author. While a presenter may be a co-author on more than one poster, only one poster abstract per poster presenter is permitted.

   Include the surname, first name and middle initial of all authors with corresponding affiliations when applicable. If there are more than six authors, only the names of the first six authors followed by "et al." will be displayed in the printed program book. Please note: you must include and indicate the presenting author.

   Affiliations

   Include University/Institute, City, State, and Country (if outside the United States). Where there are multiple affiliations, each should be listed separately and entered in the order used.

   Abstract Text

   Abstracts should be structured under the following headings: Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions, Keywords
   Maximum word limit is 300 words
   Symbols and other special characters may be included
   Tables and figures should not be included in the abstract
   
   NOTE:Do not include title, authors, or affiliations in the abstract text.

   Word Count

   The word limit for poster abstract submissions is 300. This includes the Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions, and Keywords. References are not required but if they are used, they will count towards the total word count for the abstract

5. Sample Poster Abstract Layout

   Below is a sample layout of how your abstract submission will appear when printed in the conference program book.

   Beneficial effects of fish oil consumption on colorectal caner

   Smith MA¹, Harrison N², Matthews P², Smith A¹, Harrison A², Matthews W², et al.
   ¹University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
   ²Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC

   Background: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

   Methods: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

   Results: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

   Conclusions: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.

   Keywords: Lorem, ipsum, dolor, sit, amet, consectetur

   Conflict of Interest: None

   Funding: None

6. General Information

   Presenting authors will be automatically informed of the unique ID numbers and passwords assigned to their abstracts. Abstracts may be viewed and modified at any time between submission and the deadline, using the assigned ID# and password.

   Technical Support

   For help in submitting an abstract online, Contact technical support .

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