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Sign Up to Review and/or Moderate the Microsymposia Poster Teasers
Deadline EXTENDED to August 12. We are still looking for reviewers, particularly in the following topic areas:
14 Cell-Based Therapies (Pre-clinical; development stage)
18 Microbiology
19 Plant Cell Biology
20 Ecology & Evolution
Whether you are able to attend Cell Bio 2024, or not, you can still be involved!
Are you an early career scientist (assistant professor or equivalent), postdoctoral researcher, or graduate student member of ASCB? Seize this incredible opportunity to elevate your career and contribute to Cell Bio 2024 by reviewing abstracts and moderating a Microsymposium Poster Teaser sessions in San Diego. We are looking for both reviewers and also up to 30 moderators for these sessions.
What Are Microsymposia?
Microsymposia at Cell Bio 2024 showcase the most exciting and cutting-edge research by trainees, based on scores from our reviewers. They are 5-minute poster teasers where the Q&A takes place at the poster in the poster sessions later that day. They are not organized specifically into topics but highlight the 50 highest scoring poster abstracts across various fields each day.
Five Microsymposia sessions will be scheduled from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of the meeting.
Key Tasks and Requirements:
- The Microsymposia reviewers participate in the scoring review online from August 30 to September 16*. You can contribute to the abstract review process from anywhere—attendance at Cell Bio 2024 is not required. Each reviewer will score approximately 10 to 40 abstracts depending on the topic(s) selected.
- The Microsymposia moderators (must also be a reviewer) organize the top 50 scoring abstracts into five daily sessions of 10 abstracts each. Moderators will collaborate from October 29 to November 5* to group abstracts effectively. During the meeting in San Diego, moderators run the session to keep them on schedule, and introduce each poster teaser presenter. If you sign up to moderate, you must be planning to attend the meeting on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and be available on all three days, since assignments will not be made until late October/early November.
*Please be sure you are available to participate during the time periods above since we have tight deadlines.
How to Participate:
Fill out the form below to participate by Wednesday, July 31. Select a first and second preference topic (mandatory), with the option to select a third, and fourth preference as backup. Please click here and visit the “Abstract Topics” tab to view available topics, with their respective subtopics. These are new topics for 2024! The number of reviewers per topic is determined by the number of abstracts submitted.
Reviewers will also have the ability to indicate if they wish to also serve as a moderator of a Microsymposium session. You can just be a reviewer without being a moderator but those who are attending the Cell Bio 2024 meeting and wish to moderate will receive preference.
If you are selected as the reviewer for a topic, details will be sent prior to each step with instructions and more information.
Selection for this will be first-come, first-served with preference given to trainees.
ASCB Staff will contact you by August 8 to let you know if you are selected to serve on this task force.
Cell Bio 2024 Microsymposia Reviewer and/or Moderator Application Form
Please sign up below to indicate your desire to score abstracts as a Microsymposia Reviewer. Reviewers will also have the ability to indicate if they wish to also serve as a moderator of a Microsymposium session. You can just be a reviewer without being a moderator but those who are attending the Cell Bio 2024 meeting and wish to moderate will receive preference.