Registrations open: 18 March 2024

Abstract submission deadline: EXTENDED TO 10 July 2024

Payment with early bird discount deadline: EXTENDED TO 10 July 2024

Online registrations deadline: 5 August 2024

	Early bird fee (until 10 July 2024)	Regular fee (after 10 July 2024)
*To benefit from the "Junior" registration fee, participants must fall in one of the following categories: undergraduate students (studenti di laurea) Ph.D. students (dottorandi) fellows (borsisti, assegnisti di ricerca) No other categories can benefit from a "Junior" registration fee. To benefit from this discount, a confirmation must be provided by the direct supervisor (further details will be available during the registration procedure).
Member of a FISV-affiliated Society	€ 250	€ 350
Junior participant*	€ 140	€ 170
Other participant	€ 300	€ 400

The registration fee includes:

• entry to all scientific sessions
• congress kit
• coffee breaks

Lunches (19 and 20 September) are not included in the fee and cost 15 EUR per day.
The "Aperitivo and dinner at Caffè Pedrocchi" on 18 September is also not included and costs 50 EUR. Participants can sign up for the dinner and for lunches during the payment procedure.

Payment is possible by credit card or by bank transfer. Further details about the payment procedure is available through your personal myFISV2024.

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 within 5 August 2024 will be refunded fully minus an administrative charge. No refunds will be provided after 5 August 2024.

Abstracts are accepted exclusively online through your personal myFISV2024 area (you will need to sign up to have access to the latter).

The abstract submission deadline is 10 July 2024. The organisers will then review the received abstracts for oral or poster presentations. Participants will be notified of the abstract selections by 24 July 2024.

Submitted abstracts will be discarded if the corresponding registration payment is not received within 10 July 2024.

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

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 1200 characters, spaces included (which is roughly equivalent to 200 words).

During the submission procedure authors can indicate a preference for poster or oral communications and to which of the following topics the abstract is destined.

1. Environmental, Evolutionary and Developmental Biology
   Including how organisms adapt to harsh conditions and respond to changing environment including pollutants, (drugs) and stress.
2. Genetics, Epigenetics and Chromosome Biology
   Including all investigations on genetic and epigenetic mechanisms regulating DNA biology such as, for example, transcription, replication, repair, chromosome and nuclear architecture.
3. Genomics, Proteomics and Systems Biology
   Including all investigations implying systems biology such as mutational analysis, RNA expression, proteomics and metabolomics.
4. Current trends in Biotechnology
   Including agricultural, environmental, animal, industrial, pharmaceutical and medical applications.
5. Food and Sustainable Nutrition
   Including sustainable agricultural approaches, functional foods, nutraceutics, food safety.
6. Health and Disease
   Including plant and animal disease, infectious agents, innovative drug approaches and delivery systems, personalized medicine.

Participants with abstracts that were selected for a poster should prepare and upload their poster according to the guidelines below within 10 September 2024 EXTENDED. No physical posters will be presented at the congress. The list of posters is available in the Programme page.

• The text of the poster should be in English.
• You are requested to prepare the poster using the Powerpoint template available in your personal myFISV2024 area.
• The format of the poster should be horizontal and widescreen (16:9).
• You are advised to verify that your poster is readable in full screen.
• The poster file should be saved as a PDF, with the option "Minimum size (online publication)". The total size of the file should be less than 5 MB.
• Name the file as follows: "Poster number_Last name of presenting author.pdf"; e.g., "P1.1_Mendel.pdf". Your poster number is available through the upload area (see below).
• The poster file, as a PDF, must be uploaded by yourself, the presenting author, through your personal myFISV2024 area, in the Poster uploads section (where additional information is also available). The deadline has been EXTENDED TO 10 September 2024.

All registered participants will be able to see all posters from the start of the congress and for a month through a dedicated section in the protected myFISV2024 area.

Only the authors of selected abstracts that were specifically notified about it will be requested to give a short oral presentation (5 minutes in total) during the dedicated Poster Presentation slots (see the Programme page).