AMATA 2008: Abstracts and Awards

Abstracts are printed in the Scientific Program and Abstract book for the meeting, and should be cleared for publication before submission.

Abstracts are submitted on-line, with registration.  Once submitted you may modify your abstract up until the time that the program is compiled. The suggested limit for the length of your abstract is 1800 characters - around 300 words.

Posters should be Portrait view in design, and be in the dimensions of 1.2 m high by 1m wide. Posters are hung in the Conference Room on the Otago Daily Times  (ODT) Gallery level of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery - we are in very attractive surroundings for this meeting!

Posters should be hung on the Wednesday morning. Velcro dots will be available at your numbered poster board, and numbers are according to the printed program in your conference satchel. Posters brought on Tuesday evening to the Opening Oration and Welcome Reception, may be stowed in the Gallery overnight, but should be clearly labelled/recognisable among many other innocuous, black poster tubes...!

Posters should be removed at the end of Morning Tea on the Friday.

AMATA is pleased to offer the following travel bursaries for attendance at the 2008 meeting in Dunedin, New Zealand. The travel bursary will be awarded prior to the meeting and made payable to the recipient's Institution.

The Awardee will be presented with a certificate signed by the AMATA executive.

4 x AMATA Early Career Researcher Travel Bursaries
4 x AMATA Student Travel Bursaries

CONDTIONS OF THE AWARD:

• The winners will be chosen on the basis of their submitted abstract
  
• Abstracts will be judged by a panel of judges from within the organising committee of AMATA 2008
  
• Those submitting abstracts for assessment by the judges must be Members of the AMATA association
  
• Students must be enrolled in an approved course of study reflecting the aims of the society and within recognised University or Institute
  
• Early Career Researchers should be no more than 8 years Postdoc and be working full-time in the field in an accredited, academic institution.