August 8-13, 2009 - Calgary Alberta

Call for Papers

IS NOW OPEN

Important DATES

Call for Papers Opens   October 6, 2008
Call for Symposium & Workshops -Opens November 25, 2008
Submission Deadline March 1, 2009
Notification of acceptance April 5, 2009


CALL FOR PAPERS:

The World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology invite you to participate in the 22nd World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology Conference (WAAVP2009) by submitting an abstract for an oral or poster presentation. The WAAVP Scientific Program Committee particularly invites abstracts related to identified conference themes but will consider all abstracts. 

The conference consists of plenary sessions and concurrent oral and poster presentations. Contributions to the conference should focus on one of the following topics in order to streamline the program:

The choices are:

  • Aquaculture – Sea lice
  • Global Warming / Parasite, Endangered Species
  • Equine Parasites
  • Parasite Genomic/Proteomics
  • Diagnosis/PCR
  • Ectoparasites
  • Animal Production
  • Food Borne Parasites
  • Drug Resistance
  • Immunology / Vaccines
  • Modeling / Population Biology
  • Heartworm
  • Water-borne Protozoa
  • Vectors
  • African Trypanosomes
  • Leishmaniasis
  • Babesiosis/Anaplasmosis
  • Parasite Physiology, Pharmacology, Pharmacokinetics
  • Epidemiology
  • Endosymbionts
  • Non-Pharma Control
  • Targeted / Strategic Control
  • Free Range / Organic Production
  • Trichinella
  • Zoonoses
  • Other

The Scientific Program Committee retains the right to add, remove, or change these subjects, and to move abstracts to different themes, as it sees fit.

Authors may submit abstracts of completed work or work in progress.

All work submitted for presentation must be original. The onus remains with the primary author to ensure all authors/institutions consent to the material being presented at the conference. Abstracts will be selected through a peer-review process. Authors whose abstracts are accepted for presentation at the conference will be responsible for all costs associated with attending the conference.

CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM & WORKSHOPS:

The Scientific Program Committee launches an open call for proposals for Symposia or Workshops which relate to the conference theme: One World, One Health: Parasites in a Changing Landscape.

A Symposium should consist of a series of presentations on a common theme and involve the integration of complementary findings in the field of the theme, rather than a series of individual and unconnected original research reports. Symposia will have a total time available of either 60 or 120 minutes (most will be 60 minute time slots), including presentations and discussion, made up of 10 – 15 minute presentations. Discussion can be after all presentations, or after each separate presentation, depending on the wishes of the convenor who shall chair the symposium. With either discussion format, the symposium organizer(s) should try to draw together some common and concluding ideas from the presentations towards the end of the session.

A Workshop should consist of a forum for discussion of a topic in veterinary parasitology in which the convenor(s) or their delegate will make an opening presentation to provide the framework of the workshop (e.g. a series of questions/sub-themes to be addressed). The sub-themes in the workshop will be open for discussion from the floor, although the convenor may call up individual delegates to make short presentations (e.g. 2 - 5 minutes) to highlight different sub-themes relating to the topic and to raise questions for debate. A workshop should not consist of a series of conventional (e.g. 10 – 15 min.) presentations, but should rather be a discussion of a topic with a majority of the time being available for comments from the delegates present. It should be less structured than a symposium. However, it will be important that convenors encourage participation from the floor and ensure that many different view points receive exposure. The convenor who will normally chair the workshop should attempt to summarize the conclusions from the workshop in the final few minutes. The total time available for a workshop will be 60 minutes.

For detailed information and instructions please click on the link below.
Call for Symposium & Workshops

 

Presentation Type

Authors are invited to submit for both oral and poster presentations.

Oral presentations:

Presentations should address one or more of the sub-themes. Presentation time will be 15 minutes.

Poster presentations:

These will be on double-sided display panels, 2.4m wide by 1.2m high, each poster will have a 1.2m by 1.2m space limitation. Designated times will be determined during the conference for authors to present their posters.

Authorization and Consent

The submitting author is required to complete an authorization and consent form, on behalf of all co-authors. The onus remains with the submitting author to ensure all authors/institutions consent to the material being presented at the conference. You must agree to the following.

I warrant that the material used in my presentation will be original and not violate the rights of any third party.

I hereby grant WAAVP permission:

  1. to reproduce, via any medium whatsoever, my abstract and any poster created therefrom and to distribute copies thereof;
  2. to publish my abstract if accepted, in the WAAVP website; and
  3. to audiotape any oral presentation I may make at the conference. I remain free to publish any material submitted after its presentation at the conference.

Instructions for Abstract Submission

The abstract submission web site will open for submission on October 6, 2008, and will close at 5 p.m. PST on March 1, 2009. Abstracts should be submitted on-line if possible. Those unable to submit on-line can mail in a disk plus hard copy to the Conference Secretariat (address below). You may prepare your abstract in the word processing or text editing software of your choice, but do not use presentation software such as PowerPoint

  1. Abstracts may be submitted in English.
  2. Abstracts should not contain more than 250 words, not counting title and authors.
  3. Abstract titles should be brief and reflect the content of the abstract.
  4. Only standard abbreviations should be used and kept to a minimum.
  5. There is a limit of two abstract submissions per presenting author.

Abstracts should be submitted online through the conference website, at:

http://abstracts.scolars.com/conferences/waavp09/index.php

Detailed instructions for preparing and submitting an abstract are available by clicking the link on this website. Abstracts submitted by e-mail will not be accepted.

The results of the peer review are expected to be available in 5 April, 2009. The submitting author will be notified by e-mail.

Submitting by mail

Authors unable to submit via the website, are asked to please save their abstract on a disk, and mail the disk and a hard copy to the Conference Secretariat at:

22nd WAAVP Conference
Suite 304
611 West 13th Ave
Vancouver BC
Canada V5Z 1N8

Technical Support

Please email any question(s) to waavp@scolars.com.