If you are presenting an abstract at this year's meeting, please follow the appropriate link below for detailed instructions on preparing your presentation:

• Poster Session Guidelines
• Talk Session Guidelines
• Upload Presentation Instructions

See the meeting schedule for a list of the sessions.)

Posters will be displayed for the entire meeting, but you will only be required to attend your poster for one session.  Dimensions should be approximately 2.5 ft. (76 cm) wide x 4 ft. (122 cm) high. However, as you may be aware from previous meetings, the size of display panels is somewhat variable.  Therefore, many presenters prefer to paste figures onto separate boards, rather than bringing a single large poster, to allow the presentation to be reconfigured depending on the exact space available.  Please be certain to include your title (in large letters), and make sure that your poster is legible from a distance of at least 4 ft. (122 cm).  You may also want to bring some extra data (not appearing on the poster), which may be of interest to specialists in your field.  Please contact William Villineau in advance if you have special requirements for your presentation, such as an internet connection or video projector i.e., in order to demonstrate web resources during the poster sessions. (Also note that there is also a specific "web presentation" option for presentations that are predominantly web- or computer-based.)

Please plan your presentation to take a maximum of 12 minutes, leaving 3 minutes for discussion.  The tight schedule means that no presentations will be permitted to run more than 15 minutes, including question time!  The majority of your talk should be devoted to unpublished material, but please be sure to provide an introduction, that EXPLAINS WHAT QUESTIONS YOU ARE ASKING AND WHY THEY ARE OF INTEREST. A few participants will be invited to give longer presentations that are intended tp present the issues of what and why in a broader context. If your talk is preceded by such an overview, please try to adapt your introduction accordingly. Avoid duplication, even if the talk is shortened (there will be more time for discussion, which is a very desirable consequence). Most investigators find that a maximum of 10-12 slides can be shown in the time available.  Please make sure that the text size and coloring are suitable to be viewed from the back of a large lecture theater.

If you are planning to make a PowerPoint presentation, the KMCBM organizers and Woods Hole IT staff would greatly appreciate having your presentation in advance of the start of the meeting. Direct presentation from a MAC or PC will only be allowed if the nature of the content precludes presentation via the server, and must be requested in advance.

Having your presentation ahead of time will allow the MBL IT staff to organize and catalog the presentations, thus making registration go more smoothly and hopefully avoiding any last minute on-site problems.  Regarding this, we would like to make a special plea to those of you who are giving presentations on the first day to make a special effort to get your presentation to us ahead of time. Although our preference is to have your presentations in advance, you will still be able to upload from laptops, zip drives, or CDs at registration as well as make last minute changes to previously uploaded presentations.

To this end, MBL has set up an FTP site which will enable you to easily upload your presentation.  The directions appear below.  If you run into any problems trying to upload your presentation, please contact Chris Dematos, whose contact information appears below.

***FTP Deadline: April 19, 2007***

Directions to FTP your KMCBM presentation For PC using IE:
1) Open your browser (Internet Explorer with a PC)
2) In the "address line" at the top of the browser, type the following address: ftp://kmcbm@ftp.mbl.edu.
3) Enter the password:  (please refer to the e-mail that you received for the password, or contact us to get it)
4) Click: Login
5) Select the type of computer that you would prefer to use for your presentation (i.e., Mac or PC)
6) Find the file folder with your first initial & last name (i.e., cdematos)
7) Drag and drop your presentation into the folder
(or, if this does not work, click to get into the folder and then select "upload file" from the browser's menu; it should then prompt for the file to upload)
8) If you have videos attached to your PowerPoint presentation please place them in the "videos" folder located within your personal folder.
9) If you experience problems or have any questions please contact Chris Dematos at cdematos@mbl.edu or 508-540-6491


NOTE: If you experience Problems uploading using the above directions please use these below.

Step 1: Go to http://ftp.mbl.edu:83/
Step 2: You should see "Welcome to the MBL FTP Web Client" Please click Continue
Step 3: The login screen, Enter the site name/username = kmcbm and the password you received in the email or Contact me for it.
Step 4: You should now see a split screen. On the top section you should see 2 directories "MAC" & "PC" click on the directory/ Operating system you will use to present in.
Step 5: You should now see a list of presentor names. Find your name (first initial last name, ex. C. Dematos) and click on the name.
Step 6: On the far left side of the page you should see a list of links that say "upload", "download" ect... Please click on upload
Step 7: You should now see a list of boxes with a Browse button at the end of each one. Click on "Browse" and locate your presentation on your computer. click on your presentation and select "Open". You should see the path to your file.
Step 8: Click on the "Upload" button at the bottom of the boxes. After a few seconds your should be directed back to the split screen section. On the button half of the screen you should see the name of your presentation.
Step 9: Congratulations you may now close your browser window you've uploaded your presentation. If you have any questions/problems feel free to contact me. cdematos@mbl.edu Or (508) 540-6491

NOTE: if you have a video in your presentation please follow steps 1-5 and select Videos and then follow steps 6-9