Our biannual stand-alone Annual General meeting will be held in Sevilla, Spain September 9-12, 2011. The programme will be based upon plenary lectures, 12 symposia and free communications in the form of posters. As a new initiative this year, the winners of EBBS-Seville Awards will be invited to present their work as oral communications.

To have a well-balanced and high scientific quality programme it is most important that the proposals reflect the scientific interests of the EBBS membership. We can only achieve these goals of scientific excellence and membership interest through active participation of EBBS members in formulation of the programme.
The EBBS committee, acting as the programme committee, urges members to submit proposals for symposia on topics of their choice and to encourage colleagues, EBBS members or not, to submit proposals.

Guidelines

• Symposia may be proposed by EBBS members or non-members, with no geographical restrictions.
• The organizer should be an established researcher.
• Symposia are two hours in length and comprise four speakers.
• Speakers should ideally provide a balanced mix of presentations of a wide, synthesis or reviewing perspective on the topic covering several years of work, and descriptions of some new data, relevant to the topic.
• Symposia having one young speaker at the doctoral/postdoctoral level will be preferred.
• Speakers, and only speakers, receive a free registration. No other financial assistance is available.