Information for Participants

Please pay the registration fee of 20,000 yen in cash at the registration desk.
(Medical students are exempt from participation fee.)
The registration desk is located on Conference Bldg. 2nd floor of Sendai International Center. You will receive a name-tag upon registration for the meeting. Please make sure to put it on at all times during the meeting.

The registration desk will be open during the following hours:

May 10 (Wed) 13:30 ~ 19:00
May 11 (Thu) 7:40 ~ 19:00
May 12 (Fri) 7:40 ~ 17:30
May 13 (Sat) 7:40 ~ 19:30

Events

Congress Banquet (for all members)


Official language

Official language of the congress is Japanese.
English shall be used in the international sessions.


Instruction for Speakers

Presentation Time

Session Symbol Presentation Discusion Method
ISSBA Symposium BA-S Individual Times PC
ISSBA Oral Session BA-O 5minutes 3minutes
International Session IS-O
International Poster Session IS-P 3minutes 2minutes Paper
ISSBA Poster Session BA-P

COI (Concerning Conflict of Interest)

All speakers must disclose any COI (Conflict of Interest) on the second slide of the presentation.
All Poster Presenters must disclose COI (Conflict of Interest) on the lower right-hand corner of the poster.
Please download the form for the disclosure slide.


1) If there is any COI to be disclosed.  
2) If there is no COI to be disclosed.

Oral Presentation Information

1. Only PC presentations are allowed.
2. Presenter should bring their data to PC Data Desk within 30 minutes before presentation. *Bring the data to PC Center at 2nd floor.
3. Windows Users: Use CD-R, or USB drive (CD-RW is not compatible) to deliver your presentation to the PC Data Desk. Presenters whose data size exceeds 500MB are requested to bring their own PC. The Applications available: Windows PowerPoint 2007/2010/2013/2016.

Macintosh Users: Requested to bring their own PC and external-output cables.

The PC Data Desk will be open at the following time:
· May 11(Thu) 7:40 ~ 18:00
· May 12(Fri) 7:40 ~ 17:30
· May 13(Sat) 7:40 ~ 19:30


Presenters are requested to bring their own computers and their own external-output cables.
Prior to your presentation, make sure that your presentation does not render any garbled characters when opened on another computer than yours.
4. Please save your presentation file in the following file name form: Abstract Number_Presenter's Name.ppt (e.g.: IS1-01_JohnSmith.ppt). Note: ".ppt" must be in English half size characters.
5. Fonts must be chosen from the default PowerPoint fonts, such as Arial、Arial Black、Arial Narrow、Century、Century Gothic、Courier New、Symbol、Georgia、Times New Roman.
6. Application of animation and motion pictures are accepted, but only which workable by Power Point. Those who wish to use these applications are requested to bring their own personal computers.
7. Presenters would operate the keyboard and the mouse set on the podium during their presenting time.

Poster Presentation Information

Poster Presentation Schedule

Date Preparation Presentation Standby time for
Display
Removing
May 13 (Fri) 8:00~10:00 13:00~15:55 15:25~15:55 16:00~17:00

Please come to poster reception in front of Poster/Exhibition room 1&2 within 30 minutes before presentation.

The size of each poster panel is shown as the above. The poster number (20cm x 20cm, the upper left side) will be prepared by the congress office.
Please prepare “the title” and “authors’ names and affiliations” in the right side space of the poster number. The poster display size is 160cm×90cm.
Poster presenters also have to disclose and display any COI(Conflict of Interest).