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The Wildlife Disease Association (WDA) invites submission of abstracts for its annual conference, 30 May – 4 June 2010.
The 2010 conference theme is "Ecosystem health in the neotropics: a growing challenge". Presentations and/or posters could be on any wildlife health-related topic, but papers relating to the topics listed below were encouraged. In addition to traditional oral presentations there will be opportunity to share in depth information on specific topics during the Symposia & Special Sessions on Friday.
Topics at this meeting will include: 1. Marine / aquatic health issues.
2. Disease Ecology.
3. Surveys & New Reports.
4. Tools & Techniques.
5. Wildlife – Domestic - Human Animal Interface.
6. Socio-political Challenges of Disease Management.
7. Linking Captive and Free-ranging Wildlife Health.
8. Any host taxa-related wildlife health topic.
9. Any pathogen taxa-related wildlife health topic.
The deadline for submissions is March 5, 2010. Notification of the acceptance of your abstracts and assignment to a platform or poster presentation session will be made later.
The Program Committee will try to meet requests for either oral or poster presentation format, but final decisions will depend on the number of contributions and scheduling constraints. Poster contributors should plan to attend a specific scheduled session for poster presentation. Please limit poster size to 51 long x 35.4 wide (inches) or less. Oral presentations in topical sessions will be strictly limited to 15 minutes, including questions, unless indicated otherwise by the Program Committee Chair. If information cannot be concisely presented in 10 to 12 minutes, then please consider a poster presentation.
Please submit abstracts using the form on the Abstract Submission Page
Students wishing to be considered for the Terry Amundson Student Presentation Award or student poster competition must submit an abstract to the Scientific Program Chair through the Abstract Submission Page clearly identifying the abstract as a student submission for consideration of respective awards. If you select "yes" under the heading "student presentation" you will automatically be included in the student presentation section and will be considered for an oral presentation award or poster award, depending on your designated presentation type. |
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