Meeting Circular 3

Meeting

The 113^th meeting has been changed to web holding on 7^th May, 2020. The dates for this meeting were rescheduled and will be held from September 23^rd through September 25^th. The registration was resumed on 18^th May, 2020. The Organizing Committee is pleased to invite you to this SRD Annual Meeting. Updated information of the 113^th SRD meeting is available at website for the 113^th SRD meeting.

Date for web hosting
Venue
Chair
Contact
Registration fee
Social hour
Abstract submission
Presentation methods
Application qualification for award competition
Other

The 113th SRD Annual Meeting

1. Date for web hosting
23^rd September 2020 (Wednesday)
Business meetings
24^th September 2020 (Thursday)
SRD Outstanding presentation award competition
Councilors meeting
Keynote lecture
Symposiums
25^th September 2020 (Friday)
Poster presentations
General assembly, Business meeting
Lectures by SRD awardees
President seminar
Public symposium
Social hour

2. Venue
This meeting will be held online.
Head office: The 113th SRD Meeting Organizing Committee
Tohoku University, Aobayama New Campus 468-1, Aoba, Aramaki-aza, Aoba-ku,
Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8572, Japan

3. Chair
Prof. Kentaro Tanemura (Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University)

4. Contact
The 113^th SRD Meeting Organizing Committee:
Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University 468-1, Aoba, Aramaki-aza, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8572, Japan
Fax: +81-22-757-4307
E-mail: srd113@grp.tohoku.ac.jp
Executive director: Kenshiro Hara

5. Registration fee

Honorary member	Free
Regular & Silver member	Early-bird 4,000 yen
Student member	Early-bird 2,000 yen
Non-member	Early-bird 7,000 yen

Registration fees include a printed copy of the proceedings (Japanese-language version only), and you can pay the fee through online registration system. Please note that the foreign first authors/presenters need to pay the early-bird registration fee in advance (Deadline: 14^th August, 2020). The title and abstract would be deleted when the deposit could not be confirmed by the deadline.

Early Bird Registration Deadline: 14^th August, 2020

6. Social hour
That is currently being prepared.

7. Abstract submission

Registration Dead Line for Presentation Award :
13:00JST, June 5^th (Fri.) 10^th (Wed) , 2020
Registration Dead Line for Poster Presentation :
13:00JST, June 26^th (Fri.) 29^th (Mon), 2020

Abstracts for regular presentation (poster session) and those for competition for the SRD Outstanding Presentation Award (both short and long version) must be submitted online by the presenters during the above-mentioned term. They must be written in English or Japanese. The first author and presenter must be a member of the SRD. For the membership registration process, please contact the SRD office (info@reproduction.jp).
Foreign first authors/presenters who belong to the institutions in abroad countries are exceptionally acceptable regardless of the SRD membership. Please note that the foreign first authors/presenters need to pay the early-bird registration fee in advance (Deadline: 14^th August, 2020). The title and abstract would be deleted when the deposit could not be confirmed by the deadline.

The title and abstract should be completed in English within 140 and 1720 letters including punctuation marks, respectively (alternatively within 70 and 860 letters in Japanese). No figures and tables are acceptable. To apply for the competitive presentation for SRD Outstanding Presentation Award, an additional abstract (long version) for the primary evaluation MUST be prepared within 3200 letters (in English) and submitted online as an attached file. Figures and tables cannot be included in this formatted abstract.
　Sample Abstract (MS Word (19 KB) / PDF (145 KB)

Please choose one of the following presentation format options as the presenter’s preference; 1) Oral presentation for Presentation Award, 2) Poster presentation is preferred. If the presentation format needs to be changed, we will inform the presenter about the change.

8. Presentation methods
The following presentation methods will be arranged with the change to the web holding. We will notify you with update information as soon as we can provide it.

Oral presentations:
10-min presentation with 5-min discussion will be allocated to each presentation. Several days prior to the presentation, each presenter should submit a PDF file for his/her presentation to the 113^th SRD Meeting Organizing Committee via email (srd113@grp.tohoku.ac.jp). Especially applicants for award competition are required to submit it by the due date. Otherwise (upon special request), his/her own laptop computer can be directly connected to on-site projector.
Poster presentations:
Poster boards (120-cm height, 90-cm width) and attaching materials (magnets or double-faced adhesive tapes) will be prepared.

9. Application qualification for award competition
There are two separate categories (category 1 for student members and category 2 for young regular members) for the award competition. Age of candidates should be less than 32 as of 1^st April 2020. No situation limited: e.g., salaried or unsalaried, regular staff or not, full-time or part-time worker, degree (bachelor, master or doctor). The person who engaged the position beside scientific activities can also apply. However, once awarded in the past, he/she cannot apply within the next 2 years.
Evaluation: the abstracts (long version) prepared for the primary evaluation are assessed by several evaluators. The oral presentations selected by the primary evaluation of the abstract will be made by the first author in the session for the second evaluation, which will be held on 24^th September. The several presentations will finally be selected for the award by the evaluators (councilors of SRD).
Note: For the detailed information, please see the SRD presentation award 2020.

Presentation Award application form (Word)

10. Other
Details of the content will be announced on this website and the website dedicated to the 113^th Annual meeting. website for the 113^th SRD meeting