QUAD 2010 Poster Competition :

Cash Prizes for Each Category!

Official Poster Form

Abstracts for the 2010 QUAD Symposium meeting are now being accepted.  A total of 12 posters will be chosen from the entries to enter the competition.  Two cash prizes will be presented for each category ($200 & $100) and registration to the Quad will be free! Posters will be judged on abstract content, knowledge of material, and appearance. 

Please attach a copy of your abstract to this completed form and send it to the poster coordinator. You will be notified via email by April 30^th if your poster is chosen to enter the contest.

ABSTRACTS DUE BY APRIL 1, 2009

CRITERIA:

a) Size limit- 4’x8’

b) Poster should include: title, authors, affiliation (institute), abstract, methodology, results and bibliography.

c) Recommended minimum of 25 handouts available during poster hours.

d) 4 typed copies of poster to be given to Poster Coordinator prior to judging.

Deadlines

March 1:    Exhibitor/Vendor registration

April 1:      Abstract submission and Poster session

April 2:      Early registration

April 30:    Essay submission

April 19:    Hotel booking

May 1:       Team submission for Tech Challenge

May 3:       Meeting registration

Events

Tuesday

May 11th, 2010

9 - 9:45am           

F. Claire Hankenson – University of Pennsylvania “Genotyping by Gorillas:  Current guidance for tissue sampling of mice”

10:30 - 11am

Diann Funk – University of Pittsburgh “The Bigger They Are, the Harder They Fall:  Handling Large Swine in Surgical Protocols”

11:00 – 11:30 am   

Jennifer Camacho – Massachusetts General Hospital “Response Plan for Primate Behavior”

1:15 –   2:00 pm  

James Macy – Yale University  “Factors Affecting Mouse Parvovirus Spread in Colonies”

2:00 –   2:30 pm

Julieanne Brandolini – Partners Healthcare System “Standardizing the Definition of a Dirty Rodent Cage”

2:30 –   3:00 pm

Julie Watson – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine