The 4th Joint Spring Conference, 7-9 March 2016 City Hall, Cardiff, Wales, UK Abstract Submission

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Clinical Genetics Cancer Genetics Joint Session

Awards/Prizes Following awards are offered for oral/poster presentations- Please tick as appropriate

Oral (3 prizes)  The Robin Winter Prize (Sponsored by UK Clinical Genetics Society)  One each by UK/Dutch Clinical Genetics groups  One each by UK/Dutch Cancer Genetics groups

Poster (2 prizes)  One prize by Joint Clinical Genetics Groups  One prize by Joint Cancer Genetics Groups

Conditions of the award:  The Robin Winter Prize for trainees only (UK/Dutch)  Undertaking original research or exploring innovative approaches to diagnosis, molecular mechanisms or therapeutic applications  Panel decision for best submissions selected to give a 10 minute oral presentation  The awardees will receive a cash prize along with citation

Submission: Closing date for abstract submission is 5 th January 2016

Please return this form, together with your abstract to Professor Dhavendra Kumar Email: [email protected] OR [email protected] or Mail to: Institute of Medical Genetics, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XW

Please refer to Guidelines for Submission overleaf Guidelines for abstract compilation:

Title of the Abstract (14 point centered, bold) A. Author1, B. Author2 (11 point centered) 1 Affiliation, Institute, City, Postcode, Country (9 point centered) 2 Affiliation, Institute, City, Postcode, Country

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(Style) One page only is permitted for the abstract.

 The abstract should be written in English using Arial font (14 point for the Title and 11 point for the text with single line spacing)

 The document (including title, authors, affiliation, postal address, email address and figures) must fit on one page with a top margin of 30 mm and a bottom/left/right margin of 25 mm. The title, author(s), affiliation(s) and email address(s) should be centered.

 Section titles should start without indentation. Leave a space of one line between the affiliation(s) and the first section title, and one line between text and figures (tables etc.) or captions. Figures and Tables should be included in the main text.

 Underline the name of the author who will present the paper and the email address of the corresponding author.

 All presenters will need to register to attend the conference and be present at the Poster Viewing Session on the evening of 7th March 2016

Successful abstracts will be invited to display a poster in A1/A0, Portrait orientation only

We will be unable to display Landscape posters