The 25th Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research includes oral and poster presentations. Papers may be proffered in either category using the abstract submission form in the links below. Based upon the thematic organization of the conference, the program committee may also solicit presentations to complement the proffered papers. If you are responding to such a solicitation, please indicate that on the abstract submission form. At least the presenting author of each accepted submission, whether proffered or solicited, is expected to register for the conference.
Abstracts must be received by 19 November 2007 in order to ensure their full consideration for the program. The notifications of rejected submissions will be sent prior to the early, discounted registration deadline of 3 December 2007. The final program, showing the session to which each accepted submission is assigned, will be posted on this Web site by 21 January 2008.
The instructions for formatting abstracts are intended to produce a uniform style in the book of abstracts that is provided to each registered attendee. Please follow the format described in the instructions. Using one of the word processor templates provided below should make this easier. Abstracts may be submitted through an online submission page, by Email or, if need be, sent on a computer-readable medium to the Society's mailing address.
The Word template may be installed by downloading it and placing it in the correct Templates folder (e.g., C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates). One may also open it in Word and then perform a File -- Save As... operation, saving it as a .dot type document. By default, it will be placed in the general templates folder. Then to create an abstract, one performs a File -- New operation, choosing to create the document from a template, and then choose the AbstrText2008.dot template. The Word template may also be opened by OpenOffice Writer. You may find that you need to unprotect the template in order to insert figures.
The OpenDocument template AbstrText2008.ott may be installed in OpenOffice Writer by downloading it and saving it to the disk and then performing the operation File -- Templates -- Organize -- choose a Templates directory -- Commands -- Import Template and selecting the downloaded file in the ensuing file system browser.
Authors are kindly asked to keep the file size of the abstract submission below two megabytes, including all figures and text.
When one has finished composing an abstract in either program, one would then save the abstract as a document file (e.g., as a .doc file in Word or a .odt or .doc file in OpenOffice). A file name that includes the corresponding author's last name is suggested.
To submit the abstract, one would repeat the installation and completion process for the abstract submission form templates (Word, OpenDocument) and savinge the abstract submission form to a file. Again, including the corresponding author's last name in the file name is suggested. Then, one would send an Email message to abstracts@hsemb.org with both the abstract submission form and the abstract text files as attachments.
Alternatively, one may complete the submission information online and upload the completed abstract text file through the online abstract submission page.
Electronic submission is strongly preferred, but if need be, copy the completed abstract submission form and the completed abstract text file to a floppy disk or CD-ROM that is readable by Microsoft Windows. Mail it to
Program Committee, HSEMB
1720 Dryden Road, #221
Houston TX 77030
allowing sufficient time to be received by the abstract deadline of 19 November 2007 in order to assure full consideration for the program.
25th Annual Meeting
7-8 February 2008
Houston, Texas
Last updated: 2007-10-16