Indian society of cell biology

b. Plenary Lectures

The Organizing Committee can invite established Cell Biologists to give Plenary Lectures but these should not be more than one per day. About 40 minutes be allotted for each lecture.

c & d. Platform and Poster Sessions

The time for scientific sessions should be generally equally distributed between the Platform and Poster Sessions. In order to provide adequate time for presentation and questions, the number of platform session presentations be limited so that each presentation gets about 15 minutes (including discussion). For a given platform session, related papers should be carefully bunched so that they present a unity of theme. The Chairperson for the session should be chosen from amongst the senior participants who can give an appropriate introduction to the session, moderate questions and give a reasonable summary of the papers presented.

Poster sessions may also be arranged everyday and a group of posters related to that day's platform sessions be arranged for display on the day (if space permits, all posters may be kept on display on all days). Some time should be allotted each day for a common discussion of the posters presented that day. The information about the day and time of display of a particular poster should be communicated to the author/s well in time.

The oral and poster presentations to be considered for award must be scheduled such that they are presented within first two days of the conference to give time to the judges for preparing the award list and to the Secretary of the society to make the certificates ready well on time before the valedictory function.