6th ESACP Congress,Heidelberg,April 7-11,1999


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  • Apr.2,1999:
    - the session chairmen have been introduced into the
    program overview
    - please send all email to the 6thESACP Congress Secretariat in Heidelberg from Apr.5 onwards.
    - the earlier announced situation maps are available
    - the contents of the apoptosis tutorial have been defined
    - the electronic tutorial registration has marked a certain number of registrants but in a significant number of cases we do not know which of the tutorials was selected
    - the three tutorials on apoptosis, telelearning and DNA image cytometry will be offered in parallel between 13.30-16.30h on Wednesday, Apr.7 in the Communication Center of the DKFZ
    - if you are interested in one of the tutorials please come on Wednesday around noon to the registration desk in order to organise the distribution of the tutorial participants



    Mar.25,1999:
    - suggestions for exchanges of contributions between or within
    sessions can be made until Friday, Mar.26 18.00h at the latest to assure the correct fabrication of the printed programs until the begin of the congress.


    Mar.24,1999:
    - the scientific program has been supplemented with time allocations for
    all sessions
    - several late abstracts will be shortly made available
    - the printed program will be handed out with the congress bags in Heidelberg
    - Congress Buildings/Location Maps


    Mar.20,1999:
    - the comparison between the increasing number of paid registrations and the lower number of received hotel room reservations shows presently a significant discrepancy.
    - the organizers want to reemphasize that participants of the 6thESACP congress should clearly not entertain the illusion that hotel rooms can be booked upon arrival in Heidelberg at the registration desk. Heidelberg is a touristically as well as scientifically very busy city with a relatively limited number of hotel rooms.
    - free hotel rooms can be on-line booked on a daily basis in the office of the
    Verkehrsverein (Official Heidelberg Tourist Office) which is located on the place in front of the Heidelberg railway station. Business hours are between: 9-19h (Monday to Saturday)/10-18h (Sunday). In addition, general informations on Heidelberg, touristic material, city maps are available. Furthermore, excursions tickets as well as tourist tickets for public transport or "Heidelberg Cards" (transport + free access to museums, Heidelberg castle etc) can be bought.
    - the only possible action from the congress registration desk is to telephone from hotel to hotel for free rooms. This is relatively hopeless after 12 o'clock noon, especially in case of overcomplete hotels.
    - nevertheless, nobody in search of a hotel room will in all likelihood remain in the streets overnight, but it may be necessary to take local trains or expensive outside city taxi rides in the evenings to hotels in Mannheim or Ludwigshafen. Not only are such hotels comparatively far away, they may not correspond at all to the intentions of the participants concerning both location and price.
    - Conclusion & Urgent Recommendation: if you need a hotel room for the meeting, please book it soon !



    Mar.18,1999:
    -
    hotel rooms in Heidelberg are booked electronically or alternatively by faxing the printed hotel booking form to: +49/6221/142222 or by mailing it to: Verkehrsverein Heidelberg e.V., Kongress-Service, Postfach 10 58 60, D-69048 Heidelberg, Germany. Information on the individual booking situation can be obtained by E-mail or phone (+49/6221/142224) from Mrs.Fürstenau.
    - hotel rooms can also booked by contacting the hotels directly according to information on the Heidelberg Hotel List (location/rooms/prices, 89KBytes). The exact location of the hotels can be determined in advance by consulting the Heidelberg City Map/Local Transport information with reference to the DKFZ/university conference site in the E8/ E9 map quadrants and the old city in F10.
    - the location of meeting points for the airport shuttles or the Lufthansa bus at the Frankfurt airport will be communicated on the transportation vouchers issued by the Verkehrsverein Heidelberg.
    - the train service schedule between the Frankfurt airport and Heidelberg is available in tabulated form.
    - situation maps of the buildings & lecture halls will be shortly available on the congress Internet pages.
    - exact times for each oral presentation will be shortly indicated for the various sessions.
    - written notifications on abstract acceptance & session assignments as well as on the author's registration status will be sent out during the coming weekend



    Mar.15,1999:
    - poster dimensions are now
    available.
    - all posters will be up during the entire congress period (Wed.Apr.7 afternoon - Sun.Apr.11 noon)
    - four additional abstracts (A157-A160) will be shortly displayed on-line as well as two plenary session abstracts A007, A014.



    Mar.12,1999:
    - the
    session schedule has just been activated. The "Abstract/Session Locator" indicates the assignment of all abstracts to oral or poster sessions.


    Mar.9,1999:
    - the assignment of the accepted contributions to oral/poster sessions will be available until March 12 at the
    session schedule.


    Mar.2,1999:
    - accepted abstracts are now
    accessible on the Internet.
    - information on the train service from Frankfurt Airport to Heidelberg has been included in this documentation to facilite your travel arrangements.



    Feb.26,1999:
    - accepted abstracts will be
    displayed on Mar.1, 1999 by titles/authors/affiliation on the Internet.
    - the Program & Scientific Advisory Committees will make the oral/poster session assignments for the submitted contributions during the coming week
    - first authors of submitted abstracts will be notified by the end of the next week of acceptance/rejection and session assignment of their contributions.
    - if a submitted abstract will not be displayed and no notice will be received until March 12, please notify me by

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    Feb.19,1999:
    - Scientists who have submitted abstracts to the 6thESACP Congress will be shortly notified or they can check by themselves the acceptance and
    session assignment of their contributions. The date of notification will be displayed on this page.
    - From this date on for one further week, the registration fee will remain at the early registration level i.e. the low fees applies for all those who have accepted abstracts.
    - Although abstracts for oral sessions or for inclusion into the ACP 6thESACP congress issue cannot be submitted any more, there is the possibility to electronically submit abstracts for poster sessions until Mar.12, 1999. The abstracts will be reviewed and assigned to poster sessions when accepted. Printed copies of the accepted late abstracts will be available at the congress and publication in ACP is foreseen for the subsequent ACP issue.





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