Abstracts for poster session

Abstracts should be send to Cristina Luceri at the University of Firenze: cristina.luceri@unifi.it

The deadline for submission is Monday, 1st June 2009. Notification of successful abstracts - for poster presentations - will be made after 8th June 2009.

Topics of interest - please mark your abstract(s) as relevant to one of these categories

- Adipose tissue biology and obesity
- Insulin resistance
- Early life nutrigenomics
- Nutritional epigenomics
- Nutrigenomics and gut health
- Nutritional systems biology
- Micronutrient genomics
- Nutrigenomics and phytochemicals
- Nutrigenomics and cardiovascular health
- Nutrigenomics and quantification of food intake
- Bioinformatics
- Biobanking
- Nutrigenomics in society
- Nutrigenomics and inflammation

• Files created in Microsoft Word are preferred, but those created with other word processing packages are acceptable provided they are compatible
• Abstracts should be a maximum of 1 page using Times New Rome 12 and all margins set at 2.54cm and line spacing 1.2
• Format the title in bold and use an initial capital letter only for the first word and for proper nouns (e.g. The cat called Fred sat on the mat)
• Do not leave a blank line between the title and the authors’ names
• Type authors’ names with leading capitals only, giving each author’s initials before the surname (e.g. A. N. Other)
• Separate names with commas, except for the last name that should be preceded by the word ‘and’ (e.g. A. N. Other and A. N. Other)
• Format the authors’ address(es) in italics; use lower case except for initial letters of words (e.g. University of Reading etc.). If there is more than organisation, these should be related by superscript numbers; do not place addresses between the names in a list of authors.
• Leave one blank line below the addresses and start immediately on the next line
• Do not indent paragraphs but leave a blank line between them
• Text should be fully justified (right and left)
• Within the text, references should be cited in chronological order by author name and publication year (Other et al., 2005)
• The references should be listed at the end of the text in alphabetical order
• Please give some indication of the variability of results and significance of any differences
• Do not include tables and figures