President: Kazuhiko Sasaki, PhD

(Department of Physiology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine)

Vice-President: Manabu Kubokawa, MD, PhD

(Department of Physiology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine)

Vice-President: Yoshinori Sahara, DDS, PhD

(Department of Physiology, Iwate Medical University School of Dentistry)

Secretary: Shingo Kimura, PhD

(Department of Physiology, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine)

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Executive Committee Members:

Kazuhiko Sasaki, Manabu Kubokawa, Yoshinori Sahara, Yasuyuki Kitada, Shingo Kimura, Toshi Kawasaki, Misato Harada, Kazuyoshi Nakamura, Hiroshi Komakiri, Toshiyuki Furuki, Norio Matsumoto, Kinya Narita, Kazuhisa Okuda-Akabane, Hideyuki Fukami

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Program Committee Members:

Manabu Kubokawa, Kazuhiko Sasaki, Yoshinori Sahara, Norio Matsumoto, Eichi Taira, Kouichi Nakayama, Yasuyuki Kitada, Ryuzo Shingai, Mitsuyuki Ichinose, Kiyoshi Kurata, Katsuya Yamada, Hidetsugu Takahashi, Sou Hujii, Masahito Kawatani, Kyoichi Ono, Gen Mushiake, Haruhide Hayashi, Yoshio Maruyama. Hiroshi Yao, Akihiro Hazama, Yukihiko Kayama, Junko Kimura, Sumimasa Koyama (Tohoku Area); Harunori Ohmori, Shuuji Aou, Kazue Mizumura, Yasuaki Kawai, Tomoaki Shirao, Yoshihiro Kubo, You Shinoda, Yasuo Sakuma (Physiological Society Japan)

Call for papers (abstract submission) has been closed.
We appreciate submission of many papers.
Normal registration is opened until the meeting.

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Advance online registration opens Nov. 24 (Tue), 2009.
Advance online registration closes Dec. 24 (Tue), 2009, 5 PM (Japan Standard Time).

Online registration is available through this homepage (URL: http//square.umin. ac.jp/seiri87/).
Note: We do not accept mail-in registration anymore. Registration must be done by online. After Dec. 24, 2009, the registration fees are higher.

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Online abstract submission starts from Nov. 24 (Tue), 2009.
Deadline: Dec. 24 (Thu) 2009, 5 PM (JST).

Online submission is available through "UMIN".
Note: Registration must be completed before abstract submission. Otherwise, you cannot get the “UMIN” menu. (see " 9. Abstract submission through UMIN ", for details.)

#1 Graduate school student participants

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A graduate school student submitting an abstract as the first author must join the society (the Physiological Society of Japan http://physiology.jp/) in advance, and is required to complete advanced registration (see 8. Submission rules).

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For advance registration of an undergraduate student who will not submit an abstract, photocopy of the student's ID and a proof letter from PI must be sent by FAX (+81-19-653-2093 TOP-TOUR, Morioka) to the registration secretariat.

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Membership status will be verified by “the student ID card” at the time of registration.

#2 Undergraduate students

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An undergraduate student submitting an abstract as the first author must join the society (the Physiological Society of Japan http://physiology.jp/) in advance, and is required to complete advanced registration (see 8. Submission rules). Registration fees are ￥3,000.

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An undergraduate student who will not submit an abstract does not need to register in advance. Membership status will be verified by “the student ID ” at the time of on-site registration.

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Technical college students are included in the category of “undergraduate students”.

Normal registration is opened until the meeting.

Please enter from this button to the home page of the TOP Tour Co. for the registration. You can submit an abstract only after the registration as a participant.

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A general or student may submit a scientific abstract only as first (presenting) author.The first author should present the work at the meeting. No presentation may be given by an individual who is not an author on the abstract. (This may not apply to symposium speakers from overseas). A non-member submitting an abstract as the first author must join the society from the homepage (http://physiology.jp/). For details, please contact the Physiological Society of Japan Annual Meeting Secretariat, Fuse Building, 3-30-10 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan　(TEL: +81-3-3815-1624, FAX: +81-3-3815-1603, e-mail: psj@qa2.so-net.ne.jp)

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An individual may appear as the first (presenting) author on only one scientific abstract. In cases where a member is the first (presenting) author on two abstracts, one of the abstracts must be withdrawn.

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To ensure proper citation in the author index, enter your name consistently and list the same contact e-mail address on all abstracts on which you are an author. Members should enter their names exactly as they appear in records (see membership directory).

Call for papers (abstract submission) has been closed. We appreciate submission of many papers.

Abstract submission buttons using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) (We recommend this communication method in regular submission for the security.)

Abstract submission buttons with normal communication without SSL (Use only in case of any trouble in the submission with SSL)
Registered private information shall be used only for operation of the meeting but not for any other purpose, and be critically controlled by secretariat office of the meeting.

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Fill in names of the first author (presenter), co-author(s), affiliations, and title in English.

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Write your abstract in English only.

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Select a category of theme from the pull-down menu in the Submission page.

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The length of an abstract should be no more than 1800 characters (including spaces). Submissions are not accepted if they exceed this number.

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List 3-5 keywords in English.

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Authors can select from two presentation formats when submitting an abstract:
a) Oral preferred (indicates preference for an oral format, but will accept poster format) and b) Poster only (indicates author will accept only a poster session).
The Program Committee makes every effort to honor requests, but cannot guarantee initial preferences.

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The time of oral presentations (General Lectures and Symposium) shall be notified when fixed. Presentation equipment is limited to an LCD projector and computer only (No OHPs). Basically, speakers will be asked to prepare their presentation data in Microsoft PowerPoint (Windows version) and bring this data on a USB flash memory or CD-R. Details will be posted on this homepage.

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Posters shall be 120 cm (W) × 180 cm (H) in size. The “title”, “affiliations”, and “names of author(s)” shall be in both English and Japanese, and the “objective”, “abstract”, and “words and descriptions in figures” shall be in English. Submission numbers shall be assigned at the top left-hand corner. Details will be posted on this homepage.

New instruction for presentation [PDF:54KB]