Abstracts

Oral Presentations:

Each presenter will be given a time slot of 10 minutes in total. Each oral presentation should not exceed 8 minutes. It will be followed by 2 minutes discussion.

All speakers are requested to strictly keep their allocated time slots. Session chairs will enforce the schedule.

Find Instructions for Speakers here.

Find Instructions for Chairs here.

Template

The PowerPoint template slides are available here. It is not mandatory to use them for the presentation(s).

Poster Presentations:

All posters will be presented in a “paper” format (printed posters).

A SPECIAL SESSION – POSTER VIEWING IS SCHEDULED ON WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL FROM 17:30–19:00 

Find Instructions for Posters here.

Template

The template slides are available here in pdf and jpg. Poster preview can be viewed here. It is not mandatory to use them for the presentation(s).

When submitting your abstract please follow these abstract submission instructions.

• All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference
• The abstract must
  • be written in scientific English
  • have a maximum length of 2000 characters (including spaces)
  • have a short informative title containing the major keywords (max 200 characters including spaces). The title should not contain abbreviations
  • be a single paragraph without any heading
• Minimize the use of abbreviations, and do not cite references in the abstract
• The author's institutional affiliations must not be included in the abstract to ensure anonymity of the process
• Submitters will be asked to choose either Oral/Poster or Poster only for their abstract. The use of Oral/Poster is encouraged to maximise the abstracts being considered for the oral sessions.
• All accepted abstracts will be published in the HLA journal, and available online. By submitting your abstract, you consent to give EFI permission to publish it.

The following submission categories are available. Submitters are asked to select one primary category that best aligns with their abstract content and, if applicable, a secondary category.  

• Bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence
• Cancer Immunogenetics
• Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
• HLA antigen processing and presentation
• Immunogenetics and Infections
• Immunological Tolerance
• Immunotherapy & Gene Therapy
• MHC Evolution, Anthropology & Population Genetics
• New Technologies, Various
• NK cells and KIR
• Reproductive Immunity
• Solid Organ Transplantation
• Other

All the abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the EFI Scientific committee. The authors will receive notification of the decision. Authors selected for presentation (oral communication or poster) will be required to register for the conference.

Local Organizing Committee Chairs

Dr David Turner and Dr Ann-Margaret Little (Edinburgh H&I and Glasgow H&I, Scotland, UK)

Scientific Committee

• Luca Vago - Italy (Chair)
• John Trowsdale - UK
• Alicia Sanchez-Mazas - Switzerland ­­­
• Raphael Carapito - France
• Pietro Crivello - Germany
• Eric Spierings - The Netherlands
• Gonca Karahan - The Netherlands
• Natasja de Groot - The Netherlands
• Jonathan Lucas - UK
• Stefan Schaub - Switzerland

All questions regarding submissions modalities should be emailed to Dr David Turner