The Society for Biotechnology, Japan 70th Annual meeting (2018)

⇒Online registration guide

• Character count limit (including spaces)
  Abstract: 4,270 characters　
  Title: 200 characters
  Author information (names and affiliation abbreviations): 400 characters
  ⇒Abstract Template
   
• Title of presentation
  Avoid any abbreviation in the title. Do not put a period at the end.
  (Only first letter capital and lowercase for the rest, except for words normally capitalized as proper nouns)

  e.g.) Heat-shock transformation of <i>Escherichia coli</i>
   

• Author names
  Enter surname of each author first, followed by first name and middle name (if any), for the indexing purpose, with only the first letter capitalized.
  If the author does not have a surname, enter an asterisk (*) instead of surname. The asterisk will not appear in the program.

  e.g.) Seibutsu Taro
   

• Affiliation abbreviation
  Abbreviate all authors’ affiliations. ⇒Abbreviation List

  Division of Biotechnology and Macromolecular Chemistry →Div. Biotechnol. Macromol. Chem.
  Department of Biotechnology →Dept. Biotechnol.,
  Graduate School of Engineering →Grad. Sch. Eng.
  University of Tsukuba → Univ. Tsukuba
  Company Limited → Co., Ltd.
  Corporation → Corp.
   

• Keywords
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  If you cannot find any appropriate key word, select “Others” in the list and type into the provided field.
  • Type in lower-case letter, except for words normally capitalized as a proper noun.
  • Use only English one-byte characters for keywords.

    e.g.) lactic acid, biomass, <i>Aspergillus oryzae</i>, alpha-amylase
     

• Speaker’s email address
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• Remarks
  Specify special characters (if any) so that non standard characters can be printed correctly in the Meeting Abstracts.