Diabetes Symposium

Guidelines and Resources

• Register for the symposium

  The 2024 Diabetes Symposium is on Friday, Aug. 9, on the IU School of Medicine's Indianapolis campus! Registration is free and includes lunch if completed online by Friday, July 19. After the online registration deadline, only on-site registration on Aug. 9 will be available which does not include lunch.

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• Abstract submissions and poster guidelines

  The abstract submission deadline is extended to Wednesday, June 26, 2024 (5:00 pm EST). Abstracts are limited to 300 words, excluding title, authors, and affiliations. All abstracts should be submitted as a Word document. Abstracts that are larger than 300 words will not be accepted. For recommendations on how to write an abstract, please, scroll down.

  General Formatting:

  1. Please use Word to create and submit your abstract

  2. Margins: 1” margins

  3. Font: Arial in 11pt

  4. Left justify all text

  5. No tab stops at the beginning of the paragraph

  6. No literature citations should be included in the abstract

  7. Do not write text in all capital letters

  8. Single line spacing

  9. Structured or unstructured formats are acceptable

  
  Abstracts are to be in one of the following categories:

  1. Metabolism/Physiology

  2. Clinical Research

  3. Islet Biology/Pancreas

  4. Immunology

  5. Neuroscience

  6. Other

  If you submit an abstract, please, indicate whether you are willing to present in the Oral Abstract session. If you select ‘No,’ your abstract will be selected for poster presentation. A total of 20 abstracts will be selected for Oral Presentation.

  If you have problems with your submission, please e-mail Shari R. Parker (shupchur@iu.edu). Should you need to make corrections on your submission, please do not submit a new abstract, and contact Shari R. Parker.

  
  * * *Abstract Submission Deadline: Wednesday, June 26, 2024 (5:00 p.m. EST)

  
  An e-mail will be sent to you with your poster number by July 19, 2024.

  
  Poster Guidelines:

  • Mount your materials on your poster board at the time indicated below

  • Posters must be removed at the dismount time listed below

  • The poster must not exceed 4’ vertical and 8’ horizontal

  • Lettering should not be less than one and one-half inches

  • Illustrations should be similar to those you would use in making slides but more heavily drawn

  • One or two authors MUST be in attendance during the presentation times

  • Velcro tabs / pushpins will be provided

• Guidelines for writing an abstract

  The purpose of the abstract is to provide a synopsis of your work in a clear (readable, well organized, avoiding jargon), concise (without excess wordiness or unnecessary information), and cohesive (nice flow between the parts) manner. These are guidelines that can help you write a compelling abstract:
  
  Title
  The title should clearly describe what your abstract is about, but also be interesting enough to encourage readers to want to learn more
  
  Background and Objective

  1. Should explain why your abstract is important or novel

  2. Provide the context or explanation for doing the study, not the whole history but the current situation

     1. What is already known about the subject?

     2. What is not known, and hence what do you intend to examine?

  3. Should state the aim of the study

     1. What are you hoping to find out or what is your hypothesis?

  4. Length: One to three sentences. If you have just started working on your project, it is appropriate to expand a bit more in this section

  
  Methods

  1. Should explain how you did your study

  2. Specific population studied

     1. Include sampling frames and response rates when appropriate

     2. How many people/animals/samples were included in the research?

  3. Quantitative or qualitative methods

     1. Specific statistical analysis conducted

     2. Measures and outcomes explored

  4. Time frame duration of the study

  5. Length: Three to eight sentences. If you have just started working on your project, it is appropriate to expand a bit more in this section and reduce the length of Results and Conclusions

  
  Results

  1. The results section should explain what you found

  2. Describe your main findings with data

     1. The intervention group was more likely than the control to use metformin - less good

     2. The intervention group was more likely than the control to use metformin (p<0.01) - better

     3. The intervention group was more likely than the control to use metformin (45% vs. 30%, p<0.01) - best

  3. Concisely describe how your results pertain to your study aim or hypothesis

  4. Remember to report nonsignificant differences too

  5. Usually the longest section, three to eight sentences

  
  Conclusions

  1. This section should explain your main findings and why they are important

  2. Describe the primary take-home message

  3. Conclusions should be reasonable and supported by the findings

  4. Include the Scientific/Clinical/Policy Impact of the research and Implications

  5. Length: two to three sentences

  
  Adapted from: 
  

  • Andrade C. How to write a good abstract for a scientific paper or conference presentation. Indian J Psychiatry 2011;53:172-5. 
    IMPRS 2020 Abstract Submission, IU School of Medicine 

  • CDC: How to write an abstract

  • Stroke 42(9):2605-10 (2011); doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.607101 

  • Nature Medicine 28(4):798-808 (2022); doi: 10.1038/s41591-022-01718-1 

• Preliminary agenda

  8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.	Poster set up	MS Atrium
  8:00-8:50 a.m.	Registration / Breakfast	R3 Atrium
  8:00-8:45 a.m.	Breakfast with Keynote/Guest speakers Annemarie G. Hirsch, PhD, MPH Raghu Mirmira, MD, PhD Corinne M. Silva, PhD
  8:45-9:00 a.m.	Welcome and Introduction Carmella Evans-Molina, MD, PhD Director, Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases (CDMD) Lilly Professor of Pediatric Diabetes Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis	R3 Auditorium
  9:00-9:30 a.m.	Special Lecture Corinne M. Silva, PhD Program Director: Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolic Diseases NIDDK	R3 Auditorium
  9:30-10:30 a.m.	Keynote Speaker Annemarie G. Hirsch, PhD, MPH Director, Center for Community Environment and Health Geisinger Danville, PA	R3 Auditorium
  10:30-11:00 a.m.	Break
  11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.	Oral Abstract Presentations
  12:15-2:15 p.m.	Lunch	MS Atrium
  12:45-2:20 p.m.	Poster Session	MS Atrium
  1:40-2:20 p.m.	Guest Speaker chat with Junior Faculty Corinne M Silva, PhD Program Director: Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolic Diseases  NIDDK
  2:30-3:00 p.m.	Plenary Talk	R3 Auditorium
  3:00-3:30 p.m.	Pilot and Feasibility Program	R3 Auditorium
  3:30-4:30 p.m.	Keynote Speaker Raghu Mirmira, MD, PhD   Professor of Medicine  University of Chicago	R3 Auditorium
  4:30-4:50 p.m.	Oral Presentation/Poster Awards and Closing Remarks Núria Morral, PhD Associate Professor of Medical and Molecular Genetics Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis	R3 Auditorium

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