EuroDysmorpho Venue

The Congress will be held at the Lisbon Academic Medical Center, Lisbon, Portugal.

No Registration Fees

There are no registration fees. Access to the event is free and accomodation & travel fees will be covered by participants themselves.

Guidelines for presentations

Guidelines for Talks

Presentations are expected to be in a powerpoint format, Windows compatible.

Three types of presentations are possible:
** Regular presentations: 15 minutes (10 min presentation + 5 mn discussion)
** Case reports: 12 minutes (10 min presentation + 2 mn discussion)
** Unknowns: 10 minutes (5 min presentation + 5 mn discussion).

As a guide, a 10 minutes presentation should contain no more than 20 slides. Please avoid text-only and wordy slides that could be replaced by clinical pictures.

If you use a Mac computer, please check the conversion of your file and avoid problems with animations and videos. Avi or other short movies formats are welcome.

Turning your talk into a Publishable article

Pr Alain VERLOES, Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Medical Genetics, is co-organiser of the Meeting.

You are welcome to discuss with him during the Meeting if submission of your talk would be considered favorably by the Editorial Board.

Do not hesitate to bring your draft manuscript for advice.

Guidelines for Unknown Session

The Unknown Session is open to clinical reports of patients with no diagnosis, or single patients with novel array or exome results, but without definitive demonstration of pathogenicity.

• Abstracts for formal “unknowns” are to be submitted prior to the meeting.
• Presentations are expected to be in ppt ot pptx file formats.
• Each case presentation is allocated 10 minutes
• Avoid text-only slides.
• Do not describe dysmorphic signs – show them ! Focus on significant points
• Summarize relevant investigations