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Practical informations

EuroDysmorpho Venue

EuroDysmorpho will be held at the Sant Joan de Déu Children’s Hospital in Barcelona, ERN-ITHACA Center represented by Dr. Francesc Palau. 

Registration Fees

Contrary to previous editions, there are no registration fees this year. Access to the event is free while accomodation and travel fees will be covered by participants themselves.

Accomodation

To maintain the Bischenberg spirit as much as possible, the entire hotel right next to the Sant Joan de Deu hospital has been saved to the EuroDysmorpho community.

The hotel is called Abba Garden Hotel. We encourage you to make your reservation there as soon as your abstract as been accepted. To book a room at the Abba Garden Hotel, please write to Tristan at garden@abbahoteles.com and let him know that you are part of EuroDysmorpho.

Guidelines for presentations

Guidelines for Talks

Presentations are expected to be in a ppt or pptx file format, Windows compatible.

Two types of presentations are possible.

  • Regular presentation: 10 minutes, followed by 5 minutes of discussion
  • Short formal case report: 10 minutes followed by 2 minutes of 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

a) Formal Unknown session (Thursday evening)

The formal “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 7 minutes (maximum 15 slides).
  • Avoid text-only slides.
  • Do not describe dysmorphic signs – show them ! Focus on significant points
  • Summarize relevant investigations