Information

	Early Bird Registration (until 29 March 2027)	Late Registration (until 15 April 2027)
*The cost includes 50 EUR to become GISM member. **Up to and including Ph.D. student level and trainee; no other categories can benefit from this reduced rate. A confirmation must be provided by the direct supervisor (further details are available during the registration procedure).
GISM member	€ 190	€ 240
Non GISM member*	€ 240	€ 290
Student**	€ 140	€ 170
One day only	€ 160	€ 160

The full registration fee entitles participants to the following:

• Access to all scientific sessions and poster viewing
• Congress kit
• Coffee breaks, lunches

N.B. Participation in the buffet dinner on Thursday, 20 May 2027, is not included in the fee and costs 30 EUR. If you wish to attend the dinner, please select it during the payment procedure.

The early bird discount applies to payments received until 29 March 2027. Registrations will remain open until 15 April 2027 at the regular price.
N.B. Payments must be received within each deadline indicated (if you are paying through your administration, please ensure that it is initiated in due time).

Payment is possible by bank transfer only. Further details about the payment procedure will be available through the personal myArea after you sign up for an account.

Cancellation policy

Cancellations with a refund request must be sent by e-mail to the secretariat and must be accompanied by a valid justification. Refunds will be decided case by case by the organising secretariat. If accepted, cancellations by 15 April 2027 will be refunded fully minus an administrative charge; no refunds will be provided after 15 April 2027.

Abstracts are accepted exclusively through this website, through your personal myArea. You will need to have an account to have access to the latter.

The abstract submission deadline is 15 March 2027. By submitting an abstract you accept to share your work either as a poster or oral presentation. The Scientific Committee will designate the format (oral or poster). The final acceptance decision is the exclusive right of the Scientific Committee.

Only registered participants can submit an abstract and abstracts should be submitted by the presenting author only.

All submitted abstracts will be discarded if payment is not received by 15 April 2027.

Abstract format

Title
The title must start in uppercase and continue in lowercase, except for conventional terms (ATP, DNA, NFκB, etc). Example:
    This title is written correctly
     This Title is Not Properly Written
     ALSO THIS TITLE IS WRONG

Abbreviations in the title will not be accepted. If used throughout the text, abbreviations must be indicated in their extended version the first time they are used.

Authorship
If more than one author (but only in that case), underline your name (the presenting author, in whatever position you appear in the author list) and use commas to separate the author names; do not use 'and' before the last author. Write all authors name and surname in full. If more than one affiliation (but only in that case), use sequential superscript numbers to identify each institution. Example:
  Mario Rossi¹, John Doe², Fred C. Bloggs^1,2
  1Dept Biomembranes, Golgi & Veratti University, Pavia, Italy
  ²Dept Bioblast Analyses, Altmann University, Leipzig, Germany

Text
The abstract should be divided into 4 paragraphs:
Objective: indicate primary purpose of study.
Materials and Methods: description of data sources, subjects, design measurements and data analysis.
Results: summary of the main findings.
Conclusions: study conclusions and/or implication of the results.
Keep the abstract text to within 2500 characters, spaces included.
References should not be included in the abstract.

YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDS

GISM will assign three “Young Investigator Awards” of 500 euros each. To this end, the abstracts will be evaluated and scored by a panel of referees based on their novelty and significance.

In order to be eligible to win, the first author of a paper must be younger than 35 at the start of the meeting.

The awards will be delivered to the winner during the Award Ceremony. As collection on behalf of the designated winner is not allowed, the inability to personally collect the award will cause disqualification from the competition.

To take part in the Young Investigator Award, please check the YIA box in the abstract submission form. See further details in the dedicated section of the personal myArea.

POSTERS

Poster presenters are required to be available for discussion during the session on Friday at 13:30.

All posters can stay up for the entire duration of the meeting. You are expected to have your poster up the latest by 13:30 of Friday,21 May. Posters should be taken down by the end of the meeting. Posters left behind will be removed and discarded by the venue personnel.

When preparing your poster please remember that the poster's maximum size is A0 (841 x 1189 mm; width x height).

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Call for Abstracts

Award winners will also be invited as speakers at GISM 2027!

N.B. This Call for Abstracts is independent of the abstract submission guidelines provided above.

Introduction

The speakers of the “GISM Next Generation - Section”, within the framework of the conference “GISM 2027” (Parma, Italy, 20-21/05/2027), will be selected with the “GISM Next Generation – Contest 2027”.

Award

There will be 3 winners. They will be awarded with the “GISM Next Generation – Contest 2027 – Award”, which consists of (I) a printed certificate, (II) a free registration to “GISM 2027”, (III) an invitation for an oral communication during the conference “GISM 2027” (10 minutes of oral presentation, followed by a 15-minute discussion session with all three winners), (IV) one night of complimentary accommodation at a hotel selected by the organizers. The other “GISM Next Generation – Contest 2027” candidates who are not selected among the three winners may be considered for future GISM webinars.

Rules

Candidates must be researchers “under 40” (precisely, born no earlier than 01/01/1986). They must submit an abstract of a relevant scientific article in the field of stem cells. Eligible abstracts must be based on scientific articles published within the last four years (from 1 January 2023 onwards). Works that are currently under review are not eligible. The candidate must be First Author, co-First Author, Last Author, co-Last Author, Corresponding Author, or co-Corresponding Author of the scientific article. Each candidate may submit one abstract only, but they may be listed as authors of other abstracts submitted by different researchers. Winners of previous editions of the StemNet, FIRST, IPLASS, GISM, or Stem Cells Research Italy Next-Generation Contests are not eligible to apply. Candidates who participated in previous editions but were not selected as winners may reapply, provided they meet all other eligibility criteria. Abstracts related to scientific publications already presented by winners of previous editions of the StemNet, FIRST, IPLASS, GISM, or Stem Cells Research Italy Next-Generation Contests are not eligible. If multiple candidates submit abstracts based on the same scientific publication, only the candidate receiving the highest evaluation will be considered for the award. Finally, in case of abstracts obtaining the same identical score, the one submitted by the older candidate will be ranked first.

Evaluation

The abstracts will be evaluated by a panel of Referees (selected by the Scientific Committee), according to their novelty and significance of the scientific work and the CV of the submitting candidate. The final acceptance decision is the exclusive right of the Scientific Committee, as well as the definition of the 3 winners of the “GISM Next Generation – Contest 2027”.

Instructions

The “GISM Next Generation – Contest 2027” is organised in 3 steps:

• First step: abstract submission; Deadline 29/01/2027; Abstract submission is free of charge and does not require membership to the GISM society.
• Second step: winners announcement; Deadline 12/02/2027: All the candidates will be notified by email.
• Third step: oral presentation at “GISM 2027”: Winners must be present in person and deliver their presentations to obtain the award.

Disclosure

The abstracts and the material collected during the “GISM Next Generation – Contest 2027” will be made public on the GISM’s website, Facebook/LinkedIn pages, YouTube channels and other media. By submitting an abstract, the authors accept to publicly share their material and then their work.

How to prepare the abstract

Please, follow these instructions:

• Language: English. Font: Times New Roman; Font-size: 12 points; Text alignment: single-spaced, justified.
• Title: It must be a precise copy of the one of the related scientific article.
• Report the Author/s names and surnames in this format: Mario Rossi, Carla Bianchi, etc. They must be the same authors of the same related scientific article.
• Report the Author/s affiliations.
• Abstract: It must be a precise copy of the one of the related scientific article.
• Report the name of the scientific journal where the abstract and related scientific article have been published, together with year of publication and DOI.
• Report the day of birth of the candidate.
• Report the email of the candidate to be used for communications.
• Curriculum Vitae (CV): a brief biosketch reporting current position, main scientific appointments, and honours (minimum 100 words, maximum 250 words).

Abstract submission

Save the Abstract and all required info in a single Word/Writer/txt file with the following name: GISM-NGContest27_firstName_firstSurname of the candidate (e.g. GISM-NGContest27_Mario_Rossi.doc). The Abstract must be submitted to: gismnext@gismonline.it (please, check that you receive an email confirming the receipt of submission).