Abstracts

Submissions close Friday March 28, 2025

  • Metalloproteins - Structure and Function

  • Metals in Disease

  • Metals in Medicine - Therapy and Diagnosis

  • Metals in Nucleic Acids - Folding, Structure and Functions

  • Analytical methods - spectroscopic and molecular probes

  • Novel Systems and Emerging Topics in Metal Biochemistry

  • Protein Design and Artificial Metalloproteins

Abstract submissions are now open.

Submit your abstract for program consideration as either an oral or poster presentation. Submission deadline is midnight ET Friday March 28, 2025.

Submission categories:

  • Metals in Photosystems

  • Bioenergetics, Electron Transfer and Reactive Species

  • Bioinspired Catalysis, Models and Mechanisms

  • Bioorganometallic Chemistry

  • Energy, environment and sustainability

  • Metabolism, Homeostasis, Storage, Uptake, Detoxification

  • Microbiome

Formatting your abstract

Abstracts should be formatted as follows:

  • Abstract Title 

  • Full Author List, including author affliliation and country

  • The abstract, without subheadings, should be in the following form: Aims, Methods, Results, Conclusion. 

  • Abstract body word count (excluding titles and affiliations) must not exceed 300 words. 

    • Descriptive text including tables can be added in as a supporting document alongside your abstract however these can only be added in as an Image.

    • Cite references in numeric order in parentheses according to first mention in the text.

    • Please note, any conflicts of interest need to be declared during the submission process. An abstract is not to be used as advertising any specific product or service. 

Oral Presenter Information

Please use the following guidelines when creating your presentation

  • You may include a disclosure slide that includes your conflicts of interest. Your disclosure slide must align with the disclosure form you previously submitted. If you have nothing to disclose, you must include a slide that states, “I have nothing to disclose.”

  • Consider no more than 1 - 2 slides for each minute of presentation time. Please work to make your slides easy to read, using sharply contrasting text on your chosen background. Select a font and size that will be easily readable and ensure that each slide does not contain so much data/images/pictures that it is confusing or overwhelming for the viewer.

  • There is a meeting-specific template that you must use, please download this here.

  • We will only accept slides in PowerPoint (.ppt or .pptx). If you are using Apple/Keynote, you will need to convert your presentation to PowerPoint prior to submitting your slides.

  • 16:9

  • Please use this file naming convention: Time_Day_LastName (e.g., 1530_SUN_Smith).

  • Embed your video within your presentation and bring a backup of your video as a separate file on your USB drive.

  • Ensure that your presentation does NOT have a preset timer to advance slides.

  • If a third party is creating your slides, abstract submitters are responsible for providing slide preparation details to the slide designer.

Poster Presenter Information

Please use the following guidelines when creating your poster

  • Poster Presenters will be responsible for bringing a physical (printed) poster to the poster session.

  • Maximum Poster Size: No larger than 45” x 45” (115 cm x 115 cm). Posters larger than the maximum size may be removed.

    • Adhering of your Poster: Pushpins and/ or velcro (supplied onsite).

    • ICBIC staff are not available to hang or print your poster for you.

  • If a third party is creating your poster, presenters are responsible for providing the specifications and printing options to the poster designer.

  • If a third party is creating your poster, presenters are responsible for providing the specifications and printing options to the poster designer.

    ICBIC staff are not available to hang or print your poster for you.

  • Posters may be hung at the following times:

    * Poster Session timings will be confirmed once submissions have closed.

    At the conclusion of the conference, presenters are asked to remove their posters. Any posters left after the conclusion of the conference will be removed and discarded.

Further Information

  • Means of Submission - Online

    By clicking on the link above, you will be taken to a web page where you can cut and paste your abstract in several simple steps. The benefits of this system are many but include:

    Allowing you to preview your abstract and make modifications to your satisfaction.

    Ensuring you know your lodgement is completed as you will receive an immediate email confirmation

    Ensuring accurate indexing of all authors in the abstract book

    Ensuring consistent presentation of all abstracts in the proceedings (overarching formatting is imposed).

    If you have previously registered for a conference run by ASN, you would have more than likely developed your own 'registration dashboard'. If so, when registering for this conference - please enter your email and password under 'returning delegate', and click on ICBIC 2025.

    If you are yet to register for a conference run by ASN - you will need to set up your own registration dashboard and therefore you will need to click on 'register as a new delegate'. Once you have filled out your details, you will have now developed your own 'Registration dashboard'.

  • It is recommended to use Google Chrome to submit abstracts.

    Alert for Mac Users, if you are having trouble submitting your abstract, try submitting from a PC. If you are still having trouble, please contact the secretariat.

    Alert for Mozilla users, the security policy in Mozilla often precludes the pasting from the clipboard without using the menu commands. You can still cut and paste your abstract into the submission; you will have to use the menu command rather than ‘control v’ shortcut.

    - Is your abstract text less than 300 words – it will not allow you to paste larger submissions. The word count does NOT include your title, author list or cited references

    - Do you have your abstract open and running on your own computer? – You need to be able to cut and paste it onto the submission system.

    - Do you have an image in your abstract? This conference is NOT accepting images.

    - Do you have a table in your abstract? If so, this can be inserted as an image during the submission process.

  • Firstly, you will be asked to acknowledge and understand that for your abstract to be accepted you must be a registered and fully paid delegate. You must also consent to your abstract being published.

    You will then be asked to provide some keywords to assist in categorisation of your abstract.

    Depending on the conference, you may be asked to supply extra information. For example, “Would you like to be considered for a poster or oral presentation award?”

    Next, you will able to cut and paste or type the title of your abstract in.

    The next screen will ask you to input the authors, organisations and indicate the presenting author by ticking the box.

    After that, you will be able type or cut and paste your abstract text in. Please ensure the abstract is no more than the above mentioned word limit. (Does not include title, author list or cited references)

    Finally you will be asked to view your abstract to check you have entered it correctly. When satisfied, you will be able to finalise your abstract submission and return to your dashboard.

  • As long as you haven't filled your own email address incorrectly, you will get an immediate confirmation of your abstract being submitted.

  • Should you wish to make changes to your abstract after you have submitted it, please log into your online registration dashboard. Click the button “manage” for the conference you would like to edit the abstract for. Under the abstract heading you will be able to view, edit or submit a new abstract.

  • Notification of programming decisions will come from the secretariat shortly after the expiry of deadlines and the working program will be posted to the web site. The notification will include specific presentation instructions.

  • The final program will be published to this website once available for viewing & in PDF format and will be accessible to delegates.