Abstracts Upload your abstract here (Late Breaking News Abstract submission) Log in to your Personal Page here (Late Breaking News Abstract submission) Log in to your Personal Page here Notification of acceptance: By End of March, 2010 Submission opens for Late Breaking News: March 15, 2010 Deadline for Late Breaking News: May 31, 2010 Late Breaking News Abstracts Submission is now open for Late-Breaking News Abstracts to be presented at XII ICNMD. The deadline for submitting these Abstracts is May 31, 2010. The accepted Late-Breaking News Abstracts will be designated for either Platform or Poster Presentation. They will not be able to be published in Acta Myologica with the regular abstracts, but they will be printed in a handout distributed at the Meeting and published in Acta Myologica at the later date. The presenting author must register for the meeting and pay the registration fee when submitting the abstract. If the abstract is not accepted, the registration fee will be refunded. Please note that the deadline for early registration is March 31, 2010. Submission Instructions Abstracts should be submitted electronically no later than March 1, 2010. Abstracts cannot be submitted by fax, hard copy or e-mail. Acknowledgement of receipt of the submission will be sent to the stated e-mail address. If you do not receive the confirmatory e-mail within 24 hours, please contact us at: icnmd2010.abstract@congrex.com Notification on acceptance/rejection of the abstracts will be e-mailed end of march 2010. The presenting author will receive all correspondence concerning the abstract and is responsible for informing the other authors of the status of the abstract. Abstracts must be written in English. Maximum approximately 250 words / 1 750 characters (including spaces and excluding title and contact information on authors). It is the author's responsibility to submit a correct abstract; any errors in spelling, grammar, or scientific fact will be reproduced as typed by the author, if accepted. Presenters of abstracts must register for the ICNMD 2010 congress and pay the registration fee for attendance at the scientific sessions. The presenting author has access to an On-line Personal Page. The author can read and print the abstract and make changes until submission deadline. A unique user id and password for access will be included in the e-mail sent upon submission. Please note that only two abstracts per presenting author is allowed. Upon submission, indicate one of the following topics that best describes the abstract: 1. ALS: Genetic studies 2. ALS: Lesson from SOD1 animal models 3. Animal Models for NMD 4. Basic mechanisms in SMA 5. Cardiomyopathies 6. Congenital Myopathies 7. Exercise therapy in Neuromuscolar conditions 8. Extracellular matrix in normal and diseased muscles 9. Friedreich's Ataxia 10. Gene therapy for Muscular Dystrophies 11. hIBMs 12. Inclusion Body Myositis 13. Miscellaneous 14. Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathies 15. Mitochondrial Medicine 16. Muscle weakness in aging 17. Muscular Dystrophies-state of art in diagnosis 18. Myasthenic Syndromes 19. New therapies in Muscle channelopathies 20. Novel target at the Neuromuscular Junction 21. Nuclear envelope diseases 22. Outcome measures in neuromuscular diseases 23. Pathogenic Mechanisms of Inherited and Acquired Neuropathies 24. Recent advances in in DM1 25. RNA modulation for DMD 26. SMA Recent advances in clinical trials 27. Update on muscle glycogenosis 28. Update on muscle lipid diseases 29. Veterinary Myology Personal Page When your abstract is submitted you can follow the progress of your abstract on-line by entering your Personal Page. Your Personal Page makes it possible for you to: - make changes until submission deadline March 1, 2010 - read and print your abstract You will be able to access your Personal Page by entering your unique user ID and password indicated in the attached file received in the confirmatory email after submission. If you have any questions regarding abstracts please contact: icnmd2010.abstract@congrex.com