Preliminary Program

Location details

Hotel information at inaugural meeting

Candidate biographies for the 2006 CSEE/SCEE election

First Announcement and Call for Posters

The inaugural meeting of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution will be held on 3-4 April 2006 in Montreal at UQAM and McGill University (location details). The program will include a business meeting to ratify the constitution and elect officers and Council; a symposium with invited speakers on the theme of "The importance of ecology and evolution to Canada"; and an information session concerning the current NSERC Discovery Grant competition and other NSERC programs. There will also be a poster display.

All those interested in the field are invited to attend. Please register by sending an email message to ecoevo@gmail.com, giving your name and affiliation in the text of the message. The email subject line should include the following information: last name-initials-registrations. The deadline for registration is 1st February 2006.

The fee for the meeting is $20 (student member) or $40 (member) or $80 (non-member). Please send a check made out to "Aquasalmo R&D Inc" care of: Louis Bernatchez (meeting), Département de biologie, Pavillon Charles-Eugène Marchand, Université Laval, Québec QC, G1K 7P4, Canada. These checks are deposited into a temporary account that we are using until the Society is properly constituted.

We encourage all participants to present a poster, and hope that the meeting will be a showcase for Canadian research in ecology and evolution. If you would like to give a poster, please see instructions below. The Society is bilingual and all presentations can be made in French or in English.

Information about the Society and the membership application form can be found on our website at www.ecoevo.ca. A full program and further details of the meeting, including a draft constitution and a slate of candidates for office, will be circulated in January.

Instructions for Posters

Submissions may be from any area of ecology and evolution. We also welcome reports of projects that are interdisciplinary, that consider the need to communicate with broad audiences, or that explore ways of teaching ecology and evolution at any level. Please adhere to the following guidelines in preparing and submitting your abstract:

• Poster boards are approximately 2.35 m wide x 1.15 m tall (7.7 x 3.77 feet). Pushpins, which will be supplied, are the only method of attaching the poster to the board that is certain to work.

Evaluation and acceptance of abstracts

• Accuracy and appearance of the abstract are the responsibility of the author(s).
• The abstracts should be based on new, previously unpublished material.
• Abstracts may be submitted before all analyses and conclusions are in their final form, but you should report at least preliminary results.

Abstract Submission

• Submit your abstract (see instructions below) by email to ecoevo@gmail.com by February 1st, 2006. The email subject line should include the following information: last name-initials-registration&abstract.

• Notification of Receipt. You will be notified of receipt electronically using the e-mail address entered on the submission form. If you enter an incorrect address, you will NOT receive notification. Your abstract will be assigned an Abstract Reference Number. PLEASE DO NOT FORGET THIS REFERENCE NUMBER AS IT WILL BE REQUIRED FOR FUTURE COMMUNICATIONS.

• Notification of Acceptance. You will be notified via e-mail by March 1st 2006, if your abstract has been accepted for presentation. NOTE: If you submit your abstract early, it will be reviewed promptly and you will be notified of its status earlier.

• If you encounter problems during abstract submission, contact: ecoevo@gmail.com. The email subject line should then include the following information: last name-initials-problemssubmission.

Preparing abstracts for submission

Abstracts should be submitted as text (.txt) or rich text (.rtf), documents. Use the following headings to prepare your abstract:

1. Authors and Affiliations

2. Primary Contact (corresponding author with full contact information)

3. Title of Abstract: The title is limited to 255 characters (about 15 words). Do not type the title in all capital letters. It should be like any other sentence, e.g. Nutrient cycling in stream ecosystems.

4. Body of Abstract: The body of abstract is limited to 1000 characters (about 150 words). Keep the abstract to one (1) paragraph only.

5. Keywords: You may include up to (4) keywords. Each keyword is limited to 64 characters.

Cancellations

• Before submitting an abstract, authors should be confident that they will attend the meeting and make the presentation.

• If circumstances prevent attendance, the author should attempt to find another person to make the presentation.

• If cancellation is unavoidable, the author should notify: ecoevo@gmail.com as soon as possible. The email subject line should then be: last name-initials-cancellation.