The 59^th Annual Meeting

The 59^th annual meeting of the Herpetological Society of Japan (HSJ) will be held as follows. Because of the spread of COVID-19, it is held as an experimental online meeting (Resitration has been closed. 1 Dec 2020).

Date: 12 and 13 December 2020

12 Dec (Sat): Oral & poster presentations
13 Dec (Sun): Oral & poster presentations, and business meeting

* Poster presentation will be started on 4 December.

General information

Instruction for oral presentation and business meeting
Poster sessions website (4 Dec 9:00AM to 14 Dec 9:00AM)
Satellite meetings and mixer will not be held.
It is an experimental online conference, so there may be some troubles in the meeting. Thank you in advance for your understanding and cooperation.

Schedule

31 Oct: Deadline for registration for participants with presentation
19 Nov: Deadline for uploading poster PDF
30 Nov: Deadline for registration for participants with no presentation
* Note that we will not accept participation without prior registration.
Early December: Zoom test connection
Early December: Poster presentation and Q&A for poster speakers starts.
12 and 13 Dec: Online meeting (oral, poster, and business meeting)

Oral presentation

Instruction for oral presentation and business meeting

The online conference app Zoom is used.
“Share Screen” of Zoom is used for oral presentation. Please prepare your slides in Powerpoint, PDF, or other appropriate format. Movies may not work well depending on line speeds of audiences, so please lighten your movies in your slide and avoid uses of animation as long as possible.
12 min for presentation and 2.5 min for Q&A
Zoom instruction for this meeting will be distributed to the participants.

Poster presentation

Poster website (in preparation)

In “On-demand” style as follows

On a website accessible only from the participants
The poster speakers must upload poster PDF file in advance (deadline: 19 Nov)
Downloading and printing of the PDFs will be prohibited.
Each poster PDF has a web bulletin board for discussion.
Early to 13 December, the audiences can see the poster PDFs and make comments.
Poster speakers will not have opportunities of talking in front of audience.

Business meeting

Instruction for oral presentation and business meeting

The online conference app Zoom is used.

Notices

Only the persons who register in advance (by 30 Nov) can attend the meeting. We do not accept registration 1 Dec or later.
A participant can give only one poster or oral presentation as a speaker. You may also serve as a co-author on any number of presentations submitted by other participants.
Only HSJ member in good standing (i.e., those who paid the membership fee for this year) can give a presentation as a speaker.
The abstract for presentation must be submitted for each presentation. The instruction and deadline will be announced on the website by the end of November.

Organization committee

Chair

Taku Okamoto

Committee members

Tadahiro Ikeda
Teppei Jono
Takaki Kurita
Takeo Kuriyama
Takahide Sasai
Tomohiko Shimada
Dai Suzuki
Akio Takahashi
Mamoru Toda
Atsushi Tominaga
Natsuhiko Yoshikawa

Contact