International Association of Astacology (IAA)
17th Symposium
August 4-8, 2008
Kuopio, Finland

CALL FOR PAPERS

EXTRA, EXTRA: EXTENDED DEADLINE!

Delegates are encouraged to give both oral and poster presentations during IAA 17 scientific program. Oral presentations will be 15 minutes total time including 3 minutes for questions. There will be standard presentation equipment in place and PC format for presentations will be encouraged.

Posters will be placed near lecture rooms in standard stands and will be available to delegates for the whole week.

Abstracts for the presentations will follow standard IAA procedure as described below. Presenters are asked to indicate either oral or poster preference but the organizers withhold the right to limit the number of oral presentations according to scientific program schedule requirements.

Extended submission time! New deadline! Presenters have still time to act and they are asked to submit abstracts by June 12, 2008.

All abstracts must include the following details:

• Method of presentation (oral or poster presentation)
• Title of presentation
• Author's name (or names) (for oral presentations please indicate the author presenting with an asterisk*)
• Author's institution
• Author's postal and E-mail address
• Text (no more than 250 words) - all text must be in good English
• Keywords (no more than 6 words)

Authors please kindly ensure that all abstracts are formatted as follows:

• Font – Times New Roman (12pt font size)
• Line spacing – double
• Alignment – left Aligned
• Please do not use bold text

Please follow the format of the sample abstract.

Please submit abstracts as an e-mail attachment (in Microsoft Word format) to the conference organizers at: japo.jussila (add) uku.fi

All papers presented at IAA 17 will be considered for publication in Freshwater Crayfish 17 - and will be subjected to a peer review process . The deadline for final submission of manuscripts for consideration and possible inclusion in Freshwater Crayfish 17 will be announced in due course.