Hi Anaheim ACS Symposium Organizers

Hi Anaheim ACS Symposium Organizers,

There are two and a half weeks left until the abstract deadline for the Anaheim ACS meeting, and it's time for an update. We are currently sitting at 106 submissions to the CHED program, 70 of which are from undergraduate poster presenters. The majority of the symposia have one or two submissions, and I expect many more to come in over the next couple of weeks.

The deadline for abstract submission is November 1, 2010, at 11pm CT. I know that many of my colleagues and our students are starting to realize that the deadline is approaching because I keep hearing comments like "Oh...I should submit that abstract soon!" Please encourage your presenters to submit abstracts as soon as possible since you will have a very limited amount of time to review (and organize) the abstracts in your symposium once PACS closes to authors. If the submissions to your symposium are low, now is the time to contact potential presenters and to remind them to submit an abstract. We want the program to be full, exciting, and successful; and I appreciate all of the work you are doing to make it so.

I have left a couple of important reminders below. Thanks again for your contributions to the Anaheim program. Let me know if you have any questions.

MaryKay

Helpful Reminders:

Please monitor your sessions in PACS between now and the deadline. If abstracts have been submitted to your symposium, please review and accept them now instead of waiting until the November 1 deadline. If you need to contact an author for revisions, please do so now. As a reminder, please do NOT reject abstracts. If you feel a presentation does not belong in your symposium, first contact the author (with either suggestions for revisions or suggestions of a more appropriate symposium). If there are still problems at that point, let me know; and we will determine the best location for the presentation in the program.

Finally, please keep an external email list of all presenters whose abstracts you have accepted. You will not have access to the presenters' email addresses once the system closes to symposium organizers, even though you will still need to contact these individuals about scheduling.

I have attached the latest list of symposia that will be available at the Anaheim meeting (including abstracts of those symposia) and instructions for viewing, editing, and accepting submissions to your symposia (in case it has been lost in your email inboxes!).