Thank you for your interest in submitting an abstract for the 2011 Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy

  As a reminder the criteria for submitting an abstract is as follows:

• Deadline for submitting is August 5th, 2011 
• Talks by speakers should include power point presentations and should be no longer then 15 minutes to allow for questions and answers at the end of each session

Panels

• Participants may submit proposals for panels in any of twoprogram tracks (see list of tracks below.) Panel submissions should consist of three speakers and a moderator. (The moderator may be chosen from among the presenters, or a fourth individual may serve as moderator.)
• Note: The World Congress program committee may elect to add a fourth speaker to your panel (from among the individual paper submissions) to provide a more complete perspective or to accommodate exceptional individual submissions with relevant content.
• Only complete panel submissions with confirmed speakers will be considered

• Talks by speakers should include crisp power point presentations and should be no longer than 15 minutes to allow for questions and answers at the end of each session.

Papers 

• Individuals may also submit a single proposal for a 15 minute presentation in any of the program tracks. The World Congress program committee will review proposals and assemble selected submissions into appropriate panels, or merge individual papers with appropriate 3-person panel submissions.

 2011 Program Tracks

1. Biomass and Biofuels
2. Renewable Chemicals and Biobased Products