For Authors

Opening hours of the Speakers Room
Speaking times
Poster Exhibition
Videos
Projection Facilities

Opening hours of the Speakers Room
The centralMedia Check is located in Conference Room Lyon.

Wednesday, 19.9.2007 15.00-18.00 hrs
Thursday, 20.9.2007 7.00-18.00 hrs
Friday, 21.9.2007 7.00-17.30 hrs
Saturday, 22.9.2007 7.00-18.30 hrs
Sunday, 23.9.2007 7.30-15.00 hrs

Speaking times

Lectures (R):
12 minutes or by agreement with the President

Oral presentations (V):
7 minutes, 3 minutes discussion

Short oral presentations (K):
5 minutes, 2 minutes discussion

In order to guarantee punctual organisation of the entire programme, all speakers are requested to keep to their allocated presentation times.The chairperson of each session will be entitled to
interrupt a presentation if a speaker exceeds the time allocated.

Poster Presentation

Poster presentations are an important and effective means of displaying scientific results. In addition to the conventional poster presentation, this year a digital presentation at a number of computer terminals will be available. Poster authors are expected to be present at their posters at the times indicated below. Chairpersons will check the presence of poster authors. Those who are not present will be excluded from participation in the following year. The three best posters will be awarded poster prizes.
All posters should be prepared in English.

1.
Electronic Poster Presentation
A display to download all posters onto a poster terminals will be available in the foyer of the Convention Center (industrial exhibition). To optimize the preparation of this facility, authors are asked to observe the following requirements:
Electronic posters should comprise a maximumof six pages (without animation). Posters will be shown in landscape format with a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 dpi.
Comprehensive administrative and technical provision for digital poster presentation will be supplied by M Events Cross Media GmbH.
Electronically prepared posters should be submitted to http://dog2007.m-talk.de between 31 August 2007 and 17 September
2007.Therefore authors will receive a separate e-mail from M Events Cross Media GmbH with access information and instruction regarding formats and codec’s. PowerPoint or PDF presentations will be uploaded directly onto the congress server.
Technical questions can be e-mailed to dog2007@m-events.info.

2.
Conventional Poster Presentation
Standard poster walls will be available in the Poster Exhibition (Foyer Convention Center). The maximum size of a poster should be DIN A0 (84.10 cm wide x 118.90 cm high).
Adhesive material and help will be available to poster authors from the Poster Help Desk in the Poster Exhibition.

Posters will be exhibited as follows:
P 001 to P 100 on Thursday
P 101 to P 192 on Friday
P 193 to P 277 on Saturday

Posters numbered from P 001 to P 100 should be mounted on Thursday, 20 September 2007, by 9.00 hrs at the latest and will remain on display until 17.30 hrs on Thursday.
Posters numbered from P 101 to P 192 should be mounted on Friday, 21 September 2007, until 9.00 hrs and will remain on display until 16.30 hrs on Friday.
Posters numbered from P 193 to P 277 should be mounted on Saturday, 22 September 2007, by 9.00 hrs and will remain on display until 16.00 hrs on Saturday.
The organisers will remove posters that have not being removed by the times indicated above and will deposit them at the Registration Counter, where they will remain until 14.00 hrs on Sunday, 23 September 2007 and if unclaimed will then be disposed.

Poster Discussion
First authors are requested to attend their posters for questions and discussion as follows:
P 001 to P 100: Thursday, 20.9.2007, 16.00-17.30 hrs at the poster
P 101 to P 192: Friday, 21.9.2007, 15.00-16.30 hrs at the poster
P 193 to P 277: Saturday, 22.9.2007, 12.00-13.30 hrs at the poster

Videos

Video presentations are an important and effective means of displaying scientific results. Therefore, videos will be displayed and discussed during the video sessions on Thursday.
In addition, videos will be displayed on a monitor during the entire congress (from Thursday to Sunday) in the Estrel foyer opposite to the Estrel Lecture Hall.

The DOG intends to publish awarded videos on their homepage. Therefore, authors who would like to make their video available to the DOG are requested to consider that the videos do not show any data which are subject to payment for copyrights and technical reproduction.
The Video Award of the DOG, donated by *Acri.Tec® AG, will be granted at the end of the video session.

Projection Facilities

Please note: The following information relates only to sessions and lectures held in the rooms and lecture halls of the Estrel Hotel Berlin. A central Media Check will be available in Conference Room Lyon during the entire congress.
Projection data of all presentation (lectures, oral presentations, etc.) will be collected and administered by means of a central server prior to, as well as throughout the entire conference. Administration, technical preparation and care of all digital presentations will be solely undertaken by M Events Cross Media GmbH. During each meeting, speakers will be able to call up their presentations at the lectern.
In order to maintain the international character of the congress and to enable all delegates to understand and participate in all presentations in an optimal manner, PowerPoint presentations and lectures should be prepared in English.
In order to ensure a smooth running of the event, all speakers are requested to submit their presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint file format (Version XP). Graphic data should be embedded into the presentations.Video and audio data must be linked to the presentations and enclosed separately as data.Video clips have to be produced exclusively in *.avi-format with DIVX up to version 5.1.1. or un-compressed.
All presentations should be submitted to http://dog2007.m-talk.de between 31 August and 17 September 2007.Therefore authors will receive a separate e-mail from M Events Cross Media GmbH with access information and instruction regarding formats and codec’s.
PowerPoint presentations and all integrated graphics, audio and video data will be uploaded directly onto the congress server. Any technical questions may be e-mailed to dog2007@mevents.info.
Speakers will have the opportunity to check and review presentations after their data have been transferred onto the central network server, and will be able to access presentations in a straightforward manner in the lecture hall. This should be carried out as soon as possible, but not later than 2 (two) hours prior to the session where it is due to be presented. IT staff will then upload the data onto the central server for the duration of the congress. Presentations which have already been submitted can be viewed and amended up to three hours prior to the start of the session where it is due to be presented.
The following storage media are acceptable for transfer of data onto the central network server:
– MSWindows-compatible CD-Rom(ISO 9660) and DVD-ROM
– ZIP disk (ZIP 100 or ZIP 250)
– USB-stick (possibly with drive)
Due to the technical policy adopted for this conference, beamers will be the only means of projection in lecture halls. Facilities for the use of private laptops for presentation will not be
provided. Finally, we ask for your understanding that slide and overhead projection facilities will only be provided in exceptional circumstances. Speakers who require either of these two facilities should contact the organisers by 1 September 2007 to outline their requirements.

Please note: All centrally stored data will be deleted irrevocably right after the congress.

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