Call for Abstracts for The Sixth International Conference on
Innovations in Exposure Assessment (X2009)

Please Note: The Scientific Committee for X2009 has decided to extend the abstract submission deadline. Researchers are invited to submit abstracts for scientific presentations through January 15, 2009.

1. Abstracts must be original scientific material that has not been published or presented at other national or international meetings.

2. Abstracts should address an important issue related to the assessment of occupational or environmental exposures. Preference will be given to abstracts that relate to innovations regarding one of the following themes:

• Applications of biomarkers as measures of exposure and internal dose
• Defining and measuring exposures to musculoskeletal or psychosocial stresses
• New strategies for exposure assessment in epidemiologic and intervention studies
• Innovative technological tools for exposure assessment
• New assessments of exposures to recognized health hazards
• New methods for estimating historical exposures
• Exposure assessment in gene-environment studies
• Characterizing and interpreting peak and task-based exposures
• Use of toxicokinetic models for predicting exposures and/or internal doses
• Use of statistical or deterministic models for predicting exposures

3. Abstracts will be submitted electronically through the abstract submission website.

4. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words (5,000 characters) and must contain the following headings: Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusions.

5. Abstracts may be submitted as a POSTER presentation, ORAL presentation, or either POSTER or ORAL presentation. Poster presentations will require that an author be present at the poster for approximately one hour for discussion and comment. A limited number of abstracts will be chosen for plenary oral presentations (approximately 20 minutes each). The Scientific Committee reserves the right to designate abstracts as oral or poster presentations.

6. Abstracts must be submitted in English.

7. No tables, illustrations, or references may be included in abstracts.

8. Deadline for abstract submission has been extended to January 15,2009 (17:00 US Eastern ST).

9. Abstracts will be reviewed by at least two members of the Abstract Review Committee.

Sincerely,

S. M. Rappaport, PhD
Chairman, Scientific Committee

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