Families of SMA has an important announcement regarding hotel room booking for attendees of the 12th Annual International SMA Group Meeting. Click here to see the conference sponsors!
The 2008 meeting will be held at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts from June 19th to June 21st (ending around lunchtime) in conjunction with the 2008 FSMA Family and Professional Conference.
Please design posters to be no bigger than 4 feet by 4 feet. Due to increased demand we have added an additional hotel for research conference attendees. While a few rooms do remain in the Park Plaza, we need to keep them available for the SMA families.
All non-presenting research meeting attendees should now book rooms at the Radisson Hotel Boston, which is less than 1 block from the Park Plaza Hotel. A block of rooms is being held at the Radisson at the same room rate of $195/night.
You can make reservations by directly calling the Reservation Department for the Boston Radisson at 617-482-1800 or by calling Radisson Worldwide at 1-800-333-3333. In order to receive your special rate, individuals must indicate that they are with the FSMA Conference.
Radisson Hotel Boston
200 Stuart Street
Boston, MA 02116
617-482-1800
Direct: 617-457-2695
www.radisson.com/bostonma
As in past years, Families of SMA will book all hotel rooms for presenters, so abstract submitters can disregard these instructions. They are for non-presenting attendees only.
Also, please remember to register for the conference by May 16th, using the form above.
Please contact me for more information or if you have questions at jill@fsma.org
Dear SMA Researchers,
I am pleased to announce details of the 12th Annual International SMA Research Group Meeting. The 2008 meeting will be held at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts from June 19th to June 21st (ending around lunchtime) in conjunction with the 2008 FSMA Family Conference. This meeting is a wonderful opportunity to learn about the latest breakthroughs in SMA research and to meet the patients and families who benefit from your work. The city of Boston and the local research and Biotech community will help make this an extremely productive and exciting conference.
I am also writing at this time to invite you to submit an abstract to the 12th Annual International Spinal Muscular Atrophy Research Group Meeting. Abstracts for posters and presentations must be submitted between March 18th and March 25th. Due to the growing number of abstract submissions we have been receiving over the past years, the FSMA scientific advisory board will be selecting podium presentations. Thus, requests for podium presentation cannot be guaranteed and last minute requests for presentations cannot readily be accommodated. As in past years, we ask that all abstract submissions for podium presentations be on new, unpublished data. FSMA will inform you whether your abstract has been selected for a podium or poster presentation by April 30th. This year FSMA is pleased to reimburse meeting travel, lodging, and registration fees for all first author podium presenters as well as one poster presenter per lab. As in the past, financial assistance in this regard is very much appreciated. Upon notification of abstract acceptance, we will provide further information on booking travel and lodging for presenters. As in past years on the East Coast we are expecting a large turn out for this conference so please submit as early as possible. All attendees, including presenters, should register for the meeting by May 16, 2008, using the registration form provide above.
FSMA will directly book hotel rooms for all oral presenters and one poster presenter per lab, but all other attendees should book their own rooms. Boston Park Plaza hotel reservations can be made by calling 1-800-225-2008 for a special rate of $195 per night, or by making reservations online at http://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/FAM0614. Please reference FSMA or Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Conference when booking. Please see the Boston Park Plaza site for more information about the hotel and area guide: http://www.bostonparkplaza.com/. Also, the following airport transportation is available: 1) Airport Cab– expect metered cabs to be about $30. 2) Boston's Subway: The “T” http://www.mbta.com/. 3) J.C. Transportation Shuttle 800-517-2281 expect service ride to be about $13.50.
At this time, I am also requesting applications for the Anita McCaulay Memorial Travel Scholarship for attendance to the meeting. Interested European post-doctoral fellows and graduate students should submit a one-page essay describing how they would benefit from attending the meeting by April 1, 2008. Notification of the award will occur by April 30th, 2008.
Please contact me for more information or if you have additional questions at jill@fsma.org I hope to see you in Boston!
Jill Jarecki, Ph.D., Research Director Families of SMA
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