For Authors

Opening hours of Media Check
Speaking times
Videos
Poster Exhibition
Poster Discussion
Projection Facilities
Publication of Scientific Papers

Opening hours of Media Check

The central Media Check is located in Bankettraum 1, Floor 0.

Wednesday 23.9.2009     15.00-19.00 hrs
Thursday 24.9.2009           7.00-19.00 hrs
Friday 25.9.2009               7.00-18.30 hrs
Saturday 26.9.2009           7.00-18.30 hrs
Sunday 27.9.2009             7.30-14.00 hrs

Speaking times

Lectures (R): 10 minutes, 2 minutes discussion
Oral presentations (V): 7 minutes, 3 minutes discussion
Short oral presentations (K): 5 minutes, 2 minutes discussion

In order to guarantee a smooth organization 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.

Videos

Video presentations are an important and effectivemeans of displaying scientific results. Therefore, videos will be displayed and discussed during the video session on Friday 25th September,
15.30-18.00 hrs.
The DOG will publish awarded videos on its homepage. With the submission of a video the authors agree with its possible online publication. Therefore, submitted videos shall not include any materials which are subject to payment for copyrights and technical reproduction.
The Video Award of the DOG, donated by Carl Zeiss Meditec VG, will be granted at the end of the video session.

Poster Exhibition

Poster presentations are an important and effectivemeans of displaying scientific results.
Posters will be displayed during the entire congress. All posters must be pinned by Thursday, 24 September 2009 at 9:00 hrs and remain on the display until Saturday, 26 September 2009 at 6:00 p.m.
First authors of posters 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.
Each day three outstanding posters will be awarded. All posters should be prepared in English or in German.
Standard poster walls will be available in the Poster Exhibition. The maximum size of a poster should be DIN A0 (84.10 cm wide x 118.90 cm high). Adhesive materials and help will be available to poster authors from the Poster Help Desk in the Poster Exhibition.

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,
27 September 2009 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 bis P 102
Thursday, 24.9.2009, 12.30-13.30 hrs

P 103 to P 204, P 307
Friday, 25.9.2009, 13.30-14.30 hrs

P 205 bis P 306
Saturday, 26.9.2009, 13.30-14.30 hrs

Projection Facilities

A central Media Check will be available in Bankettraum 4 during the entire congress. Each meeting room is equipped with a laptop and a data-projector. Please submit your presentation data only to the website listed below. Presentations that are attached to an email cannot be processed.

Own laptops cannot be connected in the rooms. All presentations must be uploaded in advance to the network. All presentations should be submitted to http://dog2009.m-talk.de between 1 and 21 September 2009. Therefore authors will receive a separate e-mail from MEvents Cross Media GmbH with access information and instruction.Only MS-Powerpoint (XP and higher) and PDF presentations with video formats as specified on the upload site are permitted for this conference. Do not forget to bring your video files as they cannot be embedded into the presentation.

Please submit your files at least 2 hours before your talk. If you speak in the first session in the morning please submit your files the day before or use the internet upload. You may check and/or
alter your presentation yourself in the Media Check (Bankettraum 4) up to two hours prior to your presentation.

Please note that the MEvents staff members cannot revise your presentation.
For the submission of your presentation on site, CDs, USB Sticks, or similar will be accepted.

After the conference all submitted files will be deleted from all storage media.

Publication of Scientific Papers

Scientific contributions that have been accepted for presentation have to be handed in publishable format for peer reviewing no later than 31 October 2009.
Publication is possible in either German or English.

Please send your manuscript to the respective editors:

German language contributions
for review by the journal "Der Ophthalmologe" should be submitted online only.
Full details concerning submission are available at:
www.DerOphthalmologe.de or directly at: www.editorialmanager.com/deop/

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. med. Frank G. Holz
Universitäts-Augenklinik Bonn
Ernst-Abbe-Str. 2
53127 Bonn

German-language contributions
for review by the journal "Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde" should be sent online to:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/klimo

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. med. Gerhard K. Lang, Prof. Dr. med. Gabriele E. Lang
Universitäts-Augenklinik Ulm
Prittwitzstr. 43
89075 Ulm

English-language contributions
for review by the journal "Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology" should be submitted online only.
Full details concerning submission are available at:
www.medizin.uni-koeln.de/kliniken/augenklinik/graefe.html or directly at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/graefes

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Bernd Kirchhof
Klinikum der Universität zu Köln
Zentrum für Augenheilkunde
Kerpener Str. 62
50924 Köln

Copyright for lectures, oral presentations and short oral presentations to bemade at the congress of the German Society of Ophthalmology belong to the society. That is why authors of oral
presentations and short oral presentations are obliged to submit their contributions for review and publication by one of the following journals: "Der Ophthalmologe", "Klinische Monatsblätter für
Augenheilkunde" or "Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology".

Contributions accepted for publication by one of the above journals may not be submitted for publication elsewhere.

All authors are kindly asked to observe the "Instruction for Authors" of the respective journals. Manuscripts not accepted for publication after the review process will be returned to the respective author with the reviewers’ evaluation.

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