Symposium annuel du GRIL 2022

Welcome to the 2022 GRIL Annual Symposium website!

The 31th GRIL Annual Symposium will take place in-person, at the Palais des congrès de Montréal!

On this page:

• GUEST SPEAKERS
• IMPORTANT INFORMATION
• PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
• TYPES OF PRESENTATIONS
• SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION

Do you have questions after reading the information below?

Follow this link to find out who to contact!

_________________________________________________________________________________________

GUEST SPEAKER

Grace Wilkinson, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison (United States)

Title: TBA.

_________________________________________________________________________________________

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Accomodation: See this section.

Language of presentations: The Symposium Organizing Committee encourages speakers to present in one official language and to provide the visual support in the other official language, in order to facilitate the understanding of all attendees, unilingual French and unilingual English.

Final program: A link to the final program will be sent to all registered participants.

_________________________________________________________________________________________

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE

Student Committee activity (March 14, 2022)

The Student Committee invites you to an evening activity! Details to come!

Conferences (March 15 and 16, 2022)

Tuesday, March 15

8:30 am: Welcome - Jean-François Lapierre, GRIL Associate Director

8:45 am: Guest speaker: Grace Wilkinson, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison (United States)

AM:

• Presentations by new GRIL Researcher Members
• Conference sessions
• What's new with the GRIL

Lunch break

PM:

• Short conferences (speedtalks)
• Scientific workshops

Wednesday, March 16

8:30 am: Welcome - Beatrix Beisner, GRIL Director

AM:

• Presentations by new GRIL Researcher Members
• Conference sessions

Lunch Break

PM:

• Scientific workshops
• Conference sessions
• GRIL awards and closing remarks

_________________________________________________________________________________________

TYPES OF PRESENTATIONS

Important note: to submit an abstract, you must first register and then use the same email address as when you registered.

Conferences (12 minutes)

• 12 minutes (including questions)
• Only one conference per GRIL laboratory will be scheduled, preferably given by a student. It is up to the primary researcher to determine the content of the presentation (summary of the work of his or her laboratory or that of the presenting student).
• If there are too many requests for oral presentations, priority will be given to labs that did not present at our online Symposium in 2021 or at Jouvence in 2019.
• Confirmations for accepted talks will be sent on February 7, 2022.

Abstract submission deadline: January 31, 2022

Speedtalks (180 seconds)

This year, we invite short presentations with a maximum duration of 3 minutes.

Best Speedtalk: GRIL members are eligible to win $100 prizes for outstanding presentations.

Abstract submission deadline: January 31, 2022

Poster presentations

Posters are back this year! Maximum size : 122 cm x 122 cm (4'x4').

Best Posters : GRIL members are eligible to win $100 for outstanding posters.

Abstract submission deadline: January 31, 2022

_________________________________________________________________________________________

SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION

Registration includes snacks at coffee breaks, lunches on March 15 and 16, as well as the dinner banquet on March 15:

• Researchers: $ 200
• Students (BSc, MSc and PhD), postdoctoral fellows, employees: $ 100

To register, please go to the Registration page.

*Photo credit:
Another beautiful day of fieldwork - Anaïs Oliva (Université de Sherbrooke)
Upper Little Slocan Lake - July 2019