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XVIII FISV Congress

MILAN 21 – 23 September

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Important dates

Registrations open:

9 April 2026

Abstract submission deadline:

30 June 2026

Payment with early bird discount deadline:

20 July 2026

Online registrations deadline:

20 August 2026

Registration and cost

Early bird fee
(until 20 July 2026)		 Regular fee
(after 20 July 2026)
Member of a FISV – affiliated Society / Association FISV 350€ 450€
Junior participant* – affiliated Society / Association FISV 240€ 270€
Junior participant* 292.8€ 329.4€
Other participant 488€ 610€

*To benefit from the “JUNIOR” registration fee, participants must fall in one of the following categories:

  • Undergraduate students (studenti di laurea)
  • Ph.D. students (dottorandi)
  • Fellows (borsisti, assegnisti di ricerca)

No other categories can benefit from a “Junior” registration fee.

The registration fee includes:

  • Entry to all scientific sessions
  • Congress kit
  • Coffee breaks
  • 2 aperitifs
  • 1 light lunch

Payment

Payment is possible by bank transfer. Further details about the payment procedure is available through your personal area.
The registration fee for participants who are members of FISV-affiliated societies or associations is VAT exempt and must be paid at the time of registration or shortly thereafter. Upon request, a fiscal receipt will be issued.

For participants who are not members of FISV-affiliated societies or associations, the registration fee is subject to 22% VAT (amounts shown already include VAT). Payment must be made after receiving the invoice. For this reason, participants are kindly asked to contact the secretariat to provide any billing details to be included in the invoice, at iscrizioni@fisv.org.

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations with a refund request must be sent by e-mail to the secretariat and must be accompanied by a valid justification. Refunds will be decided case by case by the organising secretariat. If accepted, cancellations within 20 August 2026 will be refunded fully minus an administrative charge. No refunds will be provided after 20 August 2026.

Abstracts

Abstracts are accepted exclusively online through your personal MY FISV AREA (you will need to sign up  to have access to the latter).

The abstract submission deadline is 30 June 2026. The organisers will then review the received abstracts for oral or poster presentations. Participants will be notified of the abstract selections by 24 July 2026.

Submitted abstracts will be discarded if the corresponding registration payment is not received within 30 June 2026.

Only one abstract per participant is allowed. The abstract should be submitted by the presenting author only.

Abstracts guidelines:

  • Title. The title must start in uppercase and continue in lowercase, except for conventional terms (ATP, DNA, NFκB, etc). Example:

This title is written correctly

This Title is Not Properly Written

ALSO THIS TITLE IS WRONG

  •  Authorship. If more than one author (but only in that case), underline your name (the presenting author, in whatever position you appear in the author list) and use commas to separate the author names; do not use ‘and’ before the last author. Write your name and surname in full; for any other authors use initial(s) for the first name(s) followed by the surname. If more than one affiliation (but only in that case), use sequential superscript numbers to identify each institution. Example:

  Mario Rossi1, J. Doe2, F. Bloggs1,2
    1Dept Biomembranes, Golgi & Veratti Univ., Pavia, Italy
    2Dept Bioblast Analyses, Altmann Univ., Leipzig, Germany

  • Abstract text. Keep the abstract text to within 1200 characters, spaces included (which is roughly equivalent to 200 words).

During the submission procedure authors can indicate a preference for poster or oral communications and to which of the following topics the abstract is destined.

  1. Environmental, Evolutionary and Developmental Biology
    Including how organisms adapt to harsh conditions and respond to changing environment including pollutants, (drugs) and stress.
  2. Genetics, Epigenetics and Chromosome Biology
    Including all investigations on genetic and epigenetic mechanisms regulating DNA biology such as, for example, transcription, replication, repair, chromosome and nuclear architecture.
  3. Genomics, Proteomics and Systems Biology
    Including all investigations implying systems biology such as mutational analysis, RNA expression, proteomics and metabolomics.
  4. Current trends in Biotechnology
    Including agricultural, environmental, animal, industrial, pharmaceutical and medical applications.
  5. Food and Sustainable Nutrition
    Including sustainable agricultural approaches, functional foods, nutraceutics, food safety.
  6. Health and Disease
    Including plant and animal disease, infectious agents, innovative drug approaches and delivery systems, personalized medicine.

Posters

Participants with abstracts that were selected for a poster should prepare and upload their poster according to the guidelines below within 4 September 2026. No physical posters will be presented at the congress. The list of posters is available in the Programme page.

  • The text of the poster should be in English.
  • You are requested to prepare the poster using the Powerpoint template available in your personal  area.
  • The format of the poster should be horizontal and widescreen (16:9).
  • You are advised to verify that your poster is readable in full screen.
  • The poster file should be saved as a PDF, with the option “Minimum size (online publication)”. The total size of the file should be less than 5 MB.
  • Name the file as follows: “Poster number_Last name of presenting author.pdf”; e.g., “P1.1_Mendel.pdf”. Your poster number is available through the upload area (see below).
  • The poster file, as a PDF, must be uploaded by yourself, the presenting author, through your personal area, in the Poster uploads section (where additional information is also available). All registered participants will be able to see all posters from the start of the congress and for a month through a dedicated section in the protected area.

Only the authors of selected abstracts that were specifically notified about it will be requested to give a short oral presentation (5 minutes in total) during the dedicated Poster Presentation slots (see the Programme page).

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