Date: December 1999
To: Members of ADSA and ASAS
From: Harold Swaisgood, President of
ADSA
Don Beermann, President of ASAS
David Beede, Overall Program Chair
Larry Benyshek, Overall Program Vice Chair and Program Secretary ASAS
David Henning, ADSA Foods Division Chair
James Linn, ADSA Production Division Chair
RE: Call for Abstracts - Joint
ADSA/ASAS Meeting and Northeast Sections of ADSA-ASAS
The joint meeting of
ADSA and ASAS is scheduled for the Baltimore Convention Center, July 24-28,
2000. Please find in this mailing instructions for electronic submission of
abstracts (deadline: 12:00 a.m. CST, February 15, 2000), contact
information for all Program Committee Chairs, the Program Highlights and
Special Requests for Abstracts, and a housing form and map of Baltimore.
This meeting is the
first of five consecutive joint meetings to be held between our two
organizations with other animal science organizations joining us in some
subsequent years. A special highlight of this year’s meeting is the Joint
Celebration “From Research to Innovation” with the European Association of
Animal Production (EAAP). Symposia will include presentations by a number of
our European colleagues as well as two plenary talks at the opening session.
This will be an excellent meeting. An
exciting program, including more than 30 symposia, has been planned by the 29
Program Committees and the Joint Meeting Planning Committee. The outstanding
planning of these Committees has insured that this will be a value packed
meeting. Sessions will be presented as roundtable discussions, case studies,
and other creative formats as well as traditional poster and oral
presentations. An Industry/Technology Forum also is planned as a means to
improve communication between academia and industry, and to facilitate
technology transfer. An additional benefit to members this year will be the
placement of Interpretive Summaries of symposia papers on-line prior to the
meeting.
This meeting will address many topics and issues of interest to you as
a scientist or practitioner involved in teaching, extension, research, and
commercial activities in all areas of animal agriculture ranging from the farm
to the table. Please take special note of the Program Highlights and Special
Requests for Abstracts from the individual Program Committees which
accompanies in this mailing.
The Baltimore Convention Center promises to be an excellent location
near the Inner Harbor with many hotels, restaurants, and activities easily
accessible. The meeting rooms will be exceptionally good with equipment for
electronic presentation (LCD projection) and 2 X 2 slide projection in every
session. Again this year the Cyber Café will be available and used in
educational programming.
Encourage students to attend! We are making special efforts to attract
students, both graduate students and undergraduate students, and industry
personnel, to the meeting. For example, a pre-meeting workshop will be
sponsored by ADSA to allow students to learn from experts on a specific topic
drawn from universities or research laboratories nationwide. A mini-symposium
on job interviewing is also planned. We hope to expand on these efforts in the
future as a means of adding value to graduate and postgraduate education.
As our societies move into the new millennium we will use the Web site
more. Please visit the societies Web sites and the meeting Web site frequently
for updates. Some of the traditional pieces are not mailed in this packet.
However, you fill find the information on the joint meeting Web site
(http://www.baltimore2k.org). Some of the information you will find will be:
•
Graduate Paper
Contest Information
•
Undergraduate
Paper Contest Information
•
Quality
Standard for Abstracts
•
Slide
Preparation Guidelines
•
Instructions
for Poster Presentations
•
LCD
Presentation Information
•
Special
Audio-Visual Request Form
•
Special Event
Request Form
As more information becomes available it will be posted to the Web
site.
We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore for the most successful
joint meeting ever between our two organizations.