Call for Abstract and Speaker’s Guidelines
Welcome Letter
Dear Colleagues
International Virtual Conference on COVID-19: Discovery, Current Challenges, and Future Scenarios to be held online through Zoom platform, will be the most significant conference, covering almost every aspect of COVID-19 by the excellent line-up of plenary and invited speakers, high-quality contributed oral talks, and extensive online poster sessions.
We sincerely welcome you to participate in the conference for knowledge gain; scientific information exchange and establishing collaboration. Aim of virtual conference is to provide a platform to present and discuss the most recent developments and practical challenges encountered, and solutions adopted for COVID-19. It will be an honour and opportunity for us to make this virtual conference an unforgettable experience for all the respected participants. The theme of the conference is “Detection, Prevention, and Future Scenario of COVID-19”.
All the interested authors are invited to submit their valuable abstract to the virtual conference. Abstracts are invited for oral talks and posters on the following topics:
- Clinical endpoints
- Control and exit strategies
- Drug developments and trials
- Ethical considerations
- Future scenario
- Human-animal interface
- Immune response
- Infections
- Laboratory screening
- Medication
- Mental health
- MERS
- Meta-analyses
- Mutation
- Prevention
- Reinfection
- SARS-CoV-2
- Scaling up research
- Testing
- Transmission routes
- Treatments and therapies
- Vaccine: Designs, production, response, side effects
- Virology and immunology
Submission Guidelines
Now we call upon for abstracts submission for presentations. Prospective authors are invited to present their latest results in the related areas.
- The official language of the webinar is English. All abstracts must be submitted in English and all presentations must be delivered in English.
- The abstract should be in word format and less than two pages.
- Please follow the instructions preparing your abstracts.
- Abstracts must be submitted online.
The scientific committee will carefully evaluate all submitted abstracts and will determine if an abstract is to be presented orally or poster along with the acceptance letter.
Speaker’s Guidelines
Plenary Speaker: Presentation Time- 45 minutes; 40 minutes for the presentation followed by 5 minutes’ question-answer session.
Keynote Speaker: Presentation Time- 30 minutes; 25 minutes for the presentation followed by 5 minutes’ question-answer session.
Invited Speaker: Presentation Time- 20 minutes; 15 minutes for the presentation followed by 5 minutes’ question-answer session.
Session Chair
- Session chair will be responsible for the assigned session to run during the time.
- Session chair introduce to speakers and ask him/her to start their presentation.
- After the presentation, session chair will select and read attendees questions that are submitted in the Q&A window to speakers if any.
Role of Committee Member
- Advise on the scientific matters of webinar if any.
- Propose 2 to 3 scientific names for Plenary or Keynote or Invited speakers.
- Help to make scientific community through professional work, and outreach to contact networks.
Benefit of Committee Member
- will receive an electronic citation as a committee member in the respected webinar.
- get support in the registration fees.
- name will be displayed on the webpage which has 05 million visitors in the worldwide.
- will get opportunity to chair a session in the upcoming conferences within a year.
How to Deliver Presentations/Access in the Session?
- Overview
All presentations will be conducted on Zoom.
Important Notes:
- All oral presentations will be recorded and made available to registrants for 30 days after the conference.
- You must be registered for the conference to present.
- Your talk must end within the given above presentation time, including questions if applicable. After completing your presentation time, your screen share will end, and your microphone will be muted.
- All presenters will get information for their presentations schedule. All presentations time are shown in CET (Central European Time).
- Technical Requirements
Connectivity:
- Make sure your connection speed is 2 Mbps upload, 4 Mbps download or better. You can test your Internet connection speed at SpeedTest.net.
- Using a wired Ethernet connection provides the best quality, but WiFi should be fine.
Zoom Client: We strongly recommend that you download or update the Zoom Client for Meetings in advance of your presentation and test your sound and permissions prior to the day of your talk. If you have attended a Zoom meeting recently, you likely already have the client installed. To access your assigned conference session, you will receive a unique link via email from Zoom. This link will not work until right before your session.
Device: You will use your own device for your presentation. You should use a laptop or desktop computer. You will need a webcam, if possible.
If you are using a Mac, make sure to try sharing your screen at https://zoom.us/test ahead of your session so that you can grant Zoom the appropriate permissions. Doing so requires you to restart the application (which you won’t want to do during your session).
Sound: We recommend that you present in a quiet area without background sound and use a headset if possible. You can use https://zoom.us/test to test your Zoom audio in advance.
- Privacy Policy and Recordings
Our Principle is established to communicate a transparent set of standards and guidelines for acceptable behaviour at the conference and to provide a positive, safe, and welcoming environment for all attendees. Note that all sessions will be moderated and actively monitored for disruptive behaviour; any attendees disrupting the session will be removed from the conference by technical support staff.
In the conference, a week before of your presentations:
- You will receive an email in your registered email for Zoom link. If you have not received your email, please contact us.
- Set up the Zoom client on your computer.
- Use https://zoom.us/test to test your sound and app permissions.
- Use SpeedTest.net to test your connection speed.
- Create your presentation slides and check them for sensitive or confidential information. Your presentation will be available on our YouTube Channel following the program and should not include confidential information.
- Be sure your last slide lists the best way(s) for others to contact you for questions or collaborations.
During the conference
Ten minutes before your session (not just your individual talk) starts
- Click the special Zoom presenter access link emailed by Zoom.
- Send a message in the chat window to tell the Session Chair and technical support staff (Zoom Host) that you have arrived.
- Test your sound by unmuting and speaking to your Session Chair. Turn mute back on when you have finished testing.
- Turn your camera on by clicking on “Start Video”.
- Check that all other windows, notifications, and sounds not related to your talk are turned off.
- Remember that what you see on your screen will be seen by all attendees, so if you are viewing your slides in “Presenter Mode” your notes will be visible to all.
During your session
- Preparing for screen sharing
- Begin sharing your screen when the session chair introduces you.
- Chat window
- Open the chat window so you can send a message to technical support in case of problems.
- Giving your talk
- Unmute your microphone and share your screen when the session chair introduces you.
- When your talk is over, mute your microphone and stop sharing your screen.
- Timing
- Your total talk time, including Q&A if applicable, is given in the above guideline.
- Answering questions
- If there is time for Q&A, your session chair will select and read attendee questions that are submitted in the Q&A window. You will be answering by your microphone.
- Contacting live technical support
- You can reach technical support staff (Zoom Host) or the chairs during the session via the Zoom Chat window. You can also contact us.
After your presentation
- Stop sharing your screen and mute your microphone.
- Enjoy the rest of the presentations!