SAALAS 2025

The call for abstracts for presenting at the SAALAS 2025 Well-being conference is now open. Participants interested in presenting oral or poster presentations are invited to submit an abstract. All abstracts will undergo peer review.
The deadline for abstract submission is 15 January 2025.
Abstracts for poster sessions or oral presentations in the following key areas of focus are welcome:
* The mental & emotional well-being of the staff (including mental resiliency, wellness themes, transparency in research, designing of experiments, competency, management practices)
* Practical methods for implementing the 4R’s in facilities – ideas from the field and new insights from international sources.
* Increasing and promoting animal well-being – are we doing enough?
* Ethical insights in animal research (this can include harms-benefit assessments)
* Legal aspects of research involving animals in South Africa including insights into the recently published guidance documents in SA

Other topics are welcome, however preference will be given to presentations in key areas of focus

Abstract guidelines

Oral presentation information
Oral presentations will have 15 to 20 minute time slots. The conference organisers will group oral presentations by theme into sessions that will include time for questions from the audience.

This conference follows the biomedical convention, in that presenters typically use PowerPoint or other slide presentations. Should you wish to present in another way please indicate this.

Presenting authors are responsible for registration, travel, and accommodation costs.
Abstracts will be compiled and made available to participants and published electronically.
Authors should also be present when the awards are issued at the closing ceremony.

Any presenter who is unable to attend should arrange for another qualified individual to present the paper in question.

Poster session information

• Authors whose abstract is approved are kindly requested to print the poster size 80 cm wide x 110 cm high (i.e., portrait). You will be notified of the time slot and location to present your posters. Material to attach your poster to the panel will be provided.
• It is highly recommended to have A4 size printouts of your poster available for attendees to take home.
• Authors are expected to be available during the poster session.
• Authors should also be present when the awards are issued at the closing ceremony.
• Presenting authors are responsible for registration, travel, and accommodation costs.
• Abstracts will be compiled and made available to participants and published electronically.
• Any presenter who is unable to attend should arrange for another qualified individual to present the poster in question.

Abstract submission guidelines

• We kindly request you to follow the following guidelines for your abstract submission:
• There is no limit to the number of abstracts you may submit.
• Research work should be original and of a high standard – in order to evaluate this standard the applicants are required to complete the ARRIVE Guidelines checklist and provide evidence of scientific review. Please review the ARRIVE guidelines (https://arriveguidelines.org/arrive-guidelines) to ensure all the elements are included in the study design and reporting of your work. The complete checklist should be submitted with the abstract submission (https://arriveguidelines.org/sites/arrive/files/documents/Author%20Checklist%20-%20Full.pdf)
• All work that utilised animals must have an animal ethics committee approval certificate attached to the application. Please indicate any registrations the ethics committee may have.
• Work presented previously is allowed but MUST include new information that will be presented for the first time at the conference.
• Abstracts will be accepted in ENGLISH only.
• Maximum number of keywords: 5

Order of presented information (Use electronic submission on below link)

• Title
• Author details: names and affiliation
• Corresponding authors details marked with an asterisk (*)
• Abstract length (maximum 350 words)
• Keywords

Abstracts will be accepted for oral presentation or poster presentations

The submission deadline is 15 January 2025

Submissions must include:

• Application form
• Abstract
• One page CV
• Biography of no more than 250 words that can be published in abstract book
• Photograph of the presenting author (and your permission to use the photo in abstract book).
• The completed ARRIVE checklist.
• Ethics approval certificate (where applicable).

Abstracts will be reviewed by members of the scientific committee; acceptance notifications will be communicated by the conference organiser. The outcome of the review will be on scientific quality and relevance, assignment to a key area of focus, and whether it is a poster or oral presentation.

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