Venues Conference Dinner Presenter’s guide Voting for student prizes List of attendees
Venues
Conference venue
The meeting will be hosted in The Diamond at the University of Sheffield. You can download the floorplans here: Diamond floorplans download
Visiting address: 32 Leavygreave Rd, Broomhall, Sheffield S3 7RD
Evening registration
Evening registration will be open from 5-9pm on 6 January at The University Arms.
Visiting address: 197 Brook Hill, Broomhall, Sheffield S3 7HG
Conference dinner
The Conference Dinner will be held at Kelham Island Museum on Thursday 9th January.
Visiting address: Alma Street, Sheffield S3 8RY
Conference Dinner
After the celebrations of Roger Butlin’ career, we will head down to Kelham Island Museum where the bar will be open from 5pm. Please do wear your name badges.
At 6.30pm, there will be a demonstration of The River Don Engine: built in 1904 it is one of the most powerful steam engines ever constructed and has been used to make armour plates for battleships and reactor shields for nuclear power plants.
The banquet itself will start at 7pm, please start registering for the banquet from 6.45.
We will then have a ceilidh (traditional folk dancing) from 9pm. Bar will close 10.30, with music stopping at 11pm.
Presenter’s guide
If your talk or poster is accepted for a contribution at the meeting, you will receive more information via email soon. In the meantime you can find more information below.
Contributed talks
The total time slot for a contributed talk is 15min including discussion. As such, please ensure that your talk does not exceed 12min to allow time for questions.
Accepted speakers will be provided with a link to upload their presentation and will be able to check their slides in the respective presentation room during the coffee breaks preceding their presentation time slot. The presentation rooms are equipped with Windows PCs.
Contributed posters
Please prepare your posters in A0 portrait format for good fit to the poster boards.
Voting for student prizes
Please help us acknowledge the importance of student contributions at PopGroup by voting for the best student talk and student poster:
Voting link for best student talk
Voting link for best student poster
Voting will open with the start of the 58th Population Genetics Group meeting. Please note, that voting for posters will close at 5pm on Wednesday and voting for talks will close at 1pm on Thursday.
