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BIC-ISMRM 2024 at University of Nottingham

We look forward to welcoming you to the BIC ISMRM 2024 Annual Meeting, which will be held at the University of Nottingham from 11th to 13th September. The theme of the meeting will be 50+ years of MRI, recognising Nottingham’s long association with the development and application of magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy (MRI/S).

The first day of the meeting will comprise a Workshop on Beyond ¹H: Xing up MRI/S. The following two days will include invited, oral and poster presentations on all aspects of MRI. A fantastic set of speakers have agreed to deliver invited lectures at the meeting and we are delighted that Professor Derek Jones (University of Cardiff and ISMRM President) will deliver this year’s flagship Bill Moore Lecture. Some initial information on registration, abstract submission and social events is given below, with further details following soon.

If you have any questions about the meeting, please contact us by email.

Richard Bowtell, on behalf of the Local Organising Committee

Local Organising Committee:

Dorothee Auer (Medicine)
Adam Berrington (Physics & Astronomy)
Nic Blockley (Life Sciences)
Richard Bowtell (Physics & Astronomy)
Michael Chappell (Medicine)
Carolyn Costigan (Medicine)
Robert Dineen (Medicine)
Susan Francis (Physics & Astronomy)
Paul Glover (Physics & Astronomy)
Penny Gowland (Physics & Astronomy)
Paul Morgan (Medicine)
Galina Pavlovskaya (Medicine)
Stefanie Thust (Medicine)

Meeting venue

The meeting venue will be the Monica Partridge Building at the heart of the main University of Nottingham campus (University Park). It has a large ground-floor lecture theatre and foyer space (for posters and the commercial exhibition). University Park is ~15 minutes by tram or bus from the railway station. Parking is available on campus.

Meeting accomodation

Cavendish Hall, University Park

Orchard Hotel, University Park

Accommodation will be offered on campus in Cavendish Hall (£70 per night for bed and breakfast in an ensuite room). The Orchard Hotel is also located on campus and there are many hotels in the surrounding area. It is a ~10-minute walk from The Orchard Hotel or Ancaster Hall to the Monica Partridge Building.

Programme

The programme for the BIC-ISMRM 2024 can be viewed here.

Abstract Book

The workshop on the Wednesday afternoon (12:00pm - 5:00pm) will focus on how to implement and exploit X-nuclei imaging and spectroscopy on clinical and pre-clinical systems. There will be invited presentations, a poster session and brief talks from the vendors. There will also be an optional tour of the nearby Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre after the workshop.

The main meeting takes place on Thursday and Friday (9:00am - 5:00pm) and will include a mix of presentations of invited and proffered papers, as well as poster sessions and an opportunity to meet with commercial exhibitors. Invited speakers include Derek Jones (Cardiff) who will deliver this year’s prestigious Bill Moore Lecture, Eleftheria Panagiotaki (UCL), Mary McLean (Cambridge), Nicolas Boulant (Paris) and Rhodri Cusack (Dublin).

Lunch, and coffee and tea will be provided in the breaks.

Presentations

For attendees who are presenting their abstracts at the meeting, you can find further details below:

Oral presentations

Presentation duration 10 mins plus 2 mins for questions (in line with the standard ISMRM format)
Please check that your presentation works on the PC version of PowerPoint, as we will not have Macs available.
If you have any potential conflicts of interest, please declare them in the first slide. If not, then there is no need to include such a slide.
Please bring your presentation on a USB stick and upload it prior to your session.

Poster presentations

Posters will be assigned to be presented on day 1 or day 2 of the meeting due to the large number of accepted abstracts.
Posters must be in A0 (portrait only) or A1 (portrait or landscape) format.
Please ensure that your poster is displayed before the start of the first oral session on the day it is to be presented.
Posters must be removed by 6 pm on their assigned day or they will be taken down and disposed of.
Immediately prior to your assigned poster session a poster pitch session will take place.
Please provide a single slide as a visual aid for your 1 min poster pitch.
This slide must be saved as an image with a resolution of 1920x1080 in JPEG or PNG format, both of which can be exported by PowerPoint.
This slide must be uploaded at this link by the end of Monday 9^th September 2024.

PubhD

We are also running a PubhD event and you can notify us of your interest in taking part during the submission of your abstract. PubhD is an exciting and accessible format for talking about your work in the pub! We’ll ask the people who submitted our three favourite tweets (280 characters) about their work to present for 10 minutes without slides. You will have a flipchart and can bring any props you want – try to think outside the box!

Social events

The conference dinner will be held in Cavendish Hall on Thursday evening and there will be a PubhD event in a Nottingham City Centre pub on Wednesday evening.

Registration

We will have to limit the number of additional (non-virtual) registrants from 30/8 - please contact us by email after this date to enquire about registration.

We are trying to keep registration costs as low as possible to encourage attendance at this valuable meeting for the British and Irish MR research community. We also expect to be able to offer bursaries in support of registration and accommodation costs for PhD students. The registration costs are detailed below.

Early-bird rates (before 6th August)
PhD student	£80
ISMRM / ISMRT Trainee Member	£80
ISMRM / ISMRT Member	£160
Non-member	£180

Regular rates (on and after 6th August)
PhD student	£90
ISMRM / ISMRT Trainee Member	£90
ISMRM / ISMRT Member	£180
Non-member	£200

Other rates
Virtual attendance	£40
Workshop	£25