National Ph.D. Meeting 2026

Important dates

Registrations open: 11 November 2025

Registration & Abstract submission deadline: 19 December 2025

Payment deadline: 19 December 2025

Registrations and costs

The registration fee includes 4 coffee breaks, 1 lunch (on 6 February) and 2 dinners (on 5 and 6 February), and accommodation (including breakfast) from 5 to 7 February (two nights) at the Astra Hotel. Room availability is limited and participants are strongly encouraged to register as soon as possible. All participants, with the possible exception of PIs, will be accommodated in double (or triple or quadruple) rooms. The distribution will be made by the organisers taking into consideration gender and age. During the registration process you will be able to indicate preferential roommate(s). Double/triple/quadruple rooms, in this order, will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Anyone specifically interested in triple or quadruple rooms should contact the organisers . The costs are indicated below.

	Double/Triple/Quadruple room package	No-room package^*	Single room package^**
Available exclusively to participants from Ferrara; please contact the organisers to make this option available during the payment procedure in your personal myDOTT2026* area. Available exclusively to PIs; please contact the organisers to make this option available during the payment procedure in your personal myDOTT2026 area. *VAT included.
ABCD/SIBBM members	€ 280	€ 200	€ 330

Other participants	€ 380^***	€ 300^***	€ 430^***

If, to benefit from the reduced rate, you plan to apply for a membership, please remember that you must do so strictly before 15 December 2025. Applications for membership that reach the ABCD or the SIBBM after that date will be normally processed, but you will not be able to benefit from the reduced fee for this meeting. For details on memberships, visit the ABCD website and SIBBM website.

N.B. Registration fee payments received after the deadline will be subject to a late payment charge of € 40, which will be added to the total cost. If your payment is not received until 31 December 2025, your registration will be cancelled.
Payments must be received within each deadline indicated (if you are paying by bank transfer or through your administration, please ensure that it is initiated in due time).

Payment

Payment is possible by credit card or bank transfer. You must complete the registration process, including selecting the payment method and providing all the required information. This step is mandatory to finalize your registration. Further details about the payment procedure is available through your personal myDOTT2026 area.

Invoices or receipts (for VAT exempt payments) will be issued and sent to participants after payment (except for PA invoice).

FOR ABCD/SIBBM MEMBERS

After payment, ABCD will issue a receipt indicating VAT exemption under Article 4 of DPR 633/72, addressed to the participant. ABCD/SIBBM members cannot request an invoice. Payments for congress registrations by members, as well as membership fees, are considered part of the association's core activities and are therefore not subject to VAT. Membership requires registration with ABCD and payment of the membership fee, which can be made simultaneously with the congress participation fee. If a receipt addressed to your organization is required, you must explicitly request it by contacting ABCD at segreteria@abcd-it.org or webmaster@abcd-it.org.

FOR OTHER PARTICIPANTS – INDIVIDUALS OR "PRIVATE" LEGAL ENTITIES

Before processing the payment, please determine wheter you have specific billing requirements. Please decide to whom your registration costs must be billed to and make sure that you have all the required information: address, VAT number or fiscal code (codice fiscale, for Italians only), etc.

After payment, ABCD issues an electronic invoice based on the payment form details. ABCD will be unable to modify the invoice should the details provided be incorrect or outdated.

FOR OTHER PARTICIPANTS – PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION – PA INVOICE

In the registration process, you have to select the PA invoice option and provide the following information:

IPA/Unique Code
Company Name
VAT Number
Tax Code
Address
ZIP Code
City
Province

ABCD will issue an electronic invoice based on the payment form details. ABCD will be unable to modify the invoice should the details provided be incorrect or outdated.

Cancellation policy

Cancellations with a refund request must be sent by e-mail to the secretariat and must be accompanied by a valid justification. Refunds will be decided case by case by the organising secretariat. If accepted, cancellations by 5 January 2026 will be refunded fully minus an administrative charge of 30 EUR; no refunds will be provided after 5 January 2026.

Abstracts

Abstracts are accepted exclusively through this website, through your personal myDOTT2026 area; you will need to to have an account to have access to the latter.

Only one abstract per participant is allowed. The abstract should be submitted by the presenting author only.

The abstract submission deadline is 19 December 2025. The organisers will then review the received abstracts for oral or poster presentations.

Abstracts guidelines:

Title. The title must start in uppercase and continue in lowercase, except for conventional terms (ATP, DNA, NFκB, etc). Example:
    This title is written correctly
     This Title is Not Properly Written
     ALSO THIS TITLE IS WRONG
Authorship. If more than one author (but only in that case), underline your name (the presenting author, in whatever position you appear in the author list) and use commas to separate the author names; do not use 'and' before the last author. Write your name and surname in full; for any other authors use initial(s) for the first name(s) followed by the surname. If more than one affiliation (but only in that case), use sequential superscript numbers to identify each institution. Example:
   Mario Rossi¹, J. Doe², F. Bloggs^1,2
   ¹Dept Biomembranes, Golgi & Veratti Univ., Pavia, Italy
   ²Dept Bioblast Analyses, Altmann Univ., Leipzig, Germany
Abstract text. Keep the abstract text to within 2000 characters, spaces included (which is roughly equivalent to 250 words).

Meeting Support Grants

The ABCD and SIBBM will award meeting support grants, covering part of the registration fee, to a number of participants. To be eligible, the following conditions must be met:

be a member or a junior member of the ABCD or of the SIBBM;
be less than 35 years old at the start of the meeting.

You may apply for the meeting support grant during the registration procedure. The number of grants assigned will depend on the number of requests.

N.B. To be eligible for the grant, the participant must have already paid the corresponding registration fee.

Warning

Unfortunately, there is an increasing number of fraudulent websites and email promotions claiming to offer registration and accommodation services. Please be advised that payment for your attendance to the Ph.D. Meeting can only be processed through this website, within your personal myDOTT2026 area, after you sign up for an account. Also, the Organisers are in no way responsible for arrangements that you make. Please be aware of possible scams.