Abstracts will be published in special OnLine issue of American Journal of Reproductive Immunology. Plenary speakers will be invited to submit a review (text limit of 3000 words) covering their plenary lecture or some subjects of the main topics of the Symposium. The reviews have to be submitted on line using the web site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ajri These reviews will be published in the same Symposium issue of the AJRI.

Abstracts should be submitted in English only, by e-mail georgievar@hotmail.com as a Microsoft Word format attached document. PDF format is not acceptable.

Abstracts should cover the main topics of the Symposium:

• Gametes antigenicity and gametes interactions
• Innate and adoptive immune mechanisms in reproduction
• Tregs and pregnancy maintenance
• Immune-endocrine interactions in reproduction
• Mechanisms of immune regulation in implantation and pregnancy
• Cytokines in implantation and pregnancy
• Mucosal immunity
• Immunological problems of infertility
• Pregnancy loss and implantation failures
• Stem cells in reproduction

Abstract format
Abstracts should be structured into four paragraphs, labeled Problem, Method of Study, Results and Conclusion and consist of no more than 300  words. Abstracts have to be written in Times new roman font, single line spaces. Title, author/s name/s, affiliation, address, e-mail centered.  The authors should be presented with the family name first followed by initials, do not include professional title or degrees, the presenting author – underlined.  The title and different parts – Introduction, Methods, Results and Conclusion should be bolted and do not use capital letters and do not indent. The use of graphs, tables and images is strongly discouraged. Acknowledgments should be typed in one separate paragraph at the end of abstract.

Presenters will have no more than 30 min. for plenary lectures, 10 min. for short oral presentation, incl. audiovisual illustrations.