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<p style="margin-bottom:24.0pt;background:white"><span style="color:#303030">The deadline for abstract submissions for BCOVS is
<b>this Friday (31<sup>st</sup> July</b>). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#303030">For details of how to prepare your submission, and for a link to the abstract template, please visit the website at: <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbcovs2020.wordpress.com%2Fabstracts%2F&data=02%7C01%7CL.C.Rountree%40bradford.ac.uk%7C81a9f98f0e35416c62fc08d803e1fd17%7C245ea2d143654726805a631eb93d93aa%7C1%7C0%7C637263616466202340&sdata=iZP9Pl9o%2Fmj%2BFq1pqLWYYRYdUvIMczcmJECnv%2BK3pgw%3D&reserved=0">https://bcovs2020.wordpress.com/abstracts/</a></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#303030">The submitting author is required to ensure that all co-authors have approved the abstract before submission.</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:#303030">For details on how the presentations will be done “virtually”, please click <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbcovs2020.wordpress.com%2Fvirtual-presentations%2F&data=02%7C01%7CL.C.Rountree%40bradford.ac.uk%7C81a9f98f0e35416c62fc08d803e1fd17%7C245ea2d143654726805a631eb93d93aa%7C1%7C0%7C637263616466192347&sdata=MiPFjaZoID31jZho9jmzLdLwtvrLNw6esPcP56dMU3A%3D&reserved=0"><span style="color:#1279BE">here</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:#303030">The presenting author must be registered, and “attend” the conference, or the abstract will be withdrawn. Abstracts presented at the conference will be published as an online supplement to the November
issue of Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics (OPO), unless you opt-out in the abstract template. Abstracts previously published will be considered but it will not be possible to publish them – if you intend to re-submit an abstract please “opt-out” on the
template.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white;max-width:calc(750px);overflow-wrap: break-word"><span style="color:#303030">There will be prizes for the best talk and best poster!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="color:#303030">We would like to encourage clinicians and teaching staff to consider submitting abstracts based on their clinical work or aspects of pedagogy. We’re confident that there will be several examples of innovative
teaching solutions to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 crisis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;background:white"><span style="color:#303030">If you have any queries (formal or informal) please get in touch with me, or another member of the organising committee (</span><b><span style="color:black"><a href="https://bcovs2020.wordpress.com/the-organising-committee/">https://bcovs2020.wordpress.com/the-organising-committee/</a></span></b><span style="color:black">).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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