Instructions to Organisers

NOTES FOR ORGANISERS OF COLLOQUIA SUPPORTED BY THE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY

1. What you can expect normally from the Biochemical Society

The provision of:

• 1.1 financial support for the travel, accommodation and entertainment of the invited speakers and organisers

• 1.2 advertising, promotion of the meeting

• 1.3 the services of a professional secretariat to assist in the organisation of the meeting

• 1.4 formal invitations to the speakers from the Biochemical Society to participate in the meeting

• 1.5 arrangements for accommodation and much of the entertainment for invited speakers

• 1.6 well-equipped lecture theatres/rooms

• 1.7 a poster-session related to the topic of the colloquium

• 1.8 information on the progress of the arrangements. Prompt feedback on any perceived, or real, problems that appear during the organisation of the session

2. What we expect:

• 2.1 an imaginative programme of speakers who are capable of making presentations relevant to the agreed topic at a suitably sophisticated level

• 2.2 you will make informal invitations to the speakers, and at the same time inform them of the requirement to provide a manuscript for publication in Biochemical Society Transactions

• 2.3 information from you on the progress of the arrangements. Prompt feedback on any perceived, or real, problems that appear during the organisation of the session

3. Why we need our expectations to be fulfilled.

• 3.1 Long experience has shown that they facilitate the mounting of a successful meeting

• 3.2 The Biochemical Society has an international membership and it is impossible for these members to attend all the meetings that are organised. Not all UK-based members can attend every meeting of the Society. Biochemical Society Transactions is the medium that the Society uses to inform members of the objectives and the contents of the presentations made at the meetings.

BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

The published articles are short reviews of the topic presented at the meetings.

They are not intended to be a source of primary data. Thus, conclusions from an experimental programme may be described without the presentation of experimental data on which they are based.

An interested reader should be able to get a feel for the topic; the scientific relevance, the current state of progress and problems, some ideas of the future direction in which progress may be made. The references should enable the reader to access the sources of primary data on the topic.

Note: The copyright transfer form relates only to the article as published in Transactions. The Biochemical Society does not acquire the copyright to the basic data, or opinions etc. expressed in the article.