FIRST LATINAMERICAN CONFERENCE
OF SHARKS, RAYS, AND CHIMAERAS
and
VIII National Symposium of Sharks and Rays

The Mexican Society for Cartilaginous Fishes (SOMEPEC A.C.), in coordination
with the Playa del Carmen Planetary , SAYAB, Pelagios Kakunjá, and Manta México Caribe,
invites to participate for the presentation of studies in the areas of Behavior, Migrations, Taxonomy, Feeding, Reproduction, Age and growth, Ecology, Toxicology, Parasitology, Genetics, Conservation, and any other topic related to the study of Chondrichthyes.

Venue and dates

The event will be hosted by the Planetary SAYAB, in the city of Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico,
from March 25th to 29th, 2019. The event will take place in two parts, the first will be destined
to specialized workshops for the study of Chondrichthyes on the days 25th and 26th.
The second part of the event, from the 27th to the 29th, will correspond to key note talks
and presentations of the delegates in different modalities.

Deadline

The delegates must submit their abstracts on October 15th, 2018, 23:59 h (GMT-5, Mexico City)
in order to be included in the Memories of the events.
There will be no extension of date for the submission of abstracts.

Modalities for presentation

Poster

Horizontal or vertical. T
he size should not exceed 60 x 90 cm

Short presentation

5 minutes as maximum
4 minutes for presentation
1 minutes for questions

Long presentation

15 minutes as maximum
12 minutes for presentation
3 minutes for questions

Note: Every delegate can present a maximum of two posters and one oral presentation or one poster and two oral presentations

All presentations must be prepared in PowerPoint or PDF format. Posters and oral presentations
can be presented in Spanish or English. Only the abstracts submitted in these languages will be revised.
Delegates can suggest the category of presentation.
However, the evaluation committee will determine the presentation modality for each abstract