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a small island located on the Bosphorusand accessible by a short boat tride. Amodern glass covered building on theisland will be our main location fordining and dancing with friends, amidthe beauty of the Bosphorus on awonderful summer night.Timur GürganChairman Local Organising CommitteeThe congress party on Tuesday night willbe held on Suada, a floating resortlocated on the Boshporus with apanormaic view of Istanbul.Abstracts must be submitted online and according to designated topicsAll abstracts must arrive via the ESHRE website nolater than 1st February. Abstracts should be submittedin English only.Investigators should note the following:• Anyone submitting an abstract can only be the firstauthor for one abstract.• The material presented should be unpublished andoriginal, and not yet have been presented at any othermeeting.• All abstracts will be refereed ‘blind’, ie, without thenames and addresses of the authors.• Authors are requested to indicate their preference fororal and/or poster presentation on the abstractsubmission form. Abstracts submitted but not selectedfor oral presentation can be referred to the postersessions. The decisions of the selection committee arefinal.• All accepted abstracts and the index of authors willbe published in the abstract book, a monograph to theHuman Reproduction journals.There are four topic categories: basic science, clinicalscience, mixed (basic/clinical), and paramedical.When basic science, clinical science or mixed areselected, one of the following topics should beselected:• Cross border reproductive care• Developing countries and infertility• Early pregnancy (including miscarriage, recurrentmiscarriages, abortion, termination of pregnancy,ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy)• Embryology (including IVF/ICSI, gamete and embryoselection, culture, cryopreservation, vitrification,developmental biology)• Endometriosis, endometrium, implantation andfallopian tube• Ethics and law• Female (in)fertility (including oogenesis, diagnostictests, prognostic models, intrauterine insemination,oocyte donation, body weight effects, smoking, ageing,immunology, sexually transmitted diseases)• Andrology (including male (in)fertility,spermatogenesis, diagnostic tests, treatment, MESA,TESA, TESE, sperm donation, environmental factorsrelated to male fertility, immunology)• Male and female contraception• Male and female fertility preservation (includingoncofertility, medical indications, social freezing,laboratory techniques)• Psychology and counselling• Quality and safety of ART therapies (includingguidelines, accreditation, EUTCD, certification,complications: premature labour, malformations,neonatal risks, multiple pregnancy, long-term follow-upof children)• Reproductive (epi)genetics (including (epi)geneticcauses of infertility, PGD, PGS, prenatal diagnosis)• Reproductive endocrinology (including ovarian reservetesting, ovarian stimulation, IVM, POF, PCOS, infancy,disorders of sexual development, puberty, adolescence,menopause )• Reproductive epidemiology and health economics• Reproductive surgery (female and male)• Stem cells• Translational research (including new ideas,hypotheses, new thinking, immediate applicability inpractice).Paramedical categories are either ‘laboratory’ or‘nursing’.More information on abstracts - with details of wordcounts, key words, title and for online submission - canbe found on the ESHRE website under ‘AnnualMeeting’.Focus on Reproduction January 2012 5