Deadline for abstract submission is already finished.

Awards will be given for the BEST GRADUATE STUDENT ORAL PRESENTATION and BEST POSTER competition. A letter of certification from the thesis/dissertation adviser or professor must be emailed to the secretariat in order to finalize the inclusion in the graduate student  competition. Certification must explicitly state that the paper to be presented was conducted as a part of an academic course requirement  or the thesis/dissertation of the main author.

Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit full papers for consideration in a special issue of the Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology (PJSB; ISSN: 1908 6865). The PJSB is included in the Thomson Reuter Master Journal List. All submitted papers will be evaluated by the editors of the PJSB and will be subjected to peer-review prior to acceptance.