1. Poster Presentation (also see the Speaker’s instruction page on the 12th IWGS
homepage; http://www2.convention.co.jp/iwgs12/speakers.html)• Poster should be no longer than 90 cm wide and 210 cm tall. The poster should bein portrait, but not in landscape shape.
• Posters should be brought to the symposium and not mailed to the LOC. LOC will
never take care of the mailed posters and never be responsible for any loss ordamage to the posters.
• Please be sure to present the title, authors’ names and affiliations on the top ofposters. Your poster number will be posted on the assigned board.
• Pins for mounting will be available at the venue.
• Poster presentation schedule is as follows;
Set-up:Monday, September 9, 2013
Removal:Friday, September 13, 2013
• Poster Sessions for Discussion
Monday, September 9, 2013:
Tuesday, September 10, 2013:
Thursday, September 12, 2013:

08:00-14:00
17:00-18:30

18:00-20:00 (Sessions 1, 2, 3, and 4)
18:30-20:00 (Sessions 6 and 7)
16:55-18:40 (Sessions 8, 9, and 10)• Presenters are requested to stand in front of their poster panels during thedesignated discussion time. Discussion time will be divided into two parts(approximately at 19:00 on Sept. 9, 19:15 on Sept. 10, and 17:50 on Sept. 12). First
half will be for the presenters with ODD numbers. Second half will be for thepresenters with EVEN numbers.
• Best Poster Award
The 12th IWGS will have Best Poster Award.
A team in the Local Organizing Committee selects five outstanding posters from all
posters presented at the Symposium. The winners will be announced at thebanquet on Friday, September 13 and receive something special.
Prepare a great poster and win an award!
2. Proceedings of the 12th International Wheat Genetics Symposium
We are planning to publish a book entitled Advances in Wheat Genetics: From
Genome to Field from Springer Japan. We will invite all oral presenters, except
Satellite Sessions 5.1-5.3, to contribute book chapters. Moreover, we will also invite
the authors of up to 10 poster presentations that have outstanding scientific merit tocontribute to the Proceedings.
The Proceedings will be published as an Open Access ebook, so that all
participants can freely access the contents via Internet. Additionally, a hard copy
version will be available through Springer at your expense.

[Book title]
Advances in Wheat Genetics: From Genome to Field[Publisher]
Springer, Japan[Editors]
Shuhei Nasuda (Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University)
Shigeo Takumi (Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University)
Yoshihiro Matsuoka (Department of Bioscience, Fukui Prefectural University)[Chapters]
The chapters cover all oral presentations given in the 12th IWGS. For Satellite
Sessions 5.1-5.3, brief summaries by the coordinators will be included in theProceedings.
Overall, we expect to have more than 60 Chapters (about 450 printed pages).
[Manuscript preparation]
Length:For Plenary and Keynote Presentations: Eight printed pages, including figures andtables
For Oral Presentations and Selected Posters: Six printed pages, including figures
and tables
One printed page corresponds to 420-440 words.
Deadline: October, 31, 2013
We will let the authors know the manuscript submission details later by E-mail.
[Contact about the Proceedings]
Please feel free to send E-mail to Shuhei Nasuda (prociwgs@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp).
3. Congress Venue and Access• Venue
PACIFICO YOKOHAMA(The main Symposium room: Annex Hall)
1-1-1 Minato Mirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama 220-0012, Japan
Transportation Guide: TEL +81-45-221-2166
Information: TEL +81-45-221-2155
http://www.pacifico.co.jp/english/facility/accessmap.html• From Airports to Yokohama
In Tokyo Metropolitan area, there are two international airports, Narita International

Airport (http://www.narita-airport.jp/en/index.html) and Tokyo (Haneda) Internationalairport (http://www.tokyo-airport-bldg.co.jp/en/).
From Narita Airport: 90 minutes by bus or 100 minutes by train to Yokohama area
From Haneda Airport: 40 minutes by bus or 30 minutes by train to Yokohama area
You can see more detailed information for the transportation from the airports toYokohama
atthe12thIWGShomepage;
http://www2.convention.co.jp/iwgs12/venue.html.

For you inquiry please contact to;
Secretariat of the 12th IWGS, Local Organizing Committee
E-mail: iwgs12@yokohama-cu.ac.jp