FARA Flash Talk Series 2022 -
Abstracts Due on March 1st
During the month of May, to celebrate FA Awareness Month, FARA will host the third annual Flash Talks series. These webinars will feature presentations from graduate students, postdocs, and residents involved in FA research. This is a great chance for FA patients, caregivers, and friends to learn about FARA funded research and get to know and interact with junior investigators involved in FA research. The primary audience for these flash talks is the FA patient and caregiver community, so presentations should be understandable for a lay audience. Scientists, researchers, and clinicians are also welcome to attend the talks. You can view flash talk examples here.
We encourage all postdocs and grad students working in the FA field to express their interest in participating by submitting a short abstract and filling out this form by March 1, 2022. Speakers will be notified by March 21, 2022. The schedule of talks will be finalized in April and the webinar series will take place in May.
 
Attendees will be able to vote for their favorite presentation in each session and the presentations with the most votes will be recognized with an award. 
Here are the guidelines for Flash Talks:

  • Presentations are limited to 5 minutes maximum  
  • A single PowerPoint slide is permitted.  
  • No electronic media (i.e. sound or video files, 3D moving graphics etc.) are permitted. 
  • Presentations are intended for a lay audience and should be understood by someone with no scientific background. 
  • Presenter should talk about their work in the context of aspects of FA that are important to patients/families (diagnosis, understanding what goes wrong in the cell, symptoms that patients experience, how the work informs developing treatments). 
  • Presentation should not include too much data, but focus on one or two take-home conclusions that the data support. 
  • Presenters should explain what the data mean – a lay audience will not be able to interpret data and draw conclusions. 
  • Presenters are encouraged to include some information about themselves: Where are they from, why are they interested in Friedreich’s ataxia, what do they want to do in the future?