Task Force 1.1

Book on Preclinical Renal MRI - Editorial Meeting (4-5 April, Croatia)

AGENDA (click here for minutes)

DAY 1 (4 April)

12:30 – 13:00: ARRIVAL, REGISTRATION

13:00 – 13:15 WELCOME. INTRODUCTION: Recap of objectives, book concept, author guidelines and chapter templates. (A. Pohlmann)

13:15 – 13:45 STATUS QUO: Current list of chapters. Questionnaire results - Status quo of author recruitment and manuscript preparation for each chapter. (A. Pohlmann)

14:00 – 15:30 EDITOR REPORTS – PART 1: Each section editor briefly outlines the structure and content of its chapters (5 min per chapter). Scrolling through manuscript drafts. Do content and style meet our guidelines? How understandable are the chapters for beginners? Are there enough details and illustrations?

• Neil Nerome [via SKYPE] (3 chapters, 20 min) 
• Andrea Fekete (2 chapters, 10 min)
• Erdmann Seeliger (2 chapters, 10 min)
• Martin Meier (3 chapters, 15 min)
• Andreas Pohlmann (5 chapters, 25 min)

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break 

16:00 – 18:00 EDITOR REPORTS – PART 2: 

• Stefanie Hectors / Iris Friedli [via SKYPE] (3 chapters, 20 min) 
• Dario Longo (9 chapters, 40 min)
• Chris Laustsen (6 chapters, 30 min)
• Min-Chi Ku (3 chapters, 15 min)
• Sonia Waiczies (3 chapters, 15 min)

19:00 Dinner in Cavtat town

DAY 2 (5 April)

9:15 – 10:00 CROSS-LINKING: Discussion about referencing to contents of other chapters in the same book.

10:00 – 11:00 EDITORIAL DECISIONS ON BOOK CONTENT: Based on the status quo of the chapters and the decisions regarding cross-linking, final decisions will be made about the book content. (meeting participants plus Neil Nerome and Iris Friedli via SKYPE)

11:00 – 11:30 OPEN ACCESS: Suggestions and discussion about which chapters should be made open-access.

11:30 – 11:50 REALITY CHECK - PROTOCOLS: Discussion if the approach “generic description + example parameter sets” proved to be feasible and useful in practice.

11:50 – 12:10 REALITY CHECK - PLATFORMS: Discussion about widening the scope from focusing on preclinical high-field systems to including clinical scanners. 

12:10 – 12:20 REVIEW PROCESS: Explanation and discussion about the co-author peer-review process.

12:20 – 12:40 LINK TO COST ACTION: How to verbally link the chapters together and to the COST action.

12:40 – 13:00 SUMMARY & SUSTAINABILITY PLANNING

Local Organizers:

Andreas Pohlmann 

Thoralf Niendorf 

Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Venue:

Hotel Croatia, 

Frankopanska 10, 

20210 Cavtat-Dubrovnik

Croatia

Participants (14):

Kathleen Cantow,

Andrea Fekete

Stefanie Hectors

Adam Hosszu

Neil Jerome

Min-Chi Ku

Christoffer Laustsen

Dario Livio Longo

Martin Meier

Thoralf Niendorf

João Periquito

Andreas Pohlmann

Erdmann Seeliger

Sonia Waiczies