Abstract Submission

Call for Abstracts

MSB is the premier international conference on microscale separations and bioanalysis. Oral presentations will be split into 3/4 presentation and 1/4 discussion. Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the MSB 2026 Organizing Committee and Session Organizers in a double-blind manner with the reviewers not having access to the authors' names, institution, or position status. The review will be based solely on the information provided in the abstract (see grading rubric). 70% of oral presentations will come from submitted abstracts, ensuring that the newest science is presented!

Submitting Your Abstract Online

• For abstract guidelines, please see the Author Instructions section below
• All abstracts must be submitted through the MSB 2026 submission site
• You will be asked to create a user account in order to submit an abstract.
• Do not include any identifying author information in the abstract content (see Author Instructions below).

Author Instructions

Double-Blind Review Philosophy

MSB 2026 will continue to follow Society for Microscale Separations and Bionalysis' philosophy for selecting abstracts focused on the presentation of new, current, controversial and/or unpublished work and foster active discussions during the oral and poster sessions. A key in meeting these goals is the double-blind abstract selection process. The double-blind process removes any potential bias in the selection, ensuring that the works being presented at the symposium are selected on the basis of their quality regardless of the stature or the author(s).

To ensure that the double-blind review process is effective we kindly request that all presenters follow the instructions below. The grading rubric which will be used for the scoring of abstracts by the selection committee can also be found below. Please ensure that you are selecting the most relevant topic area(s) for your submissions to ensure that your abstract is being judged by the appropriate experts and in the most appropriate context.

Abstract Requirements

• Researchers with new results in areas relevant to the meeting are encouraged to submit an abstract online for oral or poster presentation consideration.
• One abstract may be submitted per attendee as presenting author.
• The presenting author must be registered as a delegate and pay the required fee by the registration deadline.
• All presenters of an oral presentation who are graduate students or postdoctoral fellows at the end date of the meeting are eligible for Trainee Awards, depending on availability.
• All abstracts must be written exclusively in English (including the title, abstract text, author names, and affiliations).
• Please be aware of the posted submission deadlines - late submissions may not be given full consideration for inclusion in the symposium.
• If you cannot submit the abstract prior to receiving company approval by the date abstracts are due, please submit a placeholder with the title, authors, and a brief description of the kind of material that you would like to present, and indicate when approval is expected. This material will be kept confidential. It is your responsibility to revise the abstract to the final version upon approval.
• Authors will be notified promptly whether the submitted abstract has been accepted for oral or poster presentation, or was not selected for presentation.

Abstract Content Guidelines

Abstracts should be a maximum of 400 words and contain:

• An introduction,
• Experimental approach,
• Results / discussion,
• Conclusions,
• References are optional, but should include DOI accession numbers, if available.

Structure Guidelines:

Introduction/Background/Aim of the Work: The background should be short, but describe what is already known about the subject, related to the paper in question as well as what is not known about the subject and hence what the study intends to examine. In most cases, the background can be framed in just 2 to 3 sentences, with each sentence describing a different aspect of the information.

Instrumentation/Methods: This section should contain enough information to enable the reviewer to understand what was done, and how.

Results & Discussion: The results section is the most important part of the abstract and should be the longest, containing as much detail about the findings as the word count permits.

Conclusions: This section should contain the most important take-home message of the study, expressed in a few precisely worded sentences. Usually, the finding highlighted here relates to the primary outcome measure; however, other important or unexpected findings should also be mentioned.

Peer Review

Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the MSB 2026 Scientific Committee and Session Organizers in a double-blind manner. The reviewers will not have access to your name, institution, or position status. A review will be based solely on the information provided in the abstract.

Scoring Abstracts

Each submitted abstract will be reviewed and scored by multiple judges based on the rubric below. The average scores will be used to rank abstracts for selection to their self-identified sessions. Higher scoring abstracts for the sessions will be given priority for selection.

Grading Rubric