A one-day seminar │ Presented by Christopher Papasian, Ph.D., D (ABMM)

Writing and Publishing High-Impact Research Manuscripts will be hosted on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Lake Terrace Convention Center in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Hosted in conjunction with Grant Writers’ Seminars and Workshops (GWSW), this one-day seminar will help attendees write clear and concise biomedical research manuscripts, thereby improving the probability that their manuscripts will be accepted by the journals they target. The seminar is free and open to all faculty members at Mississippi’s primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs). Breakfast, lunch and refreshments will be provided. 

Seminar attendees will improve their ability to: 

• Compose an Abstract that efficiently communicates all key new findings from their study

• Construct an Introduction that provides a conceptual justification for the research reported in the manuscript

• Prepare a Results Section that clearly communicates the rationale for performing each experiment, the data generated from those experiments, and a preliminary interpretation of those results

• Compose a Discussion that effectively communicates the major conclusions of the manuscript, the evidence leading to those conclusions, and the significance of these new findings to their field

• Distinguish references that should be cited in their manuscript from those that should not be cited

• Formulate an approach towards utilizing Artificial Intelligence for Manuscript Preparation

• Select an appropriate journal for their manuscript submission based on scope, acceptance rates, impact factor, and accessibility

• Formulate an informed strategy regarding who should, and should not, be included as authors on their manuscripts, and the order in which they should be listed

• Interact more effectively with Reviewers and Editors, as their manuscript is reviewed, and revise their manuscript accordingly 

All participants will receive a free copy of Writing for Biomedical Publication, GWSW’s workbook designed to provide prospective authors with a practical step-by-step approach that will help them transform their data into a highly readable and logically presented manuscript. Click here to download a description of the workbook.

Register and secure your seat by Wednesday, July 8, 2026, at the link below.

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Download the seminar agenda. 

Meet the presenter

Christopher Papasian, Ph.D., D (ABMM), is an Emeritus Professor and founding Chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, and Chaired that Department for 20 years until he retired in December 2017. He has 25 years of Editorial Experience for Journals published by the American Society of Microbiology, and is co-author of more than 130 peer-reviewed publications and GWSW workbook entitled Writing for Biomedical Publication. 

Dr. Papasian received his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo in 1982, and stayed in Buffalo for a postdoctoral fellowship in Medical and Public Health Microbiology. He also received a Masters Degree in Veterinary Science from the University of Idaho.

He began his academic career as an Assistant Professor of Pathology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, and as Director of Diagnostic Microbiology at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri. He subsequently moved to the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine (UMKC-SOM), where he served as Department Chair of Biomedical Sciences from 1998-2017. He currently serves as an Associate Member with Grant Writers’ Seminars & Workshops, and is an Emeritus Professor at UMKC-SOM.