Hello,
Stupid question: I'm looking forward to attend a very interesting symposium and they ask for abstract, which I just discovered is not related to the access to the symposium itself. Since I just started my PhD and I have still few data (moreover, even if I never presented a poster before, I don’t feel comfortable presenting in general…!) I was wondering if you think it’s worthwhile to submit an abstract in the very beginning of PhD?
Thanks
E.

I think that you should submit an abstract. Worst case scenario is they are going to say no or give you a poster instead of a paper, but at least you get the practice to write abstracts for 'major conferences'. By all means, please do.

Thanks!