+SCMB Postgrads

Research Symposium

Registration & Abstracts closes 19th October

Symposium 24th November, Women’s College

www.scmb.uq.edu.au/current-rhd

Brought to you by the Postgrads Committee

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Peter VellaOn behalf of the Postgrads Committee

How (not) to present a poster

+Why a poster?

Because you don’t want to do a talk

Easy to make

Lets people read what they want/go back

An easily read summary of you research work

Visual

Tangible

+Guidelines only

These are guidelines, not rules

Guidelines can’t be broken, rules can.

Departure from the guidelines: the ultimate test is whether it does the job, not how well it sticks to the guidelines.

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From the real world…

+Good poster design

© Jon Pickersgill, Brisbane City Council anti-litter campaignhttp://www.behance.net/Gallery/Brisbane-City-Council-Anti-Litter-Campaign/251036

Lots of empty space

It’s about you!

Important things = bigger font

Not so importantStuff: Small font‘backwater’ areas

Image: we know who it is by BCC without reading anytext

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+… and not so good

© Michael Meloni, AMI’s new billboard www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/want-longer-lasting-censored-amis-new-billboard/

different (& wacky) fonts

Colour: Yellow, Red &Black means DANGER!

I can’t see that word(exception: legally requiredby the ASB)

No images (exception: probably a good thing)

Phone number in visualbackwater

|Completely| |cramped|

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+Same principles for scientific posters A scientific poster is a short, condensed summary of

your research

Content

Alignment&

Balance

Logical Flow

Consistency

Hierarchy

+Put yourself in the viewer’sshoes

What is this about?

Where do I start?

Why is this important?

What key things are they trying to say?

What are their main findings?

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Practical or problem?

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© Tiffany Chen, “A compartment model for the transport and storage of folate”http://phdposters.com/galfs/o905_p1_poster.jpg

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© Jared Heymann, Claire Silburt, Katherine Weaver, Alvin Crumbliss “Inorganic Biochemistry of Iron Proteins”http://phdposters.com/galfs/o905_p1_poster.jpg

This image is available at the URL below.

+Content

Sections are similar to a scientific paper (but not always!)

Chose a few good images (graphs, equations)

Avoid writing too much.

Don’t waste words- simple, but scientific language

Organise the chaos into sections

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You’re reading this, aren’t you?

+Consistency & Font

Use as few fonts as possible

Don’t use off-the-planet font, unless you have special reasons to

Pick a few colours and work with those

If you use highlighting, bolding, use it sparingly

Text needs to be readable: determine experimentally by using a printer.

Must be able to read from 1.5 m away

ExampleUnderline only if you have to. Underlining is a hangover from the typewriter era. We have bold or colour to highlight now; It’s more effective.

Fonts like this are not for research communication purposes.

People won’t take it seriously.

Don’t make text so small. People won’t read it.

Text in italics makes it harder to read, but you need it for scientific names.

Nobody reads down here: use for references

This Text Jumps Around Too Much:

Use text like this.

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Gooddesign…

© Yanxin Pei, Robert Wechsler -Reya, “Identification of the cell origin for Wnt Pathway-Associated Medulloblastoma”http://www.phdposters.com/galfs/o415_p1_poster4.jpg

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© Leonard Spicer, Patrick Reardon , Anne Augustus “Mutltidimensional NMR spectroscopy of Proteins in Living Cells ”http://www.phdposters.com/galfs/o118_p1_spicer.jpg

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