Poster Presentation of Research Work

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Poster Presentation of Research Work

• UNLV Graduate Professional Student Association
  2006
• Karl Kingsley, PhD
• Assistant Professor School of Dental Medicine

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Background Kingsley

• Graduate professional student poster
  presentations
• UNLV-GPSA, BAGS (Biology dept.)
• Genetics Society of American (GSA)
• American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)
• Faculty poster presentations
• ASCB
• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular
  Biology (ASBMB)
• Experimental Biology (FASEB)
• Mentor
• American Association for Dental Research (AADR)
• SDM Table Clinic
• ASCB

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Mechanics

• Poster size/space allocation
• Poster design (whole/pieces)
• Poster format (customary)
• Title, authors, affiliations (contact info.)
• Program , Board , Session
• Summary or abstract
• Introduction
• Theory or methodology
• Results
• Conclusions
• Further work
• Acknowledgements
• Citations

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Information gathering

• What is the objective of the investigation?
• Has someone done the work before?
• How have I gone about with the study?
• Why did I follow this particular route of
  investigation?
• What are the principles governing the technique
  that I am using?
• What assumptions did I make and what were my
  justifications?
• What problems did I encounter?
• What results did I obtain?
• Have I solved the problem?
• What have I found out?
• Are the analyses sound?

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Answer these questions.

• What are you trying to say?
• How will you say it?
• How did you do it?
• Why does this matter?
• Who did what?
• Why is this important?

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Know thyself

• Tips for YOU (the presenter)
• Include pertinent methods
• Include sources of reagents
• Outline important points (nervousness)
• Create a logical flow

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Know thine audience

• FONT sizes consistency (3 ft. rule)
• Give complete information, if possible
• Use only data supporting the data, the abstract
  or your conclusions
• Answer questions in case youre NOT there
• Poster on display longer than presenter
• Other meeting scheduling conflicts

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Tips

• Label graphs and figures!!!!
• X-axis, Y-axis, SE or SD????
• Spell check
• Give yourself added time
• Email/web-based services for printing
• e.g. Kinko's

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References

• Format http//lorien.ncl.ac.uk/ming/Dept/Tips/pr
  esent/posters.htm
• Printing
• http//fedex.kinkos.com
• Abstract writing http//www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/k
  cshuwil/cme/abstract.html

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BAD example
Different font sizes Unnecessary data No
contact information No conclusion No citations No
introduction No acknowledgements
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