Biology 382: Techniques in Molecular Biology

Your title…………….Your names, Department of Biology

Faculty mentor: Dr. Curtis Loer

AbstractThis is a sample of 28 point text.

The abstract can potentially be in smaller text, and is not absolutely essential to put here at the beginning. But it is often done on posters.

Materials & MethodsThis is a sample of 28 point text.

Results & DiscussionThis is a sample of 28 point text.

Introduction (36 pt, bold, for headings)This is a sample of 28 point text. Good for the body of text. Pterins are really cool and important to study for lots of reasons, and use this citation format (Thöny et al., 2000)

Just for keeping things lined up:Remove dividing lines when poster is completeYou can add more lines if needed during construction to line things up nicely

Materials & Methods (continued?)M&M could be fairly long - that’s OK. But keep it as accessible as possible.

Figure 1 - Figure titleFigure legend - This is a sample of 24 point text.

Figure 2 A & B - Figure title - Lots of Figs is nice - More figs, less text is good.Figure legends - (A) This is a sample of 24 point text. (B) This is the second figure legend.

Don’t underestimate how long it can take to make a well-written, well-organized and nice-looking poster! It can take many hours.

And, once it’s printed, you’ll have to stare at that typo or other error forever…

To make a new text box of the same size and font(s), select one and ‘duplicate’ (edit menu)

A really good idea: Make a copy of the template - unchanged - and work with a different copy saved with a new name. If you accidentally destroy some formatting and can’t figure out how to get it back, you can refer to the original.

To read the smaller text more easily while building the poster, use the Zoom… selection under the View menu.

Potential topics for intro: Big picture: why are you doing what you’re doing? Pterins and pterin synthesis, RNA interference as a technique for assessing gene function (especially in C. elegans).

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if you didn’t make it ourself. If you modified a figure from another source: “After Figure by Thony et al…”

Bioinformatics analysis of dhs- and xxx genes (this is 32 pt bold, a good subheading size)(can go under results - this is work you’e done. You can also create nice figures from Wormbase.)

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Possible M&M topics (subheadings?):Primer Design PCR

Cloning Sequencing

PCR Results(Picture of Gel? Showing predicted band size?)

Cloning Results(Picture of Gel? Showing predicted band size?)

Future workFeed dsRNA-producing bacteria to worms and examine the phenotype caused by knock-down of the gene-of-interest. Etc….

References (24 pt bold)18 pt - can be as small as needed to fit everything in here. You should have several references here, all cited somewhere in the poster. If you cite it, you should at the very least have read the abstract!

Results & Discussion (continued)This is a sample of 28 point text.

Figure 3 - Figure title Figure legends - (A) This is a sample of 24 point text. (B) This is the second figure legend.

Sequencing of Constructs…Blastn alignments?

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