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Tips for Creating High Impact Scientific Poster Presentations
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Disclaimer • Despite the credentials mentioned previously, others should
be considered the “experts.”
o Colin Purrington, formerly at Swathmore College
o Lisa Balbes, Balbes Consultants
o George Hess, NC State University
• Presented next is my opinion and preference
o Posters that follow these guidelines are not necessarily
good posters…science rules!
o Posters that do not follow these guidelines are not
necessarily bad posters….science rules! 7
Who is the Audience?
• My research focuses on the stability and structure
of nucleic acids (http://www.slu.edu/~znoskob)
o People in your field (RNA Society)
o People in closely related fields (American
Chemical Society)
o People in unrelated fields or a variety of fields
(Sigma Xi or University-wide)
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What is the Setting?
• Crowded room
• Dim lights
• Most people there to
socialize
• Poster board
dimensions
• Read information for
presenters Figure taken from
http://www.visionlearning.com/library/module_viewer.php?mid=186
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Designing Your Poster • Column format (top to bottom and left to right)
• Section headings
• Mostly graphics
• Short phrases in bulleted lists
• 24-32 point (larger for headings) Arial, Helvetica, Verdana,
or Georgia font
• Leave white space
• Light background and dark letters (2-3 colors and no
background pictures) 10
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Heading • Title
o Letters should be large (72-100 point)
o Catchy to attract the audience
• Authors and Affiliations
o Names of all authors (including PI), institutions, and
addresses
o Use superscripts if authors are from more than one
institution
o Identify presenting author (asterisk or underline) 12
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Sample Headings
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Abstract
• Explain why your work is important
• Describe the objectives of your work
• Briefly explain the methods
• Succinctly state results and conclusions
This should be the only section that is paragraph form!
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Sample Abstract
Although tetraloops are one of the most frequently occurring
secondary structure motifs in RNA, less than one-third of the 30
most frequently occurring RNA tetraloops have been
thermodynamically characterized. Therefore, 24 stem-loop
sequences containing common tetraloops were optically melted,
and the thermodynamic parameters ΔHº, ΔSº, ΔGº37, and TM for
each stem-loop were determined. The data for the 24 tetraloops
reported here were then combined with the data for 28 tetraloops
that were published previously. A new model, independent of
terminal mismatch data, was derived to predict the free energy
contribution of previously unmeasured tetraloops. It was also
shown that tetraloops within the sequence 5’GCCNNNNGGC3’ are,
on average, 0.6 kcal/mol more stable than the same tetraloop
within the sequence 5’GGCNNNNGCC3’. More systematic studies
are required to determine the full extent of non-nearest neighbor
effects on tetraloop stability.
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Should the Abstract Appear on the Poster? • No
o Already printed in program
o Has not changed from what was submitted
months earlier
o Redundant and takes up space
• Yes
o Has changed from what was submitted months
earlier
o Convenience for those who did not read the
abstract in the program 16
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Introduction/Background
• Get viewer interested
• Describe why this problem is important
• Provide background and definitions
• Place in context of literature
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Sample Introduction/Background
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Methods
• How did you do it?
• What did you use?
• Describe equipment and methods but not with the
detail of a paper
• Use figures, tables, flow charts, etc. to summarize
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Sample Methods
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Results/Discussion
• Show the data
• Include raw data only if absolutely necessary (don’t
show all)
• Use equations, schemes, figures, and tables
• Briefly describe results
• Analyze data
This should be the largest section of the poster! 21
Sample Items for Results/Discussion
Figure 4: PDB structure (PDB I.D. 2AW4). The structural features are described in Table 2.
Figure 4: PDB structure (PDB I.D.
2AW4). The structural features are
described in Table 2.
Loop Sequence Freqa
%b
Loop Sequence Freqa
%b
Freqa
%b
AC
GAU125 11.79
A
U
AA
GAG
C
G94 8.87
A
U
C
G176 16.60
AA
GAG103 9.72
A
U
CC
GAC
G
C85 8.02
A
U
G
C146 13.77
CC
GAC85 8.02
A
U
AC
GAU
U
A83 7.83
G
C
G
C117 11.04
CC
AAU62 5.85
G
C
CC
AAU
C
G62 5.85
A
U
U
A84 7.92
GG
AGA61 5.75
A
U
AA
CAC
C
G44 4.15
G
C
C
G78 7.36
GA
AAG55 5.19
A
U
AC
GAU
G
U42 3.96
A
U
G
U57 5.38
AA
CAC44 4.15
U
G
GG
AGA
U
G42 3.96
C
G
G
C50 4.72
Closing bp
5' and 3' Adjacent Base PairsLoop Loop with Nearest Neighbors
Not all combinations are shown due to space limitations.
Table 1: Summary of the protein
database search for 2x3 loops.
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Conclusions
• Remind reader of major result
• Relevance to the published work
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Sample Conclusion
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References
• Format like your field (kind of)
• No titles
1. Johnson, C. A. et al. (2011) J. Phys. Chem. B 115, 9244-9251.
2. Svozil, D. et al. (2010) J. Phys. Chem. B 114, 1191-1203.
3. Sponer, J. et al. (2008) Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 10, 2595-2610.
4. Xia, T. et al. (1998) Biochemistry 34, 14719-14735.
5. SantaLucia, J. et al. (1996) Biochemistry 35, 3555-3562.
1. Mathews, D. H., et. al. (1999) J. Mol. Biol. 288, 911-940.
2. Zuker, M. (2003) Nucleic Acids Res. 31, 3406-3415.
3. McDowell, J. A. (1996) Meltwin v. 3.5.
4. Sheehy, J. P., et al. (2010) RNA 16, 417-429.
5. Dale, T., et. al. (2000) RNA 6, 608-615.
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Funding/Acknowledgements
• Collaborators who are not co-authors
• Sources of funding (ask your PI, and don’t forget
about travel grants)
This work was supported by Research Corporation (CC7804
to ML and CC7621 to BMZ), NSF through TeraGrid resources
by NCSA (TG-CHE050039N to ML and TG-CHE070046N to
BMZ), and NIH NIGMS (R15GM085699 to BMZ). VEP and CAT
were part of the Students and Teachers as Research
Scientists program administered by the University of
Missouri-St. Louis.
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Graphics
• Label each axis with units
• Include a legend
• High resolution pictures
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Proofread, Proofread, Proofread!
Be consistent!
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Critiques of Posters
• All co-authors and PI (expect many revisions)
• Lab members
• Friends in the department
• Try submitting to a blog
o http://betterposters.blogspot.com
o http://f1000.com/posters
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Presenting Your Poster
• Be at your poster
• Dress appropriately (business casual)
• Wear a name tag
• Have copies of publications, business cards,
reprints of poster, and notebook
• Hang poster on time and leave hanging until
session is over
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What To Do When Someone Approaches Your Poster
• Introduce yourself
• Look at their name tag
• Ask about their familiarity with your topic
• Give a 1, 2, or 5 minute overview of your poster
o Do not use notes
o Point to figures
o Do not point to text 31
MWRM/GLRM 2011
Undergraduate Research Poster Session
Evaluation Form for Poster #_____
Judge: ____________________
Please consider the following while judging the posters:
Overall Appearance & Format 1 2 3 4 5 Comments:_________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
Background & Scientific Motivation 1 2 3 4 5 Comments:_________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
Clarity of Figures / Tables 1 2 3 4 5 Comments:_________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
Data Interpretation 1 2 3 4 5 Comments:_________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
Scientific Conclusions 1 2 3 4 5 Comments:_________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
Student’s Understanding of Material 1 2 3 4 5 Comments:_________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
Professionalism during Presentation 1 2 3 4 5 Comments:_________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
Other Comments:_________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________
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Practice, Practice, Practice!
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Resources • Most of the information on these slides comes from my
experiences and …
o Balbes Consultants. 2006. Preparing Perfect Poster
Presentations.
o Purrington, C.B. Designing conference posters.
Retrieved February 22, 2012, from
http://colinpurrington.com/tips/academic/posterdesign.
o Hess, G.R., K. Tosney, and L. Liegel. 2010. Creating
Effective Poster Presentations.
URL=http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters, visited
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