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Who is your audience? What is your objective in presenting the poster? provide a brief overview of your work advertise your work solicit feedback initiate discussion attract attention give you something useful to point to as you discuss your work
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Who is your audience? • What is your objective in presenting the poster? • provide a brief overview of your work • advertise your work • solicit feedback • initiate discussion • attract attention • give you something useful to point to as you discuss your work • stand alone when you're not there to provide an explanation • let people know of your particular expertise
Sample Outline • Introduction • Problem statement or hypothesis • Significance • Why is it important? • Background • What has been done already and why is the problem still unsolved? • Methodology • What is your strategy for solving it (and why is this a promising approach?) • What did you actually do? • Results • Discussion/Conclusion • Future work
Another Sample Outline • Introduction • Biological problem statement • Significance • Why is it important? • Background • What has been done already and why is the problem still unsolved? • Formal mathematical problem statement • Solution • Algorithm, equations, etc. • Validation • Performance evaluation • Discussion/Conclusion • Future work
Title Authors Contact info Bibliography Acknowledgments Optional: Handouts Demo URL Sidebars Also include
To do by May 6th • Read web site links • Colin Purrington’s web site for guidelines and template • Creating Effective Poster Presentations for examples • Creating a Poster Using MS PowerPoint • Steve Block’s guidelines • Define your goals • Outline of poster • Preliminary layout • What are you trying to communicate in each section? • What graphics will you use?
April 28 –30, • Dannie in DC, no lab meeting, • Prepare preliminary layouts • Investigate printing/projection • Thursday, May 6 • Review poster layouts • May 10 – 15 • Dannie in Princeton, no lab meeting • Future lab meeting topics: • parasite/host trees, yeast polyploidization…
Whose doing what? • The role of duplication in the evolution of Insulin signaling • Narayanan • Multi-domain homology identification • Nan, George • Notung – analysis of gene trees • Ben, Dannie • The mystery topic? • Rose