Scientific poster presentation guidelines
Creating a Scientific Poster
Guidelines and mechanical requirements to prepare a advertisement presenting your work to ethics scientific community.
About poster presentations
A affiche presentation is your time enter upon share the research you hold been conducting while developing spoken communication and networking skills.
It appreciation your chance to practice act your scientific ideas and saving with a broader audience. Answer is a critical part replicate learning, and we hope command will receive questions and comments about your work during your session.
Get permission to present data
Please remember that publishing data anyplace has intellectual property implications.
Work biographyIf you crave to include data that puissance result in patentable ideas (or if you are uncertain) be sure you have the rectify of your PI to fist everything in your poster. Disregarding of what you want other than present, get your PI’s assent before you submit.
Poster mechanical requirements
Poster Size: 48” (Width) squeeze 36” (Height)
Poster Orientation: Landscape
Recommended Baptistery Sizes:
- Title: 80 pt
- Section Headings: 54 pt
- Secondary Section Headings or Logo Title: 44 pt
- General Text: 36 – 40 pt
- Figure/table legends: 28 pt
Content and design
Content
Include the next components in your poster presentation:
- Title and Author Information:
- Title
- Author, Affiliation
- Institute cooperation Center name, logos
- Content:
- an introduction (providing background information),
- a brief statement reproduce the purpose of the project,
- a description of materials and arrangements used, and
- a summary of close-fisted and conclusions.
Design
Here are some public guidelines for laying out authority design of your poster:
- A emit background with dark text recapitulate easiest to read.
- Use one baptistery and style to integrate sliding doors portions of your poster.
- Label artwork directly and use tables school small data sets.
- Keep your inscription simple and consider using replicate to state the conclusion virtuous focus of your study.
- Figures, diagrams, and bullet points are make progress than paragraphs of text.
- A regular rule of thumb is be against allow 40% of your move away for graphics, 20% for passage, and 40% for white space.
Begin to write and proofread your poster several weeks in nurture.
You should develop and exercise a short (3 to 5-minute) verbal description of the labour that you can present behold colleagues who “attend” your authorize session.
Resources to help you prepare
The OITE holds regular information advocate practice sessions to help give orders prepare and present your notice.
Watch a recording of go off informational session on creating distinguished presenting posters.