Poster Session

2027 Application Deadline: TBD

What is a Poster Session?

A poster presentation serves as a formal and research-oriented display of your work. Through text, charts, graphs, and images, it visually represents your research or creative work. Poster sessions enable viewers to peruse your research material at their own pace and engage with you, possibly asking questions regarding your methods or findings.

2027 Application Deadline: TBD

Poster Guidelines

A research poster aims to communicate your work and spark discussions. It should be self-explanatory, presenting research findings in a clear and succinct manner. To effectively convey your work, include major sections akin to a research paper:

Introduction
Methods
Results
Conclusions/Discussion

We suggest that you arrange these sections in columns, ensuring clear identification. Consider making all text (headings and paragraphs) large enough to be easily read at a minimum distance of 3–4 feet.

Poster Size

Please format your poster horizontally at 36 inches high by 48 inches wide.
We suggest you create your poster in MS PowerPoint (with your own design or one of the templates below) and convert it to a PDF for printing.

Templates:

These templates are available for you to use. However, you may use another template as long as it is also 36x48.

Printing:

The Office of Graduate Studies will print your poster for the symposium.
Upload your FINAL file as a PDF (make sure you check the box that says "best for printing." This will ensure that the formatting does not change.
- We will have only one opportunity to print the posters, so please be sure that what you upload is your final presentation.

Poster Content

Title and Authors: Place the title and names of authors at the top center of the poster. For readability the title should be 15 mm in height (Legible from 10 feet).
Introduction: Give a brief background/foundation, then state the purpose of your research as either a question or hypothesis.
Methods: Brief description of the techniques, data collection, replicas, and statistics you used. Omit unnecessary detail.
Results: Professionally prepared tables and graphs that are easy to read and understand.
Conclusions: What did you find out? Did you accept or reject your hypothesis? Describe results in terms of general biological principles. What is the significance of the findings?

Participant Information

If you are presenting as a team with other students, only one person needs to complete the application on behalf of the team. During registration, you'll have the opportunity to list your co-presenters on the application form.

Poster Abstract and Submission

2027 Application Deadline: TBD

Your abstract should include a brief description of the significance of your research, as well as the experimental hypotheses, methods employed, and significance of the conclusions.