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	Posters Poster Details Poster boards are 2 m high x 1 m wide, and so your posters must be POTRAIT, A0 size, i.e. 122 cm high x 91 cm wide. Prize A small prize will be awarded for the best poster presentation. General Comments on Posters for First-Time Presenters Below is the advice that we provide to first-year PhD students at the University of Essex who are presenting a poster for the first time. It may be of help to those who are new to poster presentation. The most common purpose of a poster session is to present work that is in-progress or almost at the stage of publication, though this will vary depending on the type of conference and the preferences of the presenters. The poster should be tailored to the particular meeting (e.g. specialist scientific meeting compared with a presentation to the general public). Assuming that you have carried out excellent research, it is the duty of a scientist to disseminate this information (having first considered possible issues relating to intellectual property). A poster is a useful way to do this; it also enables you to discuss the importance of your work with others, thereby obtaining useful feedback that can help you improve the quality of the work and subsequent publications. Unlike an oral presentation, you do not have a captive audience, and invariably at conferences people are tired and overloaded with information and so it is essential to get people interested in your work. No-one wants to read four A4 pages of text while standing in a hot stuffy room during their coffee break! � The key aim(s) and conclusion(s) of your work should stand out � Use eye-catching, but relevant, pictures � Use a plain background (sometimes text cannot be read without getting a headache) � Use large, bold font � Don�t have large chunks of text � Instead of text use bullet points, or flow diagrams (the latter are very useful for describing the approach to the work) � Avoid using jargon; define specialist terms and abbreviations at the beginning of the poster � Follow the guidelines on size and format of posters provided by the conference organisers � Include your affiliation and address, including email address � Acknowledge sponsors and individuals who have helped � Provide A4 sheets of your poster for people to take away (NB everything on the A4 sheet should be readable) � Title � keep it short and to the point, and avoid abbreviations � Aims � clear and keep to a minimum � Key results - select the data that most clearly address your aims and present them clearly, e.g.: � be consistent in the use of line colours and symbols in graphs; � show controls; � indicate the statistical significance of results; � many posters fail to indicate the number of samples subjected to a particular test; � annotate figures where possible rather than having a long legend; � think how the presentation of the data could be improved so that they are more comprehensible and relate more closely to your aims; � be careful to distinguish between work that you have done and the work of others; � Conclusion � this must stand out; you may want to indicate whether it is a preliminary conclusion, and the further work that you have planned Get others to read and comment on your poster. Try to learn from posters that you find eye-catching and interesting. Finally, ruthlessly remove any unnecessary information, check and double check that you have explained things logically and lucidly but concisely.