1 Presenting Your Proposal BIOS 587 Mary Purugganan

2 Goals for session Selecting content Designing slides Delivering your presentation Handling questions Critiquing samples

3 Content Consider your audience State problem / hypothesis clearly & early Include significance Keep background relevant State aims and how experiments will address aims –What, why, how Explain methods when appropriate Plan a conclusion

4 Purpose of visual aids Create a slide show with storyboards, not a script Use the slide show... –to select important topics and issues –to organize content –to create a hierarchy

5 Designing Your Slides To select a design, ask yourself: –What professional image do I want to project? –In what type of room will I give my talk? Well-lit room: use light background / dark text and visuals Dimly-lit room: use dark background / light text and visuals

6 Project a clear font Serif fonts –Times New Roman, et al. –Easy to read in printed documents Sans serif fonts –Arial, Helvetica –Easy to see projected across the room

7 Choose color carefully

8 “Gradient fill” allows you to change color Down your slide From left to right On the diagonal From the corner

9 Use grammatical parallelism Not Parallel: –Lyse cells in buffer –5 minutes in centrifuge –Supernatant is removed Parallel: –Lyse cells in buffer –Centrifuge for 5 minutes –Remove supernatant

10 Simplify & draw attention

11 Delivery Stance –Body language –Handling notes Gestures Eye contact Voice quality –Volume –Pace

12 Handling questions LISTEN Repeat or rephrase Watch body language Don’t bluff

13 Sample Slides and Videoclips