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

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 Another Sample Outline

Also include Title Authors Contact info Bibliography Acknowledgments Optional: –Handouts –Demo –URL –Sidebars

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