1. What makes a good/bad scientific poster?

2. Presentations: Billboard science Kendall Powell, Nature 483, 113-115 (2012)

3. - Use landscape layout, not portrait - Use black text on a white background - Allow for white space and use large fonts and images (should look good from 10 metres away) - Use photos, cartoons or illustrations to explain concepts - No more than 800 words - Figures should have large headlines with main findings Visual/layout guidelines

4. A good poster can have as few as 250 words

5. Bad scientific poster... attracts weird people Colin Purrington, Swarthmore

6. - stand-alone, extended, visual abstracts (few words, but enough to read) - tools to tell simple story and attract interest, with images, figs, data Scientific posters – two purposes

7. … who may only be there because of the free booze... Be prepared to give a 3-5 minute general talk to complete novices

8. Like an abstract or talk, a poster should tell a story.... Give the background.... Identify the problem.... Say what you've done to tackle it... Outline the implications

9. Most important: Editing and practice