Posters¶
Poster Templates¶
- The following are suggested posters templates.
Poster Draft Guidelines¶
- Title
- Authors
- Affiliations of Authors
- Yours should be your school and “Boston University Bioinformatics BRITE REU Program, Summer 2018”
- Abstract
- Text for
- Motivation and Background
- Methods
- Results
- Discussion and Future Work
- Figures
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Include: “This work was funded, in part, by NSF grant DBI-1559829, awarded to the Boston University Bioinformatics BRITE REU program, [and if other grants] and <grant agency, like NSF or NIH> grant <grant number>.”
What to look for when reading a poster¶
- Contents
- Does the abstract say briefly what the authors did, why they did it (including importance), what results they got?
- Is there an introduction to basic concepts?
- Does it use diagrams or flowcharts to increase clarity?
- Does the methods section describe briefly what was done and how? what data was used?
- Does the results section make clear what was the outcome?
- Are graphs and figures clear, well labeled, and described. Are important results highlighted?
- Does the conclusion discuss the importance of the results and what further work needs to be done?
- Is there a reference section with relevant articles and books?
- Is there an acknowledgement section that contains grant support information?
- Appearance and overall effect
- Is it interesting?
- Is there a good mix of text and figures?
- Was there a good flow in the story?
- Did you learn something from it?