Download (PPT file).īelow are some rough guidelines on what to include in each section of a scientific poster and how to pitch that content. This layout gives a lot of central, visible space to the results and demotes less important sections (Literature cited, Acknowledgements, Further information) to the bottom portion of the poster. The templates are just starting points that can save you a few hours of fussing over the basics. You can, of course, also change background color, text box color, font, etc. Just download, adjust the dimensions (if you need to), and start typing.
Downloadable templatesīelow are templates that can be used to make a meeting poster. A one-sentence overview of the poster conceptĪ large-format poster is a big piece of paper or image on a wall-mounted monitor featuring a short title, an introduction to your burning question, an overview of your novel experimental approach, your amazing results in graphical form, some insightful discussion of aforementioned results, a listing of previously published articles that are important to your research, and some brief acknowledgement of the tremendous assistance and financial support conned from others - if all text is kept to a minimum (500-1000 words), a person could fully read your poster in 5-10 minutes.
