Preparation of Research Posters
Bring to lab the latest, most up-to-date version of your Arabidopsis Research Poster. Bring it on a Jump drive so we can move it from computer to computer as needed.
Dr. Abercrombie worked many hours revising each of the graphs for your posters so please go to our website and copy the appropriate graph for your group into your poster. These revised graphs are more clearly labeled. You owe Dr. Abercrombie a big “thank-you” for all the work he did with the setting up of spreadsheets, the statistical analysis, and the work on the graphs.
The goal for Wednesday is to FINISH each research poster and print out a final version. This means that we’ll need to peer-review each of the draft versions, made editorial and factual improvements, deal with formatting issues, and then create a final version to be printed. Most groups will need some additional assistance with statistical analysis and interpretations. Dr. Abercrombie will be helping each group with that. You’ll need to be clear about the statistical test that was used, the outcome of that test (the p value), and whether there were any significant differences between the groups.
The lab assistants (Thomas and Andy) and I will be helping with the editorial work and printing. We expect lab to be rather hectic again so it is important that each group do as much as they can toward the completion of their poster and use our assistance when necessary. We want the quality of the poster to reflect the quality of the research that you have done so far (which means the quality should be pretty high!) These posters will hang in the hallway outside the lab AND the each poster powerpoint file will be posted to our website so that anyone interested can see what you have done.
On the Website is a Rubric for Evaluating Research Posters which should serve as a checklist for those preparing good posters. Use that rubric to make sure you’re on the right track.
So, please, please, please bring a jump drive with sufficient space for your poster. Get your poster as near perfect as you can before asking for help or advice, and be patient as the teaching team moves from group to group doing whatever we can to assist you with the completion of this task.