Check with your program to determine if your department has any money for travel and/or research travel grant options. Check previous conference sites to determine what kind of abstract topics are usually accepted and if your research will appeal to the conference reviewers and audience. This should be a well-attended conference with a theme or topics that align with your project. Within your field, talk to experienced faculty or chief residents to find the best conference to attend.

Allow you to network for future research opportunities, fellowships, or employment.Associate your name with a specific topic or subject matter.Develop a state, regional, and/or national reputation.Presenting your research has many benefits. Applying for the right conference based on your research topic will help ensure that you are successful in being selected to present your poster. Make sure you supply all required information. Printerįor printer specifications and pricing information, please click here.Each conference has its own poster submission application process. In general, save your poster in the native format of the application used to create it. Alternately, select a page size proportional to the final printed size, but no smaller than 50%. RGB images may not print true to the original color.ĭO NOT Place compressed image files (JPG, GIF, etc.) into your presentation!! Saving your Fileīe sure the page size of your presentation is the Final Printed Size. You can check the image size and resolution in Photoshop using Image > Image Size.ĬMYK is the recommended color scheme for the Clark Center Poster Printer. The resolution of image files should be 200 dpi at the final printed size. Save images as EPS or TIF format before importing them into your presentation. Object linking and embedding differs significantly across applications and platforms, and causes a lot of problems. Always 'Place' the image from a saved file in Illustrator, or 'Insert > Picture > From File' in PowerPoint. Images and GraphsĭO NOT COPY AND PASTE images or graphs into your poster. For Greek Symbols, use of the Symbol font is recommended.Ĭopying and pasting TEXT ONLY from Word or a text editor is generally OK. Courier is a recommended fixed-width font for sequence alignments, etc. Recommended fonts are Times New Roman, Arial, Symbol and Wingdings. Text should not be smaller than 24 pt for viewing from a comfortable distance. Stanford Bio-X Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Biosciences: 2019/2020Ĭlick here to download a PowerPoint file of a poster template.īody Text of 36 pt is recommended.

Poster presentation template