Poster Presentation – Purpose

• Developing oral presentation skill • Learning about making a poster• Learning about a particular behavioral

endocrinology topic• Learning more closely how research is conducted

• You will present a study done by other people as if it was you that did this study

• Pick a topic in the field of Behavioural Endocrinology that is of interest to you

• Example: testosterone and sexual behavior, stress and glucocorticoids, the role of glucocorticoids in depression, the role of estrogen and progesterone in PMS etc.

• Go to PubMed and look for journal articles using specific key words

• Select an experiment that you find interesting• You are likely to find these articles in journals like:

Hormones and Behavior, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Endocrinology, Endocrinology etc.

Poster Presentation – How to Select a Study?

Poster Presentation – When and Where?

• November 22• 2-5 pm • Room: TBA• Your poster will be on display from You’ll be by

your poster for a period of 40 min presenting your poster

• When you are not presenting you will go around and listen to other people present

• You have to judge 3 posters • Criteria TBA

1A (Present 2:10 to 2:50) 1B (Present 2:50- 3:30) 2A (Present 3:40- 4:20) 2B (Present 4:20- 5:00)1. Ahmed 13. Czerwinska 25. Molinari 37. Tandan2. Aspiras 14. Dandal 26. Monteiro 38. Thampi3. Badwal 15. De Bono 27. Nayebi Ahranjani 39. Umasuthan4. Batruch 16. Farhat 28. Nowoslawski 40. Varghese5. Beardsley 17. Galdames 29. Palombo 41. Vermeersch6. Bhatti 18. Gorospe 30. Prabhu 42. Volnyansky7. Broomfield 19. Jeremie 31. Rajda 43. Volnyansky8. Brown 20. Kedzior 32. Shaikh 44. Wadhwa9. Calero 21. King 33. Sirivar 45. Wahba10. Chaudhri 22. Lane 34. Sousa 46. Warzecha11. Cheng 23. Mazgola 35. Stankiewicz 47. Zuccato12. Chyczij 24. Mendes 36. Sudan

Presentation OrderSession 1 (Poster up 2:10 to 3:30) Session 2 (Poster up 3:40 to 5:00)

Poster Presentation

• Do not change the title of your paper

• Do not change the authors’ names

• On the day of the presentations bring a copy of the journal article that you based your poster on, write your name and e-mail address on the front of the journal article

Poster Presentation

• Do not exceed the dimensions assigned

• For the title use 80 pt font

• For the text use 16 pt font (or larger)

• Make your figures large

• Make your main findings bold and large in point form

Title

Introduction Methods Results Conclusion

References

4-5 ft

3 ft

Poster Presentation - Intro

• You can have a mini abstract – but not necessary• Extract the most important things from your

journal article• Intro – put relevant information only• Make sure that the research question is captured in

your intro (your hypothesis)• You should be very familiar (without reading what

“you” wanted to find out by doing this study)

Poster Presentation - Results

• Large figures

• Large headings above figures capturing main findings

• No raw statistics

• Know the statistical tests done if somebody asks you about them

Poster Presentation - Conclusions

• Discuss how the results relate to your hypothesis in the introduction

• Discuss what the meaning of the results

• While presenting remind your audience what the purpose of the study was

• REFERENCES: include any references that you used in your poster.

Poster Presentation - Timing

• Your poster presentation should be 3-5 minutes long

• Speak loudly and clearly

• Refer to your figures