Academic posters give you control over how your audience experiences your work. Consider where you want the audience’s focus to start and end, and the order you want them to move through different ...

After the conference, you can usually hang your poster in the hallway of your laboratory. Thus, you promote your work to passersby and have a support at hand if you must unexpectedly present your ...

Action: When you have a draft of your poster ready, try using the A4 test: if you can read your poster when it is printed at A4, then it will probably work OK when it is reproduced at A1. It is often ...

Posters can educate, spark new ideas ... but interdisciplinary points of view or collaborations can be valuable. When it comes to presenting your work you can ask about the listener's research ...

After many years of walking through poster sessions, Colin Purrington, a professor of evolutionary biology at Swarthmore College, noticed a trend. Usually, as he wandered the aisles looking for ...