Directions for Posters

• Remember there are several audiences for your poster: your peers, your parents, your mentors, and other members of the science community
• Your title should be descriptive of your total experience - please be sure to acknowledge both your mentor and your PI
• Abstract - should contain a topic sentence of about 25 words that describes your summer experience globally. Other elements of the abstract include:
• overview of your internship
• basic background information for your internship
• the part your research contribution plays in the overall research of your mentor and PI
• descriptions of the techniques and methods you used
• your current impressions about biomedical research
• Introduction
• To you as a young scientist – why you did the internship and what were your hopes
• To your project – the people, an overview of the larger study of your mentor and PI and how your work was a part of that study
• Background
• An academic discussion of the importance of your research – including: definition of terms and discussion of concepts related to your project
• Your job is to communicate these concepts and not anticipate that others understand them
• Give your understandings based on your reading and discussions
• Include graphs and tables where appropriate
• Methods
• Techniques that you used in your work
• Why those methods were chosen
• Results
• What is anticipated to be learned from the overall project
• How the internship might shape your future
• Photos and other graphics can be helpful in communicating your learning