Creating Effective Conference Abstracts and Posters in Biomedicine : 500 Tips for Success

For most biomedical researchers and academics, preparing conference abstracts and posters is an important part of professional life. With good preparation and practice, all scientists can produce abstracts that act as effective ambassadors for their research. A well designed poster can help you to enhance your professional reputation in addition to communicating your data. This book aims to help you achieve these objectives. This book is designed for you to use when you are actually preparing a conference abstract or poster. It is intended to answer the most frequent questions, and to help you avoid the most common problems and pitfalls. Just dip into any chapter and you will find a range of tips relevant to the abstract or poster you are preparing right now. As a researcher and academic, you need to be able to disseminate and communicate your research work and findings. While many will view writing for peer-reviewed journals as the pinnacle of the academic communication hierarchy, being able to write and present conference abstracts and posters is also extremely important. Taking your work to conferences allows you to meet experts from all around the world, to exchange ideas in person and to network with potential employers and collaborators. 'This book is a gem of useful, practical tips covering the entire process - from reading the abstract submission guidelines, through to writing and laying out your poster and creating e-posters. If you are a novice this is the ideal book to guide you through every step. And, even if you consider yourself an expert, there is bound to be some useful information you can glean from the 500 or so tips. By reading this book, in sequence, or by dipping into relevant chapters, you will have all the necessary help with preparing abstracts and posters right at your fingertips' - Catherine Dunbar in her Foreword. Content: Front Cover Contents Foreword Preface About the authors Acknowledgements 1: Why you need good conference abstracts and posters 2: Your abstract: first steps 3: Your abstract: planning, structure and title 4: Writing your abstract 5: Submitting your abstract 6: Your poster: first steps 7: Typography, headings and bullet points 8: Poster design and layout 9: Colour and backgrounds for your poster 10: Writing your poster: general guidelines 11: Writing your poster: banner components 12: Writing your poster: the main text 13: Writing your poster: bits and pieces. 14: Tips for tables15: Tips for graphs 16: Tips for bar charts, pie charts, flow charts and line drawings 17: Tips for photos 18: Editing and proofreading your poster 19: Printing your poster 20: Transporting, displaying and presenting your poster 21: E-posters: the future? Appendix 1: Example of a structured abstract Appendix 2: Abstract checklist Appendix 3: Examples of style for poster headings, main text and figure and table captions Appendix 4: Sample landscape PowerPoint poster template Appendix 5: Sample portrait PowerPoint poster template. Appendix 6: Example of a creatively designed landscape posterAppendix 7: Example of a simple but effective portrait poster Appendix 8: Poster checklist Back Cover. "Preparing conference abstracts and posters is an important part of professional life for most biomedical researchers and academics, especially as they can enhance professional reputations as well as communicating data. With good preparation and practice, all scientists can produce material that acts as an effective ambassador for their research. This book can be used during actual preparation of conference abstracts or posters to help you achieve this objective, answering the most frequent questions and helping you to avoid the most common problems and pitfalls. Containing over 500 key tips, it can either be read in sequence, or dipped into for the information most relevant to the abstract or poster under preparation."--Jacket