Poster and Walking Poster Presentations
Congratulations on the acceptance of your abstract for a Poster Presentation during this year’s Scientific Sessions. Your participation is key to the success of this meeting and we hope that the audience can learn as much as possible from your scientific work and, at the same time, provide suggestions for future improvements.
The Poster Sessions will take place during 1-hour slots. During your group session, you are requested to stay at your designated poster area for answering questions and discussions but a formal presentation is not necessary. Your poster should remain displayed during all hours of the Exhibition Hall.
Walking posters will occur during 75-minute slots. At the time of your specific session, there will be a moderated walk through all posters of that session. First authors will be expected to be present at their poster wall and give a short (5 min) oral overview on their work to moderators with a focus on results, followed by questions of the moderators (3 min). All walking posters will compete for the SCMR 2017 Walking Poster Award. The author of the best poster of each session, as rated by the moderators, will be invited to present his/her poster again at the Walking Poster Award Final Session on Saturday, February 4 at 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm, from which the best poster will be selected jointly by all moderators. For this Final Session, the same presentation and discussion times remain. Please be advised that all Walking Poster presenters should check with the Registration Desk if their abstract was selected for the Final Session before Saturday February 4, 2:30 PM. The organizers will try to contact the authors selected at each Walking Poster Session beforehand, but it is the final responsibility of each author to make sure that their abstract was selected for the Final Session.
POSTER PRINTING SERVICES: The SCMR has arranged a special discount with the FedEx Office at the Gaylord National Resort for posters orders for the 20th Annual Scientific Sessions. Please click here for more information.
In order to provide an interactive participation, some details are important to remember when preparing your poster:
1. Posters should be in place for display by 1:00 pm EST on Thursday, February 2, 2017. A poster may contain text, graphs, photographs, diagrams, etc., which can be affixed to a board measuring 70 inches in height x 40 inches in width (portrait orientation). The poster format is portrait (or vertical) rather than landscape (horizontal). Please note that no audiovisual or power outlets are available for poster presentations.
2. Provide the full title of your abstract (at least 2 inches/5 cm high – it might be the only thing an attendee will read at first) as well as a list of all authors and affiliations. Use this information as a headline for your work.
3. Text should include the elements used during your submission (Background, Hypothesis, Results and Conclusions) in an expanded form and in more depth.
4. Provide a clear take-home message which highlights the main findings of your poster and identify that message in the poster in warm color. That point should be read at eye level.
5. Your poster should be readable at a distance of 5 feet / 1.5 meters – for that a suggested font size no smaller than 24 should be used in bold style. Use color wisely to provide contrast for each section of your poster. Try to avoid big tables as they generally are hard to read from a distance and present as much data in graphs as possible. Make the flow of your poster logical. Try to keep a limit of 300-800 words.
6. Include a sentence of potential conflicts-of-interest in the poster.
7. Remember that hundreds of posters and presentations will be available to attendees. Highlight in your poster what is the question asked and how you answered it so you can attract people passing by.
8. For more information on rules for a good poster, please check Erren TC et al. PLoS Comput Biol 2007;3:e102, visit here.
The Poster Sessions will take place during 1-hour slots. During your group session, you are requested to stay at your designated poster area for answering questions and discussions but a formal presentation is not necessary. Your poster should remain displayed during all hours of the Exhibition Hall.
Walking posters will occur during 75-minute slots. At the time of your specific session, there will be a moderated walk through all posters of that session. First authors will be expected to be present at their poster wall and give a short (5 min) oral overview on their work to moderators with a focus on results, followed by questions of the moderators (3 min). All walking posters will compete for the SCMR 2017 Walking Poster Award. The author of the best poster of each session, as rated by the moderators, will be invited to present his/her poster again at the Walking Poster Award Final Session on Saturday, February 4 at 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm, from which the best poster will be selected jointly by all moderators. For this Final Session, the same presentation and discussion times remain. Please be advised that all Walking Poster presenters should check with the Registration Desk if their abstract was selected for the Final Session before Saturday February 4, 2:30 PM. The organizers will try to contact the authors selected at each Walking Poster Session beforehand, but it is the final responsibility of each author to make sure that their abstract was selected for the Final Session.
POSTER PRINTING SERVICES: The SCMR has arranged a special discount with the FedEx Office at the Gaylord National Resort for posters orders for the 20th Annual Scientific Sessions. Please click here for more information.
In order to provide an interactive participation, some details are important to remember when preparing your poster:
1. Posters should be in place for display by 1:00 pm EST on Thursday, February 2, 2017. A poster may contain text, graphs, photographs, diagrams, etc., which can be affixed to a board measuring 70 inches in height x 40 inches in width (portrait orientation). The poster format is portrait (or vertical) rather than landscape (horizontal). Please note that no audiovisual or power outlets are available for poster presentations.
2. Provide the full title of your abstract (at least 2 inches/5 cm high – it might be the only thing an attendee will read at first) as well as a list of all authors and affiliations. Use this information as a headline for your work.
3. Text should include the elements used during your submission (Background, Hypothesis, Results and Conclusions) in an expanded form and in more depth.
4. Provide a clear take-home message which highlights the main findings of your poster and identify that message in the poster in warm color. That point should be read at eye level.
5. Your poster should be readable at a distance of 5 feet / 1.5 meters – for that a suggested font size no smaller than 24 should be used in bold style. Use color wisely to provide contrast for each section of your poster. Try to avoid big tables as they generally are hard to read from a distance and present as much data in graphs as possible. Make the flow of your poster logical. Try to keep a limit of 300-800 words.
6. Include a sentence of potential conflicts-of-interest in the poster.
7. Remember that hundreds of posters and presentations will be available to attendees. Highlight in your poster what is the question asked and how you answered it so you can attract people passing by.
8. For more information on rules for a good poster, please check Erren TC et al. PLoS Comput Biol 2007;3:e102, visit here.