Guidelines
The overall theme of this year’s PhD Day is ‘Your Footprint’. The aim of this theme is to help the students to present their research with ‘the big picture’ in mind. The Department of Biology is very broad and the staff and students expertise may not coincide with your particular research area. It is therefore necessary to focus on areas that all can relate to and understand. Of course, we are all scientists so there is no need to ‘dumb down’ your presentation. Try to answer questions like: Why is your research interesting and important? How can your research be applied and used? How does your research fit into our current understanding of biological systems?
Oral presentations
A 15 minutes relatively brief and precise presentation of your research subject.
The form of the presentation is free but should focus on "delivering the overall message" rather than giving lengthy details on a specific topic. The challenge is to simplify and communicate your topic. You can choose to focus on a method or the conclusion of your research.
For both talks and flash talks a work shop will be provided on November 8th and 9th to help with presentation techniques.
Requirements for oral presentations
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12 minutes presentation and 3 minutes of questions. The chairperson will give a notice when there are 2 minutes left and will terminate the talk when the time is up.
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A work shop to help improve presentation techniques will be provided on November 8th.
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Talks are presented in English.
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The template of the abstract can be downloaded here.
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PowerPoint presentations or other types of electronic aids, which can run from a PC or MAC, are accepted. PowerPoint will be installed, but for other visual aid programs contact the organizers at least a week ahead of the PhD day, i.e.before the presenter´s workshop.
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The presentation should not exceed 60 MB.
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Animations or video clips have to work within PowerPoint and not rely on computers being online or upon additional software.
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If you require audio for your presentation, please contact the organizers at least a week ahead of the PhD day, i.e.before the presenter´s workshop.
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Presentations can be sent to the organizers before the 15th of November.
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Presenters should make themselves known to the organizers in the break before their talk.
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Posters
The form is free but should focus on "delivering the overall message" rather than giving lengthy details on a specific topic. The challenge is to simplify and communicate your topic. You can choose to focus on a method or the conclusion of your research.
For poster presenters a work shop will be provided on November 8th (9-12) to help with presentation techniques.
Requirements for posters
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Posters are presented in English.
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The template of the abstract can be downloaded here
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Portrait orientation.
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Maximum size of A0.
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Selection Criteria
The PhD day committee will select 10 talks and 60 poster presentations from the best submitted abstracts within each presentation type.
We will attempt to do this in a way that best achieves the broadest representation of BIO (section based) as well as attaining gender neutrality amongst speakers. However, the selection will first and foremost be based on the following criteria in order of priority:
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High academic level
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Formulation and communication skills
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Impact and originality of the project
