Guidelines
The overall theme of this year’s PhD Day is ‘Science Impact on Society’. We encourage everyone to reflect on this in their research. The Department of Biology is of broad scientific knowledge with research in many different and specialised fields therefore try to motivate and put your research in context for the audience. Try to answer questions like: why is your research interesting and important? How can your research be applied? 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 1st and 4th 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 1st , 09.15-13.00
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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 organisers 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 organisers at least a week ahead of the PhD day, i.e.before the presenter's workshop.
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Presentations have to be sent to the organisers before the 11th of November.
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Presenters should make themselves known to the organisers 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 4th, 15.00-18.30 to help with layout and presentatiton 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 6 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
