ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Inform the Organisers of which software program and versions will be used to prepare your presentation. Ideally, use Microsoft PowerPoint if available. Please, also inform the Organisers if you need any special equipment.
• Try to keep the appearance of your slides simple and as consistent as possible, e.g. by use of a recurring ‘style theme’.
• The wording should be large and as legible as possible.
• Consideration should be given to colour blindness when choosing colours for your presentation e.g. avoid use of red and green together on graphs.
• The colours and background of the slides have a large impact. White letters reversed out of a black background are far more effective than black letters on a white background. Likewise, the choice of colours should be considered e.g. yellow lettering on a blue background provides a good visual effect.
• Simple and effective graphics will enhance the presentation. Information presented in the form of ‘pie charts’, bar charts or graphs is easier to relate to and to understand than lists of information.
• Excessive use of animations (e.g. titles flying in from right & left) is not advised as these will probably distract the viewer and may detract from the content of the slide. If you wish to use these, please keep them as simple as possible.
• Each slide should contain only the main points that need to be conveyed. Overcrowding of the slide with tiny text should be avoided particularly if it is only to be shown for a short space of time. These main points can be elaborated upon in the talk.
• Where possible each slide should be restricted to one idea. A theme can always be enlarged with further slides, building from the original.
• Handouts provided during the meeting are discouraged. It is both time-consuming & distracting to the audience.
• Ensure that you are available no less than 30 min before the start of the session in which your presentation is scheduled. Presenters are advised to load their presentations in the laptop provided by the Organization during the previous break before their talks (there are two daily breaks for coffee and posters sessions).
  
• The Organization will provide presenters with the usual visual equipment for this kind of presentations, which will include a laptop with Windows O.P. and a laser pointer. If you needed another kind of visual equipment, please let us know. If some presenter wants to use their own laptop, the full compatibility between author's own equipments and on-site display facilities should be carefully checked before the start of the session. You will be responsible for promptly connecting to the projector. The presentation timer will begin immediately after the introduction by the session chair, and there will not be time to reboot your computer. For this reason, you are strongly encouraged to test laptop connections to the projector. Anyway, technical support will be provided by the Organization.

   POSTER PRESENTATIONS

• The title should be capitalized with lettering  2cm high (72 point) at least.
• Authors and affiliations should be 11mm high (42 point) at least.
• Text lettering should be 5mm high (18 point) with a line thickness of 1mm at least .

Be careful also in your use of colours, some people are red-green colour blind and some colours do not stand out in contrast to others.
Please provide small envelopes for distributing your business cards and collecting business cards of those wanting additional information. This is a good way for inviting and encouraging interactions with your audience. You can also provide with copies of a short summary of your presentation.


Content

Information should be well organized and concisely presented. Your poster could include the following sections:

• Title: short and informative.
• Abstract: again this should be informative. The aim is to put your work into context.
• Materials and Methods: these have to be short but remember to include them without incomprehensible acronyms etc. Others want to know clearly what you are doing and they might want to use some of the same materials or methods.
• Results: you are very limited in what you present. Choose the material which best explains what you have found and which can be logically developed to tell your story:
  a) Do not put in too much information;
  b) Do not put in graphs, pictures, tables, etc. which have no explanation, however nice they may look!
• Discussion/ Conclusions: have your results provided an answer to the questions which you originally posed? If not, are there alternative answers?

Make sure that your material is presented in a logical and clear sequence so that people can read it and understand it. If you wish, you can provide the audience with copies of the poster reduced in size.
Some of the flaws which are frequently seen are:

• Techniques inappropriate to the questions posed.
• Use of enzymes without reference to their source or specificity.
• Lack of information on methods used.
• Aims are not clear.
• Incomprehensible jargon or abbreviations.
• Overcrowded poster with too much material to follow and comprehend.
• Long sentences which are difficult to follow.

VIRTUAL PRESENTATIONS

• If it is possible, please use Microsoft PowerPoint to prepare your presentation. And please try not to prepare presentations of more than 25 slides.
• Try to keep the appearance of your slides simple and as consistent as possible, e.g. by use of a recurring ‘style theme’.
• Consideration should be given to colour blindness when choosing colours for your presentation e.g. avoid use of red and green together on graphs.
• The colours and background of the slides have a large impact. White letters reversed out of a black background are far more effective than black letters on a white background. Likewise, the choice of colours should be considered e.g. yellow lettering on a blue background provides a good visual effect.
• Simple and effective graphics will enhance the presentation. Information presented in the form of ‘pie charts’, bar charts or graphs is easier to relate to and to understand than lists of information.
• Excessive use of animations (e.g. titles flying in from right & left) is not advised as these will probably distract the viewer and may detract from the content of the slide. If you wish to use these, please keep them as simple as possible.