ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Timing
Contributed oral presentations are allocated 10 minutes for the actual presentations and additional 5 minutes for questions and discussion. Invited talks are allocated 45 minutes for the talk plus 15 minutes for discussion. Session timings will be listed in the Program to permit attendees to select talks they wish to attend. Consequently, session chairmen will strictly enforce these time limits.

Presentation
Each presenting author should "check in" with the session chairperson during the previous break to your talk (there are two daily breaks for coffee, posters sessions and commercial exhibition). Talks will be called at the time scheduled in the Abstracts Book. Session chairpersons will have the responsibility of reporting "no shows" to the Publication Committee.

Visual equipment
The visual equipment provided will be overhead projectors. Computer based presentations will be possible through authors personal or on-site facilities laptop equipments (only CD is accepted). 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 bring transparencies as a backup and to test laptop connections to the projector. Anyway, technical support will be provided by the Organization.

 

Posters Presentations

Dimensions: 0.65m (widht) x 1.0 m (height) (maximum)

The posters will be stuck to the pannels by double-sided tape (please do not forget to bring your own. Posters can be posted since 9 am.

WHAT MAKES A GOOD POSTER?

Some factors are outside your control, such as the position of the poster board, space between boards, lighting, etc. but you can always make sure that your poster stands out. Remember that it is effectively a mini-paper and also remember who are your audience. Many are probably non-experts and they may be microbiologists, chemists, engineers or people from other disciplines.

However, give considerable thought to the design and presentation of your poster to make sure that it stands out as an attractive and informative presentation. You want to be certain that the 'reader' of the poster comes away with a clear understanding of your research.

1. Title - Short and informative.
2. Introduction - Again this should be informative. The aim is to put your work into context.

3. Aims - What are you trying to do?

4. 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 methods.

5. 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) b) Do not put in graphs, pictures, tables, etc. which have no explanation, however nice they may look!

6. Discussion/ Conclusions - Have your results provided an answer to the questions which you originally posed? If not, are there alternative answers?

7. If you have references in the text put them in at the end so that others can read the relevant material.

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:

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

Above all make sure that the whole poster is readable from a distance of about 1-2 metres. This means that you have to use print size of about 20 point or larger. 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. After you have prepared your rough draft get your colleagues to scrutinise it and see that they can read and understand it!

SCELL-2004