Poster Sessions

Poster Presentations 
A few things to watch out for

·  keep your graphs as simple as possible – no more complicated than you need to make your point

·  make sure the words in your pictures and graphs are large enough to be seen – this is often overlooked, even when main text is large enough

·  don’t forget your contact information

·  don’t forget that your CONTENT also has to be good – refine your message, make sure your work is solid, and present it brilliantly

Make a one-page (front and back) 8 ½ x 11 summary of the poster for handouts.

Resources
You can use the “Creating Effective Poster Presentations” web site to learn how to design and effective poster.
http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/

There are instructions for setting up PowerPoint to create a poster at     http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/PPTinstructions.html
Also on that page are instructions for printing small versions of your poster.  

There’s a 60-second evaluation to help you catch easy mistakes at http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/60second.html
or a PDF form can be downloaded from
http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/resources.html  

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NC STATE UNIVERSITY
UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM ABSTRACT GUIDELINES

Abstracts must be in 12 point font and should include the following:

·        Title - short, descriptive

·        List of authors (those individuals responsible for the research and poster) and affiliations

·        Abstract of approximately 250 words in length including the following components:
            - Introduction (importance of work)
            - Objective(s)
            - Methods
            - Key findings/conclusion(s) to date

Example
The Growth Response of Two Strains of Young Chicks to Feather Meal Containing Keratinase.  Shuronica Anderson¹, Elizabeth Pullman², and Jason Shih²

¹North Carolina A&T University , Greensboro , NC 27411

²North Carolina State University , Raleigh , NC 27695

Bacillus licheniformis is a bacterium known to produce the keratinase enzyme which enhances the nutritional value and digestibility of feather keratin. The main objective of this experiment was to see if commercial feather meal containing the keratinase enzyme had a better nutritional value and growth response on the chicks than the standard corn-soy diet. A feeding trial was conducted by using two strains of male chicks, one a light-weight leghorn (K-strain) and the other a Broiler strain.  The chicks were fed one of four diets which were replicated four times: the corn-soy diet, corn diet, commercial feather meal, and commercial feather meal containing the keratinase enzyme. This experiment showed that mixing the keratinase with the feather meal enhanced the growth of the chicks.  This experiment also proves that the commercial feather meal containing the enzyme could also provide chicks with an adequate amount of protein needed to grow.

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