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…software for starters. Here are some alternatives to the Microsoft PowerPoint or Apple’s equivalent (Keynote) that solve that particular problem… Unhooking from propriety software for presenting your science Open Office contains…
At a conference, a poster can be a great tool for drawing people into conversation. Not only do you have something to break the ice with, you can also get…
Presenting your work is a fantastic opportunity to get feedback on your project, demonstrate the significance of your results, and make the connections that will enhance your future career. And…
…the thought of spending hours working on a powerpoint presentation exactly thrilling. However, there are many benefits to presenting your work at a conference. First of all, an invitation to…
…by 3%… they don’t need to know every teeny detail about how you got there. Make sure you pitch it at the right level. Presenting to Academics & Industry Presentations…
…story. When presenting material in your exam, you have to make it interesting. Always start with the big picture and add details as you are asked. Don’t just memorize the…
…person presenting the day’s journal article. First off, I think it goes without saying that the presenter should read the article, cover to cover, every single word. The Intro, Methods,…
…time working on the experiments, presenting lab meetings, and maybe even presenting a poster or giving a talk, you have come to think of the project as yours. It’s understandable,…
…out from the millions of others to be worth presenting. Keep It Relevant and Keep It Interesting When choosing a paper to present, keep your audience in mind. Choose something…
Presenting science concisely poses many challenges: How do you say enough without saying too much? Are you capturing the main points? Does this research paper abstract attract the reader’s attention…
…effectively communicate novel findings to audiences from different backgrounds. As you progress through the course of your PhD studies, you will spend a lot of time presenting at lab meetings,…
…The Cell presents the ideal forum for presenting these images to the research community and the public. The images are peer-reviewed so users can be confident that they are seeing…
…gave a very useful rundown of common mistakes made when using statistical error bars in biology and suggested a number of rules that should be adhered to when presenting data…
…comics break down barriers and reduce the apprehension of presenting new knowledge to a broad audience. Like an engaging story, characters, storylines, and metaphors in comics make the scientific content…
…if you’re just starting out in scientific research. They can be perfect ice-breakers and they also allow you to get some really useful feedback from a completely different perspective. Presenting…
…you know that nothing happens to the substrate without Protein X. To compound matters, you are likely presenting a ton of experiments in your lab meetings, so your labmates and…
A lot of scientists hate presenting posters. Because more often than not, you stand near your carefully designed, full of great results placard, all alone, while there is a crowd…
…whether or not to devote their time and attention to the work you’re presenting based on the contents of that abstract. Make it easy to understand what you did, and…
…those murky waters by presenting some simple criteria, and look at some authorship scenarios that commonly arise in academia. Where authorship gets complicated Lots of people can be peripheral, but…
…practice at presenting in a setting where if you screw up, your job or reputation doesn’t depend on it. You need to challenge yourself to give different kinds of speeches…
…word limit of 2500. And the abstract for the conference you’d like to speak at this spring only allows you 300 words to summarize the work you will be presenting….
…most difficult. Explaining your work to the public, especially if it involves presenting basic research to an audience not familiar with your field, will always be hard—but it is extremely…
…with a disease or infectious agent. Both receptors have specific advantages and disadvantages. TCRs cannot recognize antigens without the assistance of other cells called antigen-presenting cells. A TCR can however…
…5. Dichotomous Identification Keys Dichotomous keys contain a series of steps, with each step presenting descriptions of two distinguishing features (e.g. Gram-positive or Gram-negative), with a direction to the next step…
…to set up on a positive-stained sample, apply to all and then check the gating on my controls (experimental/FMO/iso/ comps.). Presenting your data Once we’ve done the core of our…
…online and get presenting. It’ll help with the feelings of isolation too as you’ll still be in contact with others. 6. Learn to Code If you have data analysis that…
…add flair and personality to your argument – you may not always win, but you will definitely get your point across. Presenting Presentations in science are something that everybody dreads,…
…can help hone your own critical thinking and allow you to see things from other perspectives. For help and advice on preparing and presenting a journal club session, read our…
…experience and that of past students, and make sure you are presenting yourself in the best possible way to your prospective employer. They actually go much further than this of…
…ideas. Additionally, we gain invaluable writing and presenting skills whenever we share our own data at conferences or in peer-reviewed journals. According to Dr Raderschadt, “(Life Science) PhDs have a…
Wow, you’ve done it! Your experiment worked and your boss asked you to write it up for publication in your favorite journal. Where to start with presenting your flow data?…
…supervisor, or even the internal seminar organizer who has seen you presenting your work and answering questions. Or if you are a bit longer in the tooth, just go back…
…going to get messy. Research project with the stars: B-list celebrities become first year graduate students and experience rotating through three labs, presenting their work to their department and trying…
…that could turn a really ugly Western blot into a thing of beauty . To save you the humiliation of presenting an ugly blot at lab meeting, I am sharing my 10…
…make a double-stranded cut at that site — presenting the possibility that an unwanted DNA sequence can replaced by a normal one. NGS technologists are beginning to use this same…
…they list 10 “nice-to-have” qualities and you have 5 of them, apply. For example, if you have experience searching for and writing patents but no experience in presenting at conferences,…
…the data. So take a look at your flow experiments and, when presenting them, think about what information you can easily give people to allow them to recreate your experiment….
…mind that it matters as much how you answer as what you actually say. Be honest. If you know you struggle with presenting, or a particular technique, for example, admit…
…get high plasmid yields from Agrobacterium. However, with several years of experience, I hope to be able to help the reader out by presenting a few ways around this issue! Quick…
…the postdoc kept the lab ticking over was by presenting each new starter with a guide to a happy Clarke lab: a list of basics to keep the lab running…
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