▼ Important Dates
January 31, 2024 – Deadline to be considered for an oral presentation
January 31, 2024 – Deadline to be considered for a poster presentation
▼ Abstracts
Graduate students, postdocs, visiting BioLAB students, and staff scientists are invited to submit abstracts (300 words or less) and present posters at the retreat. Judges will be assigned to posters from graduate students, postdocs, and visiting BioLAB students, and winning posters will receive travel awards. Unfortunately, we do not have enough judges to evaluate posters from staff scientists or other presenters.
Graduate students and postdocs who also want to be considered for an oral presentation, please check “yes” below. The Retreat Committee will select 3 student and 3 postdoc abstracts for 10-minute oral presentations plus 5-minutes for questions. Oral presenters will be notified by February 8. Note that oral presenters are also invited to present a poster if they want to be eligible for a travel award.
Abstract Submission
▼ Awards
There will be two poster sessions, one on Thursday evening and one on Friday morning. Two judges will score each poster from graduate students, postdocs, and visiting BioLAB students. Conference travel awards of $500 will be awarded on Friday: 3 for graduate students, 3 for postdocs, and 1 for visiting BioLAB students.
Posters and presenters will be evaluated based on quality of presentation, quality and impact of the data, ability to answer questions, and ability to explain the project to a judge who is not an expert in their field and not a member of their department.
▼ Poster Printing
Poster print submissions are due by 5:00pm, March 1, 2024. Submissions after that date and time will not be accepted for printing at OMRF.
- Dimensions for posters are 36” x 48” either vertically or horizontally.
- Do not submit original files, only PDF in the correct size are needed
- Reprints will not be allowed for any reason, please be sure to only submit print ready documents.
- Your poster will be ready for pickup by March 10th-12th