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Cell and Molecular Biology Lab 302 – Poster

Scientific poster on an assigned genetic disorder

Poster due 24 April 2020

Questionnaire due 28 April 2020

Overview The final project consists of two parts – the first part involves preparing a poster to provide information for your assigned genetic disorder. Posters are often used in the scientific community as a way to report research, present data and share discoveries. Rather than present research from a lab, your research will consist of an investigation into the genetic basis of your assigned disorder. Your research of valid, scientific information will be presented in a poster, which you will submit through Blackboard following the guidelines below. The poster is due 24 April 2020.

Following submission, you will be randomly assigned a classmate’s poster April 25 for you to review. You will be given a questionnaire to fill out and return as part of the assignment to Blackboard. The questionnaire is due 28 April 2020.

Therefore, there are two major portions of your grade: the first is your own poster preparation and the second is your review of your peer’s poster. The peer may or may not be in the same laboratory section as you.

Poster content Approximately 30% of your content will be text/information, 70% of the content will consist figures and tables (with legends).

Style • Choose an authorized house style; includes figures, tables, references, etc.

o American Journal of Human Genetics; American Journal of Medical Genetics; Genetics; Genomics

• Be consistent: only one house style per poster. • Every journal has its own rules for style:

o Format for citations (within text and in the references of poster) o Format for tables and figures, and their legends

• Find rules on the journal’s website, or by looking in recent print issues • Rules often called Instructions for authors/ contributors; Style, etc. • For this assignment, do not follow style guidelines from the scientific journal

involving the sections of the poster; therefore, don’t divide into abstract, intro, materials and methods, etc.

• Make it legible, concise and professional.

Grading (50 points total) CATEGORY POINTS DUE DATE POSTER 35 24 April 2020 REVIEW 15 28 April 2020

Your grade will depend only on your own poster and how well you review your “colleague’s” poster. Your poster grade will not be impacted by whether your colleague liked or disliked your poster. Your questionnaire grade will be solely based on how well you review your colleague’s poster, i.e. did you take your time thoughtfully reviewing, did you address any issues, did you note things you liked, and thought were effective?

What should be included:

Poster and presentation should cover all aspects of molecular biology:

● Mode of inheritance (i.e. autosomal recessive, sex-linked dominant, etc.) ● Description of gene (exon number, alternative splicing, etc) ● What protein is encoded by gene; normal function of protein ● Map location and gene structure ● Types of mutations and what they do to protein; how do they cause disease? ● Potential for gene therapy ● All medical and genetic terms should be defined (within text or in glossary)

How do the researchers know what they know? What is the evidence? What sorts of experiments were done, and how do the results explain what is known? Medical and genetic term definitions can be included in the text or in a separate glossary box (not included in 5 total allowable figures and tables). If terms are defined in the glossary box then each term should be bolded in the text. Do not use quotes. Every sentence should be your own wording, with citations as necessary. Plagiarism will not be tolerated.

Figures and tables (maximum of 5): Photographs, diagrams, tables, graphs, etc.

● Do not just copy/paste or simply reproduce tables: compile, explain, add information (meaning – make new tables that are inclusive of information you discover)

● Each figure and table must have a clear, understandable “legend” written in your own words describing what it depicts.

● Use house style for labeling, numbering, referring to in text, etc.

References

● Use at least 3 peer reviewed journal articles or scientifically valid websites. If you have questions, please email me.

● Each source must be cited within the text (or figure/table legends) and in the references section at the end.

● Follow “house style” rules for citing in the text, in the references, and even for naming the “references” section.

Advice for Making Posters Slide Setup

● Your poster will be created on one slide in your presentation software and MUST BE exported to PDF.

Slide Dimensions

● Use page setup to choose landscape and select your desired poster size. ● A good size is approximately 48 x 36 or 36 x 48 inches. Smaller works well but

not larger than 48 x 48.

Slide Design Tips

● Your poster should read from top left to bottom right, like you are reading a page. ● It’s important to maintain a good contrast between the background color and the

text color. Consider using a light color background and dark text.

Graphics

● Images copied from the web are often not proper quality for inclusion in your poster.

● Image resolution should be at least 150 dpi. ● All graphics should be pictures (e.g. .tif, .gif for transparency, .jpg for non-

transparent images) inserted directly into your slide (not linked from another program).

● If you have graphs or charts from a spreadsheet to include in your poster, simply copy from the spreadsheet and paste onto your slide, then format within your poster to ensure resolution can be adjusted for the larger poster size.

● To adjust an image and retain proportion, hold down the shift key on your keyboard and click and drag with your mouse on one of the corners in order to scale it.

Text

● It is best to use a font that is cross-platform to ensure that your poster looks as you have designed it. The fonts suggested here are all cross-platform and should be found on most systems. If you use a downloaded font that is specific to one environment, you must embed that font in your PDF.

● Sans-serif fonts are the best for posters, particularly for the title, subtitle, and headers.

● The title should be approximately the entire width of the poster with the main text broken into multiple columns, usually three or four depending on the size of the poster. You may also want to use section headings within the columns at the start of each section.

● The most common fonts are Times New Roman and Arial. Other fonts include Arial Black, Franklin Gothic Heavy, Tahoma, Trebuchet, Verdana, Garamond, Book Antiqua, or Bookman Old Style. Others are available.

● You will have to adjust the font size depending on the amount of text in your poster and the style of font you choose. For readability, you should not use a font size any smaller than 18 points.

● For consistency, it would be best to make all the headers the same size and use the same font size throughout the poster for all body text.

● If your text is in a different file be sure that it pastes into a text box on your slide, so it can be more easily edited. To do this, use the Paste Special command from the Edit menu and choose Unformatted Text so that the text will become a text box.

Section Font Size

Title 72-120

Subtitle 48-80

Section Headers 36-72

Body Text 24-48