Whether you are planning to present at the Spotlight on Student Research or gearing up for your conference poster presentation, this guide should help you avoid some of the most common mistakes and provide some ideas to help you get started.
Poster examples vary across disciplines, but there are common themes to good posters. Another way to experience a poster session (good and bad) is to take a look at the Flickr Poster Sessions group.
* not all posters included are examples of good design. F1000Posters is a unique open access repository for posters and slide presentations across biology and medicine. By keeping the work visible long after a meeting has ended it maximizes the return on the time, effort and money invested in creating each presentation. We also accept depositions from local meetings (e.g. PhD student days).