'Best presentation' course
Giving a talk in front of a non-visible, virtual audience is challenging and requires adapting our usual way of presenting research!
To help you mastering this challenge, Frédéric Schütz (SIB Group Leader and member of the SIB Training Group) will give a 1/2 day course on 'best practices' for giving and structuring (virtual) presentations on Monday, 18 May 2020. The course is free of charge and we encourage you to attend in case your abstract was selected for an oral presentation.
The course will be followed by small group work on 19 and 20 May giving you the possibility to practice your talk and to receive feedback.
18 May 2020 - part 1
Part 1 of the course takes (virtually) place in the morning of 18 May from 10 am to 12:30 pm. It will highlight the 'best practices' for giving a presentation and which pitfalls you may encounter when giving it in a virtual environment. The content is further adapted to the SIB Days format with its different presentation lengths.
19 and 20 May - part 2
Part 2 offers participants the possibility to practice their presentation and to receive feedback from the course organiser and its participants. Participants will be split into small groups (size depending on the number of participants). The group work will take place on either 19 or 20 May depending on the group's availability and in coordination with Frédéric Schütz. Each group should plan about two hours for the presentation-feedback round.
Presentations
The presentations take place on Tuesday, 9 June, and Wednesday, 10 June, during the parallel sessions. The presentation length is determined by the session chairs based on your submitted abstract and can range from 5-15 minutes:
- 5 minutesA short presentation of 3-5 slides to introduce the scientific question and one key result. No questions will be allowed.
- 10 minutesA short presentation of 5-7 slides to introduce the scientific question and 2-3 key result. The presentation should take 8 minutes with 2 minutes for possible questions.
- 15 minutesA short presentation to introduce the scientific question, a few key results and/or future directions and challenges of the project. The presentation should take 12 minutes with 3 minutes for possible questions afterwards.
Posters
The poster presentations are taking place on Tuesday, 9 June, and Wednesday, 10 June, from 4:20 pm to 5:20 pm. All posters will be displayed in the virtual SIB Days poster gallery; each poster is connected with its own virtual room, in which you can meet the author and further discuss the poster.
“It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add,
but when there is nothing more to remove.”
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry -
To provide you with the best possible "poster browsing experience", we have adapted the usual poster format based on the "Better Poster" ideas by Mike Morrison. We are strongly encouraging you to use the suggested format to avoid overcrowded poster images and unreadable text on a small computer screen:
Please note, that all posters need to be uploaded by 1 June, 12:00 pm CET (noon), allowing us to make sure that your poster is properly displayed and connected with your virtual presentation room. You will receive more information on the how-to around 27/28 May.
A technical test for all poster presenters will take place on 2 June at 11 am!
Software demonstrations
Software demonstrations will take place in parallel with the poster session on Tuesday, 9 June, and Wednesday, 10 June, from 4:20 pm to 5:20 pm. Similar to the poster presentations, software presenters are asked to prepare a small visual overview of the software following the poster guidelines.
We recommend that you prepare a small (live) demo of 5 to 7 minutes to guide interested participants through your software followed by a few minutes reserved for questions. This will allow you, for example, to schedule a demonstration every 15 minutes (e.g. at 4:20 pm, 4:35 pm, 4:50 pm and 5:05 pm) and will ensure that interested participants are able to join your software demonstration on time.
Please note, that the visual overview of your software needs to be uploaded by 1 June, 12:00 pm (noon), allowing us to make sure that your visual overview is properly displayed and connected with your virtual presentation room. You will receive more information on the how-to around 27/28 May.
A technical test for all software demonstrations will take place on 2 June at 11 am!
Practice session
We will organise a practice session for presenters and session chairs of each parallel session. These practice sessions aim to make you familiar with the system, to explain the session flow and to trouble shoot possible problems with your connection and set-up during the presentation. The sessions will take place as depicted below:
2 June
- Workshop organisers
- Poster and software presenters
- Medicine & Health
- Ecology & Agriculture
3 June
- Genes & Genomes
- Structural Biology
- Evolution, Phylogeny & Population Genetics
- Systems Biology
- Proteins & Proteomes
- Computational Biology
- Workshop organisers
- Poster and software presenters
- Medicine & Health
- Ecology & Agriculture
3 June
- Genes & Genomes
- Structural Biology
- Evolution, Phylogeny & Population Genetics
- Systems Biology
- Proteins & Proteomes
- Computational Biology
10:00 am
11:00 am
3:00 pm
4:00 pm
10:00 am
11:00 am
1:00 pm
2:00 pm
3:00 pm
4:00 pm
Please make that you block the day and time of your respective session (= the session in which you present) in your agenda.
More details will be sent to you on Thursday, 28 May.
More details will be sent to you on Thursday, 28 May.
