IntroductionThistemplatehascolumnwidthsandfontsizesoptimizedforprintinga36x56”poster—justreplacethe“tips”and“blah,blah,blah”repeatmotifswithactualcontent,ifyouhaveit.Trytokeepyourtotalwordcountunder500(really).Moretipscanbefoundat“Designingconferenceposters”at“colinpurringtonpostertemplate.”Yourmaintextiseasiertoreadifyouusea“serif”fontsuchasPalatinoorTimes(i.e.,peoplehavedoneexperimentsandfoundthistobethecase).Useanon-seriffontforyourtitleandsectionheadings.MaterialsandmethodsBebrief,andoptforphotograpumpedstoragepowerplantordrawingswheneverpossibletoillustrateorganism,protocol,orexperimentaldesign.Viewersdon’twanttoreadaboutthegruesomedetails,howeverfascinatingyoumightfindthem.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.AcknowledgmentsWethankI.Güorforlaboratoryassistance,MaryJuanaforseeds,HerbIssideforgreenhousecare,andM.I.Menterforquestionablestatisticaladvice.FundingforthisprojectwasprovidedbytheDepartmentofThinkology,aMercksummerstipend,andthepersonwhoclaimsshe’smymom.[Notethatpeople’stitlesareomitted.TitlesareTMI.]ResultsThelayoutforthissectionshouldbemodifiedfromthistemplatetobestshowoffyourgrapumpedstoragepowerplantandotherresult-relatedillustrations.Youmightwantasingle,largecolumntoaccommodateabigmap.Orperhapsyoucouldarrange6figuresinacircleinthecenteroftheposter.Dowhateverittakestomakeyourresultsgraphicallyclear.And,fortheloveofGod(orwhoever),makeyourgrapumpedstoragepowerplantbigenoughtoreadfrom6’away.Paragraphformatisfine,butsometimesasimplelistof“bullet”pointscancommunicateresultsmoreeffectively:ConclusionsYoucan,ofcourse,startyourconclusionsincolumn#3ifyourresultssectionis“datalight.”Conclusionsshouldnotbemereremindersofyourresults.Instead,youwanttoguidethereaderthroughwhatyouhaveconcludedfromtheresults.Whatisthebroadersignificance?Whyshouldanyonecare?Thissectionshouldreferback,explicitly,tothe“burningissue”mentionedintheintroduction.Ifyoudidn’tmentionaburningissueintheintroduction,gobackandfixthat--yourpostershouldhavemadeagoodcaseforwhyyoudidwhatyoudid.Agoodconclusionwillalsorefertotheliteratureonthetopic--howdoesyourresearchaddtowhatisalreadypublishedonthetopic?Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah.Yourname(s)hereYouraddress(es)hereLiteraturecitedBender,D.J.,E.MBayne,andR.M.Brigham.1996.Lunarconditioninfluencescoyote(Canislatrans)howling.AmericanMidlandNaturalist136:413-417.Brooks,L.D.1988.Theevolutionofrecombinationrates.Pages87-105inTheEvolutionofSex,editedbyR.E.MichodandB.R.Levin.Sinauer,Sunderland,MA.Scott,E.C.2005.Evolutionvs.Creationism:anIntroduction.UniversityofCaliforniaPress,Berkeley.SocietyfortheStudyofEvolution.2005.Statementonteachingevolution.’tgoonandon.Don’tbetemptedtoreducefontsizeinfigurelegends,axeslabels,etc.—yourviewersareprobablymostinterestedinreadingyourfiguresandlegends!Oftenyouwillhavesomemoretext-basedresultsbetweenyourfigures.Thistextshouldexplicitlyguidethereaderthroughthefigures.Blah,blah,blah(Figs.3a,b).Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah(Fig.3c).Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah(datanotshown).Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah.Blah,blah,blah(God,personalcommunication).(a)(b)(c)ForfurtherinformationPleasecontactemail@blahcollege.edu.Moreinformationonthisandrelatedprojectscanbeobtainedat…(givetheURLforlaboratorywebsite).Alinktoanonline,PDF-versionoftheposterisnice,too.Remember:noperiodafterjournalname(unlessyouuseabbreviation).Figure4.Labelthelinesmanually(asabove)andthendeletethesillykeyprovidedbyyourchartingsoftware.TheabovefigurewouldalsobegreatlyimprovedifIhadtheabilitytodrawminiratswithandwithoutbrains.Figure5.Youcanuseconnectorlinesandarrowstovisuallyguideviewersthroughyourresults.Addingemphasisthiswayismuchbetterthanmakingthepointwithwordsinthetextsection.Especiallyusefulforwhenyoucannotbeatpostertoguideviewer.Besuretoseparatefiguresfromotherfiguresbygeneroususeofwhitespace.Whenfiguresaretoocramped,viewersgetconfusedaboutwhichfigurestoreadfirstandwhichlegendgoeswithwhichfigure.Crampedcontentjustlooksbad,too.Figuresarepreferredbuttablesaresometimesunavoidable.Atablelooksbes