Information for staff

1^st year posters: Tuesday 17 May 2016

• Students presenting posters 
• All postgraduate research students are required to present a poster during their first year. 
• 2015 entry students, and any late start 2014 entry students who did not present in 2015, will present in May 2016. 

Information for Students

Mandatory Poster Training Sessions are included in the Spring Skills Training

• Students presenting posters 
• 1st Year Poster Presentation - feedback sheet (MS Word , 16kb)

 Please note the following instructions regarding the posters:

• Attend the mandatory training sessions

• Boards will be portrait style
• Size A0, portrait style. This size can be produced by the Photographic Unit on a single sheet using Corel Draw. Students planning to not use Corel Draw to produce posters must see the Photographic Unit as early as possible for advice. Costs are £27.00 inclusive.
• Posters should not exceed a maximum cost of £27.00, to be borne by the laboratory. Students/supervisors must not further subsidise the cost of the poster.
• Posters should describe only the student's own work. This means that you can use a poster from a conference only if it is based solely on your own work. 
• Advise BGSO of the title of your poster by completing the Google form by 12 noon on Monday 18 April 2016.
• Posters can be uploaded anytime from now, until 12 noon on Tuesday 3 May 2016.  Please note that that 5 May is an absolute deadline.  Posters will be available electronically to the markers on 10 May.  Please upload posters to: R:dept/databox/2016 1st year posters/yoursurname_yourfirstname 
• The Photographic Unit will contact you for proof reading before printing off one large sized poster. Please advise the Photographic Unit of the payment code for your poster.
• Students to put up posters by 16.00 on Monday 16 May (please note boards will not be available until 13.00).  BGSO will allocate board numbers to students.
• Posters to remain on display until the morning of Wednesday 18 May after which time students are responsible for removing them by 12:00 noon.
• Posters available for general appreciation by the Department during the breaks at the Symposium on Tuesday 17 May.
• Supervisors and Training Advisory Panel members to give feedback, on posters to students
• Students unable to attend the Poster Presentation and Symposium due to unavoidable research student related commitments, are to seek approval prior to the event, by emailing the Biology Graduate Office. Students will be expected to submit a poster and to received feedback from their TAP members and are required to present their poster in another arena at another time.  The poster will not be printed or displayed and students will not be eligible to be considered for the prize.

Timeline

CIDCATS & DTP students

Wellcome Trust funded CIDCATS students in year 2-4
As members of an interdisicplinary programme, you have the scope to identify and participate in graduate training opportunities in any of the programme's six partner departments (Biology, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Electronics and the Hull York Medical School).  The initiative for identifying the nature and scope of training should be taken by you in the first instance.   However, training plans should be discussed with your supervisory team prior to applying. Further advice as to how this training fits within your skills portfolio and the programme training requirements can be sought from the CIDCATS Skills Training Coordinator or the Department of Biology Careers and Training Officer (acting on behalf of the programme).  Once decisions have been made, please contact Julie Knox to confirm the details. 

BBSRC and NERC DTP students
Students registered in partner Departments on the BBSRC or NERC Doctoral Training Programmes (DTP) are invited to attend Biology induction/training events.  

Please remember to liaise with your home Department when considering attending Biology events.  

For students registered in partner Departments, home Department events must take priority over Biology induction/training events.