Instructions for Abstracts and Presentations OOA retreat
The OOA student retreat offers you THE opportunity to present your data and to exchange ideas. But be aware: it is a public meeting, so do not share patentable information in your presentation, discussions or other exchanges. This may include methods, protocols, processes, hypotheses, ideas, etc. that have not been published yet. Once revealed to the public it can no longer be claimed as an exclusive right.
If you have doubts or questions concerning the confidentiality of your presentation or other queries on patentable ideas or results, contact your supervisor first. If you need additional information, you can contact:
NKI-AVL: Technology Transfer Office through TTO@nki.nl
VUmc and AMC Innovation Exchange Office: info@ixa.nl
Please use this template for your abstract. The maximum size is 2250 characters (with spaces – to be seen at Tools in Word in A4 format), including pictures and graphics, using font Calibri size 14.
Please make use of the subject headings that are indicated on the template.
Pictures/graphics are allowed, but will be printed in black and white. You can also add a picture of yourself in the abstract so people can recognize you.
All abstracts and the program of the retreat will be assembled in an abstract book which will be distributed well before start of the retreat.
When preparing your poster presentation for the PhD retreat keep in mind that the audience is diverse and consists of both fundamental and translational researchers as well as clinicians. This is a challenge, as your presentation will need to be understandable to all. It is also an opportunity for you as a presenter, as this allows you to interact and get feedback from outside your immediate field of interest from people with a different perspective. For clinicians, it is an opportunity to see novel developments in fundamental science that may in the future impact the clinical practice, while basic researchers get a view on open questions in the clinic that will fuel future fundamental research. Overall, the aim of your presentation should be to reach everyone, regardless of their background. For such a mixed audience, it’s important to realize that many abbreviations and methods may not be familiar to many in the audience.
To make your poster understandable for all, take care addressing the following questions:
– What are you studying?
Research question
– Why are you studying this?
Broader perspective
– How are you studying this?
Methods
– What have you found?
Focus on key finding(s), less is more!
– What does this mean?
Conclusions, future direction
Instructions for poster: format A1 size (portrait = 594 × 841 mm).
You can print a poster at Drukkerij Jan Nagel. Please remember that you are responsible to print your poster before Dec 2nd!
NKI-AVL employees can find information for printing their poster on this page and use this form. The invoice will be send directly to the financial department of the NKI so you don’t have to pay in advance yourself.
AUMC (location VU and AMC) participants can directly send their poster to info@drukkerij-jannagel.nl. Deliver the file in high-resolution PDF by email or, if the file is very big, WeTransfer (www.wetransfer.com) or USB-stick (website Jan Nagel). Please be aware that you’ll be asked to pay in advance for your poster when you pick it up.